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SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Ascetic Topographies of Ancient Gandhara: Buddhist 
 Rebirth Narratives of Śyāma and Ekaśṛṅga
DTSTART:20180528T161500Z
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DESCRIPTION:Guest lecture in English given by Jason Neelis (Waterloo/Vienn
 a)\n\nThis lecture will focus on two jātaka stories with ascetic characte
 rs (Śyāma and Ekaśṛṅga) which are widely distributed in Buddhist li
 terary and visual cultures.  Images of these stories are included among t
 he visual repertoire of at least 15 jātakas identified in a comprehensive
  global survey conducted between 2015-2017 as part of an interdisciplinary
  collaborative research project on ovelapping genres of Gandhāran rebirth
  narratives.  Localization of some of these stories reported by Chinese v
 isitors to Gandhara and neighbouring regions between the fifth and seventh
  centuries CE reflects how these narratives of the Buddha’s previous bir
 ths became embedded in regional landscapes. An examination of the textual 
 versions and visual imagery of the stories of Śyāma and Ekaśṛṅga\, 
 which were emplaced near mountain passes connecting the Peshawar Basin wit
 h the Swat Valley\, suggests that topographical patterns may have played a
  role in the selective emphasis on ascetic themes as rebirth narratives pr
 eserved in visual and literary media were domesticated in the northwestern
  borderlands.\n
LOCATION:CERES-Palais\, Raum "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/de/veranstaltungen/guest-lecture-20180528/
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