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X-WR-CALNAME:Bryan Lowe - "Reaching the Poor and Preaching Poverty: A View 
 of Ninth-Century Japanese Buddhism from Below"
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DESCRIPTION:Can we access the religious lives of impoverished individuals i
 n the premodern world? This talk proposes that we can. I will introduce ev
 idence from a previously untranslated manuscript to show how preachers act
 ively promoted doctrines aimed to appeal to poor provincial villagers in n
 inth-century Japan\, often promising them wealth in return for humble dona
 tions or sometimes even simple faith. I will then survey earthenware pots 
 found throughout Japan that often contain simple prayers for wealth and we
 re likely offered by provincial villagers. By combining these sources\, I 
 will suggest that we may be able to recover not just what was said about t
 he poor but also how impoverished individuals may have responded to Buddhi
 st teachings.\n\nFlyer | RSVP\n\nBio\nBryan D. Lowe is an assistant profes
 sor in the Department of Religion at Princeton University. His first book\
 , Ritualized Writing: Buddhist Practice and Scriptural Cultures in Ancient
  Japan (University of Hawaii Press\, 2017) was awarded the John Whitney Ha
 ll Prize from the Association for Asian Studies. He is currently completin
 g a book called How Buddhism Spread in Japan. His work has been supported 
 by a ACLS Robert H. N. Ho Foundation fellowship\, the National Endowment f
 or the Humanities\, Fulbright IIE\, Japan Foundation\, and others.
GEO:34.020197;-118.283725
LOCATION:Doheny Memorial Library (DML)\, East Asian Seminar Room (110C)
SUMMARY:Bryan Lowe - "Reaching the Poor and Preaching Poverty: A View of Ni
 nth-Century Japanese Buddhism from Below"
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 _and_preaching_poverty_a_view_of_ninth-century_japanese_buddhism_from_belo
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CATEGORIES:Lecture / Talk / Workshop
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