Scoundrels, Sinners, and Saints: Approaches to Buddhist Life Writing
RELI 309
Fall 2020
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This seminar will examine a variety of religious biographies and autobiographies in order to evaluate the significance of life writing in the Buddhist traditions of Asia. Materials will cover a broad range of historical periods, from early medieval to modern, and geographic regions, including South Asia, East Asia, the Himalayas, and Tibet. Topics include the structure, function, style, production, and reception of biographies and autobiographies, as well as more thematic questions of religious transmission, soteriology and praxis, formations of self-identity, gender, and the relationships of biographical literature to art and pilgrimage. Readings include primary Buddhist texts in translation supplemented by secondary scholarship on hagiography and sainthood, literary theory, narrative constructions of the self, and Buddhist history. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS RELI |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (GSAS)(RELI-MN)(RELI) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 90% or above |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
LIFE OF THE BUDDHA (BUDDHACARITA). Transl. by Patrick Olivelle. (New York: Clay Sanskrit Library, 2008) ISBN 978-0814762165
LIFE OF MILAREPA. Transl. by Andrew Quintman (New York: Penguin Classics, 2010) ISBN 978-0143106227
Schaeffer, Kurtis. HIMALAYAN HERMITESS. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004) ISBN 978-0195152999
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Examinations and Assignments:
Weekly short reading responses
1 short written project (3 pages)
1 final project (12 pages or equivalent)
Oral presentation
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Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course fulfills the Method and Theory requirement for the Religion major |
| Instructor(s): Quintman,Andrew H Times: .M.W... 02:50PM-04:10PM; Location: ONLINE; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 2 | JR major: 2 | | |
| Seats Available: 6 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 3 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: 5 | FR: 0 |
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