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 Buddhist Studies Research Seminars Convenors: Kate Crosby, [email protected] Pyi Phyo Kyaw, [email protected] Abstract Gandhara is the old name of the region around Peshawar in Northern Pakistan. Archaeological remains and recent manuscript finds suggest that this area was a thriving centre of Buddhism in the first centuries of the Common Era. Buddhist scholars initiated and promoted far-­‐reaching developments in Buddhist thought; scribes began to write and copy books; and sculptors created a new artistic style when they adopted Roman models for representing the Buddha and the Bodhisattvas in human form. Gandharan Buddhism proved extremely successful: along the ancient trade routes, the Silk Road, Buddhist art and doctrine from Gandhara spread first to Turkestan and then further east to China, Korea and Japan.
Biography Jens-­‐Uwe Hartmann was born in Germany in 1953. He studied Indology, Tibetology and Sinology in Munich (PhD in 1984), spent one year in Nepal microfilming manuscripts, and went to Göttingen (Habilitation in 1992). In 1995 he became Professor of Tibetology at the Humboldt University in Berlin and in 1999 Professor of Indology at the University of Munich. His research focuses on the recovery of Indian Buddhist literature from ancient Indic manuscripts and from Chinese and T ibetan translations, but he is also interested in Indian Buddhist art, especially that of Gandhara, and in modern developments of Buddhism in Asia and in the West.
Monks, Money, Manuscripts: Buddhism in Gandhara Jens-­‐Uwe Hartmann (University of Munich) Friday 12 Feb 2016 (5.00 pm) Room VWB 3.01, 3rd Floor Virginia Woolf Building 22 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6LE ALL WELCOME. Tea at 4:30pm.