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Lecture: The Japanese Buddhist World Map: Religious Vision and the Cartographic Imagination (Prof. Max Moerman)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUA-qsV5BTc On January 11, 2022, Professor Max Moerman presented a talk on the specialized subject of maps in Japanese Buddhism. From at least the 14th through the late 19th century, Japanese monks have created and used maps to construct, represent, and find their place in a Buddhist world. Such maps provide a spatial history of religious thought, inform intellectual orientation and cultural identity, and reveal…