{"id":14225,"date":"2025-07-02T11:24:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T02:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/hss\/?p=14225"},"modified":"2025-07-07T17:15:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T08:15:05","slug":"public-lecture-7-28-the-circulation-of-pure-land-imaginaire-in-medieval-east-asia-focusing-on-yuanzhaos-pure-land-ma%e1%b9%87%e1%b8%8dala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/hss\/news-en\/2025\/07\/02\/14225\/","title":{"rendered":"Public lecture (7\/28) \u201cThe Circulation of Pure Land Imaginaire in Medieval East Asia: Focusing on Yuanzhao\u2019s Pure Land Ma\u1e47\u1e0dala.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: Dr. Wang Xingyi (Chinese University of Hong Kong)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Commentator: Dr. Takemoto Soichiro (Waseda University)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Date: 15:00\u201317:30, Monday, July 28, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Venue: Conference Room 1, Building 33, Toyama Campus, Waseda University <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/access\/toyama-campus\">https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/access\/toyama-campus<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Language: English, Japanese (Discussion)<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>This talk focuses on the visual device in medieval Pure Land practice, conventionally referred to as the \u201cKangy\u014d j\u016brokkan hens\u014dzu.\u201d As demonstrated by the substantial visual and textual evidence presented by preceding scholars, a clear correlation exists between this genre of Pure Land Ma\u1e47\u1e0dala and Yuanzhao\u2019s (1048\u20131116) commentary on the <em>Contemplation S\u016btra of the Buddha of Immeasurable Life<\/em>. To advance the current stage of research, I will make two main points based on a comparison of Yuanzhao\u2019s Pure Land Ma\u1e47\u1e0dala and the well-studied Taima Ma\u1e47\u1e0dala. The first is the discernible change of \u201cPure Land visual mode\u201d between the two representations of the Pure Land. I will discuss several key visual divergencies that serve to illustrate this transformation, which in fact reflect a shift in the understanding of Pure Land. The second point pertains to the way in which the popularity and promotion of Pure Land Ma\u1e47\u1e0dala contributed to the establishment of Pure Land schools in medieval Japan. In conclusion, I argue that Pure Land Ma\u1e47\u1e0dala not only reflects Yuanzhao\u2019s Pure Land thought in contrast to Shandao\u2019s, but also, through the circulation of the objects, has facilitated the formation of a shared, albeit alternative imaginaire of Pure Land in the context of East Asian Buddhism.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14221\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/hss\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250728WangXingyi_flyer-1-610x863.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"863\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/hss\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250728WangXingyi_flyer-1-610x863.jpeg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/hss\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250728WangXingyi_flyer-1-768x1086.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/hss\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250728WangXingyi_flyer-1.jpeg 794w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Dr. Wang Xingyi (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Commentator: Dr. Takemoto Soichiro (Waseda Universi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[82,93,24],"class_list":["post-14225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-events-en","tag-student-en","tag-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/hss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/hss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/hss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/hss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/hss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/hss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14273,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/hss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14225\/revisions\/14273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/hss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/hss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/hss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/hss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}