Dear Members:
We are very pleased to remind you of these upcoming events. We look forward to welcoming you to UCLA.
Best,
CBS Staff
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We are very pleased to remind you of these upcoming events. We look forward to welcoming you to UCLA.
Best,
CBS Staff
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May 8 at UCLA
Broken Bodies: The Death of Buddhist Icons and Their Changing Ontology in 10th-12th Century China
Wei-cheng Lin (UNC Chapel Hill)
Friday, May 08, 2015
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
243 Royce Hall
UCLA
This presentation investigates a widespread practice of burying broken statues in a greater territory of China during the 10th through 12th centuries. As has been suggested, a broken “icon” could have been considered as a form of “relic,” thus to be buried, particularly, inside the pagoda crypt. If this were the case, it would entail some conceptual adjustments: the icon would need to first be considered alive so it could turn into a relic after death, that is, after it loses its physical integrity. Yet the incomplete icon did not die completely and, as will be argued, the breakage during the time of our consideration was only to prompt an ontological shift of the icon thereafter.
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May 15 at UCLA
Peter Gregory colloquium talk
Title TBA
Friday, May 15, 2015
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
UCLA
Please check the CBS website for updated info.
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May 22 at UCLA
Writing Buddhist Liturgies at Dunhuang: Hints of the Ritualist's Craft
Paul Copp (University of Chicago)
Friday, May 22, 2015
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
243 Royce Hall
Manuscripts surviving from the eastern Silk Road site of Dunhuang make possible, among many studies, close explorations of the ways Chinese Buddhists of the ninth and tenth centuries constructed ritual programs. This talk will examine three features of those constructions: the natures of the frames by which Buddhist cultic texts and objects--narrative scriptures, incantations, and talismanic seals--were made the focuses of devotional and therapeutic rites, the borrowings and adaptations of existing materials of which those frames were made, and the understandings of the nature of scriptural language implicit in these practices.
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Sunday, May 3 at LACMA
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.
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.
Parking is available in the lot at the southeast corner of
Wilshire Boulevard and Spaulding Avenue.
