Ann Heirman

Contact details

email: ann.heirman@ugent.be

Academic career

• Ph.D. (1998) Eastern Languages and Cultures, Ghent University
• Research Assistant of the Fund of Scientific Research Flanders (1994-1998)
• Assistant Professor Eastern Languages and Cultures, Ghent University (1998-2003)
• Doctoral Assistant Professor Eastern Languages and Cultures, Ghent University (2003 - ...)

Research Field

My main research field is vinaya and the history of Buddhist monasticism.

Research Projects

Project on

• "Chinese Monasteries and their Function in the Chinese Markets between 1600 and 1900" (Tobias Wissler, see "Buddhist Economics")

Promotor of the following PhDs

• "Zhizang: Defender of the Faith" (Political use of Buddhism by Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty, r.502-549; Tom de Rauw, see "Political Liang-Buddhism")
• "Monastic Song-Buddhism" (Silke Geffcken, see "Monastic Song-Buddhism") 
• "Religious Identity Facing the Challenge of Modern Times - Processes of Development within
  the Selfdescriptions of Taiwanese lay Buddhists in the 20^th Century." (Esther-Maria Guggenmos, see "Taiwanese Buddhism")
• "Samantapāsādikā versus Shan-chien lü p’i-p’o-sha: A Pāli Monastic Commentary Through Chinese Eyes" (Gudrun Pinte, see "Vinaya Studies")
• "History of development of the Buddhist monastic structure and rules: influence of Jainism" (Claire Maes, see "Vinaya Studies")
• "Institutional organisation of Buddhist nunneries in China: between past and present." (Tzu-Lung Chiu, see "Vinaya Studies")

Selected Bibliography

Monographs

• (2002) The Discipline in Four Parts, Rules for Nuns according to the Dharmaguptakavinaya, Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 3 vols., ISBN 81-208-1800-8, 1211 pp.

Part I : Introduction, ISBN 81-208-1822-9

Part II : Translation and Commentary, ISBN 81-208-1823-7

Part III : Indices, Glossaries, Concordance, ISBN 81-208-1824-5

• (2005) Boeddha, zijn leer en zijn gemeenschap (herziene en vermeerderde uitgave), Gent, Academia Press, ISBN 90-382-0703-4, 383 pp. (in samenwerking met B. Dessein)
• (2007) Heirman, A. and S. Bumbacher (eds.), The Spread of Buddhism, Leiden, Boston, Brill, ISBN 978 90 04 15830 6, 474 pp.
• (2008) China, een maatschappelijke en filosofische geschiedenis van de vroegste tijden tot de twintigste eeuw (herziene uitgave), Gent, Academia Press, ISBN 978 90 382 1218 0, 357 pp. (in samenwerking met B. Dessein en D. Delporte)

Articles

• (1997) Some Remarks on the Rise of the Bhiksunisamgha and on the Ordination Ceremony for Bhiksunis according to the Dharmaguptakavinaya', Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 20.2, pp.33-85
• (1998) '*ngo 吾 and *ngâ 我', E�tudes Asiatiques, LII.3, pp.695-761 (with B. Dessein)
• (1998) 'Gurudharma: an important vinaya rule', Indian Journal of Buddhist Studies, Vol.10, pp.18-26
• (1999) 'On Parajika', Buddhist Studies Review 16.1, pp.51-59
• (1999) 'Vinaya : perpetuum mobile', Etudes Asiatiques, LIII.4, pp.849-871
• (1999) 'The Sarvastivada Parajika Precepts for Nuns', Annali dell'Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli, Vol.59, pp.144-167
• (2000) 'On Some Fragments of the Bhiksunpratimoksa of the Sarvastivadins', Buddhist Studies Review 17.1, pp.3-16
• (2000) 'What happened to the nun Maitreya?', Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Vol.23, No.1, pp.29-41
• (2000-2001) 'Introduction to the World-map of Francesco Sambiasi', Annali dell'Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli Vol.60-61, pp.365-373
• (2001) 'Chinese Nuns and their Ordination in fifth century China', Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies Vol.24, No.2, pp.275-304
• (2002), 'Can we trace the early Dharmaguptakas?', T'oung Pao LXXXVIII, pp.396-429
• (2003) 'The parajika precepts for nuns', Buddhist Studies Review 20.2, pp.169-181
• (2003) 'The time schedule of the kat\hina period', Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 56 (2-4), pp.309-316
• (2003) '漢 語 "戒 律" 里 的 術 語' ('A lexicographical research: technical terms of vinaya texts'), Universal Gate Buddhist Journal 18, pp.1-28 (re-edition on request of an article in the proceedings of 國 立 中 正 大 學 佛 經 語 言 言 學 國 際 學 術 研 討 會 (International Conference on the Linguistic Study of Buddhist Texts), Chung-cheng Ta-hsüeh, Chia-yi, 2002)
• 2004, 'The Chinese Samantapasadika and its school affiliation', Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 154.2, pp.371-396
• (2006) 'Offenders, sinners and criminals: the consumption of forbidden food', Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 59 (1), pp. 57-83 (with Tom De Rauw)
• (2008), 'Where is the Probationer in Chinese Buddhist Nunneries?', Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 158.1, pp. 105-137
• (2008) ‘Indian Disciplinary Rules and their Early Chinese Adepts: A Buddhist Realityʾ, Journal of the American Oriental Society 128.2, pp.257-272
• (2008) ‘Becoming a Nun in the Dharmaguptaka Traditionʾ, Buddhist Studies Review 25.2,
  pp.147-173