May 29, 2016. Vancouver, Canada.
This workshop aims to throw light on East Asian Buddhism’s involvement in warfare and other violent and semi-violent activities (e.g., military chaplains and counsellors, warriors, practitioners and promoters of the martial arts, and spices). In addition to bringing to light an important (and severely understudied) front in which the samgha (i.e., Buddhist community) intervened in the secular world, this workshop will also underscore the necessity to move beyond studying the “real situation of Buddhism” through the prism of the Buddhist precepts, which prescribed, rather than described, the circumstances under which the samgha grew and was transformed. Another aim is to study new features and patterns of state-samgha relations in East Asia.
East Asian Manuscript and Print as Harbingers of the Digital Future
May 26-28, 2016. Vancouver, Canada.
While considering reading, writing, and media today alongside Asian traditions of the past, this event will also look ahead toward ways of preserving and transmitting the past, including demonstrations of digitization in the fields of education, library studies, journalism, history, literature, and religion. The roundtable will bring scholars, curators, librarians, community leaders, and policymakers into conversation to examine an array of approaches and technologies.
Second Volume of Chinese Translation Series of Foreign Studies on Buddhism and East Asian Religions (Chinese)
Second Volume of “Chinese Translation Series of Foreign Studies on Buddhism and East Asian Religions” Series. By Stephen R. Bokenkamp, translated by Sun Qi, Tian He, Xie Yifeng, and Lin Xinyi.
First Volume of Chinese Translation Series of Foreign Studies on Buddhism and East Asian Religions (Chinese)
First Volume of “Chinese Translation Series of Foreign Studies on Buddhism and East Asian Religions” Series. By John Kieschnick, translated by Zhao You, Chen Ruifeng, Dong Haohui, Song Jing, and Yang Zeng.
