Jiangnan Buddhist Traditions in Context: The Early Modern Period
[Panel Highlight] Panel 2: Mountains and Manifestations
Arizona: 9:00am, Dec 10
New York: 11:00am, Dec 10
London: 4:00pm, Dec 10
Taiwan: 12:00 am, Dec 11
Tokyo: 1:00 am, Dec 11
Zoom event (please register via the website or click the link below to receive zoom link to the symposium)
Chair: Rae Dachille
1. Elizabeth Kindall, “Buddhist Practice in a Painted Mountainscape”
2. Nan Ouyang, “Constructing the Abode of Dizang Bodhisattva: Pilgrimages to Mt. Jiuhua in Late Imperial China”
3. Wang Mengxiao, “Manifesting in Bodily Forms” as Role-Playing: Theatrical Interpretations of a Buddhist Concept in Early Modern China”
Respondent: Natasha Heller
[Symposium Website]
https://conferences.cbs.arizona.edu/jiangnan-symposium/
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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.