Jiangnan Buddhist Traditions in Context: The Early Modern Period
[Panel Highlight] Panel 1: Intricate Buddhist Matters
Arizona: 4:00pm, Dec 9
New York: 6:00pm, Dec 9
London: 11:00pm, Dec 9
Taiwan: 7:00 am, Dec 10
Tokyo: 8:00 am, Dec 10
Zoom event (please register via the website or click the link below to receive zoom link to the symposium)
Chair: John Johnston
1. Albert Welter, “The Resurrection” of Yongming Yanshou in Ming Dynasty China: The Yongming Stūpa at Jingci Monastery”
2. Yi-hsun Huang, “Late Ming Chan Master Hanyue and Zhenru Monastery in Jiaxing”
3. Jiang Wu, “Syncretism and Its Discontent: The Symbolic Power of Orthodoxy and Hanyue Fazang’s Chan-tantric Synthesis in Seventeenth-century China”
Respondent: James Baskind
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[Symposium Description]
The Jiangnan region in China 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.