Religious Thought & Practice in Early Japan:
Hōryūji and Tōdaiji
This master-level seminar formed one half of a “double feature” with Kyushu University art historian Cynthea Bogel’s “Icons and the Temple Context in Ancient Japan: Hōryūji and Tōdaiji.” The course(s) featured two different areas of specialization on the same general topic: Hōryūji and Tōdaiji monasteries and their cultural contexts.
The full double-course syllabus is here. Below you’ll find a gallery of images from our special class session held on the pedestal of the Great Buddha and from the Omizutori fire festival at Tōdaiji’s subtemple the Nigatsudō. And you can check out slides from three of my class sessions further down still (scroll to the right).
