[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”.
演讲者：古龙诺（维吉尼亚大学）
Abstract:
日本僧人俊芿（1155-1227）曾在中国学习天台丶净土和戒律十三年。返回日本时，他从大宋携带了大量的中文典籍，也带回了与日本天台宗僧人完全不同的修行方式。尽管俊芿在很多方面取得了成功，他对天台宗僧制的影响十分有限。在此次演讲中，我主要关注日本着名学者仁空（1309-1388）如何回应俊芿的挑战。
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
