Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Hosted by the Museum of Anthropology (MOA), Canadian Society for Asian Arts, Rosalie Stronck Family Foundation, and UBC’s Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program. Drawing on his most recent book, Sacred Sites of Burma, renowned scholar Donald Stadtner gives an illustrated lecture on how sacred sites have come into existence. This lecture is co-presented by MOA, Canadian Society for Asian Arts, Rosalie Stronck Family Foundation, and UBC’s Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program funded by The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation. This talk is part of the Asian Illuminations Series Lecture.
Biography
Dr. Donald Stadtner has taught Art History at the University of Texas, Austin. His publications include Ancient Pagan: Buddhist Plain of Merit (2005) and Sacred Sites of Burma: Myth and Folklore in an Evolving Spiritual Realm (2010). He has conducted many study groups to Burma (Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, Los Angeles County Museum, the World Affairs Council, and The Smithsonian Institution).
Select Articles Available at UBC
Stadtner, Donald. (2003). Inventory of Monuments at Pagan. Ars Orientalis. Vol. 33. pp. 212-214. [Link]
Stadtner, Donald. (2007). Seventeenth-century Burma and the Dutch East India Company, 1634-1680. Journal of Early Modern History. Vol. 11, Issue 4-5. pp. 395-396. [Link]
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