A Talk on Buddhist Modernism

"Embodying the Buddha, Authenticating the Dhamma: Ethics and Moral Representation in Cambodia": A lecture by Anne Hansen

Monday, April 28, 2008 4:00 PM Room 125 Nolte Center for Continuing Education

Professor Anne Hansen will examine the rise of Buddhist modernism in colonial Cambodia, a movement that introduced new rationalized Buddhist interpretations in the early decades of the twentieth century. Close readings of cremation volumes - a new genre of writing and funeral photography that emerged with the introduction of print culture in Cambodia in the 1920s - suggest new ways of understanding and representing Buddhist "ways of being" during this time period.

Anne Hansen is associate professor of History and Director of the Religious Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, where she researches and teaches the history and development of Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia.