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1. Lecture at the Courtauld: Imprints of the protective goddess Mahāpratisarā across Asia and her role in Java
2. JOURNAL PUBLICATION > Collection of papers on Yogācāra
3. JOB VACANCY: Associate Editor at 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha
4. NEW BOOK> Michelle C. Wang, "Mandalas in the Making: The Visual Culture of Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang"

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Lecture at the Courtauld: Imprints of the protective goddess Mahāpratisarā across Asia and her role in Java

by Giovanni Verri

Imprints of the protective goddess Mahāpratisarā across Asia and her role in Java
By Prof. Marijke Klokke (Leiden University)
6.00 pm – 7.00 pm
Thursday 26 April 2018
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, The Sackler Research Forum, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN
Open to all, free admission, advanced booking required. See link below.

Marijke Klokke is professor by special appointment of South and Southeast Asian Art and Material Culture at Leiden University. After studying Indian and Iranian Languages and Cultures in Leiden, with a major in the early history and art history of India and Indonesia, and minors in Old Javanese and Indonesian, she received her PhD from Leiden University in 1990. She worked as assistant curator in the Oriental Department of Leiden University Library and as curator at the Leiden Museum of Ethnology and she has been teaching at Leiden University since 1991. She has published on the Hindu and Buddhist art of Indonesia, in particular that of Java. At present her focus is on the art and architecture of Central Java that flourished in the eighth and ninth centuries.
During that period, Mahayana Buddhism played a major role in intercultural exchange throughout Asia. Inscriptions and material culture demonstrate that Central Java was centrally involved in this cultural contact. Thus, Borobudur, one of the best-known monuments of Central Java, forms a visual compilation of Buddhist texts and ideas that were circulating across Asia among the elite of that time. Less-known pieces of art provide equally fascinating stories of cultural exchange and local adaptation, as the lecture will show. It focuses on images of Mahapratisara, a protective Buddhist goddess, who is the deification of a protective spell. It presents her travel, in text and image, via the northern Silk Roads over land to China, and via the southern maritime routes to Indonesia and the Philippines. It highlights images from Central Java that give us a rare glimpse into the concerns of women in those days.
The lecture will be followed by a reception in the Front Hall.
This event is organised by Prof David Park at the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Art and Conservation at The Courtauld.  https://imprints-of-the-protective-goddess-mahapratisara.eventbrite.co.uk


A bronze image of Mahapratisara from Central Java, c. 9th century (copyright: Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, RV-1630-18)

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JOURNAL PUBLICATION > Collection of papers on Yogācāra

by Jowita Kramer

Dear friends and colleagues,

I am very happy to announce the publication of a collection of papers on
Yogācāra-related topics in a special issue of the Journal of Indian Philosophy.
The papers are now available for online preview (with limited access) on the journal's website:

https://link.springer.com/journal/10781

Proceedings of the International Conference "Yogācāra Buddhism in
Context: Approaches to Yogācāra Philosophy throughout Ages and
Cultures" (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, June 19-20, 2015),
special issue of the Journal of Indian Philosophy, 46.2 (2018), ed. by
Jowita Kramer, Constanze Pabst von Ohain and Marco Walther.

Stuart, Daniel. "Yogācāra Substrata? Precedent Frames for Yogācāra
Thought Among Third-Century Yoga Practitioners in Greater Gandhāra."

Habata, Hiromi. "Some Reflections on the Term Sautrāntika in Vinaya
Context: vinayadharaḥ sautrāntikaḥ in the
Mahāparinirvāṇa-mahāsūtra."

Schmithausen, Lambert. "Some Remarks on the Genesis of Central
Yogācāra-Vijñānavāda Concepts."

Yamabe, Nobuyoshi. "Ālayavijñāna from a Practical Point of View."

Kramer, Jowita. "Conceptuality and Non-conceptuality in Yogācāra
Sources."

Moro, Shigeki. "Jayasena's Proof of the Authenticity of the Mahāyāna
Scriptures."

Tomlinson, Davey. "The Tantric Context of Ratnākaraśānti's
Philosophy of Mind."

Walther, Marco. "Traces of Yogācāra in the Chapter on Reality
(artha) within a Work on the Paths and Stages by Gling-ras-pa Padma
rdo-rje (1128-1188)."

Enjoy!

Best wishes,

Jowita Kramer
University of Munich

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JOB VACANCY: Associate Editor at 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha

by Andreas Doctor

84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha formally invites applications for the full-time position of Associate Editor. The appointment will run from June 2018 to May 2020 (2 years) with the possibility of extension.

The primary purpose of the Associate Editor is to evaluate the work of the translators working for 84000 and to offer them guidance and assistance to facilitate the successful completion of their translations for publication. This will include working closely with the editor in chief, the editorial director, other associate editors, copyeditors, and translators working for 84000.

Review of applications will begin on April 1, 2018 and continue until the position is filled.

For further information, please visit: http://84000.co/84000-seeks-associate-editor/

Sincerely,
Andreas Doctor
Editor, 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha

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NEW BOOK> Michelle C. Wang, "Mandalas in the Making: The Visual Culture of Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang"

by Lewis Doney

Dear colleagues,

I hope that this finds you all well.  Please allow me to announce the recent publication of my first book, Maṇḍalas in the Making: The Visual Culture of Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang (Brill).  For your reference, a synopsis and abbreviated table of contents are below.

The first scholarly monograph on Buddhist maṇḍalas in China, this book examines the Maṇḍala of Eight Great Bodhisattvas. This iconographic template, in which a central Buddha is flanked by eight attendants, flourished during the Tibetan (786–848) and post-Tibetan Guiyijun (848–1036) periods at Dunhuang. A rare motif that appears in only four cave shrines at the Mogao and Yulin sites, the maṇḍala bore associations with political authority and received patronage from local rulers. Attending to the historical and cultural contexts surrounding this iconography, this book demonstrates that transcultural communication over the Silk Routes during this period, and the religious dialogue between the Chinese and Tibetan communities, were defining characteristics of the visual language of Buddhist maṇḍalas at Dunhuang.

Acknowledgements ix

List of Illustrations xii

Abbreviations and Conventions xviii

Introduction 1

From Dhāraṇī to Maṇḍala 23

The Crowned Buddha and Narratives of Enlightenment 51

Maṇḍalas and Historical Memory 122

Maṇḍalas, Repentance, and Vision 195

Beyond the Maṇḍala 234

Epilogue 271

Bibliography 275

Index 314

For more information, please visit the publisher's website: https://brill.com/view/title/35969?format=HC&offer=350383

Very best wishes,

Michelle C. Wang

Assistant Professor

Director of Undergraduate Studies in Art History

Department of Art and Art History

Georgetown University

1221 36th Street NW, Walsh 102

Washington, DC 20057-1210

email: mcw57@georgetown.edu

tel:  (202) 687-3910

fax: (202) 687-3048

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