The main Japanese Buddhist currents
Lecture by Frédéric Girard, emeritus director of studies at the EFEO at 18 p.m. Buddhism has become acclimatized in Japan in several forms, popular and scholarly, in symbiosis with [...]
From the beginning of the twentieth century, the Society of Friends of the Cernuschi Museum contributed to the rediscovery of ancient Asia through major acquisitions in the field of Chinese archeology. At the same time, the museum and the Society of Friends play a pioneering role for Asian artists active in Paris, and bring into the permanent collections modern and contemporary works from China, Japan, Vietnam and Korea.
Left photo: Bear in gilded bronze. China. Han period
Among the works donated by the Society of Friends to the museum, discover a masterpiece every week.
Through the variety of forms and techniques of these symbolic works or these everyday objects, discover like Henri Cernuschi during his great journey, the history of the great Asian civilizations embodied by China, Japan, Korea or the Vietnam, from antiquity to the present day.
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Lecture by Frédéric Girard, emeritus director of studies at the EFEO at 18 p.m. Buddhism has become acclimatized in Japan in several forms, popular and scholarly, in symbiosis with [...]
Lecture by Catherine Despeux, sinologist, honorary professor at INALCO. In China, the feminine is expressed according to the cosmological model of yin and yang. These two principles are [...]