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SUMMARY:Luchbox Lecture: The Silk Road in Post-WWII Japanese Religious Ima
 gery: Hirayama Ikuo’s Art and Activism and the Yakushiji Temple
DTSTART:20190704T101500Z
DTEND:20190704T114500Z
DTSTAMP:20260310T101827Z
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DESCRIPTION:Lunchbox lecture by Paride Stortini (Chicago)\n\nThe concept o
 f the Silk Road suggests a chronotope of cultural contact\, flows of ideas
  and religions\, trade and economic interests at the interstices of empire
 s\, from the ancient Roman and Chinese\, to the modern “Great Game” be
 tween Russia and the British empire.\n\nIn post-WWII Japan\, the idea of t
 he Silk Road was associated in the media\, art\, and literature with freed
 om of travel\, contact with exotic cultures\, and spiritual encounters. Th
 e image of Japan as the end point of the route and the repository of the r
 ich entanglement of cultures that flowed through the Eurasian continent ma
 de it possible to conceive a new role for the country after the war: Japan
  as a model of cultural heritage preservation and a promoter of peace and 
 international collaboration. Religion and spirituality play an essential r
 ole in such image\, especially in the case of Buddhism\, whose spread from
  India to East Asia followed the maritime and land routes of the Silk Road
 . In this lecture\, the lecture will particularly analyze how such images 
 of the Silk Road and of Buddhism intersected in the art and cultural herit
 age activism of Hirayama Ikuo\, one of the major post-war nihonga painters
  in Japan and a survivor of the Hiroshima nuclear bombing\, and how they b
 ecame part of religious practice and imagery at the Yakushiji temple\, in 
 Nara. The lecture will take into consideration material and economic aspec
 ts of this imaginaire\, and what is left unsaid in the discourse around it
 \, such as Buddhist involvement in Japanese wartime militarism.
LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://buddhistroad.ceres.rub.de/zh/events_zh/luchbox-lecture-the-sil
 k-road-in-post-wwii-japanes/
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