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CAS-E Lecture Series (summer semester 2023)

The Buddhist Eschatological Crisis in Fifth-Century China and Its Consequences: Sacred History, Collective Destiny, and Their Manipulation

This lecture was a welcome opportunity for me to give an overview of my project at the IKGF this year, and a preliminary presentation of some main findings and research directions. Of the many areas of premodern China’s worldviews that Buddhism profoundly changed, time and fate are without doubt among the most significant. At the […]