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Buddhist Gardens, Sculpture, and Food at Japan Society
| Location: | New York, United States |
| Lecture Begins: | 2003-05-29 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2003-05-09 |
| Announcement ID: |
133586 |
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Inspired by our current gallery exhibition "Transmitting the Forms of Divinity: Early Buddhist Art from Korea and Japan" (through June 22, see Announcement ID: 133406), Japan Society presents three lectures on various aspects of Buddhist culture and art. (Detailed description follows)
- Japanese Hakuho Sculpture and Its Place in East Asian Buddhist Art, Thursday, May 22 at 6:30 pm (speaker: Donald F. McCallum)
- The Art of Making Mountains: Korean Roots of Early Japanese Gardens, Thursday, May 29 at 6:30 pm (speaker: Marc Peter Keane)
- Shojin Ryori: Buddhist Food for All the Senses (Lecture & Demonstration), Thursday, June 12 at 6:30 pm (speaker: Toshio Tanahashi)
- Japanese Hakuho Sculpture and Its Place in East Asian Buddhist Art
Thursday, May 22 at 6:30 pm
A number of beautiful Buddhist sculptures, primarily small, gilt-bronze images, were produced during the Hakuho period (ca. 650-710) in Japan. Reflecting the extraordinary blossoming of sculpture in China of the later Six Dynasties and Sui periods and on the Korean peninsula from later Three Kingdoms to the Unified Silla period, the sculptors of Hakuho, Japan, drew on these exceedingly diverse styles to create a new synthesis. Donald F. McCallum, Professor of Art History, University of California at Los Angeles, discusses the stylistic development of Hakuho sculpture, considered in many respects to be among the most original and imaginative in Japanese art.
Tickets: $10, Japan Society & The Korea Society members & seniors $8, students $5.
- The Art of Making Mountains: Korean Roots of Early Japanese Gardens
Thursday, May 29 at 6:30 pm
The gardens of Japan, like many of the country's arts, embody the richness and complexity of Japanese culture. Like gardens themselves, the development of early Japanese art and aesthetics is a study of a work in progress; ideas and influences were imported from China and Korea and in time were subsequently transformed into something specifically Japanese. Garden designer and scholar Marc Peter Keane details the early development of Japanese gardens and examines the connections between these gardens and their Korean predecessors. Co-sponsored by The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Culture and Design.
Tickets: $10, Japan Society & The Korea Society members & seniors $8, students $5.
- Shojin Ryori: Buddhist Food for All the Senses (Lecture & Demonstration)
Thursday, June 12 at 6:30 pm
Shojin is a Buddhist term that refers to devotion, purification, asceticism or diligence in pursuit of enlightenment and perfection and Shojin Ryori, a type of vegetarian cuisine, was brought into Japan via China and Korea with the introduction of Buddhism in the sixth century. Toshio Tanahashi, a prominent fixture in Japan's contemporary culinary scene and the owner of Gesshinkyo in Tokyo, a restaurant that specializes in Shojin Ryori, explores the potential of vegetable as an remarkably versatile culinary ingredient, and discusses the history and meaning of this strictly vegetarian cuisine that aims to establish the dietary habits of a vegetarian lifestyle as a means of purifying the body and training the mind. Followed by a demonstration and reception.
Tickets: $15, Japan Society & The Korea Society members & seniors $10.
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