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T.H. Barrett (SOAS) - Lincoln Memorial Lecture in Chinese Studies - The Rise of Printing and the Rise of Chan Buddhism: A Hidden Connection?
3/13/2008; 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
The lecture will try to set out a provisional narrative of the factors affecting printing up until the end of the Tang dynasty. After completing this account, consideration of what happened next, in the early decades of the tenth century, has suggested that we need to look carefully at the political and social factors prevailing at that point to understand the widespread acceptance of printing thereafter. And once again, we need to look very carefully at religious materials to get some picture of what was going on, even if paradoxically they have nothing to do with printing at all.
Robert Gimello (Notre Dame) - ALC Grad Colloquium - Literati and the Occult in Late Traditional Chinese Buddhism
3/14/2008; 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
The avid interest of the educated elite of late Ming and early Qing China in the occult beliefs and practices that comprised the Cundi cult may be reason to revise conventional assumptions about the character of literati Buddhism and our standard estimation of the presence of Buddhist hermeticism at all levels of Chinese Buddhist culture.
Dalai Lama to visit U-M in April
As part of the Earth Day activities, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama will deliver the Wege Lecture on Sustainability at 2pm on Sunday, April 20, 2008 (free, but tickets required).
China Theme Year Announced
The LSA 2007-08 theme year, "ChinaNow: A Contemporary Exploration," launches a yearlong exploration this fall of the culture and society of contemporary China and its place in this era of intensified globalization.
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