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Buddhist Book Cultures Symposium at ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Denver, April 28th

Please join the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Denver's Department of Religious Studies on Friday, April 28 for our Buddhist Book Cultures Symposium from 1:30-5:00pm in Sturm Hall 286.
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1:30-3:30 Panel 1: Buddhist Manuscript Cultures Across Asia, 9th-13th Centuries
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  • Jinah Kim, Harvard ³Ô¹ÏÍø - Books on Pedestals: Buddhist Manuscripts & Their Function & Use in Medieval South Asia
  • Rae Erin Dachille, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Arizona - Text as Image: Art History, Paleography, & the Material World of a Dunhuang Manuscript
  • Bryan Lowe, Vanderbilt ³Ô¹ÏÍø - Inscribing Orality: Performance & Production of a Homiletic Manuscript from 9th-Century Japan

3:15-4:45 Panel 2: Woodblocks, Printing Presses, & Beyond, 17th-21st Centuries
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  • Ben Nourse, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Denver - Translating the Cult of the Book: Publishing & Performing a Tibetan Buddhist Ritual in Qing Beijing
  • Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, Grinnell College - Distributing Merit through River Currents & Internet Cables: Technological & Geographical Frontiers & Local Agency in the Development of Tibetan-language Book Cultures
  • Natasha Heller, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Virginia - Can a Comic be Canonical? Thinking through the Idea of Buddhist Books in Modern China
  • Discussant: Sarah Magnatta, Denver Art Museum and ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Denver

4:45-5:00 Closing Remarks
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This is event is organized by Dr. Ben Nourse, cosponsored by the Department of Religious Studies & the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School, with support from the Marsico Visiting Scholars Program.

This event is free & open to the public.Ìý

Please RSVP toÌýRLGS@du.eduÌý- space is limited!
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