The first presentation in the lecture series explores Kitayama’s material composition to demonstrate that the villa was a vast temple-palace complex built to resemble a Chinese-style imperial capital.
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In this presentation Emeritus Professor John Miksic will analyze the interaction between Buddhist texts and people who designed the illustrations of them on the temple of Borobudur.
The remaining lectures in this series focus on sacred sites in Myanmar, India and Tibet.
This presentation will highlight the Buddhist significance of the site as well as its place in Myanmar's more recent history.
Between the 9th and 13th centuries CE, some 15 very unusual Hindu temples were constructed in central India, mainly in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh.
Towering above the once forbidden city of Lhasa in Tibet stands the magnificent palace of the Dalai Lamas - the Potala. In this lecture we will look at the story of this great citadel and its place in Tibet’s dramatic history.
