Open lecture

The Scientific Library and the Department of Oriental Studies of the Humanities Department of NSU invite you to an open lecture .

"Spiritual and aesthetic phenomenon of the Japanese rock garden".

By Elizaveta Evgenievna Malinina, a candidate of philological sciences, an associate professor at the Department of Oriental Studies at the Humanities Department.

April 8 (Friday) at 16:00.

Laboratory building, room 201a (transition), fiction lending library.

The Japanese rock garden has evolved from a temple of calm and silence for Buddhists to an original element of the garden area. In any of its qualities, it is a miniature prototype of the universe. Waves of marble-white sand, rough pebbles of the islands of eternal life and monochromatic colors are combined here into a metaphor for the essence of being. Nature ends, and the cycle of death and rebirth is continuous. The search for the ultimate freedom of the mind is also continuous. This is the essence of meditative contemplation of simple objects, free from worldly fuss and the husks of human perception. No more passion and suffering. Only pure stone, the endless relief of sandy waves and the bliss of nirvana.

For our readers, Elizaveta Evgenievna Malinina will immerse into the spiritual and aesthetic phenomenon of the dry garden. She is a candidate of philological sciences, an associate professor at the Department of Oriental Studies at the Humanities Department. Malinina is the author of numerous publications on the spiritual culture of Japan, a special place among which belongs to monographs "Art Born of Silence" and "The Path of Brush and Ink". They are dedicated to various aspects of Japanese art inspired by the ideas and aesthetic principles of Zen Buddhism: ink painting, garden art, tea ritual, poetry.

Listeners will meet with the sublime world of Eastern culture.

Everyone who has a pass to NSU is invited.