Gandharan Art in its Buddhist Context: international workshop. 佛教语境中的犍陀罗艺术：国际工作坊
The fifth and final Gandhara Connections workshop tackles the theme of Gandharan Art in its Buddhist Context – a fundamentally important topic for understanding this material.
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Download speakers' abstracts.Monday 21st March, 2022 – Devotional Art and the Buddhist CommunitySession 1Prof Juhyung Rhi (Seoul University)Does Iconography Really Matter? Iconographic Specification of Buddha Images in Pre-Esoteric Buddhist ArtDr Henry Albery (University of Ghent)Artistic Tensions: On Some Uneasy Relations between Monasticism and Art in the Vinaya
Session 2Dr Muhammad Hameed (University of the Punjab, Lahore)The Lost Buddhist Art of GandharaProf Gregory Schopen (UCLA)On Selling Space at the Monastery: Making Economic Sense of ‘Intrusive’ Images and Stūpas at Monastic Sites in GandharaTuesday 22nd March, 2022 – Iconography and ObjectsSession 3Dr Christian Luczanits (SOAS, London)On the Language of Gandharan Buddhist ArtDr Wannaporn Rienjang (Thammasat University, Bangkok)The Bimaran Casket and its Buddhist ContextSession 4Alice Casalini (University of Chicago)Framing and Reframing: Architectural Legibility in Gandhāran ArtDr Dessi Vendova (Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley)Solving the Riddle of the ‘Muhammad Nari Stele’: A New LookWednesday 23rd March, 2022: Sites and ProductionSession 5Dr Abdul Samad (Directorate of Archaeology and Museums, KP Province)Latest Discoveries in the Buddhist Archaeology of GandharaProf Marianne Bergmann (emeritus professor GAU Göttingen), Dr Shailendra Bhandare (Ashmolean Museum), and Martina Stoye (Museum für Asiatische Kunst Berlin, SMB, SPK)Indian Dedications at Berenike on the Red SeaSession 4Dr Fozia Naz (London)Buddhist Art outside the Sacred Premises in Uddiyana Region: An Overview on Fresh Documentation in Malakand DistrictProf Luca M. Olivieri (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice)Artists, Workshops and Early Gandharan Buddhism: The Case of Saidu Sharif I
