{"id":1377,"date":"2016-07-01T17:13:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T08:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/aizu-museum\/?p=1377"},"modified":"2016-07-01T17:13:56","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T08:13:56","slug":"ancient-japan-korea-buddhist-culture-international-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/aizu-museum\/news-en\/2016\/07\/01\/1377\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Japan-Korea Buddhist Culture International Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An international symposium titled &#8220;Ancient Japan-Korea Buddhist Culture&#8221; was held on June 24 (Fri) at the Masaru Ibuka Auditorium, International Conference Center, Waseda University.<\/p>\n\n<p>This symposium commemorates the <a href=\"www.tnm.jp\/modules\/r_exhibition\/index.php?controller=item&amp;id=4879&amp;lang=en\">&#8220;Smiling in Contemplation: Two Buddhas from Japan and Korea Exhibition&#8221;<\/a> currently taking place at the Tokyo National Museum. Many people related to Waseda University, including President Kamata, were involved in organizing the event.<\/p>\n<p>The 4-hour symposium was held to reveal the philosophy and aesthetic beauty behind the pensive Buddha statues from Japan and Korea by studying historical records of ancient Japan-Korea&#8217;s relations in the latest research. The keynote lectures and presentations by Japanese and Korean scholars kept the audience&#8217;s close attention as they uncovered new findings regarding Japan and Korea&#8217;s Buddhist culture in the Three Kingdoms of Korea (6 -7th century).<\/p>\n\n<p>This historical encounter of two pensive Buddha statues representing both Japan and Korea will surely serve to build a better relationship between the countries.<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en-news\/42601\">Exhibition of pensive Buddhas from Japan and Korea<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international symposium titled &#8220;Ancient Japan-Korea Buddhist Culture&#8221; was held on June 24 (Fri) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/aizu-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/aizu-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/aizu-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/aizu-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/aizu-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/aizu-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/aizu-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/aizu-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/aizu-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/aizu-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}