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从弟子到学僧:中国佛教的教育现代化与身份建构
2024年5月14日, 释融道(加拿大麦吉尔大学). 剑桥大学 Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity. 网上直播YouTube
本生、地狱与志怪:从〈法苑珠林〉看佛教故事的经典化历程
张煜(上海外国语大学). 2024年3月28日 下午 2:00(太平洋). 网上讲座与英属哥伦比亚大学亚洲中心604室
念住中国:寻求觉醒和安康,修习早期禅法
2024年3月28日, 黄晓星(佩鲁贾大学). UBC 亚洲文化中心 604室, 网上直播 Zoom、YouTube
Chinese Religious Texts Authority (CRTA) workshop
Paris, France. January 4-7, 2024. Updated with schedule.
Glorisun Distinguished Lecture Series: What do East Asian Buddhists call their books and why?
George Keyworth (University of Saskatchewan). April 14, 2023, 4:00 pm PDT. In person at C.K. Choi Building, Room 120, and online
Guest Lecture: A New Translation and Study of The Zhuangzi (Sayings of Master Zhuang)
Richard John Lynn (University of Toronto). October 9, 2022, 7:30 PM PDT. In-person at UBC Asian Centre Auditorium and online
Keynote Presentation: A Sense of an Ending: Chinese Buddhist Eschatology Reconsidered
T. H. Barrett (SOAS). October 7, 2022, 6:30 pm PDT. In-person at The Place of Many Trees, Liu Institute for Global Issues, and online
佛教寺院与精神疗养院:前现代与当代东亚佛教中对身心疾病患者的监护
2022年8月1日, 罗柏松(哈佛大学). 网上直播, Zoom, YouTube
公开讲座: 九世纪后期中国东南佛教的复兴 – 以善权寺为例
游自勇(首都师范大学历史学院). 2022年3月31日, 太平洋夏令时间下午6:00 / 2022年4月1日, 北京时间早上 9:00. 线上
公开讲座: 明清军事制度如何与地方社会互动 – 以蔚州卫为例
邓庆平(中国政法大学人文学院)。 2022年4月6日, 太平洋夏令时间下午6:00 / 2022年4月7日, 北京时间早上 9:00. 线上
化导汲引于庠序之外:民国佛教之案例及其当代影响
二零二一年十二月八日, 史芬妮教授 (伦敦大学亚非学院). 网上直播, Zoom
UBC Tianzhu-Hurvitz Distinguished Lecture Series: Ethics of Ambiguity in Chan and Existentialism
April 22, 2021, with Wendi L. Adamek (Calgary). Online, via Zoom.
UBC Tianzhu-Hurvitz Distinguished Lecture Series: Karma in Chinese Buddhist Historiography
October 9, 2020, with John Kieschnick (Stanford). Online, via Zoom.
[CANCELLED] Guest Lecture: Theravāda Meditation within Contemporary Chinese Buddhism. The case of Sichuan Shifosi 石佛寺
Ester Bianchi (Perugia University). Wednesday, April 8, 2020, 5:30 pm–7 pm. UBC, C. K. Choi Building, Room 120.
[CANCELLED] UBC Tianzhu-Hurvitz Distinguished Lecture Series: The Buddhahood of Ordinary Persons: Revisioning the Lotus Sūtra in Medieval Japan
Jacqueline Stone (Princeton University). Friday, March 6, 2020, 5:30–8 pm. University of British Columbia, St John’s College.
[CANCELLED] Guest Lecture: Sun Wukong: The Monkey God
Li Ling (Sichuan University). 4 pm Thursday, March 5, 2020. UBC Asian Centre, Room 604.
Guest Lecture: Did women produce Buddhist texts in Medieval China? And does it matter if they did?
Stephanie Balkwill (The University of Winnipeg). 2:30pm Thursday, January 30 2020. UBC Asian Centre, Room 604.
Guest Lecture: Chiasmus in Bodhisattva Literature: Two Examples and Theorizing a Meta-Structure
Matthew Orsborn (Taiwan National University). January 30, 2020. 370 Dwinelle Hall, University of California, Berkeley.
Guest Lecture: Clerical Privileges and the Jurisdiction of the Buddhist Clergy: Do They Exist?
Cuilan Liu (University of Pittsburgh). 5 pm, Friday, November 15, 2019. UBC C.K. Choi Building, Room 120.
Guest Lecture: Cataloging the Medieval Japanese Sacred Transmitted Documents (shōgyō 聖教) from Shinpukuji 真福寺 and Amanosan Kongōji 天野山金剛寺
George Keyworth (University of Saskatchewan). 2:30 pm, Thursday, November 14, 2019. UBC Asian Centre, Room 604.
Guest Lecture: Through Altruism to Enlightenment
Rey-Sheng Her (Tzu Chi University). 2:30 pm Thursday, November 7, 2019. UBC Asian Centre, Room 604
Guest Lecture: “All Living Beings Have Buddha-Nature”—the Genesis of the Concept of Universal Buddhahood
Michael Zimmermann (Numata Center for Buddhist Studies, Hamburg University/University of Tsukuba). 4:30 pm, Monday, October 7, 2019. UBC Geography Building, Room 229.
Guest Lecture: The influence of Buddhism on Chinese language
Peng Lu (Wuhan University). 2:30 pm–4 pm, Thursday, October 3, 2019. UBC Asian Centre, Room 604.
Tianzhu Book Prize Lecture: The Meanings of Meditation in Early Zen Buddhism
Sam van Schaik (British Library). 7 pm, Saturday, September 21, 2019. UBC St. John’s College.
UBC Tianzhu-Hurvitz Distinguished Lecture Series: A Place for Doubt: The Theory and Practice of “Questioning Meditation” (Kanhwa Sŏn 看話禪 ) in Korean Zen Buddhism
Robert E. Buswell Jr. (University of California, Los Angeles). 5 pm. Thursday, September 12, 2019. UBC Ponderosa Commons Ballroom.
Guest Lecture: Educational Modernization in Chinese Buddhism: A Century of Transformation
Rongdao Lai (University of Southern California). 1:30pm. Thursday January 31, 2019. UBC Asian Centre, Room 604.
The Initial Rise of Manjusri Belief: Centered on the “Three Biographies of Qing Liang Mountain”
Long Chen (Xinzhou Teachers University). 4:30pm. Thursday, January 24, 2019. UBC Buchanan Building B Room 302
演讲:中国琴禅传统的言说方式研究:以中国古琴的现场演奏来体认
李虎群,中国政法大学哲学系副教授. 2019 年 3 月 14 日, 周四下午2:30. UBC 亚洲文化中心 604室
Guest Lecture: The Life-world of Chinese Buddhism: Temple-Town Relationship and Everyday Life in the Area South of the Yangtze River
Tang Zhongmao. 3:30 pm Wednesday, November 21, 2018. Asian Library RM 506.
Guest Lecture: What is Buddhist Ge-yi
Tang Jia. 4pm November 1, 2018. Asian Centre Room 604.
Guest Lecture: Reflections on the Movement to Revive the Precepts in Kamakura Japan
Paul Groner. Thursday October 25, 2018, 5 pm. 180 Doe Memorial Library, UC Berkeley.
Guest Lecture: Ritual, Reliquary, and Local Legend: Glocal Context of Twin Pagodas from the Silla Dynasty
Youn-mi Kim. 4 pm Monday, October 22, 2018. Asian Centre Auditorium
敦煌写本斋文的分类丶定名及其文本结构
旭日国际佛学网络@UBC, 在UBC的SSHRC(加拿大社科研究委员会)资助的特大项目 FROGBEAR (“拔地入云:佛教与东亚宗教”; www.frogbear.org)的协助下, 隆重推出首都师范大学资深教授郝春文先生演讲! 时间: 2018年11月15日,下午4点-5点半 地点: UBC 亚洲研究中心演讲厅 (UBC Asian Center Auditorium) 提要: 数以千记的敦煌写本斋文可以分为《斋仪》和斋文两类,《斋仪》与《书仪》性质相同,是供起草斋文参考用的文书;斋文是依据《斋仪》起草的在各类斋会上宣读的文书,是实用文本。斋文的文本结构可以分为“号头”丶“叹德”丶“斋意”丶“道场”和“庄严”五个部分。《斋仪》和斋文集的结构大致包括赞颂功德丶攘灾丶患差丶悼亡等诸多方面的内容,但具体编排次序有多种样态。“愿文”是斋文的一种,不能作为“斋文”类文书的通称。 讲者介绍: 郝春文教授1999年获首都师范学院历史系历史学博士学位。历任助教丶讲师丶副教授等职,1994年被破格晋升为教授。现为首都师范大学资深教授,历史研究所所长。 郝教授主要学术兴趣包括敦煌文献,三至十三世纪中国史,以及敦煌佛教。着述甚丰,代表作有《中古时期社邑研究》丶《唐後期五代宋初敦煌僧尼的社会生活》丶《敦煌的历史和文化》(合着)丶《敦煌社邑文书辑校》(合着)。还担任大型文献图集《英藏敦煌文献》12-14 卷的副主编。目前,郝教授正在主持国家社会科学基金重大项目“英藏敦煌社会历史文献整理与研究”。这个项目的最终成果是《英藏敦煌社会历史文献释录》,全书预计30卷。目前已经出版了15卷(第一卷科学出版社,2001年,第二至十五卷社科文献出版社2003至2017年)。剩馀15卷将陆续出版。 除了供职於本校的科研机构,郝教授还积极为学术界团体和组织贡献力量,在许多学术团体担任重要职务。他任中国敦煌吐鲁番学会长(2010-)丶敦煌学国际联络委员会执行委员(2001-)丶国家社会科学基金学科评审组专家(2009-)丶北京历史学会理事(2000-)丶教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地兰州大学敦煌学研究所学术委员会委员(2000-)丶《敦煌学国际联络委员会通讯》主编(2001-)丶《中国史研究》编委(2009-)丶《首都师范大学学报》编委(1992-)丶《敦煌吐鲁番研究》年刊编委兼编辑部主任(2005-)丶兰州大学敦煌学研究所兼职教授丶内蒙古大学客座教授丶敦煌研究院兼职研究员等职。 Continue reading
Guest Lecture: The Visual Culture of Buddhist Maṇḍalas at Dunhuang
Michelle C. Wang. 1:30pm October 18, 2018. UBC Asian Centre Room 604.
Guest Lecture: Making Frogbear Materials Meaningful in the Undergraduate Classroom
Susan Andrews. 4pm Thursday, October 18th, 2018. Auditorium Annex A room 157
Guest Lecture: Taixu’s Global Buddhist Movement and His Discourse on Civilization: A Study Centered around the 1920s
GONG Jun. Thursday 4pm, Oct 11 2018. Asian Center Room 604.
Guest Lecture: From Tranquility(ji 寂) to Illumination (zhao 照): The Jizhao Temple in the Context of Social Changes in Dali Prefecture
Xuan Fang. 4pm October 4th, 2018. UBC Asian Studies Auditorium.
Guest Lecture: Reimagining East Asian Buddhism: Wuyue Foundations of Song Dynasty Buddhism and Beyond
Albert Welter. 3:30 pm September 20, 2018. UBC CK Choi Room 120.
Guest Lecture: The Book of Change, Confucianism and A Community of Shared Future
Dr. Wen Haiming. September 4, 2018. 4pm UBC Asian Library Room 616.
Tianzhu Book Prize Lecture
Dr. Jiang Wu lecture August 12, 2018 at UBC.
Guest Lecture: Reconstructing Ānanda’s Grief in the Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra
4-6 pm March 14, 2018. Dr Charles Li – UBC Asian Centre, Room 604.
Guest Lecture: What Use is a Digital Edition?
Dr. Charles Li. 3-5 pm March 16, 2018. UBC Asian Centre, Room 604.
Guest Lecture: The Chinese Buddhist Canon Constructed in the Ming Dynasty
Dr. Darui Long (University of the West). March 8, 2018 at UBC.
Guest Lecture: Du Fu’s Poems and Chan Buddhism
Dr. Yi’nan Zhang. January 18, 4-6pm. Asian Centre Room 604.
Workshop: The Ten Thousand Rooms Project
Michael Hunter . January 8, 12:30 – 2:00 pm, Asian Centre Room 604.
Research Presentation: The First Master Text: The Classic of Odes
Michael Hunter. January 5, 4:00 – 6:00 pm. CK Choi Building Room 120.
Guest Lecture: Reflections on Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Traditions
Dr. Jimmy Yu. November 22, 4pm. UBC Asian Center room 604.
Guest Lecture: The Philosophy and Practice of Buddhist Confession in the Song Dynasty
Dr. Kai Sheng. October 26, 2:15pm. UBC Asian Center room 604.
Guest Lecture: The Thirteenth Fourteenth Century Encounter of Chinese Tiantai and Japanese Tendai
Dr. Paul Groner. October 23 5pm. UBC Asian Center room 604.
Guest Lecture: “Diving into Buddhahood: The Four Inversions at Shanyingshan and Baoshan”
Dr. Wendi Adamek. 4pm September 28, 2017. Asian Center Room 604, UBC.
Converting Markets through Merit: Perspectives for Fostering a New Entrepreneurial Culture with Chan Buddhist Principles
Ven. Dayuan. 7pm Saturday June 17, 2017. Jack Poole Hall, Alumni Centre, UBC
Liturgy, Icon, and Text in the Development of Esoteric Buddhism
By Charles D. Orzech . 4pm, February 9, 2017. UBC Department of Asian Studies, Room 604.
Medieval Japan’s Unique Interpretation of Monastic Discipline and the Precepts
Professor Paul Groner. May 30, 2016. Asian Centre Room 604.
Como: Angry Spirits and Urban Soundscapes in Ancient Japan
Prof. Michael Como. April 5, 2016. C.K. Choi building room 231.