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140128 UE Avadana, Jataka, and other Rebirth Narrative Genres in Literary and Visual Cultures (2018S)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Th 01.02.2018 08:00 to We 28.02.2018 12:00
- Deregistration possible until Sa 31.03.2018 23:59
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max. 24 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Tuesday 10.04. 11:45 - 13:45 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
- Tuesday 17.04. 11:45 - 13:45 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
- Tuesday 24.04. 11:45 - 13:45 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
- Tuesday 08.05. 11:45 - 13:45 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
- Tuesday 15.05. 11:45 - 13:45 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
- Tuesday 29.05. 11:45 - 13:45 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
- Tuesday 05.06. 11:45 - 13:45 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
- Tuesday 12.06. 11:45 - 13:45 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
- Tuesday 19.06. 11:45 - 13:45 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
- Tuesday 26.06. 11:45 - 13:45 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
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Aims, contents and method of the course
Participants in this seminar critically examine genres of Buddhist rebirth narratives in written and visual media. The aim is to understand the composition, transmission, transformation, and reception of stories of previous births of the Buddha and other figures. Using text critical methodologies as well as iconological and iconographic approaches to narrative imagery, thematic topics to be addressed include macro-historical understandings of the past through narratives, karmic eschatologies of rebirth narratives, hagiographies across births, polemic contestations, gender issues, and political and social paradigms as reflected in narrative texts and imagery.
Assessment and permitted materials
Assessment: 50% participation (including presentations) / 50% independent paper on the transmission of a particular rebirth narrative between genres and media
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Examination topics
Reading list
Neelis, Jason. “Literary and Visual Narratives in Gandhāran Buddhist Manuscripts and Material Cultures: Localization of Jātakas, Avadānas, and Previous-Birth Stories” in Material Culture and Asian Religions: Text, Image, Object, edited by Benjamin Fleming and Richard Mann. New York: Routledge, 2014, 252-264 (available in e-book).Ohnuma, Reiko. “The Gift of the Body and the Gift of Dharma,” History of Religions 37.4 (1998), 323-359.
———. Unfortunate Destiny: Animals in the Indian Buddhist Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017 (e-book).Panglung, Jampa Losang. Erzählstoffe des Mulasarvastivada-Vinaya analysiert auf grund der Tibetischen Ubersetzung. Studia Philologica Buddhica, Monograph Series, 3. Tokyo: Reiyukai Library, 1981.Rotman, Andy, translator. Divine Stories: Divyāvadāna (part 1: 2008; Part 2: 2017). Classics of Indian Buddhism. Boston: Wisdom Publications.Ruegg, David Seyfort. “Remarks on the Place of Narrative in the Buddhist Literatures of India and Tibet.” In India, Tibet, China: genesis and aspects of traditional narrative, ed. Alfredo Cadonna. Orientalia venetiana 7. Firenze: L.S. Olschki, 1999, 193-227.Schlingloff, Dieter. “Erzählung und Bild,” Beiträge zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Archäologie 3 (1982): 87-213 (English translation as “Narrative Art in Europe and India” in Dieter Schlingloff, Studies in the Ajanta Paintings: Identifications and Interpretations, Delhi: Ajanta Publications, 1988, 227-280).
———. 2000. Ajanta: Handbuch der Malereien / Handbook of the Paintings. Part 1: Erzählende Wandmalereien / Narrative Wall-paintings. 3 vols. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.Skilling, Peter, et al. Past Lives of the Buddha: Wat Si Chum; Art, Architecture and Inscriptions. Bangkok: River Books, 2008.Speyer, Jacob Samuel, translator. The Jat̂akamâlâ, or, Garland of birth-stories. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1990 [1895].Strong, John. The Legend of King Aśoka: A study and translation of the Aśokāvadāna. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983.Taddei, Maurizio. “Narrative Art between India and the Hellenistic World,” Transcultural Studies 1 (2015 – online article)von Hinüber, Oskar. Entstehung und Aufbau der Jātaka-Sammlung. Akademie der Wissenchaftenund der Literatur. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998.von Schiefner, Franz Anton, translator (1882). Tibetan Tales Derived from Indian Sources. Translated by W. Ralston (1906). E-book 2013; reprint 2016 (Forgotten Books).Waldschmidt, Ernst. Über Die Darstellungen und Den Stil der Wandgemälde aus Qyzil bei Kutscha. In Die buddhistische Spätantike in Mittelasien, 6: 9-62. Ergebnisse der Kgl. Preussischen Turfan-Expeditionen. Berlin: D. Reimer, 1928Walters, Jonathan. Stūpa, Story, and Empire: Constructions of the Buddha-Biography in Early Post-Aśokan India. In Sacred Biography in Buddhist Traditions of South and Southeast Asia, ed. Juliane Schober, 160-192. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1997 (reprinted in Buddhist Stupas in South Asia: Recent Archaeological, Art-Historical, and Historical Perspectives, eds. Jason Hawkes and Akira Shimada, 235-263. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009).Willemen, Charles, translator. The Storehouse of Sundry Valuables. BDK English Tripitaka, 10-I. Berkeley: Numata Center for Buddhist Translation & Research, 1994.
———. Unfortunate Destiny: Animals in the Indian Buddhist Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017 (e-book).Panglung, Jampa Losang. Erzählstoffe des Mulasarvastivada-Vinaya analysiert auf grund der Tibetischen Ubersetzung. Studia Philologica Buddhica, Monograph Series, 3. Tokyo: Reiyukai Library, 1981.Rotman, Andy, translator. Divine Stories: Divyāvadāna (part 1: 2008; Part 2: 2017). Classics of Indian Buddhism. Boston: Wisdom Publications.Ruegg, David Seyfort. “Remarks on the Place of Narrative in the Buddhist Literatures of India and Tibet.” In India, Tibet, China: genesis and aspects of traditional narrative, ed. Alfredo Cadonna. Orientalia venetiana 7. Firenze: L.S. Olschki, 1999, 193-227.Schlingloff, Dieter. “Erzählung und Bild,” Beiträge zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Archäologie 3 (1982): 87-213 (English translation as “Narrative Art in Europe and India” in Dieter Schlingloff, Studies in the Ajanta Paintings: Identifications and Interpretations, Delhi: Ajanta Publications, 1988, 227-280).
———. 2000. Ajanta: Handbuch der Malereien / Handbook of the Paintings. Part 1: Erzählende Wandmalereien / Narrative Wall-paintings. 3 vols. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.Skilling, Peter, et al. Past Lives of the Buddha: Wat Si Chum; Art, Architecture and Inscriptions. Bangkok: River Books, 2008.Speyer, Jacob Samuel, translator. The Jat̂akamâlâ, or, Garland of birth-stories. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1990 [1895].Strong, John. The Legend of King Aśoka: A study and translation of the Aśokāvadāna. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983.Taddei, Maurizio. “Narrative Art between India and the Hellenistic World,” Transcultural Studies 1 (2015 – online article)von Hinüber, Oskar. Entstehung und Aufbau der Jātaka-Sammlung. Akademie der Wissenchaftenund der Literatur. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998.von Schiefner, Franz Anton, translator (1882). Tibetan Tales Derived from Indian Sources. Translated by W. Ralston (1906). E-book 2013; reprint 2016 (Forgotten Books).Waldschmidt, Ernst. Über Die Darstellungen und Den Stil der Wandgemälde aus Qyzil bei Kutscha. In Die buddhistische Spätantike in Mittelasien, 6: 9-62. Ergebnisse der Kgl. Preussischen Turfan-Expeditionen. Berlin: D. Reimer, 1928Walters, Jonathan. Stūpa, Story, and Empire: Constructions of the Buddha-Biography in Early Post-Aśokan India. In Sacred Biography in Buddhist Traditions of South and Southeast Asia, ed. Juliane Schober, 160-192. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1997 (reprinted in Buddhist Stupas in South Asia: Recent Archaeological, Art-Historical, and Historical Perspectives, eds. Jason Hawkes and Akira Shimada, 235-263. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009).Willemen, Charles, translator. The Storehouse of Sundry Valuables. BDK English Tripitaka, 10-I. Berkeley: Numata Center for Buddhist Translation & Research, 1994.
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