For centuries, prayer has been central to people’s worldview, to their education and formation, their experience of religion and the Divine, to the creation of societal communities, and to structuring ...read more
15de eeuw
16e eeuw
Archeologie
Centraal-Europa
Geschiedenis
Literatuurwetenschap
Medieval and Early Modern Practices of Prayer - Medieval and Early Modern Studies - Religious History and Devotional Culture
The exhibition features innovative scenography that reveals the many representations of Buddha, the Buddhist pantheon, and its rituals.The iconic Buddha figure is well-known in Western society. Often seen as a ...read more
The English translation project of the book Buddhism and Literature in the Southern Dynasties 南朝佛教与文学 by Pu Hui普慧 is funded by the Chinese Fund for the Humanities and Social Sciences (grant ...read more
In the last several years, fantastic manuscript finds have surfaced opening new windows into the scholarly study of the development of Buddhist literature. Gandhara Corpora represents a multifaceted, holistic approach ...read more
This project investigates the intellectual exchanges of the early Palaiologan period by analysing Byzantine book epigrams preserved in manuscripts dated ca. 1280–1350, treating paratexts as a key means of tracing patterns ...read more
This research solves knowledge gaps concerning Vietnamese religion and philosophy in the 18th century (“zoomed-out”) by analyzing the inclusion of the Chinese Three Teachings (i.e., Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism) in Le ...read more
My project focuses on the history of Baohua Mountain from the late Ming to the middle Qing period (seventeenth–eighteenth century), tracing the establishment and development of the Vinaya (monastic code) ...read more
The proposed project deals with the imagery of Brahma in Chinese Buddhism. As one of the Buddhist deities, Brahma appears in a wealth of artwork in different regions of Asia. ...read more
This project applies the computational analysis of style to aural features of medieval Anglo-Latin hagiography (900-1150). Although hagiographies possessed a sermonic quality, had a didactic function and were ceremonially recited, the reading ...read more
Mourning texts (āi jìwén 哀祭文) are an important genre of Dūnhuáng 敦煌 literature and are usually regarded as a subgenre of Dūnhuáng "prayer texts” (yuànwén 願文). More than 230 mourning texts are ...read more