SAM Talks

Saturday University—Asia Crossings: Travel Accounts Through Asia’s History How and why did Mount Emei in China become a “Buddhist Mountain?” March 2, 2013 9:30–11 am Stimson Auditorium

James Hargett Professor of Chinese Studies, State University of New York at Albany

Mount Emei, of Sichuan province, with its unique geographical features, has attracted many travelers through Chinese history and has become known as a Buddhist pilgrimage site. Professor Hargett will draw from travel accounts in the diary and verse of the 12th century writer Fan Chengda, that records his climb to the summit.

Other lectures in this series:
Feb. 16: China and India are One: An Indian Soldier's Travelogue of Beijing in 1890–1901
Feb 23: The Politics of Pilgrimage: Xuanzang and His Meetings with Indian Kings
March 2: How and Why did Mount Emei in China Become a “Buddhist Mountain?”
March 9: Ibn-Sina and the Flow of Medical Information Across Asia
March 16: Ming China Goes Abroad: The Zheng He Voyages of the 15th Century
March 23: Morocco to Mecca, Malaya and More: The Fourteenth Century Travels of Ibn Battuta
March 30: Women on the Road: Pilgrims, Puppeteers, and Prostitutes from 11th to 14th Century Japan
April 6: Pathways to Bliss: Reinventing Buddhist Pilgrimage in Andhra Pradesh
April 13: Gentility on the Move: Travelogues and Fictions of Foreign Travel by Chinese Women, Circa 1900

Members: $5.00
Adults: $10.00

SAM member series: $43
Nonmember series: $86