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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.

Special Guest Lecture: The Uneven Terrain of Gender and Diversity: The View from the Humanities

Natasha Heller (University of Virginia). 7:00 PM. Thursday, June 6, 2019. Ghent University, Auditorium P (Zaal Jozef Plateau), Campus Boekentoren.

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

演講: 中國琴禪傳統的言說方式研究：以中國古琴的現場演奏來體認

李虎群，中國政法大學哲學系副教授. 2019 年 3 月 14 日下午 2:30. UBC 亞洲文化中心 604室

Guest Lecture: Rethinking the Structure and Typology of Liturgical Texts From Dunhuang

Hao Chunwen. Thu, Dec 6, 2018, 4:30 pm. 202 Jones, Princeton University.

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

敦煌寫本齋文的分類、定名及其文本結構

旭日國際佛學網絡@UBC, 在UBC的SSHRC（加拿大社科研究委員會）資助的特大項目 FROGBEAR (“拔地入雲：佛教與東亞宗教”; www.frogbear.org)的協助下, 隆重推出首都師範大學資深教授郝春文先生演講！時間: 2018年11月15日，下午4點-5點半地點: UBC 亞洲研究中心演講廳 (UBC Asian Center Auditorium) 提要: 數以千記的敦煌寫本齋文可以分為《齋儀》和齋文兩類，《齋儀》與《書儀》性質相同，是供起草齋文參考用的文書；齋文是依據《齋儀》起草的在各類齋會上宣讀的文書，是實用文本。齋文的文本結構可以分為“號頭”、“歎德”、“齋意”、“道場”和“莊嚴”五個部分。《齋儀》和齋文集的結構大致包括讚頌功德、攘災、患差、悼亡等諸多方面的內容，但具體編排次序有多種樣態。“願文”是齋文的一種，不能作為“齋文”類文書的通稱。講者介紹: 郝春文教授1999年獲首都師範學院歷史系歷史學博士學位。歷任助教、講師、副教授等職，1994年被破格晉升為教授。現為首都師範大學資深教授，歷史研究所所長。郝教授主要學術興趣包括敦煌文獻，三至十三世紀中國史，以及敦煌佛教。著述甚豐，代表作有《中古時期社邑研究》、《唐後期五代宋初敦煌僧尼的社會生活》、《敦煌的歷史和文化》（合著）、《敦煌社邑文書輯校》（合著）。還擔任大型文獻圖集《英藏敦煌文獻》12-14 卷的副主編。目前，郝教授正在主持國家社會科學基金重大項目“英藏敦煌社會歷史文獻整理與研究”。這個項目的最終成果是《英藏敦煌社會歷史文獻釋錄》，全書預計30卷。目前已經出版了15卷（第一卷科學出版社，2001年，第二至十五卷社科文獻出版社2003至2017年）。剩餘15卷將陸續出版。除了供職於本校的科研機構，郝教授還積極為學術界團體和組織貢獻力量，在許多學術團體擔任重要職務。他任中國敦煌吐魯番學會長（2010-）、敦煌學國際聯絡委員會執行委員（2001-）、國家社會科學基金學科評審組專家（2009-）、北京歷史學會理事（2000-）、教育部人文社會科學重點研究基地蘭州大學敦煌學研究所學術委員會委員（2000-）、《敦煌學國際聯絡委員會通訊》主編（2001-）、《中國史研究》編委（2009-）、《首都師範大學學報》編委（1992-）、《敦煌吐魯番研究》年刊編委兼編輯部主任（2005-）、蘭州大學敦煌學研究所兼職教授、內蒙古大學客座教授、敦煌研究院兼職研究員等職。 Continue reading