Date: September 17th, 2013 Venue: Tonan-tei (Room No. 201), CSEAS, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University Title: The East-West Cultural Corridor Project: Living Buddhist Heritage in Myanmar Speaker: Prof. Elizabeth Howard Moore, CSEAS Visiting Research Scholar, Professor of the Art and Archaeology of South East Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Abstarct: The East-West Cultural Corridor Project is a collaborative study into common cultural processes across mainland Southeast Asia.The research relates past histories to the present traditions of sites and connecting routes. In Myanmar a large number of these living traditions are part of the Buddhist culture, from handicrafts to monastic and religious architecture. Living traditions […]