BuddhistRoad Guest Lecture
Online Event

BuddhistRoad Guest Lecture by Matthew Canepa (Irvine)
The lecture will be available live at Zoom. Please pre-register until 13 June 2023, 12 pm. Zoom lecture time: 5 pm (CEST)
This lecture will provide an overview of the influence of Iranian religions and political and visual cultures on Central Asia, particularly Buddhism and the Tarim Basin. Focusing primarily on visual and archaeological evidence, the lecture will examine the role that religious traditions, cultural forms, and visualities originating from or connected with Persia and the Iranian world played within the broader geographical sphere of Central Asia, with an emphasis on the Tarim Basin. The lecture will approach this problem from a variety of standpoints, including the movement of objects and people, the use and integration of Persian-Iranian visual or cultural forms as an Afro-Eurasian idiom of prestige, and the competition between religions in these regions.
To join the lecture, please register at https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Yud--prjwtGNNbr_0VaeiqPGB3Be_WRYNk