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- CFP> The Silk Roads and India from Antiquity to Modern times: History, Art, and Cultural transmission
- JOBS> H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Buddhism: 20 November - 27 November
- LECTURE> Second event in The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Lecture Series in Chinese Buddhism at SOAS: Prof. Toru Funayama (Kyoto University), 8-9 Dec 2017
- Seminar and Viewing: Maps of Early Modern Japan, Japan Society, Dec. 2 at 5 PM
CFP> The Silk Roads and India from Antiquity to Modern times: History, Art, and Cultural transmission
by Mariko Walter
ACANSRS/Indira Gandhi National Centre ConferenceMarch 29-31, 2018
@ Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi
This conference focuses on the relevance of India as the mid-point of the
Silk Roads connecting East and West, and North and South. The Silk Roads
include the Spice Routes, which were maritime routes that were important
parts of this network linking East and West. Perhaps the most lasting legacy
of the Silk Roads has been their role in bringing distant cultures and
peoples in contact with each other, and facilitating exchanges between them.
From antiquity, India has played and is still playing a major role in trade
and the exchange of material culture, artistic inspirations, philosophy, and
religions. The topics of the presentations will be selected from a wide
range of subjects related to the Conference theme from diverse fields,
including art, archaeology, history, literature, sociology, religion, and
philosophy. Conference participants are invited from all over the world and
individuals who wish to attend are requested to send a short paper proposal
by email (100-200 words) by January 15, 2018 to:
Mariko Walter (ACANSRS) - mnwalter@post.harvard.edu
Please send an initial inquiry to the above by email before sending a
proposal.
Individual participants are encouraged to apply for their own funding for
travel costs from their institutions although some limited accomodation can
be provided by the IGNCA. Letters of Invitation from the Centre needed to
apply for an Indian visa can be also arranged.
Mariko Walter, Ph.D.
ACANSRS Director,
3F College House, 1430 Mass Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138
JOBS> H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Buddhism: 20 November - 27 November
by Matthew McMullen
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from20 November 2017 to 27 November 2017. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Buddhism. See the H-Net Job Guide website at
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide,
write to jobguide@mail.h-net.msu.edu, or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Princeton University - Visiting Fellowship Hellenic Studies 2018-19
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56117
ASIAN HISTORY / STUDIES
Washington State University - Teaching Post Doc, Roots of
Contemporary Issues
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56114
DIGITAL HUMANITIES
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign - Project Manager - Digital
Methods in Humanities
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56120
University of Oklahoma - Norman - Open Rank Digital Humanities
Computing
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56041
EAST ASIAN HISTORY / STUDIES
Columbia University - Sheng Yen Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chinese
Buddhism
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56128
INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
Carnegie Mellon University - Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History
of Science and Computing
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56116
RELIGIOUS STUDIES AND THEOLOGY
Columbia University - Sheng Yen Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chinese
Buddhism
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56128
Princeton University - Visiting Fellowship Hellenic Studies 2018-19
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56117
NONE
Harvard University - Fellows-in-Residence Program
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56126
The University of Tokyo - Project Specialist, study abroad programs
(inbound)
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56122
The University of Tokyo - Project Specialist, UTokyo Global
Competence Certificate system
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56071
LECTURE> Second event in The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Lecture Series in Chinese Buddhism at SOAS: Prof. Toru Funayama (Kyoto University), 8-9 Dec 2017
by Yael Shiri
Dear
colleagues, Time has come to announce the second event of The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Lecture Series in Chinese Buddhism, organised by the SOAS Centre of Buddhist Studies.
We are greatly honoured to host a lecture by Prof. Toru Funayama (Kyoto University) on the Fanwan jing 梵網經, the most influential Mahāyāna Code in East Asian Buddhism. The Friday lecture will be followed by a one-day workshop, on Saturday, including two reading sessions: one by Prof. Funayama himself, and one by Prof. Jonathan Silk (Leiden University). The workshop is organised in collaboration with the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford (with the support of the GS Charity Foundation Limited and the Lingyin Temple).
You may find the details below and on our website.
Please note, that while both events are free and open to the public, registration is required for the workshop as well as familiarity with Chinese.
To register, please write to: ys13@soas.ac.uk
Kind regards,
Vincent Tournier & Yael Shiri
SOAS, University of London
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Polishing
the Buddha’s Sacred Text? A Methodological Reconsideration of the Significance
of Variant Readings in the Most Popular Mahāyāna Code in East Asia
Toru Funayama (Kyoto
University)
Date: 8 December 2017Time: 5:30 PM
Finishes: 8 December 2017Time: 7:00 PM
Venue: SOAS, Paul Webley Wing (Senate
House) Room: SALT (Alumni Lecture Theatre)
Type of Event: Lecture
Mahāyāna
and the Precepts: Readings from the Fanwan jing
梵網經 and
the Baoliangju jing 寶梁聚經
(Ratnarāśisūtra)
Toru Funayama (Kyoto
University) Jonathan Silk (Leiden University)
Date: 9 December 2017Time: 9:30 AM
Finishes: 9 December 2017Time: 5:30 PM
Venue: SOAS, Russell
Square: College Buildings Room: MB116
Type of Event: Workshop
9:30-13:00: Excerpts from the Fanwan
jing, led by Prof. Funayama.
13:00-14:00: Lunch break
14:00-17:30: Excerpts from the
Ratnarāśi, led by Prof. Silk.
***
Bios
Funayama Toru, born in
1961, is currently a professor of Buddhist studies at Institute for Research in
Humanities, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. His research mainly covers two
different areas in the history of Buddhism. One is Chinese Buddhism from to the
fifth/seventh centuries, a period from the late Six Dynasties period up to
early Tang; his focuses are on the formation of Chinese Buddhist translation
and apocrypha, spread of the notion of Mahāyāna precepts, the exegetical
tradition on the Mahāparinirvāṇa-Mahāsūtra, and more.
The other is philological
and philosophical issues in Buddhist epistemology and logic in India from the
fifth/tenth centuries, particularly Kamalaśīla’s (the late eighth century)
theory of perception. In both areas, he is interested in the concept of
saintliness as firmly related with the system of practice.
His most recent
publications included the study and edition of the Fanwang
jing: Higashi
Ajia bukkyō no seikatsu kisoku Bonmō kyō: saiko no katachi to hatten no rekishi
東アジア仏教の生 活規則『梵網経』─最古の形と発展の歴史 (The
Scripture of the Pure Divinities' Netted [Banners] (Fanwang jing), Mahayana
Code for Daily Life in East Asian Buddhism: The Oldest Form and Its Historical
Evolution), Kyoto: Rinsen shoten,
2017, 528p.
***
Jonathan Silk, born in 1960, is
Professor in the Study of Buddhism at the Leiden University Institute for
Area Studies. He studied East Asian Studies at the Oberlin College in Ohio and
subsequently Buddhist Studies at the University of Michigan. At the latter
university he obtained his PhD in 1994 with the thesis: The Origins and Early History of
the Mahāratnakūṭa Tradition of Mahāyāna Buddhism, With a Study of
the Ratnarāśisūtra and Related Materials.
During his studies, Silk spent
several years in Japan. After his PhD, he became Assistant Professor of
Religious Studies at Grinnell College in Iowa and in 1995 at the Department of
Comparative Religion of the Western Michigan University. From 1998 until 2002
he taught in the Department of Religious Studies at Yale University, and from
2002 in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures of the University of
California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Since 2007 he has been Professor in the study
of Buddhism at Leiden. In 2010 he was awarded a VICI grant from the NWO (Dutch
National Science Foundation) for the project: “Buddhism and Social
Justice.” In 2016 he was elected as a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy
of Arts and Sciences (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen
[KNAW]). He is currently the principal investigator of the ERC Project “Open
Philology,” focusing on the Mahāratnakūṭa collection.
Seminar and Viewing: Maps of Early Modern Japan, Japan Society, Dec. 2 at 5 PM
by Michael Chagnon
Saturday, December 2, 5 PMJapan Society
333 East 47th Street, NYC
Seminar
CONNOISSEURSHIP: MAPS OF EARLY MODERN JAPAN
The late 16th and early 17th centuries coincide with a burgeoning awareness of, and interest in, the expanse of the globe. It was a time when cartography flourished as a form of both scientific knowledge and artistic expression across the world.
In partnership with our friends from Arader Gallery and Geographicus Rare Antique Maps, this seminar with Prof. D. Max Moerman (Department Chair, Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College) compares early European maps of Japan with Japanese cartography of the same period, with special highlights of Buddhist world maps.
Hands-on examinations of rare, early examples will cast light on culturally contingent ways of viewing and recording the world at the historically significant juncture highlighted in the exhibition Hiroshi Sugimoto: Gates of Paradise, on view through January 7, 2018 at Japan Society.
Thirty participants maximum. For tickets: https://www.japansociety.org/event/connoisseurship-maps-of-early-modern-japan
Michael Chagnon, PhD
Curator, Exhibition Interpretation
Japan Society
