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140128 UE Avadana, Jataka, and other Rebirth Narrative Genres in Literary and Visual Cultures (2018S)

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

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max. 24 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

Dienstag 10.04. 11:45 - 13:45 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
Dienstag 17.04. 11:45 - 13:45 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
Dienstag 24.04. 11:45 - 13:45 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
Dienstag 08.05. 11:45 - 13:45 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
Dienstag 15.05. 11:45 - 13:45 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
Dienstag 29.05. 11:45 - 13:45 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
Dienstag 05.06. 11:45 - 13:45 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
Dienstag 12.06. 11:45 - 13:45 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
Dienstag 19.06. 11:45 - 13:45 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
Dienstag 26.06. 11:45 - 13:45 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18

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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

Participants in this seminar critically examine genres of Buddhist rebirth narratives in written and visual media. The aim is to understand the composition, transmission, transformation, and reception of stories of previous births of the Buddha and other figures. Using text critical methodologies as well as iconological and iconographic approaches to narrative imagery, thematic topics to be addressed include macro-historical understandings of the past through narratives, karmic eschatologies of rebirth narratives, hagiographies across births, polemic contestations, gender issues, and political and social paradigms as reflected in narrative texts and imagery.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Assessment: 50% participation (including presentations) / 50% independent paper on the transmission of a particular rebirth narrative between genres and media

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

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Literatur

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Appleton, Naomi and Sarah Shaw, translators. The Ten Great Birth Stories of the Buddha: The Mahānipāta of the Jātakavaṇṇanā. 2 vols. Bangkok: Silkworm Books, 2015.

Bell, Alexander Peter. Didactic Narration: Jātaka iconography in Dunhuang with a catalogue of Jataka representations in China. Münster: Lit., 2000.

Brown, Robert. “Narrative as Icon: The Jātaka Stories in Ancient Indian and Southeast Asian Architecture,” in Sacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and Southeast Asia, ed. Juliane Schober. Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 1987, 64-109.

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Dutoit, Julius. Jātakam: Das Buch der Erzählungen aus früheren Existenzen Buddhas. 7 vols. Leipzig: Lotus, 1908-1921.

Feer, Léon, translator. Avadâna-çataka: cent légendes bouddhiques: la centaine d'Avadânas, commençant par Pûrna (Pûrnamukha-avadâna-çataka) : traduite du Sanskrit, avec une introduction analytique, notes linguistiques et explicatives et trois index. Amsterdam: APA-Oriental Press, 1891.

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Karashima, Seishi and Margarita I. Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya, “The Avadāna Anthology from Merv, Turmenistan,” in Buddhist Manuscripts from Central Asia: The St. Petersburg Sanskrit Fragments, vol. 1, 145-523. Tokyo: The Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University, 2015. (available for online download from IRIRIAB publication site)

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———. “Avadānas and Jātakas in the Newar Tradition of the Kathmandu Valley: Ritual Perfromances of Mahāyāna Buddhist Narratives,” Religion Compass 9.8 (2015), 233-253.

Mair, Victor. 1999. The Khotanese Antecedents of The Sūtra of the Wise and the Foolish (Xianyu jing). In Buddhism Across Boundaries – Chinese Buddhism and the Western Regions, eds. John McRae and Jan Nattier, 361-420. Taipei, Taiwan: Fo Guang Shan Foundation for Buddhist & Culture Education, 1999 (available online: Sino-Platonic Papers 222, 2012.)

Neelis, Jason. “As the Dharmacakra Turns: Buddhist and Jain Macrohistorical Narratives of the Past, Present, and Future” in Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World, edited by Kurt Raaflaub. Bl

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