Youn-mi Kim, Assistant
Professor, Yale University
Monday, April 20, 2015
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
275 Dodd Hall
UCLA
As Buddhism was transmitted to the Three Kingdoms of Korea between the fourth and sixth centuries, this foreign religion brought in new types of art and architecture to the Korean peninsula. The pagoda, the exotic multi-story monument that enshrined Buddha’s relics, changed the skyline of the three kingdoms. The golden hall that enshrined Buddhist images provided a new religious space for worshipping the Buddha and performing various rituals. Focusing on changes in the layout of Buddhist monasteries in the Three Kingdoms, this talk will trace shifting ritual practices that accompanied the spatial change in monastic plans. This talk will also demonstrate the importance of archaeological remains and epigraphic records of studying Buddhist practices of Three Kingdoms.
Co-sponsored with the Center for Korean Studies
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Daoist Terms in Early Chinese Buddhist Translations? A Reappraisal
Jan Nattier (Independent Scholar, Hua Hin, Thailand)
Friday, April 24, 2015
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
243 Royce Hall
UCLA
It is commonly held that when Buddhism first arrived in China, this foreign religion was understood--or rather, misunderstood--through a Daoist conceptual lens. Early Buddhist translators, so the story goes, made free use of Daoist terminology, creating confusion that was only cleared up centuries later, when Kumārajīva and his colleagues began to eliminate such terms from Buddhist discourse. According to this scenario, Chinese Buddhist translations followed a clear trajectory of "progress," with the inappropriate choices made by early translators being rectified in the more careful work of their successors.
Prof. Nattier will examine some of the indigenous religious terminology used during the first two centuries of Buddhist translation activity in China and show that the actual pattern of usage is much more complicated--and much more interesting--than the simplistic picture of the early appropriation, and subsequent abandonment, of "Daoist" terminology would suggest.
Thank you.
CBS Staff
Monday, April 20, 2015
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
275 Dodd Hall
UCLA
As Buddhism was transmitted to the Three Kingdoms of Korea between the fourth and sixth centuries, this foreign religion brought in new types of art and architecture to the Korean peninsula. The pagoda, the exotic multi-story monument that enshrined Buddha’s relics, changed the skyline of the three kingdoms. The golden hall that enshrined Buddhist images provided a new religious space for worshipping the Buddha and performing various rituals. Focusing on changes in the layout of Buddhist monasteries in the Three Kingdoms, this talk will trace shifting ritual practices that accompanied the spatial change in monastic plans. This talk will also demonstrate the importance of archaeological remains and epigraphic records of studying Buddhist practices of Three Kingdoms.
Co-sponsored with the Center for Korean Studies
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Daoist Terms in Early Chinese Buddhist Translations? A Reappraisal
Jan Nattier (Independent Scholar, Hua Hin, Thailand)
Friday, April 24, 2015
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
243 Royce Hall
UCLA
It is commonly held that when Buddhism first arrived in China, this foreign religion was understood--or rather, misunderstood--through a Daoist conceptual lens. Early Buddhist translators, so the story goes, made free use of Daoist terminology, creating confusion that was only cleared up centuries later, when Kumārajīva and his colleagues began to eliminate such terms from Buddhist discourse. According to this scenario, Chinese Buddhist translations followed a clear trajectory of "progress," with the inappropriate choices made by early translators being rectified in the more careful work of their successors.
Prof. Nattier will examine some of the indigenous religious terminology used during the first two centuries of Buddhist translation activity in China and show that the actual pattern of usage is much more complicated--and much more interesting--than the simplistic picture of the early appropriation, and subsequent abandonment, of "Daoist" terminology would suggest.
Thank you.
CBS Staff
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