"Exploring Buddhist Cave Temples," the second annual Chung Choo International Forum of Art History and Architecture, is a day-long forum on May 24, 2008 held at Seoul National University Museum, Korea and was organized by UM alumnus J.P. Park, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Program

Session I 9:30 - 11:00

Welcoming Remark: Young-June Kiehm, Chung Choo Art Society
Tribute to Walter Spink: Juhyung Rhi, Seoul National University, Korea "Walter Spink and Ajanta"
Keynote Speech: Walter Spink, "The Evidence of Things Not Seen"

Session II 11:15 - 1:00 The Buddhist Cave Temples in India

Pia Brancaccio, Drexel University, USA
"Repositioning the Early Caves of Western Deccan: A Fresh Look into the Dawn of the Early Buddhist Rock-cut Tradition"

Arvind P. Jamkhedkar, K.J. Somaiya Centre for South and South-East Asia Studies, India
"Some Unknown and Lesser Known Caves of 5th-6th Century A.D. from Maharashtra: A Reconstruction"

Yaguchi Naomichi, Kanazawa University, Japan
"On the Development and the Sequence of the Porch Cells in the Western Group of Vakataka Caves at Ajanta"

Discussant: Juhyung Rhi

Session III 2:15-4:00 The Buddhist Cave Temples in Central Asia and China

Denise P. Leidy, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
"Dipankara, Yungang, and Buddhist Iconography in the Late Fifth-Century"

Sunkyung Kim, University of Southern California, USA
"Burial Near the Enlightened Master: Stupa Forest and Dazhusheng Cave"

Li Chongfeng, Peking University, China

"Sinicization of the Indian Cave-Temples"

Discussant: TBA