Donnerstag, 05. September 2024, 17:30 - 19:00 iCal

Stone-Carved Witnesses of the Heart Sūtra

The Possible Historical Significance of Stone-Carved Witnesses of the Heart Sūtra

Public lecture by Michael Radich | Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies

Seminarraum 1 des Instituts für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde
Campus der Universität Wien, Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2.7, 1090 Wien

Vortrag


In 1992, Jan Nattier published a landmark article proposing that the Heart Sūtra was produced in China around the seventh century, and not, as tradition believes, in India. In the years since, controversy about this theory has sputtered along in fits and bursts. The earliest witnesses in existence to the text in any part of the world are rather numerous exemplars of the version ascribed to Xuanzang, carved in stone in various parts of Northern China in the second half of the seventh century, remarkably close to Xuanzang’s time. In this talk, I will aim to achieve an overview of the controversy and the evidence it is based upon, and against that backdrop, consider what (if anything) the stone witnesses add to our picture.

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Kontakt

Judith Starecek
Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde in Kooperation mit der Indischen Botschaft, Wien
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judith.starecek@univie.ac.at