Jinah Kim specializes in the art of South and Southeast Asia. Her most recent research focuses on the early medieval Buddhist manuscripts with illustrations from eastern India and Nepal. Based on her research on illustrated Buddhist manuscripts in India, Nepal, U.K., Ireland, and U.S.A., she is currently working on the book manuscript with a tentative title "Receptacle of the Sacred: illustrated manuscripts and the Buddhist book-cult in South Asia," which examines the Buddhist book-cult in practice in early medieval India and its later development in Nepal. It is a comprehensive study of the esoteric Buddhist culture in India that could contribute to answering the big question of why and how Buddhism disappeared in the land of its origin. She teaches courses covering a wide range of topics and periods in South and Southeast Asian art, with special interest in art and politics, female representations and patronage, issues of reappropriation, and post-colonial discourse. |
Jinah Kim