140122 VO Historical Patterns of Buddhist Transmission (2018S)
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Language: English
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Wednesday
11.04.
11:45 - 13:45
Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
Wednesday
18.04.
11:45 - 13:45
Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
Wednesday
25.04.
11:45 - 13:45
Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
Wednesday
02.05.
11:45 - 13:45
Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
Wednesday
09.05.
11:45 - 13:45
Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
Wednesday
16.05.
11:45 - 13:45
Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
Wednesday
23.05.
11:45 - 13:45
Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
Wednesday
30.05.
11:45 - 13:45
Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
Wednesday
06.06.
11:45 - 13:45
Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
Wednesday
13.06.
11:45 - 13:45
Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
Wednesday
20.06.
11:45 - 13:45
Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
Wednesday
27.06.
11:45 - 13:45
Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
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Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
written take-home essays or oral examination, to be scheduled June 25, 2018)
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Examination topics
Reading list
McRae, John and Jan Nattier, eds. Buddhism across Boundaries: The interplay of Indian, Chinese and Central Asian Source Materials. Available online: Sino-Platonic Papers 222, 2012.Neelis, Jason. Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks: Mobility and Exchange within and beyond the Northwestern Borderlands of South Asia. Brill, Leiden; Boston: 2011 (open source: http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=627414)Norman, Kenneth Roy. A Philological Approach to Buddhism. SOAS, London: 1997.Pollock, Sheldon. “The Sanskrit Cosmopolis, 300-1300 CE: Transculturation, Vernacularization, and the Question of Ideology.” In Ideology and the Status of Sanskrit: Contributions to the History of the Sanskrit Language, edited by Jan Houben. Brill’s Indological Library, 13. Leiden; New York; Köln: Brill, 1997, 197-248.Salomon, Richard. Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhāra: The British Library Kharoṣṭhī Fragments. British Library and University of Washington, Seattle and London: 1999.Scheible, Kristin. Reading the Mahāvaṃsa: The literary aims of a Theravāda Buddhist history. South Asia across the disciplines. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. (e-book)Schopen, Gregory. Bones, Stones and Buddhist Monks. Univ. of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu: 1997 (e-book)von Hinüber, Oskar. A Handbook of Pāli Literature (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1996).Zürcher, Erik. The Buddhist Conquest of China: The spread and adaption of Buddhism in early medieval China. 2 vols. Sinica Leidensia 11. Leiden: Brill, 1959.
____. "Buddhism Across Boundaries: The Foreign Input" in Collection of Essays 1993: Buddhism Across Boundaries - Chinese Buddhism and the Western Regions, ed. by John McRae and Jan Nattier. Fo Guang Shan Foundation for Buddhist & Culture Education, Sanchung, Taipei: 1999, pp. 1-59 (volume available online: http://www.sino-platonic.org/)
____. "Buddhism Across Boundaries: The Foreign Input" in Collection of Essays 1993: Buddhism Across Boundaries - Chinese Buddhism and the Western Regions, ed. by John McRae and Jan Nattier. Fo Guang Shan Foundation for Buddhist & Culture Education, Sanchung, Taipei: 1999, pp. 1-59 (volume available online: http://www.sino-platonic.org/)
Association in the course directory
BA13, EC-1/3, MATB4
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• Analyze the evidence of monks, merchants, pilgrims, and other travelers who left traces of their journeys in the form of written accounts, inscriptions, images, or other artifacts
• Retrace networks for long-distance trade and other cross-cultural exchanges in order to understand stages and patterns of mobility
• Raise and answer questions about the transmission of Buddhism as a flexible and dynamic religious system rather than a monolithic unchanging entity with fixed doctrines and rigid rules