[Panel Highlight] Panel 4: Precious Scrolls in Jiangnan
Arizona: 4:00pm, Dec 11 | New York: 6:00pm, Dec 11 | London: 11:00pm, Dec 11| Taiwan: 7:00 am, Dec 12 | Tokyo: 8:00 am, Dec 12
Zoom event (please register via the website or click the link below to receive zoom link to the symposium)
Chair: Scott W. Gregory
1. Katherine Alexander, “Sensational Adventures and Religious Awakenings: Xiunü baojuan and its late Qing context”
2. Rostislav Berezkin, “Precious Scroll of Xiangshan in the ritual practice of Suzhou area of the Ming and Qing periods”
3. Jennifer Eichman, “A Precious Scroll: Dramatizing the Married Life of the Abbess Zhujin”
Respondent: Jason Protass
[Symposium Website]
https://conferences.cbs.arizona.edu/jiangnan-symposium/
[Symposium Registration]
https://mailchi.mp/e491429b80b4/jiangnan-buddhist-symposium
[Symposium Flyer]
https://conferences.cbs.arizona.edu/.../CBS...
[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.