Due to COVID-19, previously planned field visits are rescheduled to 2022. The FROGBEAR project will continue to adjust as needed, particularly given that travel restrictions may change at any time. However, the project will tentatively confirm available trips by late 2021 should the restrictions ease up.
The project will use the summer of 2021 to provide online training opportunities for students to gain skills and knowledge in preparation for those field visits. While priority is given to graduate students, senior undergraduate students may apply with a Letter of Recommendation from a faculty member. Faculty are welcome to audit for the training sessions by contacting Frogbear.project@ubc.ca.
There is no cost to attend the workshops. Please see below for full descriptions and download the application form here. APPLICATION FORM – FROGBEAR SUMMER 2021 TRAINING PROGRAM.
We are accepting applications from internal applicants beginning March 1, and beginning March 15, we will accept applications from external applicants for those workshops with space remaining. Application deadline is March 30, 2021.
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See 2020 (2022) field trip plans.
Buddhist Printing in the Hangzhou Region
Date:Tuesday, August 3, 2021
Time: 5–8 am PDT | 2–5 pm CEST | 8–11 pm China
Format: Workshop
Max # participants: 30
Workshop leads: Jiang Wu (Arizona) and George Keyworth (Saskatchewan)
Description: Hangzhou has been a center for the Chinese printing industry since the Wuyue 吳越 Kingdom. Buddhist printing, especially the printing of the Buddhist canon, was well-developed. Some of the sites and relics can be still traced and surveyed for research. Jingshan Monastery 徑山寺, for example, was not only a Chan institution but also the center of printing, especially for the carving of Jingshan Canon 徑山藏 or Jiaxing canon 嘉興藏 because the canon was later printed in neighboring Jiaxing county. Also in Hangzhou, the Puning Canon 普寧藏 was created and sponsored by the White Cloud sect 白雲宗 during the Yuan. Close to Hangzhou, the Sixi Canon 思溪藏 was created in Huzhou 湖州 in the Song, and later transported to Japan. The famed Lingyin Monastery 靈隱寺 is also renowned for keeping a rich library collection of several editions of the Buddhist canon and some precious prints from early periods. In late imperial China, numerous print shops affiliated with Buddhist monasteries were prolific producers of Buddhist scriptures and popular religious tracts such as “precious volumes 寶卷.” Among them, Manao Print Shop 瑪瑙經坊 affiliated with Manao Temple 瑪瑙寺 and Huikong Print Shop 慧空經坊 affiliated with Zhaoqing Temple 昭慶寺 were the two most famous ones. We will also address how Hangzhou area printed texts were brought to and preserved in Japan.
This workshop introduces the Buddhist printing tradition in the Hangzhou region and will include the following topics:
- Leifeng pagoda 雷峰塔 sutra prints by the tenth-century Wuyue Kings
- Prints brought to and back from Hangzhou by Uicheon 義天 in the eleventh century.
- Huzhou/Sixi canon 湖州/思溪藏 in the Song and Yuan
- Puning Canon 普寧藏 in the Yuan dynasty.
- Jiaxing canon in the Ming and Qing
- Jiaxing canon prints and other imported Buddhist prints in Edo Japan
- Prints from Huikong Buddhist print house in Zhaoqing monastery
- Prints from Manao Buddhist print house from Manao monastery
- Material from a Hangzhou canon in 17th century Japan at Daiōji 大雄寺
Relevant for cluster: 1.5 Extended “Textual Communities”
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