JK15005Research 1~3-Seminar (KBR)(Lecture)
| Numbering Code | G-LET36 6JK15 LE36 | Year/Term | 2022 ・ Second semester |
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| Number of Credits | 2 | Course Type | special lecture |
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| Language | English | Day/Period | Wed.5 |
| Instructor name | Tao PAN (Graduate School of Letters Program-Specific Senior Lecturer) | ||
| Outline and Purpose of the Course |
This course is designed for the study foci “Knowledge, Belief and Religion” (KBR) and “Visual, Media and Material Cultures” (VMC) and consists of the following three parts: I. Silk Road in and between Asia and Europe; II. Buddhist Art as Cultural Entanglement; III. Manuscript Cultures as Transformative Creativity. |
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| Course Goals | Based on the theories of Transcultural Studies, this course offers numerous concrete examples for transculturality in the visual and material aspect as well as from the perspectives of creation and dissemination of knowledge and contact between religious networks on the macroscopic scale. Investigations on the microscopic scale, on the other hand, are concerned with how the formative and transformative processes result in certain cultural manifestations in the spheres of Buddhist art and manuscript cultures. | ||
| Schedule and Contents |
I. Silk Road in and between Asia and Europe Week #01 Silk Road A Greater Picture Part 1 1.1. Asia in Old Persian inscriptions 1.2. India in early Greek literature 1.3. Case Study: Names of Rome in Chinese sources vs. Name of China in foreign sources 1.4. Case Study: Indika by Megasthenes and Arrian Brief overview of course content Old Persian script ~ example of transculturality (for scripts, cf. later sessions) Topic for discussion: names and naming trends (in Europe, Asia, USA, etc.) Rome: Da-qin 大-秦 great-Qin , Fu-lin 拂菻 China in Sanskrit, Greek (ser), Latin (Seres) sources. Week #02 Silk Road A Greater Picture Part 2 2.1. Sogdians as Cultural Brokers 2.2. Turfan as Contact Zone 2.3. Chang’an as Cosmopolitan Terminal Old Persian script ~ example of transculturality Trade routes of Sogdians: https://sogdians.si.edu/historic-trade-routes-of-the-sogdians/ Sogdian Ancient Letters https://sogdians.si.edu/ancient-letters/ Read Letter 1, 2, 3. Nanaia goddess: https://kimon.hosting.nyu.edu/sogdians/items/show/1150 https://kimon.hosting.nyu.edu/sogdians/items/browse Religious adaptability of the Sogdians, by turns Mazdeans, Buddhists, Nestorians, Manichaeans and Muslims, according to their political and commercial interests Manichaeism Chang’an & Heian-kyo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heian-kyo References: Kent 1953 Old Persian grammar, texts, lexicon; Karttunen 1989 India in early Greek literature; Hansen 2017 The Silk Road: A New Documentary History to 1400: A New History with Documents. 2nd Edition; Sogdian Ancient Letters (by Sims-Williams, Livsic, La Vaissiere, Grenet); La Vaissiere 2005 Sogdian traders: a history; La Vaissiere 2005 Les sogdiens en Chine; Lieu 2013 The 'Romanitas' of the Xi'an Inscription; The Oxford dictionary of late antiquity; Boyce 1975 A reader in Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian. Week #03 Tarim Basin as Contact Zone Part 1 3.1. The Great Game from transcultural perspectives 3.2. German Expeditions (Grunwedel, Le Coq, Bartus) 3.3. French Expedition (Pelliot) Week #04 Tarim Basin as Contact Zone Part 2 4.1. British Expedition (Hoernle, Macartney, Stein) 4.2. Russian Expedition (Oldenburg, Petrovski) 4.3. Japanese Expedition (Otani) 4.4. Chinese Expedition (Huang Wenbi) Matsunami collection in Tokyo University References: Hansen 2017 The Silk Road; Seiiki koko zufu 西域考古図譜. Kagawa Mokushiki 香川黙識 (ed.), 1915, 2 vols; Website: http://idp.bl.uk , https://www.metmuseum.org , http://turfan.bbaw.de/dta/ , http://dsr.nii.ac.jp/toyobunko/index.html.ja , II. Buddhist Art as Cultural Entanglement Week #05 Buddhist Art Part 1 5.1. Gandhara and the Greeks 5.2. Kucha and Kizil Caves Gandhara Art, Language Gandhari (loan words from Middle Iranian, Script from Aramaic, ) Indian + Greek (Hadda, Afghanistan), Coins, Aniconic Week #06 Buddhist Art Part 2 6.1. Dunhuang Caves as Time Capsules 6.2. Khotan as Entryway into Kucha and Turfan Rhie Early Buddhist Art of China and Centra Asia References: Gandhara BAW 2013; The Art of Gandhara in The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Pakistan. Terre de rencontre Ier-VIe siecle. Les arts du Gandhara (Musee Guimet); Alt-Kutscha; Altbuddhistische Kultstatten in Chinesisch-Turkistan; Die buddhistische Spatantike in Mittelasien 7 vols; Schlingloff 1981 Erzahlung und Bild (updated chin. version in 2013); Duan Wenjie 1994 Dunhuang Art; Ancient Khotan 2 vols; Serindia 5 vols; 中央アジア 世界美術大全集 東洋編15; Website: https://www.metmuseum.org ; https://www.metmuseum.org ; http://dsr.nii.ac.jp/toyobunko/index.html.ja Week #07 Visual and Textual Interplay Part 1 Focus: Names and Depictions of Certain Figures (Gods, Animals, Buddhist Monks, etc.) 7.1. Narrative Elements in the Buddhist Stories 7.2. Variations of Depiction and Concept of Open Philology 7.3. Case Study: Tigress Story in Various Transmissions Week #08 Visual and Textual Interplay Part 2 Dieter Schlingloff: Erzahlung und Bild Depiction of development of story and several episodes Rock Art of Honey Hunters, 6000 BC Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal, Assyrian 7th cent. BC Blinding of Polyphemos, Laconian Black Figure Cup, c. 540 BCE. Cyclops Polyphemus Eleusis Amphora: funerary proto-Attic amphora circa 660 BC Drinking cup (kylix) depicting Kirke from the Odyssey Greek Archaic Period 『千と千尋の神隠し』（せんとちひろのかみかくし） Bharhut Bull and Tiger Jataka (Schiefner) by Asoka 3rd cent. BC Jataka 357 Latukika, Bharhut, 2nd cent. BC Miracle of the Buddha walking on a River Sanchi East Gateway 1st cent. BC Sikri Stupa in Homage to Buddha Dipamkara in Gandhara Kushan 4th cent. AD Josua begegnet einem Engel. Pal.gr.431.pt.B (https://digi.vatlib.it/mss/detail/215228) III. Manuscript Cultures as Transformative Creativity Week #09 Western Manuscripts 9.1. General Introduction 9.2. Western Manuscripts (Greek, Latin, Old Church Slavonic, Gothic, Old English, etc.) Week #10 Oriental Manuscripts 10.1. General Introduction 10.2. Oriental Manuscripts (Gandhari, Sanskrit, Khotanese, Tocharian, Chinese, etc.) 10.3. Differences and Similarities between Western and Oriental Manuscripts References: Manuscript Cultures Mapping the Field; One-Volume Libraries Composite and Multiple-Text Manuscripts Website: Homer (Venetus A): http://beta.hpcc.uh.edu/hmt/archive-dl/VenetusA/ ; Aeneas: https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.3867 ; Gothic: http://www.alvin-portal.org/alvin/view.jsf?pid=alvin-record%3A173610&dswid=7503 ; Old High German: http://www.handschriftencensus.de/werke ; Old English: https://ebeowulf.uky.edu/ebeo4.0/CD/main.html ; Sanskrit: http://idp.bbaw.de/ ; Gandhari: https://gandhari.org/ ; Avestan: https://ada.geschkult.fu-berlin.de Week #11 Composite Manuscripts Part 1 11.1. Textually Composite (Buddhist, Jaina, China; Bilingual) 11.2. Physically Composite (two layers, glued or sewn) Week #12 Composite Manuscripts Part 2 12.1. Philosophical/Religious Encounters between Asia and Europe 12.2. Case Study: Manichaeism in Tocharian und Old Turkic; Toch B-Uighur Bilingual Hymn to Mani References: The Emergence of Multiple-Text Manuscripts; Hartmann Wille Skt Handschriften Sammlung Pelliot 3510 Sammelhandschriften; Hartmann 2017 SHT 7185; Pan/Chen 2021 Traces of Chinese Buddhist Scrolls in Fragments of Tocharian Pothis; von Gabain/Winter 1958 Ein Hymnus an den Vater Mani auf “Tocharisch” B mit altturkischer Ubersetzung; Pinault 2008 Bilingual hymn to Mani: Analysis of the Tocharian B parts Week #13 Production of Manuscripts 13.1. Production of Palm Leaf Manuscripts 13.2. Chinese Buddhist Scrolls Transformed into Tocharian Pothis (How & Why & When & Where) Week #14 Manuscript Forgeries 14.1. Manuscript Forgeries as Transcultural Case Study 14.2. Unknown Script or Forgery? Hoernle Biscript References: Sims-Williams 2000 Forgeries from Chinese Turkestan in the British Library’s Hoernle and Stein Collections; Dunhuang Manuscript Forgeries 2002; Rosen 2001 Hedin Forgery; Fakes and Forgeries of Written Artefacts from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern China; Dragoni Schoubben Peyrot 2020 The Formal Kharosthi script from the Northern Tarim Basin in Northwest China may write an Iranian language Website: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G7Nd5Y6UCE Week #15 Review of Course Materials |
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| Evaluation Methods and Policy |
Assessment will be based on class performance (50% = attendance 20% + one presentation 30%) and final assignment (50%) To JDTS/MATS students: This course can be taken as either reduced (4 ECTS) or full seminar (8 ECTS). Please indicate your ECTS requirement to the teacher. |
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| Course Requirements | None | ||
| Study outside of Class (preparation and review) | Students will be required to read the materials in advance and come prepared to discuss them. | ||
