Third Volume of “Chinese Translation Series of Foreign Studies on Buddhism and East Asian Religions” Series. By Jinhua Chen, translated by Yang Zeng, Huang Jinghua, Fan Jingjing, Wu Weilin, Chen Zhiyuan, and Liu Xuejun.
When the Himalaya Meets with Alps: International Forum on Buddhist Art & Buddhism’s Transmission to Europe
August 27, 28, 2016. Madrid, Spain.
Lines and Enlightenment: Chan Buddhism and Literature in Medieval China
August 9, 2016. Vancouver, Canada.
The relationship between literary and religious activities has been a lasting theme for any society of any time all over the world. One lens to see through the patterns of interactions between the religious and literary practitioners is provided by the relationship between Chan Buddhism and literature in medieval China. This one-day workshop, co-sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the UBC Buddhist Studies Forum, invites several top scholars based in China and Canada to jointly shed new light on this intriguing issue.
The Second International Conference on the Wutai Cult
July 19-24, 2016. Great Sage Monastery of Bamboo Grove, Mount Wutai, China.
“Compassionate Killing”: Violence in East Asian Buddhism
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.
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.
