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Buddhist Studies 1 Buddhist Studies 1 BUDDSTD 50 Introduction to the Study of Buddhist Studies Buddhism 4 Units Terms offered: Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2020 Overview Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2019 Second 6 Week Session This course will consider materials drawn from various Buddhist The Berkeley Group in Buddhist Studies offers an interdisciplinary traditions of Asia, from ancient times to the present day. However, it is program of study and research leading to a PhD in Buddhist Studies. not intended to be a comprehensive or systematic survey; rather than The group, which cooperates closely with the Departments of South aiming at breadth, it is designed around key themes such as ritual, image and Southeast Asian Studies (SSEAS) and East Asian Languages and veneration, mysticism, meditation, and death. The overarching emphasis Cultures (EALC), emphasizes the study of Buddhism in its many forms throughout the course will be on the hermeneutic difficulties attendant within its Asian historical and cultural context. The group also offers an upon the study of religion in general, and Buddhism in particular. undergraduate minor in Buddhist Studies. Introduction to the Study of Buddhism: Read More [+] Center for Buddhist Studies Hours & Format The Center for Buddhist Studies oversees a variety of research Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of programs, scholarly events, and outreach activities, often in collaboration discussion per week with units on and off campus. Activities include a colloquium series, Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per conferences, a visiting scholar program, a film series (with the PFA), week the Numata Visiting Professorship, and the International Buddhist Film Festival (with the Buddhist Film Society). Additional Details Undergraduate Program Subject/Course Level: Buddhist Studies/Undergraduate Buddhist Studies (http://guide.berkeley.edu/undergraduate/degree- Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. programs/buddhism/): Minor Introduction to the Study of Buddhism: Read Less [-] Graduate Program Buddhist Studies (http://guide.berkeley.edu/graduate/degree-programs/ BUDDSTD C50 Introduction to the Study of buddhist-studies/): PhD Buddhism 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019 Buddhist Studies This introduction to the study of Buddhism will consider materials drawn from various Buddhist traditions of Asia, from ancient times down to the Expand all course descriptions [+]Collapse all course descriptions [-] present day. However, the course is not intended to be a comprehensive BUDDSTD 39 Freshman/Sophomore Seminar or systematic survey; rather than aiming at breadth, the course is 1.5 - 2 Units designed around key themes such as ritual, image veneration, mysticism, Terms offered: Prior to 2007 meditation, and death. The overarching emphasis throughout the course Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the will be on the hermeneutic difficulties attendant upon the study of religion opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a in general, and Buddhism in particular. group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in Introduction to the Study of Buddhism: Read More [+] all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and Hours & Format from semester to semester. Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of Rules & Requirements discussion per week Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1.5-2 hours of seminar per week Subject/Course Level: Buddhist Studies/Undergraduate Additional Details Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Subject/Course Level: Buddhist Studies/Undergraduate Also listed as: EA LANG C50/S,SEASN C52 Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final Exam To be decided by the Introduction to the Study of Buddhism: Read Less [-] instructor when the class is offered. Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read Less [-] 2 Buddhist Studies BUDDSTD C113 Buddhist Thought in India 4 BUDDSTD C114 Tibetan Buddhism 4 Units Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Fall 2018, Fall 2017 Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020 This course is a broad introduction to the history, doctrine, and culture of This course is an advanced introduction to the major teachings of the Buddhism of Tibet. We will begin with the introduction of Buddhism Indian Buddhism and their philosophical elaborations. We will cover to Tibet in the eighth century and move on to the evolution of the major the core tenets attributed to the Buddha, and the later doctrinal and schools of Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhist literature, ritual and scholastic developments that turned Buddhism into one of the principal monastic practice, the place of Buddhism in Tibetan political history, and philosophical traditions of India. For this we will read select primary the contemporary situation of Tibetan Buddhism both inside and outside sources—in principle, extracts of the scriptures and later treatises— of Tibet. and academic articles and book chapters. Rather than offering a broad Tibetan Buddhism: Read More [+] introductory survey of Buddhist traditions across space and time, this Rules & Requirements class is geared towards students who are already familiar with the basics Credit Restrictions: Students who have passed S ASIAN C114 will not of Buddhism and want to deepen their understanding of the principal get credit for SASIAN C114. teachings of Buddhism originating in India. Buddhist Thought in India: Read More [+] Hours & Format Rules & Requirements Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Credit Restrictions: Students who have passed S ASIAN C113 will not get credit for SASIAN C113. Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Buddhist Studies/Undergraduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-3 hours of lecture and 0-1 hours of Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. discussion per week Also listed as: SASIAN C114/TIBETAN C114 Summer: 6 weeks - 8-8 hours of lecture and 0-2 hours of discussion per week Tibetan Buddhism: Read Less [-] Additional Details BUDDSTD C115 Buddhism and its Culture in Japan 4 Units Subject/Course Level: Buddhist Studies/Undergraduate Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2018, Spring 2017 Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. This course provides a critical survey of prominent and other noteworthy expressions of Buddhist thought and culture in Japanese history. The Also listed as: SASIAN C113 Japanese experience of Buddhist teachings, practices and institutions, as well as aesthetic expressions in painting, sculpture, architecture, garden Buddhist Thought in India: Read Less [-] design, literature, and theatre will be examined against the backdrop of the transmission of all these forms of Buddhist culture from India to China BUDDSTD 114 Tibetan Buddhism 4 Units to Korea to Japan. Special attention will also be given to the fusion of Terms offered: Summer 2018 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2016 10 Buddhist and “native” Japanese sensibilities in theater (Noh, Kabuki, and Week Session, Summer 2016 Second 6 Week Session Bunraku) and popular art such as ukiyo-e prints and manga. This course is a broad introduction to the history, doctrine, and culture of Buddhism and its Culture in Japan: Read More [+] the Buddhism of Tibet. We will begin with the introduction of Buddhism Hours & Format to Tibet in the eighth century and move on to the evolution of the major schools of Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhist literature, ritual and Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of monastic practice, the place of Buddhism in Tibetan political history and discussion per week the contemporary situation of Tibetan Buddhism both inside and outside Tibet. Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week Tibetan Buddhism: Read More [+] Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Buddhist Studies/Undergraduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week Also listed as: JAPAN C115 Additional Details Buddhism and its Culture in Japan: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: Buddhist Studies/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Tibetan Buddhism: Read Less [-] Buddhist Studies 3 BUDDSTD C116 Buddhism in China 4 Units BUDDSTD C118 Buddhism in Modern China 4 Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2015 Units This course is an introduction to the history of Buddhism in China Terms offered: Spring 2020 from its beginnings in the early centuries CE to the present day. Modern Chinese Buddhism emerged from a variety of reactions to the Through engagement with historical scholarship, primary sources in challenges posed by modernity. The course aims at introducing students translation, and Chinese Buddhist art, we will explore the intellectual to the ways in which Buddhists in China have engaged and continue to history and cultural impact of Buddhism in China. Students will also be engage with a modern society and a globalized world. The course will introduced to major issues in
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