Jiangnan Buddhist Traditions in Context: The Early Modern Period
[Panel Highlight] Panel 3: Peng Shaosheng and Spirit-Writing
Arizona: 10:45am, Dec 10
New York: 12:45pm, Dec 10
London: 5:45pm, Dec 10
Taiwan: 1:45 am, Dec 11
Tokyo: 2:45am, Dec 11
Zoom event (please register via the website or click the link below to receive zoom link to the symposium)
Chair: Barend Ter Haar
1. Daniel Burton-Rose, “The Spirit-Writing Corpus of Peng Shaosheng (1740–96) in Patrilineal Context: Divine Communication and Family Learning in Mid-Qing Suzhou”
2. Hongyu Wu, “Teaching Dharma from the Other World: Talented Women and Spirit Writing in Buddhist Works of Peng Shaosheng (1740-1796)”
3. Vincent Goossaert, “Buddhist Rituals in the Late Imperial Jiangnan Spirit-writing Groups”
Respondent: Charles B. Jones
[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.