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HDS 3570

Buddhist Bodies and their Moral Cultivation: Seminar

Janet Gyatso

Description

This seminar will study Buddhist sources for what they suggest about how the human body exists, perceives, engages with others, learns, and participates in moral and artistic development. Readings will be drawn from Buddhist writings on the body and the senses, ritual, discipline, ethics, and artistic practice, along with personal memoirs from South Asia, Tibet, and East Asia. The seminar will also study continental philosophy of the body, including Bergson and Merleau-Ponty, as resources for vocabulary and conceptualization.

Enrollment Limited: Limited to 20 (instructor's permission required)
Open to BTI Students: Yes
Jointly offered through the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as Religion 2735

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Scheduling

Half Course
Spring 2010
Th., 1-3
Location to be announced.

Relationship to Program Requirements

Program Requirement	Area / Category / Art / Designation
MTS Area(s) of Focus	Buddhist Studies Religion, Literature, and Culture South Asian Religious Traditions
MDiv Distribution Category/ies	Buddhism South Asian Religions
MDiv Art(s) of Ministry	Religious Education
ThM, pre-2007 MTS, and pre-2005 MDiv Area	Area 3
Language Course Designation(s)	n/a