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Seminar 1: ZHAN Ru 湛如 (Peking University 北京大學) / Jinhua CHEN 陳金華 (The University of British Columbia 加拿大英屬哥倫比亞大學): Unidirectionality, bidirectionality and Radiality, Locality, Globality and Glocality: Reconfiguring Transregional and Transcultural Networks of Buddhist Transmission in Asia 單向性、雙向性與放射性、在地性、全球性與全球在地性：亞洲佛教跨區域與跨文化傳播網絡之再構
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Seminar 2: Imre GALAMBOS 高奕睿 (University of Cambridge 劍橋/Zhejiang University 浙江大學): Religious Texts across Languages in Northwest China 中國西北地區跨語言的宗教文獻
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Seminar 3: Barend TER HAAR 田海 (University of Hamburg 漢堡大學/Peking University 北京大學): The Use of Paratexts for Studying Social and Religious History “風起青萍之末”：如何利用題跋來研究社會與宗教歷史
This series of classes will be devoted to what I have labelled as paratexts, mostly from the Zhao-Song period onwards. This term refers to those materials that have been added to a manuscript or printed work that we deem to be not the main texts or its regular attachments (such as a bibliography). These can be prefaces, postscripts, colophons, handwritten notes on a manuscript, or otherwise. I include doodles, but not regular illustrations. We tend to refer to comments written in the margins by a separate term, marginalia, and we will not consider them systematically in the present three classes for practical reasons. I do include the back of stone inscriptions, which serve similar functions as colophons in manuscripts or printed books. My examples will come from my own past and ongoing research. Paratexts are a part of textual production that may be used for dating and authorship, but is also often ignored by researchers as irrelevant to the main text. I will briefly touch upon other material characteristics, but since I cannot bring rare Chinese books or objects in stone or other materials to class that must be for another occasion. Similarly, I will talk briefly about miracles involving texts, since they turn up in paratexts, but a good introduction to this important type of source requires a series of seminars of its own. All of these paratexts for me are not only sources on dating and authorship, but also and more importantly part of the larger religious, social, political and economic context of the object to which they have been attached.
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Seminar 4: Michael FRIEDRICH 傅敏怡 (University of Hamburg 漢堡大學): Buddhism and Daoism in China, 1st through 4th centuries 東漢三國兩晉釋道兩教
The lectures will present a general introduction into the early history of Buddhism and Daoism in China, with a focus on their parallel development and interrelatedness with politics, society and culture. In detail, I shall discuss:
- Eastern Han until Three Kingdoms
Remarks on method and sources, textual and material
The beginnings: An Shigao and Zhang Daoling
Miracle-working: Fotuteng and Kang Senghui - Western Jin: Buddhism
Travel and translation
The relationship between the state and the samgha
Xuanxue and Buddhism - Early Northern and Southern Dynasties
Elite Buddhism: Daoan and Huiyuan
Elite Daoism: Maoshan and Lingbao
Epilogue: Kumārajīva and Kou Qianzhi
本系列講座將對佛教和道教在中國早期的歷史進行總體介紹，重點探討二者並行發展的軌跡及其與政治、社會和文化的相互關聯。具體而言，我將探討以下內容：
- 東漢至三國時期
關於方法與史料（文獻與實物）的說明
起源：安世高與張道陵
神蹟：佛圖騰與康生慧 - 西晉：佛教
求經與翻譯
國家與僧團的關係
玄學與佛教 - 南北朝早期
精英佛教：道安與慧遠
精英道教：茅山與靈寶
尾聲：鳩摩羅什與寇謙之
I shall mainly introduce sources and try to sketch the larger picture, for tuning in the following secondary works may be helpful:
- Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Early Daoist Scriptures, Berkeley et al.: University of California Press 1997.
- ⸻, Ancestors and Anxiety: Daoism and the Birth of Rebirth in China, Berkeley et al.: University of California Press 2007.
- Antonino Forte, The Hostage An Shigao and His Offspring: An Iranian Family in China, Kyoto: Istituto Italiano di cultura scuola di studi sull’Asia Orientale, 1995.
- Heirman, Ann and Peter Bumbacher eds., The Spread of Buddhism, Leiden et al.: Brill 2007.
- John Kieschnick, The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture, Princeton: Princeton University Press 2003.
- Terry F. Kleeman, Great Perfection: Religion and Ethnicity in a Chinese Millennial Kingdom, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press 1998.
- ⸻, Celestial Masters: History and Ritual in Early Daoist Communities, Cambridge MA: Harvard University Center 2016.
- Michel Strickmann, ‘The Mao Shan Revelations: Taoism and the Aristocracy’, T’oung Pao, 1977, 63.1, 1-64.
- Robert H. Sharf, Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism: A Reading of the Treasure Store Treatise, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press 2002, 1-25.
- Erik Zürcher, The Buddhist Conquest of China, 2 vols., 2nd ed., Leiden: Brill 1972.
Lecture 1: Yinggang SUN 孫英剛 (Zhejiang University 浙江大學): 唐代的淨土信仰與淨土宗 Pure Land Buddhism and the so-called Pure Land School in the Tang Dynasty
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Lecture 2: You ZHAO 趙悠 (Peking University 北京大學): Why Should We Study Early Chinese Translations of Buddhist Texts? 我們為什麼要研讀早期漢譯佛典？
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Lecture 3: Guodong FENG 馮國棟 (Zhejiang University 浙江大學): New Prospectives on Buddhist Bibliography 佛教目錄學新知
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Lecture 4: Rong HE 何蓉 (CASS 中國社會科學院): 佛教藉中國化邁向世界宗教: 基於韋伯理論的比較分析 Buddhism Advancing toward a World Religion via Sinicization: A Weberian Comparative Analysis
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