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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/three-years-in-ceylon-how-shak
 u-soen-invented-mahayana-buddhism/
SUMMARY:Three Years in Ceylon: How Shaku Sōen Invented “Mahāyāna Buddh
 ism”
DESCRIPTION:Held via Zoom - registration required: https://harvard.zoom.us/
 meeting/register/tJ0kduirpjsjE9HDweYiYRZxYtt7ptH2NNdX\n\nBased on his stud
 y of Sanskrit texts from Nepal\, Eugène Burnouf categorized Buddhism all 
 over Asia into “Northern Buddhism (or North Buddhism)\, which translated
  the Sanskrit scriptures into Chinese or Tibetan\, and “Southern Buddhis
 m” (or South Buddhism)\, which transmitted the Pali Canon and commentary
  from Sri Lanka to mainland Southeast Asia. This way of "Northern Buddhism
 /Southern Buddhism" categorization became common in European studies of Bu
 ddhism and spread to Japan through English-language texts\, since Japan fi
 rst came into contact with Western Buddhist Studies in the mid-1870s. Insp
 ired by European studies of Buddhism\, Shaku Sōen (1860-1919) learned Pā
 li in Ceylon as one of the first Japanese between 1887 and 1889. He would 
 later become the abbot of the Engaku-ji Temple in Kamakura and the mentor 
 of D. T. Suzuki. This presentation examines how Shaku Sōen decided to spr
 ead Buddhism in the West\, created the concept of “Daijō Bukkyō / Shō
 jō Bukkyō” (Mahāyāna Buddhism / Hīnayāna Buddhism) instead of “N
 orthern Buddhism / Southern Buddhism\,” and influenced modern Buddhist S
 tudies through D. T. Suzuki.
CATEGORIES:Visiting Scholar Talks
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