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Image and Exposition: Iconography and Doctrine in Medieval East Asian Buddhism

CMRS Distinguished Visiting Lecture by Robert M. Gimello

Monday, January 22, 2007
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Royce 314
Humanities Seminar Room
Los Angeles, CA United States

Focusing especially on the esoteric traditions of medieval Chinese and Japanese Buddhism, in which images most clearly vie with doctrinal formulations for the attention of both the believer and the scholar, this talk will explore, against the background of modern theory, and from a somewhat comparative perspective, Buddhist thought and practice in a period when questions about the relationship between word and image seemed especially urgent.

Robert Gimello is Visiting Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, and Professor Emeritus, East Asian Studies, University of Arizona.

Cost: Free.

For more information please contact

Robert Buswell
Buswell@humnet.ucla.edu

Sponsor(s): Center for Buddhist Studies, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies