Lingyin Buddhist Studies Lecture Series

Lingyin Buddhist Studies Lecture Series

 

Thanks to the generous support from Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou China.

CBS started the Lingyin Buddhist Studies Lecture Series in the fall semester of 2019. 


The Inaugural Lecture

LITERAL AND METAPHORICAL DEMONS IN CHINESE BUDDHISM

Dr. John Kieschnick, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University

Date: May 2, 2019


HOW TO DEAL WITH THE UPHEAVALS IN LIFE FROM THE BUDDHIST PERSPECTIVE

Dr. Hui Dong, Abbot, Fo Guang Shan Hsi Lai Temple, Los Angeles

Date: September 17, 2019


THE ARTIST-MONK HONGYI AND HIS INTERSECTING SOCIAL WORLDS IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY HANGZHOU: A KALEIDOSCOPIC APPROACH

Dr. Raoul Birnbaum, University of California, Santa Cruz

Date: October 8, 2019


SHAKUHACHI PERFORMANCE BY SHAWN HEAD

Dr. Shawn Renzoh Head, Composer, Shakuhachi Performer, and Lecturer
Date: October 28, 2019


THE COMPETITIONS IN SACRED SPACE

Dr. Xie Yifeng, Assistant professor in Yuelu Academy at Hunan University

Date: November 5, 2019


ON THE INTEGRATION OF CHINESE AND TIBETAN, EXOTERIC AND ESOTERIC BUDDHISM DURING THE PERIOD OF TANGUT XIA KINGDOM

Dr. Weirong Shen, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Date: December 2, 2019


PROTECTING INSECTS: BUDDHIST PRINCIPLES BETWEEN INDIA AND CHINA 

Dr. Ann Heirman, head of the Centre for Buddhist Studies, Ghent University, Belgium

September 8, 2020 


CHAN ISN’T JUST MEDITATION: CHAN MASTER HANYUE’S ATTITUDE TOWARD SUTRA TEACHINGS IN THE MING

Dr. Yi-Hsun Huang, Department of Buddhist Studies, Fo Guang University, Taiwan

October 1, 2020


TWIN BODHISATTVAS: THE PAIRED WORSHIP OF GUANYIN AND DIZANG

Dr. Chün-fang Yü, professor emerita, Departments of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University

October 22, 2020 


RESPONDING TO A NATIONAL CRISIS: ART, BUDDHISM, AND TECHNOLOGY IN TENTH CENTURY SOUTHEAST CHINA

Dr. Shi Zhiru, professor of Religious Studies and program coordinator of Asian Studies, Pomona College

December 3, 2020 


HÔTAN 鳳潭 IN THE WORLD OF EARLY-MODERN JAPANESE BUDDHISM

Dr. Sueki Fumihiko 末木文美士, Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo and Nichibunken (the International Research Center for Japanese Studies). 

January 26, 2021


A REMEMBRANCE OF NAMES: A BUDDHIST MONUMENT TO THE WWII JAPANESE AMERICAN INCARCERATION

 

Dr. Duncan Ryuken Williams, Professor of Religion/American Studies & Ethnicity/East Asian Languages & Cultures and Director, USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture, University of Southern California

February 19, 2021


LINGYIN LECTURE SERIES SYMPOSIUM

JIANGNAN BUDDHIST TRADITIONS IN CONTEXT: THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD

Dates: Thursday, December 9, 2021 and Friday, December 10, 2021

Location: Zoom

Panels: Four in total, about 16 papers and 20 participants

Description:

The Jiangnan region was an important driver of cultural, economic, and social change during the early modern period. At the same time, it served as an incubator of early modern Buddhist innovations that spread both locally, nationally, and transnationally. This symposium brings together scholars of Ming-Qing Jiangnan Buddhist, Daoist, and other related religious traditions to explore the significance of Buddhist innovations in the Jiangnan region from elite Buddhist doctrine, popular playscripts and precious scrolls to art, ritual, and institutional culture. Such scholarly explorations will improve our understanding of how Buddhist traditions were woven into the social and economic fabric of the Jiangnan region and further allow for a greater synthesis of the various threads that tied the region together. 

Organizers and convenors: Jiang Wu and Jennifer Eichman
Host: Center for Buddhist Studies, the University of Arizona


ŌBAKU AND SENCHA

Dr. Patricia Graham (Independent Scholar)

October 24, 2022


THINKING THROUGH ZEN KŌANS

Dr. Robert Sharf (D. H. Chen Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the University of California, Berkeley; Chair, Berkeley’s Numata Center for Buddhist Studies)

February 13, 2023


HOW TO READ INGEN’S PORTRAITS

Dr. Elizabeth Horton Sharf (Independent Scholar)

February 14, 2023