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From Jetavana to Jerusalem: Sacred Biography in Asian Perspectives and Beyond: An international Conference in Honour of Dr. Phyllis Granoff
從祇洹林到耶路撒冷： 亞洲及亞洲之外視閾下的聖傳
葛然諾教授退官致敬研討會
November 7-9, 2021 (2021年11月7-9日)
| Sponsor 主辦: | The Glorisun Global Network for Buddhist Studies | 旭日全球佛學研究網絡 |
| Co-Hosts 承辦: | The FROGBEAR project at the University of British Columbia | 加拿大英屬哥倫比亞大學《拔地入雲：佛教與東亞宗教研究計畫》
Yale University | 耶魯大學 Hebrew University of Jerusalem | 耶路撒冷希伯萊大學 |
葛師然諾，迦南哲裔；
鍾靈毓秀，穎銳天縱；
橫辯江濤，折角蔡姬。
先醉心東瀛美術，探手珠囊；
復壯遊西竺列邦，濯足恆河。
瑰姿瑋態，使見者景行；
蕙質蘭心，而鬚眉稱健。
學吞古今，包籠天地；
剖析秋毫，退藏於密。
枝翼吾師篠原，擔橐偕行天下。
呼嘯學林，鼓扇風潮；
鶼鰈仙眷，士人稱羨。
學海浩瀚，望者興嘆。
僕叨陪末座積年，然堂廡宏闊，未得寸進。
葛師面壁哈佛、破壁麥馬、轉壇耶魯，桃李盈枝。
去夏封館，養德文港。
予今秋邀約先達 、同門、後秀，結集雲端，稱德致敬。
十方歆慕蕙風者，盍共赴蘭亭乎？
閩侯荊溪老人 拜啟
General Schedule
| Vancouver (PDT) | New Haven (EST) | Jerusalem (ISR) | Beijing (CST) | |
| Session 1 (Nov 7) | 6:00-7:10am | 9:00-10:10am | 4:00-5:10pm | 10:00-11:10pm |
| Session 2 (Nov 7) | 7:20-7:55am | 10:20-10:55am | 5:20-5:55pm | 11:20-11:55pm |
| Session 3 (Nov 7) | 8:00-8:35am | 11:00-11:35am | 6:00-6:35pm | 12:00-12:35am |
| Session 4 (Nov 7) | 8:40-9:15am | 11:40am-12:15pm | 6:40-7:15pm | 12:40-1:15am |
| Session 5 (Nov 8) | 6:00-7:00am | 9:00-10:00am | 4:00-5:00pm | 10:00-11:00pm |
| Session 6 (Nov 8) | 7:10-7:45am | 10:10-10:45am | 5:10-5:45pm | 11:10-11:45pm |
| Session 7 (Nov 8) | 7:50-8:50am | 10:50-11:50am | 5:50-6:50pm | 11:50pm-12:50am |
| Session 8 (Nov 8) | 9:00-9:45am | 12:00-12:45pm | 7:00-7:45pm | 1:00-1:45am |
| Session 9 (Nov 9) | 6:00-7:00am | 9:00-10:00am | 4:00-5:00pm | 10:00-11:00pm |
| Session 10 (Nov 9) | 7:10-7:50am | 10:10-10:50am | 5:10-5:50pm | 11:10pm-11:50am |
| Session 11 (Nov 9) | 8:00-8:35am | 11:00-11:35am | 6:00-6:35pm | 12:00-12:35am |
| Session 12 (Nov 9) | 8:40-9:15am | 11:40am-12:15pm | 6:40-7:15pm | 12:40-1:15am |
| Concluding Session (Nov 9) | 9:15-9:30am | 12:15-12:30pm | 7:15-7:30pm | 1:15-1:30am |
Detailed Schedule
| DAY 1 – November 7, 2021 | |
| 6:00-7:10 | Session 1: Welcoming Remarks from Co-hosts, Laudatory and Congratulatory Messages, & Keynote Speech 主催迎迓、十方稱德、基調講論 |
| 1.1. Remarks from Co-hosts, Laudatory and Congratulatory messages | |
| 1.2. David Shulman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): The Malayali Brahmin who Buried his Gods: A Rare Eighteenth-century Autobiography from Kerala (Keynote Speech) | |
| 7:20-7:55 | Session 2: Mad Monks, Bat Monks and Miraculous Monks 癲僧、蝙僧與神僧 (Chair: Michael NYLAN; Discussant: CHEN Zhiyuan 陳志遠) |
| 2.1. James Robson (Harvard): The Ambivalent Bat: The Place of “Bat Monks” within Buddhism | |
| 2.2. LI Wei 李巍 (HenanU 河南大學): 神異、儀式與咒念：《高僧傳》僧人的療愈故事 | Miracles, Rituals and Spells: Healing Narratives in the Biographies of Eminent Monks | |
| 2.3. GE Zhouzi 葛洲子 (Shanxi Normal U 陝西師範大學): 癲僧乎，神僧乎？：北宋禪師言法華的成聖之路 | A Mad Monk or a Miraculous Monk?: Holy Path of Chan Master Yan Fahua 言法華 in Northern Song Dynasty | |
| 8:00-8:35 | Session 3: Between and Beyond Secular and Sacred 聖俗之間、聖俗之外 (Chair: Alexandra KALOYANIDES; Discussant: ZHAO You 趙悠) |
| 3.1. Eli Franco (Leipzig): Dharmakīrti’s (ca. 600-660) Biographies, Sacred and Less Sacred | |
| 3.2. Michael Nylan (Berkeley) and Marty Verhoeven (Dharma Realm Buddhist University, Ukiah, CA): Swimming with the Masters: Sacred Biographies and Hallowed Figures | |
| 3.3. Albert Welter (Arizona): Secularizing the Sacred? Wang Yucheng’s 王禹偁 (954-1001) Biography of Buddhist Master Zanning 贊寧 (919-1001) | |
| 8:40-9:15 | Session 4: The Buddha’s Lives, Told and Retold 佛所行: 贊以再贊 (Chair: Ann HEIRMAN; Discussant: Cuilan LIU 劉翠蘭) |
| 4.1. Robert Brown (UCLA): Material Choices | |
| 4.2. Susan Andrews (Mount Alison U): Representation Matters: Picture Book Presentations of Śākyamuni’s Life | |
| 4.3. Margarita Delgado Creamer (Pittsburgh): The Buddha’s Life Story and the transmission of Buddhism to Latin-America | |
| DAY 2 – November 8, 2021 | |
| 6:00-7:00 | Session 5: Monks in Motion 遊僧 (Chair: WANG Bangwei 王邦維; Co-discussants: Kirill SOLONIN and James ROBSON) |
| 5.1. Peter Flügel (SOAS): Jaina mendicants as generalized media and embodiments of social relations | |
| 5.2. LIU Cuilan 劉翠蘭 (Pittsburg): The Tang Buddhist Monk Xuanzang 玄奘 (602-664) and His Illegal Travel to India | |
| 5.3. Jeffrey Kotyk (UBC): Reports of Japanese Monks in China: Accounts in the Nittō guhō junrei kōki 入唐求法巡禮行記 (Record of Travel to the Tang in Search of the Dharma) by Ennin 圓仁 (794–864) | |
| 5.4. HOU Haoran 侯浩然 (Tsing-hua 清華): rGwa Lotsāba gZhon nu dpal (1105/1110–1198/1202) and His Travel to India | |
| 5.5. Ming Chen 陳明 (PekingU 北大): “Meditation Master Bird Nest”: The Biographies Surrounding a Legendary Chinese Monk in the Modern India | 鳥巢禪師: 一位民國時期在印奇僧的事蹟書寫 | |
| 7:10-7:45 | Session 6: Monks and Monarchs 僧與君 (Chair: Jacqueline STONE; Discussant: Jeffrey KOTYK) |
| 6.1. YANG Qilin 楊奇霖 (ShanghaiU 上海大學): 聖傳與檔案：二世哲布尊丹巴傳記的文獻來源——兼論清朝與喀爾喀蒙古的政教互動 (1723-1733) | Sacred Biography and Archives: The Textual Sources for the Biography of Jebtsundamba II, With Comments on the Religious and Political Interactions that Involved the Qing Empire and the Khalkha Mongol | |
| 6.2. WANG Qiyuan 王啟元 (Fudan 復旦): 紫柏真可晚節：續“妖書”案與“三大負” | Zibo Zhenke’s 紫柏真可 (1543-1603) Integrity in His Late Years: With a Focus on His Involvement in the New Legal Cases of “Evil Books” and His So-called “Three Great Aspirations” | |
| 6.3. Yagi (Yaara) Morris (UW-Madison): Trajectories of Past Lives and the Formation of an Imperial Landscape: An Exploration of a Medieval Japanese Esoteric Buddhist Text | |
| 7:50-8:50 | Session 7: Techniques, Media and Sacred Biography 方技、媒介與聖傳 (Chair: Ulrike ROESLER; Co-Discussants: Diego LOUKOTA SANCLAMENTE and Eugene WANG) |
| 7.1 Haiyan Hu-von Hinüber (Freiburg): What happened to Xuanzang in Nālandā in the year 642?: The Divination of the Jain Vajhara and its Influence on Xuanzang’s Decision returning to China | |
| 7.2 Marko Geslani (South Carolina): The Perils of Prediction: Jain Biographies of Varāhamihira | |
| 7.3 Pia Brancaccio (Drexel): Buddhist siddhas in Konkan: Asceticism, Hagiographies and Art at the Kanheri caves (Maharashtra, India) | |
| 7.4 Sahaj Patel (Vanderbilt): Codes in the Margins: Modern Technologies in the Sacred Biography of Pramukh Swami Maharaj | |
| 7.5 LI Can 李燦 (Beijing Foreign Studies U 北京外國語大學): 不動金剛及其弟子勒布與施食儀軌再宏的年代問題——《新續高僧傳•不動金剛傳》辨析 | On the chronology of Akṣobhyavajra, his Disciple Le Bu and the Rite for Feeding the Hungry Ghosts: Revisiting Akṣobhyvajra’s Biography in the Xinxu Gaoseng Zhuan 新續高僧 [New Supplementary Biographies of Eminent Monks] | |
| 9:00-9:45 | Session 8: Biographies Bridging Beliefs 傳以融信 (Chair: Haiyan HU-VON HINÜBER; Co-Discussants: Kate CROSBY and Susan ANDREWS) |
| 8.1. Aleksander Uskokov (Yale): When Bhakti Meets the Mahā-vākya: Jīva Gosvāmin and the Devotional Reinterpretation of the Experience of Non-Duality | |
| 8.2. Gérard Colas (CNRS): Belief beyond Affiliation: An example from the Divyasūricarita, a Sanskrit Hagiography of Tamil Saints | |
| 8.3. Max Deeg (Cardiff): Naked Heretics: On the Representation of Jains in Chinese Buddhist Texts | |
| 8.4. Jinhua Chen 陳金華 (UBC): A Vinay lineage and a vinaya master’s life constructed by a Tang bureaucrat, general and calligrapher: Yan Zhenqing 顏真卿 and his Record for the Precept-platform in the Vinaya-treasure cloister 律藏院 at the Baoying Monastery 寶應寺 in Fuzhou 撫州 | |
| DAY 3 – November 9, 2021 | |
| 6:00-7:00 | Session 9: Biographies Built and Rebuilt 聖傳創造與再創 (Chair: ZHANG Xing 張幸; Discussant: LU Yang 陸揚) |
| 9.1 ZHAO You 趙悠 (PekingU 北大): Becoming Vimalakīrti in his Chamber | |
| 9.2 WANG Bangwei 王邦維 (PekingU 北大): 道宣的《玄奘传》 | Daoxuan’s Biography for Xuanzang | |
| 9.3 YANG Jianxiao 楊劍霄 (Nanjing Normal U 南京師範大學): 製造玄奘的面孔——玄奘歷史形象的塑造與法相唯識宗的創立| Producing Xuanzang’s Image: The shaping of Xuanzang’s historical image and the establishment of Weishi School | |
| 9.4 Kirill Solonin (Renmin U of China 人大): Tangut version of the biography of the Tripiṭaka Master Kumārajīva | |
| 9.5 QI Guanxiong 齊冠雄 (Florida State University): The “Guru” of the “Late-Ming Beatniks”: Master Foshi and Reading the Tribute Poems to Him as Hagio-biographies | |
| 7:10-7:50 | Session 10: History and His Stories 歷史與誇飾 (Chair: Gérard COLAS; Co-Discussants: Marko GESLANI and Robert SHARF) |
| 10.1 Ellen Gough (Emory): The Jain Monk Viṣṇukumāra and the History of Rakṣābandhana | |
| 10.2 Lilian Handlin (Harvard CAMLab): A late 11th Century Selfie: King Kyanzittha’s Carte de visite | |
| 10.3 Jack Hawley (Barnard, Columbia): In-Between Biography: Ramacarana’s Sankaradeva and Amar Singh’s Surdas | |
| 10.4 Jacqueline Stone (Princeton): The Tale of Nichiren’s Miraculous Escape from Death and Its Modern Interpreters: History and Hagiography in a Japanese Buddhist Tradition | |
| 8:00-8:40 | Session 11: Women Biographized 聖傳女 (Chair: Yagi MORRIS; Co-discussants: Robert SHARF and Robert BROWN) |
| 11.1. Eugene Wang 汪悅進 (Harvard): The Woman Who Sees Buddha Coming: Sumagadha in Caves – What Is the Real Narrative? | |
| 11.2. Naman Ahuja (Jawaharlal Nehru U): Abductions of damsels: Narratives and Identities | |
| 11.3. Alexandra Kaloyanides (UNC Charlotte): The Saintliness of Being Smart: Female Pali Masters in Burma’s Last Kingdom | |
| 11.4. James Benn (McMaster): Princess Miaoshan the Self-immolator | |
| 8:45-9:20 | Session 12: Defense and Debate: Biography as Sectarian and Polemical Devices 傳以護法、傳以諍法 (Chair: Jack HAWLEY; Discussant: Max DEEG) |
| 12.1. Shanshan (Alice) Zhao 趙姗姗 (McMaster): Protecting the Dharma: A discussion of Daoxuan’s hufa in the Continued Biographies of Eminent Monks | |
| 12.2. Aleksandra (Sasha) Restifo (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Genre as a Polemical Device: An Alternative Biography of Banārasīdāsa (1586-1643) | |
| 12.3. Gregory Schopen (UCLA): The Monk Mūlaphalguna and the Nuns: Biography as Criticism | |
| 9:20-9:35 | Concluding Session 餘論 |
