Lecture at the International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden): The Occult and the Revival of Mikkyō: The Religious Landscape of 1970s Japan (11 June)
A lecture by Sangyun Han, visiting researcher at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and PhD candidate at Tohoku University in Japan. This lecture focuses on the revival of esoteric Buddhism in postwar Japan. Considering both the Western ‘New Age’ trend and the Japanese ‘Occult Boom’, the speaker explores how occult-related ideas influenced the reevaluation and …