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- NEW BOOK> Chinese Funerary Biographies, Edited by Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Ping Yao and Cong Ellen Zhang
- CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED> Submissions for the International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture Vol. 30, No.1 (June 2020)
- QUERY> Garbhāvākrāntisūtra
- QUERY> Schipper essay "Purifier l'autel..." request
- QUERY> New location, if any, for online 2nd Koryo canon?
- NEW BOOK> "Buddhist Responses to Religious Diversity: Theravāda and Tibetan Perspectives"
- CANCELLATION> IAHR 2020 World Congress
NEW BOOK> Chinese Funerary Biographies, Edited by Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Ping Yao and Cong Ellen Zhang
by A. Charles Muller
Chinese
Funerary Biographies
An Anthology of Remembered Lives
Edited by Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Ping Yao and Cong Ellen Zhang
- PUBLISHED:
January 2020
- SUBJECT
LISTING: Asian Studies / China, Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir,
Literary Studies
- BIBLIOGRAPHIC
INFORMATION: 304 Pages, 6 x 9 in, 1 b&w illus
- ISBN:
9780295746418
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DESCRIPTION
Tens
of thousands of epitaphs, or funerary biographies, survive from imperial China.
Engraved on stone and placed in a grave, they typically focus on the deceased’s
biography and exemplary words and deeds, expressing the survivors’ longing for
the dead. These epitaphs provide glimpses of the lives of women, men who did
not leave a mark politically, and children—people who are not well documented
in more conventional sources such as dynastic histories and local gazetteers.
This
anthology of translations makes available funerary biographies covering nearly
two thousand years, from the Han dynasty through the nineteenth century,
selected for their value as teaching material for courses in Chinese history,
literature, and women’s studies as well as world history. Because they include
revealing details about personal conduct, families, local conditions, and
social, cultural, and religious practices, these epitaphs illustrate ways of
thinking and the realities of daily life. Most can be read and analyzed on
multiple levels, and they stimulate investigation of topics such as the
emotional tenor of family relations, rituals associated with death, Confucian
values, women’s lives as written about by men, and the use of sources assumed
to be biased. These biographies will be especially effective when combined with
more readily available primary sources such as official documents, religious
and intellectual discourses, and anecdotal stories, promising to generate
provocative discussion of literary genre, the ways historians use sources, and
how writers shape their accounts.
Patricia Ebrey is Williams Family Endowed Professor of
History at the University of Washington. Ping Yao is professor
of history at California State University, Los Angeles. Cong Ellen
Zhang is associate professor of history at the University of Virginia.
The other translators are Beverly Bossler, Timothy Davis, Alexei
Kamran Ditter, Yongtao Du, Grace Fong, R.
Kent Guy, Mark Halperin, Xing Hang, Martin
W. Huang, Tomoyasu Iiyama, Jen-der Lee, Weijing
Lu, Lance Pursey, Anna Shields, Man Xu,
and Jolan Yi.
CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED> Submissions for the 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 April 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)
QUERY> Garbhāvākrāntisūtra
by Gurmeet Kaur
Dear friends,I am a Doctoral Candidate in the discipline of Women's Studies and Development at Panjab University, India. Besides this, I am pursuing a Postgraduate Diploma in Buddhist Studies. For my dissertation work, I am looking for the Garbhāvākrāntisūtra. Does anyone have knowledge of or access to this sūtra? Existing publications and previous research efforts would be helpful. With thanks in advance,
Gurmeet Kaur
Panjab University
Chandigarh, India.
QUERY> Schipper essay "Purifier l'autel..." request
by Richard Payne
Dear Colleagues,I wonder if anyone might have a scan of:
Schipper, Kristofer M. 1990. “Purifier l'autel, tracer les limites, à travers les rïtuels taoistes.” In Detienne, M., ed., Tracés de fondation, pp. 31–47. Louvain-Paris: Peeters.
My thanks to Charles Orzech who kindly provided the full biblio-info.
Normally I would attempt to get this through inter-library loan, but these are of course not normal times.
best wishes and good health to all of you,
Richard
QUERY> New location, if any, for online 2nd Koryo canon?
by Eric Greene
Dear all,does anyone know what has happened to the website hosting the so-called "Tripitaka Koreana Knowledgebase," whereon one could view images of the 2nd Koryo edition of the Chinese Buddhist canon? The address where this used to be seems to no longer be functioning. I notice that the links to images of the 2nd Koryo canon that are embedded in the online SAT dabase of the Taisho canon similarly no longer work. If anyone has any information about this, it would be greatly appreciated.
Eric Greene
Yale University
NEW BOOK> "Buddhist Responses to Religious Diversity: Theravāda and Tibetan Perspectives"
by Christopher Chase
Hi all,Perhaps I missed it, but Equinox has a new volume out on Buddhism and religious pluralism that I wanted to make sure all were aware of :
Buddhist Responses to Religious Diversity: Theravāda and Tibetan Perspectives
Edited by : Douglas Duckworth, Abraham Vélez de Cea, Elizabeth J. Harris
This volume discusses contemporary Buddhist responses to religious diversity from Theravādin and Tibetan Buddhist perspectives. Buddhist attitudes toward other religious traditions (and its own) are unquestionably diverse, and have undergone changes throughout historical eras and geographic spaces, as Buddhists, and traditions Buddhists have encountered, continue to change (after all, all conditioned things are impermanent). The present time is a particularly dynamic moment to take stock of Buddhist attitudes toward religious others, as Buddhist identities are being renegotiated in unprecedented ways in our increasingly globalized age.
Is it true that Buddhists are tolerant of other religions? To what extent are Buddhists tolerant? Is nirvana held to be attainable through Buddhism alone? If so, through which Buddhist tradition? This volume approaches these questions and others from perspectives representing Theravādin and Tibetan traditions of Buddhism. The chapters herein bring together a spectrum of views that are not often found side-by-side in a single volume or in a meaningful dialogue with each other, needless to mention with other religions. This volume seeks to remedy this situation, and break new ground to enable further dialogue, understanding, and constructive encounters across Buddhist traditions and between other religious traditions and Buddhists.
More info and Table of Contents here:
https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/buddhist-responses/
All the Best,
Christopher W. Chase, Ph.D.
Associate Teaching Professor
Department of Philosophy and
Religious Studies
Iowa State University
Review Editor
Pomegranate : The International
Journal for Pagan Studies
CANCELLATION> IAHR 2020 World Congress
by A. Charles Muller
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Cancellation of IAHR
2020 World Congress
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the 22nd Quinquennial World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) has been canceled. The event was set to take place August 23-29, 2020, at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.
The full message from the organizers is here:
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