Michelle Wang, Asst. Professor of Art History, Georgetown
University
"Uncovering Visual Evidence for the Gandavyuha in Tang
China"
Thursday, April 25, at 6 p.m.
Knight Building, Room 102 (Old
Grad School of Business, next to
Littlefield Center)
The Gandavyuha
is the Flower Garland Sutra, the foundation of the
Huayan School of Chinese
Buddhism (known as Kegon in Japan.)
The Avata saka Sutra was written in
stages, beginning from at least
500 years after the death of the
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha>Buddha.
It is a very
long text composed of a number of originally independent
scriptures
of diverse provenance, all of which were combined, probably in
Central Asia, in the late third or the fourth century CE.
Sponsored
by the Silk Road Foundation and the Ho Center for Buddhist Studies.
