Lecture by Ai Nishida (associate professor, Kyoto University)
Along with the initiatives of translating and copying sutras, which were promoted as official projects by the Old Tibetan Empire, early Buddhists wrote literary works to explain the basic concepts of Buddhism in a simple way that was unfamiliar to Tibetans at the time. Although these early works were not included in the later Tibetan Buddhist literature, there existence can be found in some of the Tibetan manuscripts of Dunhuang.
We will review the outline of seven literary works by early Buddhists that I recently translated and published. After reviewing the contents of each work, we will examine the teachings of the early Buddhist missionaries as a clue to understand how Buddhism got started in Tibet.
Ai Nishida is a specialist in ancient Tibetan texts at Kyoto University. She is in Paris at the invitation of the Center for Research on East Asian Civilizations (CRCAO-UMR8155), for a project on the ancient Tibetan inscriptions of Ladakh in collaboration with Nils Martin (CRCAO) and Quentin Devers (CNRS/CRCAO), as part of the research program Archaeological Exploration of Ladakh (https://ladakharchaeology.com/about/ael-programme). Lecture organised by Quentin Devers, Nils Martin, Françoise Robin (Inalco) and SFEMT.
Thursday 3 July, 6pm
Inalco (65 rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris) – room 3.11
Contact: quentin.devers@cnrs.fr /
françoise.robin@incalco.fr
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