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SUMMARY:Far from Wellness: Tantric Buddhist Rituals on the Silk Road
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DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Prof. Dr. Carmen Meinert (Central Asian Religions) 
 as part of the lecture series "Eine Religion kommt selten allein: Streifz
 üge durch die Religionsgeschichte". The online lecture will be presented 
 in German. After the lecture English questions\, however\, are welcomed in
  the CERES YouTube channel.\n\nThe misconceptions about what lies behind t
 he term Tantra are very numerous in contemporary Western societies. With o
 ffers such as ritual massages and introductions to spiritual sexual practi
 ces\, certainly  one can earn a lot of money\, but one does not necessari
 ly accomplishes salvation\, the attainment of Buddhahood. What did Tantric
  Buddhist ritual practice look like in the 12th century\, as it was practi
 sed in the caves of Dunhuang and in other remote places\, perceived as sac
 red spaces\, along the so-called Silk Road in Central Asia? I would like t
 o take you on a journey through time and give you an impression of Buddhis
 t reality of life and religious experience by applying the concept of tran
 scendence-immanence distinction developed in the KHK to historical visual 
 and textual materials from Central Asia.\n\n\nCarmen Meinert is Professor 
 for Central Asian Religions and PI of the ERC project BuddhistRoad at CERE
 S\, Ruhr-Universität Bochum\, Germany. Trained in Buddhist Studies\, Tibe
 tan Studies\, and Sinology\, she aims to develop the field of Central Asia
 n religions more systematically and to integrate Central Asian and Tibetan
  Studies in the larger framework of Comparative Religious Studies. Her rec
 ent publications include:\nMeinert\, Carmen and Henrik H.\, ed.\, Buddhism
  in Central Asia I\, Patronage\, Legitimation\, Sacred Space\, and Pilgrim
 age (Leiden: Brill\, 2020)\; Heirman\, Ann\, Carmen Meinert\, and Christop
 h Anderl\, ed.\, Buddhist Encounters and Identities across East Asia (Leid
 en: Brill\, 2018) and Meinert\, Carmen\, ed.\, Transfer of Buddhism across
  Central Asian Networks (7th to 13th Centuries) (Leiden: Brill\, 2016).\n\
 n\nClick here to CERES' YoutTube channel. \n\nCERES live website here.
LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/far-wellness-tantric-buddhist-ritua
 ls-silk-road/
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