Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
Along with most of you, my colleagues at the Sainsbury Institute and I have been adjusting to a new lifestyle over the last couple of weeks, a home-based one to which we will become very accustomed for the duration of the Covid-19 Coronavirus pandemic. This April, then, when we should really all be out and […]
Dr. Halle O’Neal, Reader in Japanese Buddhist Art and Director of Research at Edinburgh College of Art, gave a fascinating talk entitled, “Word Embodied: Entangled Icons in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Art”, for the Institute’s February 2020 Third Thursday Lecture. The talk investigated the interplay between text, image, and the body of the Buddha by examining […]