Date and Time : Thursday, June 19, 2025, from 2 to 6 pm, and Friday, June 20, 2025, from 9.30 am to 5.30 pm (Paris)
Location : Auditorium Dumézil, Maison de la Recherche, 2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris
Attendance: In person or online (upon registration)
Funding : Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation
Host: Ji Zhe
Contacts: Amandine Péronnet, Antoine Cid
Program
June 19, 2025
2 PM – 2.15 PM
Introduction.
Ji Zhe
2.15PM – 3.15 PM
Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture: Chinese Buddhism in Globalization: Networks, Spaces, Challenges
David L. Wank and Yoshiko Ashiwa
3.15 PM – 4PM
Discussion
Lai Rongdao
4 PM – 4.30 PM
Coffee break
4.30 PM – 5.30 PM
Do Buddhist Concepts Play a Role for Social Networks?
Carsten Krause & Leo Koenig
5.30 PM – 6 PM
Research project presentation Interaction Patterns of Buddhist Elites in Contemporary China (1978-2028)
Ji Zhe, Carsten Krause, Amandine Péronnet
June 20, 2025
9.30 AM – 10.30 AM
Reinventing “Original” Buddhist Meditation: The Transnational Network of the Mahasati Dynamic Vipassanā Movement in Contemporary China
Ester Bianchi
10.30 AM – 11 AM: Coffee break
11 AM – 12 AM
Establishing transnational networks and identity of Theravāda meditation in Chinese communities: a case study in Hong Kong
Lau Ngar-sze 劉雅詩
12 AM – 2 PM: Lunch break
2 PM – 3 PM
What is in a Transmission? Centering Lineage Networks in Translocal Chinese Buddhism
Lai Rongdao 釋融道
3 PM – 3.30 PM: Coffee break
3.30 PM – 4.30 PM
The Dajinshan’s network: the logics and dynamics of a Chan female temple network in Jiangxi province
Daniela Campo
4.30 PM – 5.30 PM
Infrastructuring Guanyin Halls: Sociological Perspectives on Materiality and Religious Practices in New York City
Huang Weishan 黄维珊
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