China Westward: Reimagining the Interwoven Material and Cultural Histories of China, Central Asia, and the Himalayas—which was held on Saturday, October 14, and Sunday, October 15—opened with remarks from Mark …
Religion
October 31 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Speaker: Youn-mi Kim, Ewha Womans University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Chair/discussant: Ryuichi Abe, Harvard University This talk explores the pagodas of China’s Liao dynasty (907-1125), uncovering the intricate relationships between the …
Architecture of Virtuality: Liao Dynasty Pagodas and the Embodiment of Buddhist Vision
Assistant Teaching Professor of Religion and Philosophy, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2023-24 Graduate Student Associate; Ph.D. Candidate in South Asian Studies at Harvard University
January 30 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Speaker: Anne N. Feng, Assistant Professor of Chinese Art, Boston University This paper investigates the relationship between Buddhist meditation and images in medieval China by reconsidering the development of Pure …
November 15, 2022 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Speaker: Chan Chi-Keung, Associate Professor of Philosophy, National Taiwan University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23Chair/discussant: Michael Puett, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology, Harvard University Seating is limited. …
October 19, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Speaker: Annabella Pitkin, Assistant Professor of Buddhism and East Asian Religions, Lehigh UniversityDevotion plays a central role in Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist accounts of guru-disciple relationship, part of an ideal of …
September 21, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Speaker: Victor Fan, King’s College London In Zen Buddhism, the notion of here and now is the key to attain––or return to––paññā/prajñā (insight). On a day-to-day basis, we live each moment …
Victor Fan – The Insight-Image: Illuminating the Reality of Deleuze’s Time-Image
2022-23 An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow; PhD Peking University
2022-24 Graduate Student Associate; Ph.D. Candidate in Religion at Harvard University