Siddham & Samurai: A study about the Brahmic Japanese bonji on samurai swords.

[SalaMarcos]

Dear colleagues, if you're near to Liege, Belgium, I'm happy to invite you to this conference:
Siddham & Samurai: A study about the Brahmic Japanese bonji on samurai swords.
The Brahmic Siddham scripts of Sanskrit about Buddhist texts came to China thanks to the Silk Road. The Siddham characters became popular at the esoteric Japanese Buddhist schools to represent the different forms of Buddha as well some of the prayers. Since the VI century, aristocrats and warriors used those prayers, searching for protection. Through the centuries, those warriors became samurai, and from the XIII century, many of them asked his forgers to put some bonji characters to protect their weapons and armors. Here we will study some works where the Brahmic Siddham Bonji became both fashion and protectors in the life of the samurai.

[O koumori]

Marcos,

This sounds very interesting; I wish I could attend.

Will the conference proceedings be published?

Thank you,

Dan K

[SalaMarcos]

Dear Dan, 

I don't know if they wanted to publish my paper, but I will try to record the conference and upload it.

Best regards!

Marcos.

[O koumori]

Thanks Marcos!

Dan