Session 1:
“Power of Compassion: Paths of Transmission of Avalokiteśvara,” a digital project
– Dorothy C. Wong, University of Virginia (current NHC fellow)
Death of Images: Burial Practice, Relic Deposits, and Image Caches in Medieval China
– Wei-Cheng Lin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Buddhist Brahmins: Ritual and the Subject in Esoteric Buddhism
– Charles Orzech, University of North Carolina, Greensboro (former fellow)
Guanyin’s Ghostly Guises
– Hun Lye, Davidson College
Session 2:
Art and Apotheosis: The Early Modern Afterlife of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1643-1616)
– Morgan Pitelka, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (current NHC fellow)
Gender Bending and Gender Affirmation: A Performance of the Anan Kōshiki at a Contemporary Sōtō Zen Convent
– Barbara R. Ambros, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Realm of Obscurity: Lay Monk Villages near Korea’s Northernmost Border from 1440 to 1950
– Hwansoo I. Kim, Duke University
DATE: April 20, 2012
LOCATION: Main Conference Room, National Humanities Center, 7 Alexander Dr., RTP
TIME: 1:30-5:00pm