6 pm (CET)

Venue:

Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften

Einstein-Saal
Jägerstraße 22/23

10117 Berlin

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This talk examines the significance of Japanese Buddhist cartography for the origins of the academic study of Buddhism in Europe. It traces the intellectual history and material aspects of cartographic representations of the Buddhist world, produced in eighteenth-century Japan by monastics, intellectuals and publishers, as well as the transmission, translation, and reproduction of these maps by the founding figures of the academic disciplines of Buddhist Studies and Sinology in nineteenth-century Europe – Heinrich Julius Klaproth (1783-1835), Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (1788-1832), and Stanislas Julien (1799-1873). In doing so, it seeks to shed light on the unrecognised contributions of Japanese Buddhist cartography to the European understanding of the geography of Buddhism in China, Central Asia and India, and to the development of Buddhist Studies in the West.

PROGRAM

• Transcultural Cartographies: The Japanese Buddhist World Map and the Birth of Asian Studies in Europe
  D. Max Moerman (Columbia University, New York)

• Discussant:
  Diana Lange (Universität Hamburg)

Part of the Lecture Series Maps and Mapping in Global History and Culture

Organized by Dagmar Schäfer, Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann and Ute Tintemann.

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In cooperation with the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences