Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Signs from the Unseen Realm (Mingxiang ji): A Collection of Buddhist Miracle Tales from Early Medieval China
The UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies presents a talk by Robert Campany on the Buddhist miracle tales.
When:
April 16, 2010 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Where
A Numata Colloquium Series talk by Professor Robert Campany, USC
Just prior to 500 C.E., scholar-official Wang Yan compiled and circulated a collection of Buddhist miracle tales titled Mingxiang ji 冥祥記 or Signs from the Unseen Realm. Around 130 tales from this once much larger text, plus Wang’s preface, survive. In this talk he will first introduce the text and the larger miracle-tale genre to which it belongs. He will then offer remarks on selected themes in the text that are of interest to historians of Buddhism, Chinese religions, and comparative religions. One of these themes will be the relation, in general, between miracle tales and the social and religious networks that produce them. Another will be the extent to which Mingxiang ji exemplifies the “sinification” of Buddhism—and what this might mean.
Cost:
Free
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