Art and Japanese Esoteric Buddhism Study Group examines the Shingon and Tendai schools of Buddhism and its relationship with Japanese artistic traditions. Topics of discussion include the role of temples and monasteries in developing Esoteric art traditions, relationship between pictorial representations and textual practices, role of sacred sites and pilgrimages in the emergence of Esoteric art traditions, popularization of Esoteric Buddhist temples in the early modern period, and comparisons between the Japanese and Chinese Esoteric traditions and practices.

Contemporary Japanese Politics Study Group was established in 1999 to better understand key trends in Japanese politics and its foreign policy, to focus a scholarly eye on key policy issues, and in some cases to supplement the existing offerings of the Reischauer Institute and the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations.

 

For more information on Reischauer Institute study groups contact rijs@fas.harvard.edu