INTRO THERAVADA BUDDHIST TRAD (HR-1596)

INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THERAVADA BUDDHIST TRADITIONS. This course will survey the traditions of Buddhism commonly referred to as Theravada, with reference to their doctrine, development, and concrete localizations throughout South and Southeast Asia, as well as the contemporary West. We will also interrogate the shifting representations of these traditions that emerge in their interface with modernity. The course will incorporate both foundational primary texts and representative secondary scholarship in an attempt to broadly chart the living and historical dimensions of these traditions and the terms of their contemporary study. [Auditors with faculty permission]