The Origins of the Temple of the Golden Pavilion: The Kitayama Temple-Palace Complex in 14th-century Kyoto
Date: 6 March 2023
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Location: Online via Zoom
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.
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.