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Graduate Record 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED RECORD]
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RELB 5027 - Buddhism and Orientalism
Effective Start Date: 04/15/2022
This course will explore how scholars have understood the concept of Orientalism to describe processes in which Westerners have distorted (and even constructed wholesale) understandings of what Buddhism can be to serve their own interests. We will begin with Edward Said’s foundational work, Orientalism, then consider how his ideas have been used to develop critiques of Western understandings of Buddhism up to the present day.
Credits: 3
Grading Basis: Graded
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