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SUMMARY:Where the Buddha was Previously Born\, Seen\, and Heard
DESCRIPTION:Register\n\n“Where the Buddha was Previously Born\, Seen\, an
 d Heard: Transmission and Transformation of Rebirth Narratives in Art and 
 Text within and beyond Gandhara” is a two-day mini-conference on Buddhis
 t previous-birth narratives at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto on Augu
 st 27-28\, 2017 after the IABS meeting.\n\n\n\nArt historians and textual 
 specialists have been working together on a two-year project on "Buddhist 
 Rebirth Narratives in Literary and Visual Cultures of Gandhara" with the a
 im of collecting and cataloguing artistic representations of Gandharan pre
 vious-birth narratives and evaluating the images in light of recently disc
 overed Gandharan manuscripts. This conference will bring international Bud
 dhist Studies scholars together with graduate students to assess the signi
 ficance of the project's results by drawing upon the perspectives of a bro
 ad and varied audience with shared interests in how Buddhist literary and 
 visual cultures transmit and transform stories with written texts and arti
 stic images. \n\nThis conference will feature a Newar scroll-reading of th
 e Avadana of the Merchant Simhala by Dr. Naresh Man Bajracharya on Sunday\
 , August 27 and around twenty panel presentations by leading international
  scholars of Buddhist rebirth narratives in Asian literary and visual cult
 ures\, roundtable discussions\, and talks on in-process research by emergi
 ng scholars and graduate students over the two days. \n\nBy integrating in
 terdisciplinary research on Buddhist rebirth narratives in Gandhara with s
 tudies of other previous-birth stories in art and texts across regionally 
 diverse Asian cultures\, wide-ranging comparisons will inevitably lead to 
 a better understanding of patterns of transmission and transformation in v
 aried textual genres and artistic traditions. \n\nThe conference is suppor
 ted by a Collaborative Research Grant from the Robert H.N. Ho Family Found
 ation for Buddhist Studies and a SSHRC Connection Grant
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LOCATION:Royal Ontario Museum\, 100 Queens Park\,  Toronto\, ON\,  M5S 2C6\
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