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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nThursday, April 13, 2023 4:00 pm to 6:00 
 pm \n JHB 317 \n Jackman Humanities Building \n 170 St George Street, Tor
 onto ON M5R 2M8 \n\nSpeakers \nApril Hughes (Boston University) \n\nDescri
 ption: \nLecture: UofT/McMaster University Yehan Numata Program in Buddhis
 t StudiesThis talk examines the association between Wu Zhao of Great Zhou 
 (Empress Wu Zetian) and Maitreya Buddha in a commentary on the Scripture o
 f the Great Cloud (Dayun jing 大雲經, T. no. 387) presented to the throne in
  690 just prior to her being declared emperor. The Commentary quotes from 
 Attesting Illumination (Zhengmingjing 證明經, T. no. 2879), a non-canonical
  apocalyptic scripture in which Maitreya appears during the chaos of the a
 pocalypse in order to fight demons and save the wholesome. This apocalypti
 c savior Maitreya rules over his terrestrial utopia without a Wheel-Turnin
 g King—thus he is simultaneously a religious teacher and a political ruler
 . Hughes argues that by associating Wu Zhao with this particular depiction
  of Maitreya, she can be seen as a worldly savior that also embodies both
  roles. April D. Hughes is Associate Professor of Religion at Boston Unive
 rsity. She received her Ph.D. in Religion from Princeton University and sh
 e completed M.A. degrees in East Asian Studies at UC Berkeley and UCLA. He
 r research situates medieval Chinese religion within broader cultural and 
 social contexts. She is especially interested in medieval Buddhist manuscr
 ipts and mural paintings discovered near Dunhuang, where she spent six mo
 nths in residence during her doctoral training. Her first book, Worldly S
 aviors and Imperial Authority in Medieval Chinese Buddhism, was published
  with University of Hawai‘i Press in 2021.Inquiries → christoph.emmrich@ut
 oronto.ca \n\nSponsors \nUniversity of Toronto, McMaster University \n170
  St George Street, Toronto ON M5R 2M8 \n\nCategories \n Lecture \n\nAudie
 nces \n U of T CommunityGraduate Students
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LOCATION:170 St George Street, Toronto ON M5R 2M8
SUMMARY:Worldly Saviors, Terrestrial Utopias, and Imperial Authority in M
 edieval Chinese Buddhism
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 trial-utopias-and-imperial-authority-medieval-chinese-buddhism
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