FLB home News resources for undergraduates graduates faculty staff graduate assistants flb business office flb graduate student services   staff directory FLB directories UIUC home old browsers April 15, 2005 2004-2005/047 Lecture April 21: Chinese Contributions to Japanese Zen Buddhism Martin C. Collcutt, Professor of East Asian Studies and History at Princeton University, will give a lecture on Thursday, April 21, at 4 p.m., in Room 4080-A in the UIUC Foreign Languages Building, 707 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana. The lecture, entitled “Chinese Contributions to Japanese Zen Buddhism: Lanxi Daolong (1213-1278), Zen, and the Arts of Medieval Kenchoji,” is free and open to the public. Professor Collcutt teaches Japanese intellectual and cultural history at Princeton. His interests include the history of Buddhism in Japanese society; medieval society and economy; and Japan's relations with China and the West. Professor Collcutt has just completed an English translation of Kume Kunitake's record of the Iwakura Embassy's visit to the United States in 1872. He is working on a companion volume to be entitled The Iwakura Embassy in the United States: An Inner History. He is also translating "Dialogues in Dreams" by the fourteenth century Zen master Muso Kokushi and editing a collection of papers on Medieval and Early Modern social history. Collcutt’s lecture is sponsored by the UIUC Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.