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The ten oldest wooden buildings in East Asia are in Japan, four of them at the monastery Horyuji. Less well-known and less well-documented than Japan’s buildings of the sixth and seventh centuries are China’s ten earliest wooden buildings, dated late eighth to early tenth century. Even less is known about Korea’s first centuries of Buddhist architecture. This talk explores extant architecture, archaeological evidence, and literary descriptions to determine what we really know about the first centuries of Buddhist architecture in East Asia and if longstanding notions of its major monuments...
Gandhara, the ancient region corresponding to modern northern Pakistan and adjoining areas of Afghanistan, has been a major cultural crossroads throughout history, serving, for example, as the main node for the transmission of Buddhism from its Indian homeland to Central and East Asia. Our knowledge of the history, literature and culture of Gandhara in its most flourishing period, around the first three centuries of the Common Era, has been vastly enhanced by the discovery within the last few years of important new inscriptions, and especially of large numbers of Buddhist manuscripts. The new...
at the Associate for Asian Studies Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois
PARTICIPANTS INCLUDE: James Benn (Arizona State University) Daniela Berti (CNRS, Paris) William Bodiford (University of California - Los Angeles) Robert Brown (University of California - Los Angeles) Jinhua Chen (University of British Columbia) Bernard Faure (Stanford University) Robert Gimello (Harvard University) Phyllis Granoff (Yale University) Paul Groner (University of Virginia) Valerie Hansen (Yale University) Stanley Insler (Yale University) Edward Kamens (Yale University) Donald Lopez (University of Michigan) Donald McCallum (University of California - Los Angeles) D. Moerman (...
Come enjoy the fun and celebrate the official launch of the NEW CEAS WEBSITE and E-ASSISTED PLANNING
Reception (following UNITY performance)
Lecture followed by Reception in 2nd Floor Common Room, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Conversations and student presentations on 2004 summer travel, study, internships, and research in Greater China, Japan, and Korea.
In celebration of 2005 - Year of the Rooster
By the sixteenth century variolation to prevent smallpox was an elaborate and fairly well known medical technique in China. By the middle of the nineteenth century, knowledge of this procedure had spread to several countries in East and Southeast Asia, including Japan and Vietnam. There is evidence that techniques used in Chinese style variolation shaped the practice of vaccination by indigenous vaccinators in Japan after the Dutch introduced vaccinia and the techniques associated with its use and propagation from the Dutch East Indies. Indeed, viable vaccinia was finally, after decades of...
Two-term directed research project under the supervision of a ladder faculty member. Students should write essays using materials in East Asian languages when possible. Essays should be based on primary material, whether in an East Asian language or English. Summary of secondary material is not acceptable.
Preparation of a one-term senior essay under the guidance of a faculty adviser. Students must receive the prior agreement of the director of undergraduate studies and of the faculty member who will serve as the senior essay adviser. Students must arrange to meet with that adviser on a regular basis throughout the term.
Preparation of a one-term senior essay under the guidance of a faculty adviser. Students must receive the prior agreement of the director of undergraduate studies and of the faculty member who will serve as the senior essay adviser. Students must arrange to meet with that adviser on a regular basis throughout the term.
Two-term directed research project under the supervision of a ladder faculty member. Students should write essays using materials in East Asian languages when possible. Essays should be based on primary material, whether in an East Asian language or English. Summary of secondary material is not acceptable.
Come enjoy the festivities as the Council on East Asian Studies kicks off the fall term and please join us in welcoming our new students, postdocs, and visiting scholars!
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