Guest Lecture: An Infinity of Stupas: Types of Chinese Buddhist Pagodas – 3

Speaker: Nan Wang (Tsinghua University, School of Architecture)

When: 1 pm–3 pm, Friday, July 26, 2019

Venue: Harvard University, Sackler Building 427

 

This lecture is the third instalment of the three-part lecture series, which will focus on bottle-shaped and Vajra-based pagodas.

About the Speaker:
Nan Wang received his Bachelor of Architecture at the School of Architecture, Tsinghua University in 2001 and his PhD in the School of Architecture, Tsinghua University in 2008, studying under Professor Wu Liangyong. Since 2009, he has been a lecturer at Tsinghua University, teaching architectural and urban design courses. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Institute of The Forbidden City in Beijing since 2019. His main research interests are the history and proportions of traditional Chinese architecture. His most important academic books are Rules of Square and Circle, Harmony of Heaven and Earth: A Research on the Proportions of Chinese Traditional Capital Cities and Architectures (2018), The Traditional Architecture of Beijing (2016), and  Ancient Capital City Beijing (2012).  Since 2013, Nan Wang has published nine volumes of the series of“Epic of Architecture” in Duku, a famous Chinese magazine on arts and humanities, including “The Pantheon,”  “Tombs of Han Dynasty,”  “Pagodas and Grottoes Coming to the East, “Stone Remains of the Six Dynasties, “Golden Heaven, “Dreams back to Tang Dynasty,” “Sacred Monasteries,” ”Mysterious Book of Ying Zao,” and “Structure of Wood and Spirit of Zen.”

 

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Download the lecture series poster here.