[above image: Shunjo, one of the monks that will be discussed]
We are very pleased to announce that Dr. Paul Groner, a professor from the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, will come to UBC and give a guest lecture with the title “The Thirteenth Fourteenth Century Encounter of Chinese Tiantai and Japanese Tendai” on October 23rd at 5 pm in Room 604 of the UBC Asian Center (1871 West Mall). This lecture is sponsored by Liuzu Temple with support from the SSHRC funded project “From the Ground Up: Buddhism and East Asian Religions”.
演講者：古龍諾（維吉尼亞大學）
Abstract:
日本僧人俊芿（1155-1227）曾在中國學習天台、淨土和戒律十三年。返回日本時，他從大宋攜帶了大量的中文典籍，也帶回了與日本天台宗僧人完全不同的修行方式。儘管俊芿在很多方面取得了成功，他對天台宗僧制的影響十分有限。在此次演講中，我主要關注日本著名學者仁空（1309-1388）如何回應俊芿的挑戰。
Dr. Paul Groner has had a long career as a professor in the department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. In addition to numerous articles on various aspects of Japanese Buddhism, he is the author of Saichō: The Establishment of the Japanese Tendai School, Ryōgen and Mount Hiei: Japanese Tendai in the Tenth Century, and has translated Akira Hirakawa’s History of Early Indian Buddhism into English
