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SUMMARY:Matthew King\, In the Forest of the Blind
DESCRIPTION:In the Forest of the Blind: The Eurasian Journey of Faxian's Re
 cord of Buddhist Kingdoms\n\n\n[caption id="attachment_1153" align="alignr
 ight" width="219"] Matt King[/caption]\n\nPlease join us for this exciting
  book talk by Matt King celebrating his second book! Matt graduated from t
 he DSR in 2014. He is now Director of Asian Studies and Associate Professo
 r of Buddhist Studies at the University of California\, Riverside. HCBS a
 nd the DSR hosted a book launch and reception for his first book\, Ocean o
 f Milk\, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire 
 (Columbia\, 2019)\, which won the 2020 Award for Excellence in the Study o
 f Religion: Textual Studies from the American Academy of Religion as well 
 as book awards from the International Convention of Asia Scholars and the 
 Central Eurasian Studies Society.\n\n\n\n\nAbstract\n\n\n\nThe Record of B
 uddhist Kingdoms is a classic travelogue that records the Chinese monk Fa
 xian’s journey in the early fifth century CE to Buddhist sites in Centra
 l and South Asia in search of sacred texts. In the nineteenth century\, it
  traveled west to France\, becoming in translation the first scholarly boo
 k about “Buddhist Asia\,” a recent invention of Europe. This text fasc
 inated European academic Orientalists and was avidly studied by Hegel\, Sc
 hopenhauer\, and Nietzsche. The book went on to make a return journey east
 : it was reintroduced to Inner Asia in an 1850s translation into Mongolian
 \, after which it was rendered into Tibetan in 1917. Amid decades of uphea
 val\, the text was read and reinterpreted by Siberian\, Mongolian\, and Ti
 betan scholars and Buddhist monks.\n\nMatthew W. King offers a groundbreak
 ing account of the transnational literary\, social\, and political history
  of the circulation\, translation\, and interpretation of Faxian’s Reco
 rd. He reads its many journeys at multiple levels\, contrasting the textu
 al and interpretative traditions of the European academy and the Inner Asi
 an monastery. King shows how the text provided Inner Asian readers with ne
 w historical resources to make sense of their histories as well as their o
 wn times\, in the process developing an Asian historiography independently
  of Western influence. Reconstructing this circulatory history and featuri
 ng annotated translations\, In the Forest of the Blind models decolonizi
 ng methods and approaches for Buddhist studies and Asian humanities.\n\nIn
  the Forest of the Blind: The Eurasian Journey of Faxian's Record of Buddh
 ist Kingdoms\n(Columbia University Press\, 2022)\n\n\nOcean of Milk\, Ocea
 n of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire\n(Columbia Un
 iversity Press\, 2019)\n\nThis event is live-streamed on our YouTube chann
 el. Here is the link. https://youtu.be/yojSB1F34cU\n\n
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Lecture
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Rm 318\, 170 St. George St\, Toronto
 \, ON\, M5R2M8\, Canada
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