From Jetavana to Jerusalem – Schedule

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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 (2021117-9)

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