Our next event is just a
few days away!
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.
Please check our website for more info:
http://www.international.ucla.edu/buddhist/
Thank you and see you soon!
Best,
CBS Staff
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We are also happy to announce that UCLA Professor of Art History and member of the CBS faculty advisory committee, Robert Brown, also Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art, invites you to the Ninth Annual Distinguished Lecture on South and Southeast Asian art:
Sri Lanka: A Land of Multicultural Exchanges
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.
Please check our website for more info:
http://www.international.ucla.edu/buddhist/
Thank you and see you soon!
Best,
CBS Staff
******
We are also happy to announce that UCLA Professor of Art History and member of the CBS faculty advisory committee, Robert Brown, also Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art, invites you to the Ninth Annual Distinguished Lecture on South and Southeast Asian art:
Sri Lanka: A Land of Multicultural Exchanges
Given by Osmund
Bopearachchi, Director of Research at the French National Center for Scientific
Research (C.N.R.S), Paris
Sunday, May 3
LACMA | 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles
1 pm | Lecture | Brown Auditorium
This event is free and open to the public, for more information please click here.
Dr. Osmund Bopearachchi presents the spectacular but little known art from the island nation of Sri Lanka, the subject of a major forthcoming exhibition at LACMA. He places the Buddhist and Hindu sculpture, paintings, and architecture in relationship to the art of South and Southeast Asia, identifying Sri Lanka as a hub of trade and culture across Asia.
If you would like to learn more about the Southern Asian Art Council and how to join, please click here.
Sunday, May 3
LACMA | 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles
1 pm | Lecture | Brown Auditorium
This event is free and open to the public, for more information please click here.
Dr. Osmund Bopearachchi presents the spectacular but little known art from the island nation of Sri Lanka, the subject of a major forthcoming exhibition at LACMA. He places the Buddhist and Hindu sculpture, paintings, and architecture in relationship to the art of South and Southeast Asia, identifying Sri Lanka as a hub of trade and culture across Asia.
If you would like to learn more about the Southern Asian Art Council and how to join, please click here.
Parking is available in the lot at the southeast corner of
Wilshire Boulevard and Spaulding Avenue.
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Enjoy free admission to
celebrate
LACMA's past and look to the future!
LACMA's past and look to the future!
Sunday, April 26 | 10 am–7 pm (please note this is one week before the May 3
event).
In gratitude to the many visitors, members, artists, and others who have come to the museum over the decades, we are offering free museum-wide admission (including the specially ticketed exhibition Nature and the American Vision: The Hudson River School) on Sunday, April 26, during our 50th Anniversary Community Free Day. Complimentary admission is being made possible by the support of LACMA's members.
In gratitude to the many visitors, members, artists, and others who have come to the museum over the decades, we are offering free museum-wide admission (including the specially ticketed exhibition Nature and the American Vision: The Hudson River School) on Sunday, April 26, during our 50th Anniversary Community Free Day. Complimentary admission is being made possible by the support of LACMA's members.
See you Sunday,
April 26!
