#  HAA 282k 

 





 Semester:   Fall 

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 Year offered:  2018 

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 Link: [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 

 

 

 

*Indian Esoteric Buddhism*  
Jinah Kim  
Wednesday 12-2:45pm  
This seminar explores the art of Indian Esoteric Buddhism from various interpretive vantage points. After a brief historiographical introduction, the discussion will focus on unpacking recent scholarly discourses on Esoteric or Tantric Buddhism in relation to the artistic productions in medieval South Asia (ca. 800-1200CE). The two main topics for this semester will be 1) Saiva-Buddhist interactions as manifested in iconographic (and artistic) articulations, and 2) trans-regional connections across Asia. Students will engage in case studies exploring a historical relationship between ritual practices and artistic outputs in various Esoteric Buddhist contexts, which include comparative examples from outside the Indian sub-continent.



 

 



 

 See also:- [ Fall 2018 ](/classterm/fall-2018)