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… Andrew Quintman Introduction to major themes in Tibetan Buddhist thought and practice. Buddhist ethics, systems of monastic and ascetic life, ritual applications, sacred geography and pilgrimage, lay religion, and the status … religious and ideological interpretations of this epic of ancient India as manifested in performance and in written …

… human experience, but have not often enough juxtaposed the ancient and modern worlds in their analyses, a comparative … in Dialogue.” A this first GLC conference to focus on an ancient topic, organizers aimed to explicitly juxtapose the … assumptions about the genealogical relationships between ancient and modern slavery, conference co-organizers Noel …

… pilgrimage sites (called Mazar), and the destruction of ancient buildings and old city centers. Even private …

… of the books he donated, can be found carved among other ancient scripts on the exterior of Sterling Memorial Library. … the early 20th century. Wooden blocks were carved with words and images, inked, and then pressed with paper to … image. Yale Library’s oldest block-printed Chinese book, a Buddhist sutra shown here, was printed in 1124. (Beinecke …

… Lecturer in Assyriology and Humanities. She  studies ancient Mesopotamia at the intersections of sources and … text and image, as well as questions about monumentality, sacred and secular authority, and the ancient transmission and reception of literary, historical, …

… 265 Introduction to the History of Art: The Classical Buddhist World Mimi Yiengpruksawan Buddhist art and … 175 Religious Movements: Modern India Vasudha Dalmia Sacred texts and religious practices of India as they have … texts in translation. SAST 271/HIST 309 History of Ancient India David Brick Introduction to Indian society and …

… tradition of producing icons for temples and sacred sites and also the contemporary setting in which this … It is eye-opening to see the diverse circumstances, some Buddhist and some not, that inspire people to take up this … at the intersection of past and present production of Buddhist images in Japan and provides insight to anyone …