?️ Dr Tatsuma PADOAN (University College Cork)
? organised by the Japan Research Centre of the Soas University of London and SOAS Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions (CSJR)
? 26 May 2022 - 6:00 PM (CET)
?Russell Square : College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT) // online
? registration required : in person - on zoom
his presentation will attempt to map the mutual interconnections between ethnography, translation, and pilgrimage from a semiotic perspective, by exploring a mountain ascetic pilgrimage in Katsuragi linked to the twenty-eight sutra mounds of the Lotus Sutra (Katsuragi nijūhasshuku no kyōzuka). In this pilgrimage the twenty-eight chapters of the Mahāyāna Buddhist scripture Lotus Sutra are worshipped at twenty-eight spots, where each chapter is said to have been buried since ancient times, thus inscribing the scripture into the materiality of the landscape.
