CBS started the Lingyin Buddhist Studies Lecture Series in the fall semester of 2019. Thanks to the generous support from Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou China.
The Inaugural Lecture
LITERAL AND METAPHORICAL DEMONS IN CHINESE BUDDHISM
Dr. John Kieschnick, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University
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
September 17, 2019
Dr. Raoul Birnbaum, University of California, Santa Cruz
October 8, 2019
SHAKUHACHI PERFORMANCE BY SHAWN HEAD
Dr. Shawn Renzoh Head, Composer, Shakuhachi Performer, and Lecturer
October 28, 2019
THE COMPETITIONS IN SACRED SPACE
Dr. Xie Yifeng, Assistant professor in Yuelu Academy at Hunan University
November 5, 2019
Dr. Weirong Shen, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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