We are here with great pleasure to make announcement on our second
Woodenfish program in this 2014 summer “Tiantai Seminar at Mount Tiantai”
taught by Professor Daniel Stevenson. We advise that this is going to be a
very popular program, so please apply as soon as possible.
Dr. Yifa
Founder, the Woodenfish Project
yale.yifa@gmail.com
N.B. for our first Woodenfish summer program in July, the13th “Humanistic
Buddhist Monastic Life Program ” (HBMLP), please visit:
www.woodenfish.org/hbmlp
ANNOUNCEMENT
Woodenfish “Buddhism in China--Connecting with the Source”
[Tiantai Seminar at Mt. Tiantai] Led by Prof. Daniel B. Stevenson
Dates: August 5-13, 2014
Venue: Mount Tiantai Summit Huading Temple
Application Deadline: Rolling Registration, May 15, 2014
Eligibility: Faculty, graduate level and advanced undergraduate students.
Fee: Room and board, tuition will be covered by the Woodenfish scholarship
for all selected participants. Limited to 40 participants.
For more information and application download, please visit http:
www.woodenfish.org/china/tiantai
Any question please contact: woodenfishbic@gmail.com
***MORE INFORMAITON:
*Introduction to Woodenfish“Buddhism in China--Connecting with the Source”
The Woodenfish “Buddhism in China—Connecting with the Source Program” is a
semi-annual program, sponsored by the Woodenfish Project, that offers
faculty, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates opportunities for
direct and intensive engagement with important historical centers of
Chinese Buddhism and culture. Previous programs have included a Platform
Sutra Seminar in Nanhua Temple led by Peter Gregory (Smith College), a
Guanyin Seminar on Mt. Putuo by Chün-fang Yü (Columbia University) and
Bhikkhuni Vinaya Seminar by Ann Heirman (Ghent University) at Sichuan Nuns
College. Now this is our fourth Connecting with the Source Program in
China, and we invite renowned scholar Professor Daniel B. Stevenson on
Tiantai Study to lead a seminar at Mount Tiantai.
****Tiantai Seminar Description*
Along with the Chan and Huayan schools, the Tiantai tradition represents
one of the most influential syntheses of Buddhist teaching to take shape in
China and East Asia. Systematized during the latter half of the sixth
century by the Chinese monk Zhiyi (538-597)--who taught on the very
mountain where this seminar will be held--Tiantai teaching has been an
enduring presence on the landscape of Buddhist thought and practice in
China down to contemporary times. Its impress remains readily visible in
traditions of doctrinal learning and scriptural exegesis, meditation, and
devotion practices that prevail in Chinese Buddhist circles today. In the
centuries following Zhiyi, the tradition also found its way to Japan
(Tendai) and Korea (Ch’ŏntae), where its impact has been no less profound.
Likened to two wings of a bird or two wheels of a cart, Tiantai tradition
espouses the coordinate cultivation of meditative discipline *(jiaoguan
shuangxiu* 教觀雙修) and doctrinal study grounded in the sutras. Through these
twin pursuits, Tiantai practitioners aspired to replicate the path by which
the founding patriarchs were said to have apprehended the original vision
of the Buddha and set themselves and others on the path to future
Buddhahood. Drawing on a combination of secondary readings and primary
texts, this seminar will explore fundamental aspects of Tiantai doctrinal
classification, scriptural exegesis, meditation, ritual practice,
hagiography and historical *imaginaire*. Where relevant, we will also give
attention to change and diversity within the tradition.
To reside on the mountain where the Tiantai tradition took shape provides
us with the rarest of opportunities. Surrounded by the very settings where
illustrious Tiantai masters taught and practiced over ages past, classroom
discussion will be supplemented with fieldtrips to sites of special
interest. With a monastic community directly at hand, we will also have
frequent chance to reflect on the ways in which doctrinal study and
meditative disciplines were woven into the regimens of Tiantai institutions
and the lives of their residents and patrons.
****Biography of Instructor*
*Daniel B. Stevenson* joined the faculty of the Department of Religious
Studies at the University of Kansas in 1992, where he has served as Chair
since 2007. He received his doctorate in Buddhist studies and Chinese
religions from the Department of Religion, Columbia University, in 1997.
His research has focused on the ritual, exegetical and institutional
cultures of the Tiantai and Pure Land traditions in China, with his most
recent work centered on the vibrant revival of Tiantai Buddhist thought and
practice in Song Dynasty (960-1279) China. Prior publications include *The
Great Calming and Contemplation, a Translation and Annotated Study of the
Synopsis Chapter of Chih-I’s *Mo-he chih-kuan (with Neal Donner), *The
Meaning of the Lotus Sūtra’s Course of Ease and Bliss: An Annotated
Translation and Study of Nanyue Huisi’s (515-577) *Fahuajing anlexing yi
(with Hiroshi Kanno), and numerous articles on Tiantai ritual literature
and practice, *Lotus Sūtra* and Pure Land devotional culture, and Buddhist
ritual in Song Dynasty China. He is currently nearing completion a book
manuscript that examines how site-specific venues of institutional life,
education, ritual performance, and narrative exchange contributed to the
formation of collective religious discourses among Song-dynasty Buddhists.
****Schedule*
August 5
Arrival
August 6-12
Classes and discussion on Tiantai Study and Monastic Life Practicum
August 13
Departure
****Fees*
Accepted applicants must provide their own transportation to and from
Mount. Tiantai, Zhejiang, China as well as $100 (USD) to be used for the
purchase of uniforms and a set of monastic bowls. There are no additional
costs for the workshop. Room and board, tuition will be covered by the
Woodenfish scholarship for all selected participants.
****About the Application*
The Tiantai workshop accepts applications from faculty, graduate level,
advanced undergraduate students, monastics, as well as those who have
already completed their degrees from any country. Buddhist nuns and female
priests from any Buddhist tradition are especially encouraged to apply.
Applicants from diverse academic disciplines are encouraged to apply with
preference given to those in the fields of East Asian and Buddhist Studies.
Applications will be reviewed by a committee including Buddhist clergy, and
scholars. Approximately 40 applicants will be offered admission to this
program.
Applications will be reviewed on a ROLLING BASIS, and decisions will be
made within two weeks after submission. Selection is quite competitive;
applicants are encouraged to apply early to ensure a better chance of
admission into the workshop.
--
Yifa
Woodenfish Project
skype: "woodenfish2002"
Phone in US: 1 917 376 7487
Phone in China: 86 1391 186 7487
Phone in Taiwan: 886 928 603 487
--
Woodenfish program in this 2014 summer “Tiantai Seminar at Mount Tiantai”
taught by Professor Daniel Stevenson. We advise that this is going to be a
very popular program, so please apply as soon as possible.
Dr. Yifa
Founder, the Woodenfish Project
yale.yifa@gmail.com
N.B. for our first Woodenfish summer program in July, the13th “Humanistic
Buddhist Monastic Life Program ” (HBMLP), please visit:
www.woodenfish.org/hbmlp
ANNOUNCEMENT
Woodenfish “Buddhism in China--Connecting with the Source”
[Tiantai Seminar at Mt. Tiantai] Led by Prof. Daniel B. Stevenson
Dates: August 5-13, 2014
Venue: Mount Tiantai Summit Huading Temple
Application Deadline: Rolling Registration, May 15, 2014
Eligibility: Faculty, graduate level and advanced undergraduate students.
Fee: Room and board, tuition will be covered by the Woodenfish scholarship
for all selected participants. Limited to 40 participants.
For more information and application download, please visit http:
www.woodenfish.org/china/tiantai
Any question please contact: woodenfishbic@gmail.com
***MORE INFORMAITON:
*Introduction to Woodenfish“Buddhism in China--Connecting with the Source”
The Woodenfish “Buddhism in China—Connecting with the Source Program” is a
semi-annual program, sponsored by the Woodenfish Project, that offers
faculty, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates opportunities for
direct and intensive engagement with important historical centers of
Chinese Buddhism and culture. Previous programs have included a Platform
Sutra Seminar in Nanhua Temple led by Peter Gregory (Smith College), a
Guanyin Seminar on Mt. Putuo by Chün-fang Yü (Columbia University) and
Bhikkhuni Vinaya Seminar by Ann Heirman (Ghent University) at Sichuan Nuns
College. Now this is our fourth Connecting with the Source Program in
China, and we invite renowned scholar Professor Daniel B. Stevenson on
Tiantai Study to lead a seminar at Mount Tiantai.
****Tiantai Seminar Description*
Along with the Chan and Huayan schools, the Tiantai tradition represents
one of the most influential syntheses of Buddhist teaching to take shape in
China and East Asia. Systematized during the latter half of the sixth
century by the Chinese monk Zhiyi (538-597)--who taught on the very
mountain where this seminar will be held--Tiantai teaching has been an
enduring presence on the landscape of Buddhist thought and practice in
China down to contemporary times. Its impress remains readily visible in
traditions of doctrinal learning and scriptural exegesis, meditation, and
devotion practices that prevail in Chinese Buddhist circles today. In the
centuries following Zhiyi, the tradition also found its way to Japan
(Tendai) and Korea (Ch’ŏntae), where its impact has been no less profound.
Likened to two wings of a bird or two wheels of a cart, Tiantai tradition
espouses the coordinate cultivation of meditative discipline *(jiaoguan
shuangxiu* 教觀雙修) and doctrinal study grounded in the sutras. Through these
twin pursuits, Tiantai practitioners aspired to replicate the path by which
the founding patriarchs were said to have apprehended the original vision
of the Buddha and set themselves and others on the path to future
Buddhahood. Drawing on a combination of secondary readings and primary
texts, this seminar will explore fundamental aspects of Tiantai doctrinal
classification, scriptural exegesis, meditation, ritual practice,
hagiography and historical *imaginaire*. Where relevant, we will also give
attention to change and diversity within the tradition.
To reside on the mountain where the Tiantai tradition took shape provides
us with the rarest of opportunities. Surrounded by the very settings where
illustrious Tiantai masters taught and practiced over ages past, classroom
discussion will be supplemented with fieldtrips to sites of special
interest. With a monastic community directly at hand, we will also have
frequent chance to reflect on the ways in which doctrinal study and
meditative disciplines were woven into the regimens of Tiantai institutions
and the lives of their residents and patrons.
****Biography of Instructor*
*Daniel B. Stevenson* joined the faculty of the Department of Religious
Studies at the University of Kansas in 1992, where he has served as Chair
since 2007. He received his doctorate in Buddhist studies and Chinese
religions from the Department of Religion, Columbia University, in 1997.
His research has focused on the ritual, exegetical and institutional
cultures of the Tiantai and Pure Land traditions in China, with his most
recent work centered on the vibrant revival of Tiantai Buddhist thought and
practice in Song Dynasty (960-1279) China. Prior publications include *The
Great Calming and Contemplation, a Translation and Annotated Study of the
Synopsis Chapter of Chih-I’s *Mo-he chih-kuan (with Neal Donner), *The
Meaning of the Lotus Sūtra’s Course of Ease and Bliss: An Annotated
Translation and Study of Nanyue Huisi’s (515-577) *Fahuajing anlexing yi
(with Hiroshi Kanno), and numerous articles on Tiantai ritual literature
and practice, *Lotus Sūtra* and Pure Land devotional culture, and Buddhist
ritual in Song Dynasty China. He is currently nearing completion a book
manuscript that examines how site-specific venues of institutional life,
education, ritual performance, and narrative exchange contributed to the
formation of collective religious discourses among Song-dynasty Buddhists.
****Schedule*
August 5
Arrival
August 6-12
Classes and discussion on Tiantai Study and Monastic Life Practicum
August 13
Departure
****Fees*
Accepted applicants must provide their own transportation to and from
Mount. Tiantai, Zhejiang, China as well as $100 (USD) to be used for the
purchase of uniforms and a set of monastic bowls. There are no additional
costs for the workshop. Room and board, tuition will be covered by the
Woodenfish scholarship for all selected participants.
****About the Application*
The Tiantai workshop accepts applications from faculty, graduate level,
advanced undergraduate students, monastics, as well as those who have
already completed their degrees from any country. Buddhist nuns and female
priests from any Buddhist tradition are especially encouraged to apply.
Applicants from diverse academic disciplines are encouraged to apply with
preference given to those in the fields of East Asian and Buddhist Studies.
Applications will be reviewed by a committee including Buddhist clergy, and
scholars. Approximately 40 applicants will be offered admission to this
program.
Applications will be reviewed on a ROLLING BASIS, and decisions will be
made within two weeks after submission. Selection is quite competitive;
applicants are encouraged to apply early to ensure a better chance of
admission into the workshop.
--
Yifa
Woodenfish Project
skype: "woodenfish2002"
Phone in US: 1 917 376 7487
Phone in China: 86 1391 186 7487
Phone in Taiwan: 886 928 603 487
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