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The University of Edinburgh invites you to join their Asian Studies Seminar Series. This time on the topic of:
Iconography of the Contemplating Buddha Figure in East Asia
Abstract
This lecture is a new study of the iconography of the contemplating Buddha figure, referred to as Korean Sayu사유 Buddha. In Korea, especially the Buddha figures of the National Treasure No. 78 and 83 were called Maitreya Sayu Buddha figure, which until now no one had interpreted on the basis of the Buddhist sutra. I will take two Buddhist sutras to interpret them, the first, the visualization of the rebirth of the Bodhisattva Maitreya in the heavenly paradise Tusita(T452), second, the Doctrinal Essential of the sutra of Rebirth Maitreya in the Tusita heaven(T1773/299). My studies interpreted what the crown of Buddha figure No.78 and No.83 means and why the two Buddha figures smile so beautifully.
About the speaker
Heyryun Koh has been a dispatched professor from the Korea Foundation carrying out her duties at the Koreanicum of the Institute for East Asian Cultural History (Sinology) at the University of Würzburg since the winter semester 2019/20. From May 2017, she was associate researcher at the Institute for Art History of the University of Heidelberg. Before that, she completed her studies at Ewha University in Seoul and the Universities of Zhejiang and Hamburg. In Feb.2003, she finalized her PhD at the University of Heidelberg. From November 2003 to 2006 she worked as an assistant Professor at the Sinology Department of the LMU Munich. In 2007, she was appointed professor at the University of Busan, Dankuk in Korea. Since 2017, she has led a project that focuses on the relations between Korea and Japan during the colonial era.
This project is conducted by the Research Institute of the Korean Independence Movement of the Independence Hall Korea
