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2016/02/02
Soka University’s Professor Karashima, Director of the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University, Lectures at 9 Universities Overseas Under Invitation
In the academic year of 2015 until mid-January of this year, Professor Seishi Karashima, Soka University’s Director of the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, lectured at nine universities overseas under invitation.
He was invited by the Confucius Institute at the Free University of Berlin, and on January 13 (local time), he lectured there in German under the title, “Buddhismus als kulturelle Brücke zwischen Indien und China und die Forschungen von Walter Liebenthal” (“Buddhism as a cultural bridge between India and China, and the achievements of Walter Liebenthal”). He introduced the role of Buddhism, which served as a bridge for cultural exchange between China and India, and the life of Jewish Buddhist scholar Walter Liebenthal, who escaped to Beijing in 1934 from the Nazis and wrote many papers on Buddhism while teaching Sanskrit at the University of Beijing.
The lecture can be accessed below.
He was invited by the Confucius Institute at the Free University of Berlin, and on January 13 (local time), he lectured there in German under the title, “Buddhismus als kulturelle Brücke zwischen Indien und China und die Forschungen von Walter Liebenthal” (“Buddhism as a cultural bridge between India and China, and the achievements of Walter Liebenthal”). He introduced the role of Buddhism, which served as a bridge for cultural exchange between China and India, and the life of Jewish Buddhist scholar Walter Liebenthal, who escaped to Beijing in 1934 from the Nazis and wrote many papers on Buddhism while teaching Sanskrit at the University of Beijing.
The lecture can be accessed below.
Confucius Institute at the Free University of Berlin
Professor Karashima shared that, from some years ago, the Free University of Berlin and Leipzig University have held exhibitions introducing Chinese scholars who were banned from their country during the Nazis era or killed by the Nazis. During this visit, he learned for the first time that Henri Maspero, the prominent French scholar on Chinese studies, was also killed by the Gestapo due to his resistance, and he commented about how moved he is by the attitudes of the German people, who do not look away from their wartime past.
Also on January 15 (local time), Professor Karashima lectured at the Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg, under the title, “Who Composed the Mahāyāna Scriptures? The Mahāsāṃghikas and Vaitulya Scriptures.” He also had a reunion after some years with Professor Michael Zimmermann, who was the first exchange student at Soka University’s International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, currently serving as professor of Buddhist studies at the Asia-Africa Institute of the University of Hamburg.
In the academic year of 2015, Professor Karashima was invited by a total of nine universities, including the Centre of Buddhist Studies at the University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Institute of Education, the Korean Buddhist Research Institute at Korea’s Dongguk University (the lecture was introduced in new programs:
Also on January 15 (local time), Professor Karashima lectured at the Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg, under the title, “Who Composed the Mahāyāna Scriptures? The Mahāsāṃghikas and Vaitulya Scriptures.” He also had a reunion after some years with Professor Michael Zimmermann, who was the first exchange student at Soka University’s International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, currently serving as professor of Buddhist studies at the Asia-Africa Institute of the University of Hamburg.
In the academic year of 2015, Professor Karashima was invited by a total of nine universities, including the Centre of Buddhist Studies at the University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Institute of Education, the Korean Buddhist Research Institute at Korea’s Dongguk University (the lecture was introduced in new programs:
Asia-Africa-Institute, University of Hamburg
With participating representatives after a lecture at the University of Hong Kong
National Tsing Hua University, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Fo Guang University
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