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- CALL FOR JOURNAL ARTICLES> International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture Vol. 30, No.1 (June 2020)
- LECTURE & SEMINAR> Dr Christoph Emmrich (Toronto) - 14 March 2020, SOAS University of London - The Buddhist Forum sponsored by Khyentse Foundation
- WORKSHOP> "Dōgen’s texts: Manifesting philosophy and/as/of religion?" HU Berlin, April 2–4
- JOURNAL ISSUE> Vol. 17 of The Silk Road journal now available
- NEW JOURNAL ISSUE> Fo Guang Journal of Buddhist Studies 6.1 (2020)
- SEMINAR POSTPONEMENT> "Mapping Medieval Japan," April 24-25, University of Southern California
- WORKSHOP POSTPONEMENT> Ratnākara Readings March 2020, Sadao
CALL FOR JOURNAL ARTICLES> International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture Vol. 30, No.1 (June 2020)
by Tara Eunyoung KIM
Dear
Colleagues,The International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture (IJBTC) is published to promote Buddhist Studies by encouraging wide-ranging research on Buddhist thought and culture.
IJBTC is a peer-reviewed, academic journal published bi-annually in English language by the Academy of Buddhist Studies at Dongguk University, Korea.
The scholastic quality of IJBTC was accredited by Korean Research Foundation in 2007. The IJBTC was included in the resource of the Atla Religion Database® in 2018. Also, we are included in the Thomson Reuters Emerging Sources Citation Index.
IJBTC seeks papers and book-reviews on history, philosophy, literature, and culture that are relevant to Buddhism. IJBTC always welcomes submissions that bring new perspectives and fresh research to the various fields of Buddhist Studies.
The deadline for submitting a contribution to Vol.30 No.1 is March 15th, 2020.
IJBTC Vol.30 No.1 will be published June 30th, 2020.
For more information, including submissions, subscription and inquiries, please contact:
Email: ijbtc@dongguk.edu
H.P.: http://ijbtc.dongguk.edu/
Tel: +82 (02) 6713 5140
Regards,
International
Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture
Editors
KIM
Jongwook (Dongguk University, Korea)
Richard D. MCBRIDE II (BYU, USA)
LECTURE & SEMINAR> Dr Christoph Emmrich (Toronto) - 14 March 2020, SOAS University of London - The Buddhist Forum sponsored by Khyentse Foundation
by Emanuela Sala
Dear colleagues,
the SOAS Centre of Buddhist Studies is delighted to announce another event in the Buddhist Forum series sponsored by Khyentse foundation. Dr Christoph Emmrich (University of Toronto) will lecture on "Misāyā Tisā Bareyā Nasā, or A Woman’s Jewels are the Monk’s Food: Materiality, Gender, and Buddhism in Newar Life and Poetry”, and subsequently hold a seminar on "A Jewel-Themed Introductory Workshop to Newar Buddhist Language and Literature".
the SOAS Centre of Buddhist Studies is delighted to announce another event in the Buddhist Forum series sponsored by Khyentse foundation. Dr Christoph Emmrich (University of Toronto) will lecture on "Misāyā Tisā Bareyā Nasā, or A Woman’s Jewels are the Monk’s Food: Materiality, Gender, and Buddhism in Newar Life and Poetry”, and subsequently hold a seminar on "A Jewel-Themed Introductory Workshop to Newar Buddhist Language and Literature".
Due to the strike action, both lecture and seminar will take
place on Saturday 14 March ( see the details below).
If you plan to stay for the seminar, please register with
me at es27@soas.ac.uk.
Catering will this time include lunch sandwiches for all registered for
the seminar.
We are very excited to host this event, and hope that many of you will be able to join us.
All the best,
Emanuela Sala
Assistant
Centre of Buddhist Studies
SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
United Kingdom
Email: es27@soas.ac.uk
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LECTURE
Misāyā Tisā Bareyā
Nasā, or A Woman’s Jewels are the Monk’s Food: Materiality, Gender, and
Buddhism in Newar Life and Poetry
Sat 14 March 2020
11-12:30
B102 (Brunei Gallery) SOAS
Sat 14 March 2020
11-12:30
B102 (Brunei Gallery) SOAS
Abstract
Jewellery is how Buddhist Newars spell gender and beauty, how they celebrate and take care of themselves, how they fit in and create the extraordinary. It is what makes them both modern and old-fashioned, both broadly South Asian and very Kathmandu Valley. By confronting the sociology with the poetics of jewellery, this talk will try to ask how practices involving studs, anklets, and bangles, not to speak of hair chains, head combs, and forehead pendants, articulate the ways in which Newars precariously situate themselves and attempt to find their balance on the passing historiographical cusp and travel with the flows of gold, stone, and style that traverse skin, homes, shops, markets, and state borders. How do Newars manage desire, fulfillment, religion, and the content of their purses, not to mention the words to express all this, without turning themselves into museum pieces or selling out to the highest bidding pawnbroker? This talk suggests that medieval bodhisattva tales, 19th century songs of love, and 20th century epic poetry may bear the answer.
SEMINAR
A Jewel-Themed Introductory Workshop to Newar Buddhist Language and Literature
Sat 14 March 2020
1-4 pm
B203 (Brunei Gallery) SOAS
A Jewel-Themed Introductory Workshop to Newar Buddhist Language and Literature
Sat 14 March 2020
1-4 pm
B203 (Brunei Gallery) SOAS
Abstract
The workshop linked to the lecture will walk participants through select passages from Buddhist literature in Old and Contemporary Newar, such as the Newar version of the Maṇicūḍāvadāna, which famously features the jewel in the head of a prince, 19th century bhajans dedicated to the decorations of Buddhist deities of the Kathmandu Valley, and Cittadhar Hṛdaya’s 20th century mahākāvya Sugata Saurabha, in which jewellery helps rearticulate Newar Buddhist modernity between the ostentatious and the austere. The directed readings will be prefaced by a brief introduction to the phonology, morphology, and syntax of literary Newar to facilitate the access to the original sources.
Christoph Emmrich is a Newarologist, Burmologist, Indologist, and Associate Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Toronto, where he has been teaching Newar, Burmese, Pali, Buddhist, and Jain Studies since 2006. When he does not teach, he divides his time between Lalitpur, Mawlamyine, Mandalay, and Pondicherry conducting research on rites and ritual literature, shop-keeping, and list-making, as well as poetry, textual practice, and temple management. His latest monograph Writing Rites for Newar Girls. Marriage, Mimesis, and Memory in the Kathmandu Valley is forthcoming with Brill.
WORKSHOP> "Dōgen’s texts: Manifesting philosophy and/as/of religion?" HU Berlin, April 2–4
by Steven Heine
Workshop on Dōgen | Berlin | April
2-4, 2020
Dōgen’s texts: Manifesting
philosophy and/as/of religion?
The Zen Buddhist Dōgen remains the most
widely read pre-modern Japanese author in modern day philosophy since Meiji
period. However, at the same time, his philosophical reception is most fiercely
criticized by his denomination, i.e. by scholars of the Sōtō Zen community.
The dispute was caused by the pretensions
of non-denominational intellectuals to pave the way for an authentic
apprenticeship independent of the practice of “sitting-only” (j. shikan taza)
which was taught by the Sōtō school as the core of Dōgen’s Zen. However, the
predominance of a “practical” interpretation of Dōgen covers up the linguistic
complexities of Dōgen’s writings. In fact, the Shōbōgenzō’s emergence as a
philosophical text exhibits, more than any other example, the history of
Japanese philosophy in the making in modern age while competing with the
premodern denominational approach. For this reason, Dōgen studies in Meiji
Japan can be understood as a passage way in which the image projected on Dōgen
underwent severe changes and multiplied. What exactly happened to Dōgen during
that time still awaits to be spelled out both historically and systematically.
And so do the account and discussion of its pre-Meiji conditions and post-Meiji
results.
The workshop aims at the core issue that
became critical during Meiji period in which the philosophical appropriation of
Dōgen worked as a catalyst to tackle the question both inside and outside the
monastery: How are we to handle Dōgen’s texts? This issue is not limited to the
apparent oppositions of premodern denominational authority vs. modern academic
discourse, religion vs. philosophy, or commentary vs. critique. The emergence
of a modern Shūgaku based self criticism of practitioners or the convergence of
philosophic discourse on Dōgen with denominational commentary literature are
examples that undermine the apparent oppositions and show that the issue is
more complex.
Regarding present day Dōgen studies, most
intricacies go back to or are informed by a number of different factions among
those who receive Dōgen before, in, or since Meiji Japan: the Zennist (j.
zenjōka) emphasising practice, the Genzōnians (j. genzōka) shifting the
attention to the reading of Dōgen’s texts, the laity movement opening up both
the texts and the practice to people in modern society, and the Genzō researchers
(j. genzō kenkyūka) searching for the authenticity and truth of Dōgen’s
writings.
The workshop invites contributors to
undermine the common images of Dōgen in the monastery, in the denominational
studies, or modern academic philosophy. The objective is to bring into play the
various discourses on Dōgen and to discuss their relation across times and
factions in modern and premodern times and to show how and upon which
conditions the present day image of Dōgen emerged. The challenge remains to establish
hermeneutic standards of reading and to propose new, original, and critical
interpretations of his texts.
Thursday April 2nd
1st Panel: 15:00-16:30
Steven Heine
* On Juxtaposing the
Dōgen Interpretations of Traditionalist Nishiari Bokusan and Philosopher
Akiyama Hanji (based on APA-Panel Talk)
* Reflexivity and
Adaptability. The Functions and Dysfunctions of Meditation (based on Readings
of Dōgen's Treasury of the True Dharma Eye)
2nd Panel: 17:00-18:30
Steven Heine
* "Flowers
blooming...". On Giun's Verse Comments (based on Flowers Blooming From a
Withered Tree: Giun's Verse Comments on the Treasury of the True Dharma Eye)
* The Role of Reciting
the Sutras (based on unpublished AAS Talk)
Friday April 3rd
3rd Panel: 9:30-11:00
Raji Steineck
* From Uji to Being-time
(and Back): Translating Dōgen into Philosophy
4th Panel: 11:15-12:00
Zuzana Kubovčáková
* Uji: Analysis of
Dōgen’s Language Style as the Formation Ground for his Philosophy
5th Panel: 12:15-13:00
Etienne Staehelin
* Dōgen’s early
commentaries in contemporary shūgaku
6th Panel: 15:00-15:45
Marta Sanvido
* Forging the Founder’s
secret: Dōgen’s Apocrypha in Premodern Zen kirigami and monsan
7th Panel: 16:00-16:45
He Teng
* A brief introduction
to Biyanlu and Chan/Zen
8th Panel: 17:00-18:30
André van der Braak
* Zen spirituality for
our Secular Age
Saturday, April 4th
9th Panel: 9:30-10:15
Ralf Müller
* Nishitani Keiji’s
Shōbōgenzō kōwa.
10th Panel: 10:30-13:00
Round Table
For further info please send an
email to ralf.mueller@uni-hildesheim.de
JOURNAL ISSUE> Vol. 17 of The Silk Road journal now available
by Justin Jacobs
Announcing the publication of Vol. 17 (2019) of The Silk Road. All
articles can be downloaded for free at: https://edspace.american.edu/silkroadjournal/TABLE OF CONTENTS
Did Richthofen Really Coin “the Silk Road”?
Matthias Mertens
An Interview with Roderick Whitfield on the Stein Collection in the British Museum
Sonya S. Lee
Faces of the Buddha: Lorenzo Pullè and the Museo Indiano in Bologna, 1907-35
Luca Villa
Knotted Carpets from the Taklamakan: A Medium of Ideological and Aesthetic Exchange on the Silk Road, 700 BCE-700 CE
Zhang He
Some Notes on Sogdian Costume in Early Tang China
Sergey A. Yatsenko
An Analysis of Modern Chinese Colophons on the Dunhuang Manuscripts
Justin M. Jacobs
Camel Fairs in India: A Photo Essay
Harvey Follender
BOOK REVIEWS
Robert N. Spengler III, Fruit from the Sands: The Silk Road Origins of the Food We Eat
Susan Whitfield
Thomas T. Allsen, The Steppe and the Sea: Pearls in the Mongol Empire
Samuel Rumschlag
Roman Hautala, Crusaders, Missionaries, and Eurasian Nomads in the 13th-14th Centuries
Charles J. Halperin
István Zimonyi, Medieval Nomads in Eastern Europe
Charles J. Halperin
Baumer and Novák, eds., Urban Cultures of Central Asia from the Bronze Age to the Karakhanids
Barbara Kaim
- Justin M. Jacobs, Editor (jjacobs@american.edu)
NEW JOURNAL ISSUE> Fo Guang Journal of Buddhist Studies 6.1 (2020)
by Yi-hsun Huang
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NEW JOURNAL ISSUE> Fo Guang Journal
of Buddhist Studies 6.1 (2020)
Dear Colleagues,
The Center for Buddhist Studies at
Fo Guang University in Taiwan would like to announce the recent publication of
issue 6.1 (2020) of the Fo Guang Journal of Buddhist Studies 佛光學報.
In particular, this issue contains four articles on Buddhism in East Asia from
the 16th to 18th centuries and a conference report on the
Center’s 2019 International Conference on Buddhist Canons.
The full-text PDF files are available on the Journal's website:The contents of the present issue are listed below.
Best wishes,
Yi-hsun Huang
Professor, Department of Buddhist
Studies
Vice Director, Center For Buddhist
Studies
Fo Guang University, Taiwan
*******
Articles:
周碧香 (CHOU, Pi-hsiang)
稱之以「漢」──禪典表人名詞「漢」溯源 (The Origins of Using
“Han” as an Appellation in Chan texts)
陳清香 (CHEN, Ching-Hsiang)
唐末五代至宋元之際的維摩圖像探討 (An Exploration of
Vimalakīrti Imagery during the Late Tang, Five Dynasties, Song, and Yuan
Periods)
西野翠 (NISHINO Midori)
“Midori Étienne Lamotte: Translator
of the Da zhidu lun”
陳玉女 (CHEN, Yuh-neu)
明清嘉興楞嚴寺《嘉興藏》之刊印與其海內外流通 (The
Publication of the Jiaxing Edition of the Buddhist Canon in the Ming and Qing
Dynasties and its Domestic and Overseas Circulation)
王啟元 (WANG, Qi-yuan)
「龍子」與「舍利」──萬曆二十年紫柏真可的努力和局限 (From
Longzi to Relic: Master Zibo Zhenke’s Endeavors and their Limits in the 20th
year of the Wanli Period)
闞正宗 (KAN, Cheng-tsung)
清代治臺初期的佛教──以《蓉洲詩文稿選輯．東寧政事集》為中心 (Buddhism
in Taiwan during the Early Qing: in Light of the Newly Discovered Dongning
zhengshi ji)
李貴民 (LEE, Kuei-min)
越南所藏明清佛教稀見文獻初探 (A Preliminary Study of
Ming and Qing Chinese Buddhist Texts in Vietnam)
黃繹勳 (Yi-hsun Huang)
Conference Report: 2019 International
Conference on Buddhist Canons
Contact Info:
Yi-hsun Huang
Professor, Department of Buddhist
Studies
Vice Director, Center For Buddhist
Studies
Fo Guang University, Taiwan
Contact Email:
SEMINAR POSTPONEMENT> "Mapping Medieval Japan," April 24-25, University of Southern California
by Janet Goodwin
I am sorry to inform you that the seminar "Mapping Medieval
Japan," scheduled for April 24-25 at USC, has been postponed because of
concerns about the spread of the coronavirus. We plan to reschedule
for the fall and will announce a new date as soon as we have one.Janet Goodwin
WORKSHOP POSTPONEMENT> Ratnākara Readings March 2020, Sadao
by Mattia Salvini
Dear
Colleagues and Friends,
I
hope you are well; many of you may recall a previous post in which I advertised
the Ratnākara Readings 2020, featuring Prof. Harunaga Isaacson and Prof. Alex
Watson, as beginning on March the 13th.
The
present situation prompted us to postpone the Ratnākara Readings 2020 to a
later date. We will observe the conditions of travel restrictions in the next
few months and keep you posted about the revised schedule; and I hope that the
new dates will encourage even more of you to come and join us in Thailand for
this event.
Shall
you have any questions about this, please do not hesitate to contact me
directly.
Thanking
you all for your kind understanding,
Best
regards,
Mattia
Salvini
Dean
of Scriptural Language Studies
International
Buddhist College
Sadao
Campus
Thailand
