"A New Sculpturalism" Exhibit at MOCA
Several USC School of Architecture Faculty Members to have featured work in Exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art
June 16-September 16
Several USC School of Architecture Faculty Members to have featured work in Exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art
June 16-September 16
USC Fisher Museum of Art
Discover art spanning five centuries at USC Fisher Museum of Art.
Ongoing
Discover art spanning five centuries at USC Fisher Museum of Art.
Ongoing
Japanese Buddhist Nuns and Performance: Tradition, Change, and Salvation
CJRC Gender and Ideology in Japanese Religions Life Project
Friday, November 30, 2012 : 2:00pm to 6:00pm
University Park Campus
Doheny Memorial Library
East Asian Seminar Room (110C)
Free
This one-day workshop will use two case studies to consider some of the hermeneutical strategies employed by Buddhist nuns in teaching and ritual.
How have Japanese women interpreted and transmitted the teachings of Buddhism, a tradition whose orthodox texts privilege male practitioners? This one-day workshop will use two case studies to consider some of the hermeneutical strategies employed by Buddhist nuns in teaching and ritual. Hank Glassman's paper, "The Creation of a Children's Limbo in Late Medieval Kyoto: sai no kawara, the five-element pagoda, and the collective dead," will examine the teaching methods of traveling female teachers known as Kumano bikuni. Barbara Ambros's paper, "Gender Bending and Gender Affirmation: A Performance of the Anan K?shiki at a Contemporary S?t? Zen Convent," will focus on interpretative strategies at work in contemporary S?t? nuns' commemorations of ?nanda, the disciple of the Buddha said to have convinced the Buddha to allow women into his order.
Kana Yoshida