Early religious influences, art, and ohilosophies of Asia, 1994 September 14, 1995 January 25

Item — cassette: 6

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Side A:

In this interview, Dr. Lennox Tierney shares the stories from his time spent in Thailand and Burma where he encounters many Buddhas on the Silk Road. He uses these stories as a segue into a discussion about the early religious influences in Asia.

Lennox also talks about Chinese gardens and landscape paintings and how they compare to Japanese gardens.

Side B:

Lennox uses the Katsura Palace Garden as an example of an ideal Japanese garden. He defines Chinese literati and explains how they tie into Chinese landscaping. Then he discusses the history behind tea ceremonies and ceramics and compares Chinese tea ceremony styles and Japanese tea ceremony styles. He also briefly talks about Japanese rock gardens then starts a discussion about the Yin and Yang philosophical concepts as well as anthropocentric and cosmocentric concepts of the Eastern and Western cultures.

Dates

1994 September 14
1995 January 25

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