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SUMMARY:What Next? Trump and Asia
DESCRIPTION:Missed the event? Listen again on the Fairbank Center’s Podcast: \n \nRead a transcript of this event (pdf) \nJoin the Harvard University Asia-related Centers for the first in a new series on the Asia-Pacific during Trump’s presidency. \nSpeakers: \nDr. Lynn Kuok\, Visiting Scholar\, East Asian Legal Studies\, Harvard Law School; Nonresident Fellow at Brookings Institution         \nProfessor Sung-Yoon Lee\, Kim Koo-Korea Foundation Professor in Korean Studies and Assistant Professor at The Fletcher School\, Tufts University \nProfessor Joseph Nye\, University Distinguished Service Professor\, Harvard University \nProfessor Ezra Vogel\, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus\, Harvard University \nModerator: Professor Susan Pharr\, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics\, Harvard University \n  \nWatch the livestream on the Fairbank Center’s Twitter or Facebook. \n  \nSponsored by Harvard University Asia Center; Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies; Kim Koo Forum at the Korea Institute; South Asia Institute; Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\, Harvard Kennedy School; and the East Asia Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School.   \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/what-next-trump-and-asia/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:The Buddha and the Dragon Princess in the Lotus Sutra — for deciphering the Devadatta frontispiece in the Heike Tokyo set
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ryūichi Abé\, Harvard University \nThe Heike Nokyo is a sumptuously produced set of Buddhist scriptural handscrolls that was commissioned by the Heike military aristocratic clan and offered to the Goddess of Itsukushima\, the clan’s tutelary divinity\, in the mid-twelfth century.  The set is arguably the most sublime example of illustrated and decorated Buddhist scriptures in Japanese history.  The Heike Nokyo includes twenty-eight scrolls of the Lotus Sutra each of which is decked with a beautiful multicolor frontispiece that captures central motifs of the sutra’s each chapter.  Among them the “Dragon Princess” frontispiece of the Devadatta chapter scroll (Chapter Twelve) that depicts the Dragon Princess’s proffering her legendary jewel to Shakyamuni Buddha is particularly renowned for its splendor.  However\, unlike other sutra illustrations from the same period\, the Dragon Princess here does not transform herself into a male figure\, nor does she fly away to a buddha land in the south in order to be reborn there as a male Buddha.  Furthermore\, in contradistinction to the depiction in that chapter of the sutra in which the Buddha receives her jewel on Eagle Peak\, in the Heike Nokyo frontispiece the Buddha sits on a heavenly pure land; and Dragon Princess stands effortlessly on ocean waves.  No previous scholarship succeeded in deciphering this frontispiece as a narrative painting.  I argue that the Dragon Princess frontispiece represents an unusual effort by erudite Heike court ladies who grounded themselves on the authentic Sui and Tang Chinese doctrinal commentaries in order to reject the popular yet vulgar gender-biased interpretation of the Dragon Princess episode — that is\, she had to change her sex before she was able to attain enlightenment. The frontispiece aims at establishing a superior interpretation of the princess’s episode in the Lotus Sutra that positively illustrates female Buddhist practitioners’ agency in both attaining their own enlightenment and providing salvation to other beings\, both male and female.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-buddha-and-the-dragon-princess-in-the-lotus-sutra-for-deciphering-the-devadatta-frontispiece-in-the-heike-tokyo-set/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161207T123000
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CREATED:20161201T162000Z
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SUMMARY:The East-Asian Peace: Can it Last?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: The Honorable Börje Ljunggren\, Former Asia Center Fellow; former Swedish Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China and Vietnam \nCritical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-east-asian-peace-can-it-last/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China Series,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161207T153000
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SUMMARY:Long-Term Trend and Spatial Pattern of PM2.5-Induced Premature Mortality in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: WANG Haikun\, Associate Professor\, School of Environment\, Nanjing University \nSponsored by the China Project\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. \nWith rapid economic growth\, China has witnessed increasingly frequent and severe haze and smog episodes over the past decade\, posing serious health impacts to the Chinese population\, especially those in densely populated city clusters. Quantification of the spatial and temporal variation of health impacts attributable to ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) has important implications for China’s policies on air pollution control. In this study\, we evaluated the spatial distribution of premature deaths in China between 2000 and 2010 attributable to ambient PM2.5 in accord with the Global Burden of Disease based on a high resolution population density map of China\, satellite retrieved PM2.5concentrations\, and provincial health data. Our results suggest that China’s anthropogenic ambient PM2.5 led to 1\,255\,400 premature deaths in 2010\, 42% higher than the level in 2000. Besides increased PM2.5 concentration\, rapid urbanization has attracted large population migration into the more developed eastern coastal urban areas\, intensifying the overall health impact. In addition\, our analysis implies that health burdens were exacerbated in some developing inner provinces with high population density (e.g. Henan\, Anhui\, Sichuan) because of the relocation of more polluting and resource-intensive industries into these regions. In order to avoid such national level environmental inequities\, China’s regulations on PM2.5 should not be loosened in inner provinces. Furthermore policies should create incentive mechanisms that can promote transfer of advanced production and emissions control technologies from the coastal regions to the interior regions.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/long-term-trend-and-spatial-pattern-of-pm2-5-induced-premature-mortality-in-china/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161212T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161212T180000
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SUMMARY:The Indian Yogācāra Scholar Sthiramati and the Works Attributed to Him
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jowita Kramer\, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich \nThis paper focuses on the scriptural corpus of Sthiramati\, a pivotal scholar in the development of Indian Yogācāra thought in the 6th century. So far Sthiramati’s work has received far less attention from modern scholars than the treatises of other Yogācāra authors like Asaṅga or Vasubandhu—probably because of the perception of Sthiramati as a commentator and not as an original author and thinker in his own right. However\, as I have tried to show in a recently published paper\, commentators like Sthiramati have shaped the doctrinal development of the Yogācāra tradition by introducing new concepts and reorganizing previous teachings to a similar extent as “independent” authors like Vasubandhu. In the first part I will give an overview of the works ascribed to Sthiramati and question their authorship. The second part of the paper will be mainly devoted to my editorial work on the Sanskrit manuscripts of Sthiramati’s commentaries made available at the China Tibetology Research Center in Beijing\, namely the Pañcaskandhakavibhāṣā and the Abhidharmakośabhāṣya Tattvārthā. \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-indian-yogacara-scholar-sthiramati-and-the-works-attributed-to-him/
LOCATION:1 Bow St.\, Room 317\, 1 Bow St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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