Harvard-Yenching Library

Chinese Buddhist Book Art in the Age of Printing
This talk will introduce select Buddhist woodcuts from rare books in The Claremont Colleges Library collection, including the liturgical frontispiece Cibei Daochang Chanfa and the illustrated book featuring Child Sudhana’s pilgrimage. By highlighting these woodcut’s artistic qualities and religious meaning, Huang will place them in the larger historical context of Chinese book and print culture and shed light on the dynamic continuity and transformation of Chinese Buddhist book art in the age of printing. This talk is offered in conjunction with the exhibition, Enlightenment in Ink: the Art of Buddhist Prints, presented by the Asian Library and co-curated by Xiaoxing Yu, a sophomore at Pomona College.

Chinese Buddhist Book Art in the Age of Printing Join us for a talk on Chinese Buddhist Book Art in the Age of Printing by Shih-shan Susan Huang, Associate Professor of Transnational Asian Studies at Rice University. This talk will introduce select Buddhis...