Doctoral School “Demystifying Chan (Japanese: Zen) Buddhism”, July 4-8, 2022 (3/15/2022) - Abstract: This (on campus) course is aimed at PhD students and will focus on the rise and success of Chan Buddhism (known in Japan as Zen) in medieval China. It will cover (1) Indian and Chinese doctrinal antecedents; (2) the… Read more
Lecture “Buddhism in Late Tang: Centre-Periphery Relations”, University of Naples L’Orientale, March 8, 2022, by Anna Sokolova (2/28/2022) - Next week our own Anna Sokolova will give a talk at Naples. Read more
Ghent-Harvard-Munich workshop “Connecting Asian Buddhism(s) Past, Present, and Future”, Ghent University, May 4–6, 2022 (2/3/2022) - Venue: Het Pand, room August Vermeylen, Onderbergen 1, 9000 Gent The workshop is sponsored by the Strategic Institutional Partnership (SIP) scheme, the Tianzhu Foundation, and Ghent University, Harvard University, and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies (GCBS),… Read more
2022 PTBS Lecture Series (1/5/2022) - Our Spring 2022 Lecture Series highlighted a diverse spectrum of topics related to Buddhism. March 10: Nan Ouyang (UGent) “Constructing the Divine Abode of Dizang Bodhisattva: Mt. Jiuhua in Late Imperial China" This talk focuses on the historical transformation… Read more
Doctoral School “Buddhism and Medicine in East Asia”, June 28-July 2, 2021 (2/15/2021) - Abstract: This specialist course will focus on an interdisciplinary approach to the intersection of religion and medicine in medieval and late imperial East Asia, with a particular focus on Buddhism. As a religious and cultural tradition with transnational scope, Buddhism… Read more
2021 PTBS Lecture Series (1/8/2021) - March 9: Anna Andreeva (Uni Heidelberg & Ghent University) “Buddhism and Women's Health in Medieval Japan” March 16: Matthew Orsborn (Oxford University) “Monastic Training and Education in Contemporary Taiwanese Buddhism" Since the middle of the 20th century, Buddhism in the… Read more
Short-term visiting scholar 2019–2020: Prof. Dr. James A. Benn (McMaster University, Canada) (11/5/2020) - Professor James A. BENN was trained primarily as a scholar of medieval Chinese religions (Buddhism and Taoism). His research is aimed at understanding the practices and world views of medieval men and women, both religious and lay, through the close reading of… Read more
Doctoral School “Sino-Tibetan Languages: Research Methodologies and Approaches to Linguistic Field Studies and Language Documentation among Tibeto-Burman Speaking Minorities in China”, October 26–30, 2020 (8/16/2020) - Abstract: This specialist course will focus on an interdisciplinary approach to the Sino-Tibetan (ST) language family, with an emphasis on languages of the Tibeto-Burman (TB) branch spoken by ethnic minorities in China. In the course there will be an emphasis… Read more
Long-term visiting scholar 2019–2020: Prof. Dr. Xuan Fang (Renmin University, China) (4/5/2020) - Professor XUAN Fang 宣方 is a research fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Religion, Renmin University of China, as well as the executive member of Journal of Religion. His main academic interests focuse on Chinese Buddhist meditative tradition and Modern Chinese… Read more
Lectures & Workshops Series by Dr. Lia Wei 魏離雅, February and March 2020 (12/10/2019) - Dr. Lia Wei (Lecturer in Archaeology & Museum Studies, School of History, Renmin University, China) will give a series of lectures and workshops supported by the Tianzhu Foundation and Ghent University. The program includes the following topics: landscape painting, ink art,… Read more