The Aesthetics of Nirvana: 
Truth, Beauty and Enlightenment in Japanese Buddhism

Saturday, November 8, 2003
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
038 Graham Memorial
James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence

Student Panel Presentations

Panel 1: Cross-Cultural Approaches to Buddhist Aesthetics
Chair and discussant:  Norris Johnson (UNC-Chapel Hill)

Jeff Russell 
Jetavana: Wang Wei's Empty Mountain

Danbee Ching and Haerin Shin:
Unaffected Serenity: the Aesthetics of Korean Buddhism

Jeff Wilson
Aesthetics of America Zen: 
Tradition, Adaptation, and Innovation in the Rochester Zen Center Garden.

Paul Worley
Taxicab Enlightenment: 
Kerouac and travel as a means of religious discovery in Satori in Paris

Panel 2: Viewing Kurosawa, Teaching Kurosawa
Chair  Hiroko Hirakawa (Guilford College)
Discussant: John Mertz (North State University)

Brian Antczak
Silent before the Grave: Death and Honor in The Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven

Stephanie Ang
 Idealism & Reality: Bridging the Gap in Japanese Film and Culture

Max Slobin
Kurosawa's Vision of Victory: Samurai versus Farmer in The  Seven Samurai

Matthew Dale
Paths Present and Future:
 Yojimbo and the Visual Trail of the Buddhist Detective

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