3月15日13時に第15期公募情報を公開いたしました。
4月1日13時より応募者登録サイトへの登録が可能です。
Information on the 15th call for applications was opened at 13:00 on 15 March.
Applicants can register on the registration website from 1 April at 13:00.
『Heavenly knowledge in disguise – The Transmission of Buddhist and Christian Astral Sciences from the “West” to the “East” in the first millennium AD』
Among the bodies of auxiliary knowledge the Buddhist and Christian missionaries brought to various parts of Eurasia which had a lasting impact to the local cultures was the astral science. Often disguised in various forms in the religious and pseudo-religious texts, the knowledge of the heaven comprises a broad range of interrelated subjects such as cosmology, astronomy, metrology, calendrics, astrology and astral worship. At a time when the concept of science was indistinct from its non-scientific counterparts, the religious institutions had for a long time served as the centers where such knowledge was preserved and developed. In this seminar, I will take a broad look at the pattern of transmission and transformation of this form of protoscience during the first millennium, highlighting some specific topics such as the concept of planetary weekdays and the horoscope to demonstrate how foreign ideas underwent a continual process of appropriation as they crossed various cultural and linguistic boundaries.