East and West of the Tsukiji Honganji
Travel and the Construction of a Japanese Modern Buddhist Temple
Link to Paper: Paride Stortini
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Speaker: Paride Stortini (PhD Student, Department of Divinity at the University of Chicago), presenting:
Date/Time: Thursday, January 28, 4:15 to 6:00 pm
Venue: John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB), Room 224
The Ashio Copper Mine Pollution Incident, Religious Relief Work, and Buddhist
Imaginings of the Social Problem
Presenter: Cameron Penwell (PhD candidate, History)
Discussant: Helen Findley (PhD candidate, EALC)
Date/Time: November 6, 2014, 4-6 pm
Venue: John Hope Franklin Room (Social Science Research Building 224)
Presenter: Micah Auerback
(Asssitant Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan)
Title: Painting the Biography of the Buddha in Meiji Japan
Date and Time: 12/13 on Friday, 4-6pm
Venue: Cochrane-Woods Art Center 152
Southern Song dynasty artist Liang Kai’s _Śākyamuni Descending the Mountain_ that is compared with Yamamoto Shunkyo’s one in Meiji Japan (Tokyo, Japan, Tokyo National Museum).