Conference at UBC:PAPER, PRINT & CYBERSPACE: THE PERSPECTIVE OF A GLOBAL NETWORK

A UBC WORKSHOP ON A GLOBAL NETWORK
佛學及東亞宗教全球網絡前景研討會

PAPER, PRINT & CYBERSPACE:
THE PERSPECTIVE OF A GLOBAL NETWORK
FOR THE MULTIMEDIA AND INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES OF BUDDHISM
& EAST ASIAN RELIGIONS
紙本、刻本、與電子空間：
建構多媒質、多學科的佛學與東亞宗教研究的全球網絡的前景

OCTOBER 4-6, 2015

It is vital that we advance our understanding of East Asian religions as the economic
and political importance of this region increases. As vehicles carrying meaning,
apotropaic devices, and objects of devotion in their own right, texts have played a
critical role in the interconnected religious, economic, artistic, and scientific life of
East Asia. Thanks to discoveries of texts and artifacts and to increased opportunities
for ethnographic observation, scholarship over the past decade has enriched our
understanding of both historical and contemporary religious phenomena in East Asia.
Despite these advances, study in our field still remains divided by boundaries set by
national borders, academic disciplines, and sectarian lines. As a result, new evidence
is unearthed but not shared widely. Historical connections between seemingly
disparate times and places remain obscure. This workshop represents a small step
towards breaking through these barriers by bringing together scholars and sources that
have not often been in dialogue. Creating a worldwide network of institutions and
scholars will allow us to access, record, and interpret material in ways that would be
otherwise impossible.
CO-SPONSORING 主辦: UBC BUDDHIST STUDIES FORUM UBC佛學研究論壇 &
DHARMA DRUM VANCOUVER CENTER (DDVC) 法鼓山溫哥
華道場
SUPPORTING 協辦: UBC ST. JOHNS’ COLLEGE UBC 聖約翰學院
SOCIAL SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL 加
拿大社會科學與人文科學研究委員會
HOSTING 承辦: DHARMA DRUM VANCOUVER CENTER 法鼓山溫哥華道場
UBC ST. JOHNS’ COLLEGE UBC 聖約翰學院

DAY I 第一日 October 4, 2015: REGISTRATION & KEYNOTE
SPEECHES 報到與主題演講
VENUE DDVC (Address: 8240 No. 5 Rd, Richmond)
3:00-4:00 MEDITATION SESSION 坐禪
4:00-4:30 RECEPTION 接迎
4:30-4:40 WELCOMING REMARKS 歡迎致詞 (Ven. Chang Wu 常悟法
師, DDVC)
4:40-5:40 KEYNOTE SPEECH 主題演講 1: “A Wooden Manuscript from
late Qing Yunnan: Beyond the Print/Manuscript Distinction”
(T. H. BARRETT 巴瑞特; SOAS, The University of London
倫敦大學亞非學院)
4:40-5:40 KEYNOTE SPEECH 主題演講 2: “The significance of
constructing a Buddhist knowledge base in the diversity of
Digital Humanities” (Masahiro SHIMODA 下田正弘;
University of Tokyo 東京大學)
6:40-8:00 DINNER 晚宴

DAY 2 第二日 October 5, 2015: PANELS 部會 1-3
VENUE UBC St. Johns’ College (2111 Lower Mall, Vancouver)
9:30-12:00 PANEL 部會 1: FROM PAPER TO CYBERSPACE (CHAIR:
Robert SHARF [UC BERKELEY] 主持)
1.1. 9:30-9:45 Jiang WU 吳疆 (the University of Arizona): “From
Manuscript to Print: The Carving of Kaibao Canon in the
Tenth-century Chengdu, Sichuan"
1.2. 9:45-10:00 George KEYWORTH (University of Saskatchewan): “Copying
for the Kami: On the Manuscript Set of the Buddhist Canon
held by Matsuno’o Shintō Shrine.”
1.3. 10:00-10:15 YU Xin 余欣 (Fudan University 復旦大學): “Mutual
Transformation in the Shift from Manuscripts to Prints”
1.4. 10:15-10:30 Vincent GOOSSAERT (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes,
Sciences religieuses, France): “A Daoist Text between
Manuscript, Print, and Internet: The Many Lives of the
Tiantan yuge”
1.5. 10:30-10:45 Jinhua CHEN 陳金華 (UBC): “Technology, Market and
Materiality in East Asian Religions”
COMMENT (10:45-11:00) James BENN (McMaster) 評議
DISCUSSION (11:00-12:00) Open Floor 開放討論
12:00-13:30 LUNCH BREAK 午餐
13:30-15:20 PANEL 部會 2 TEXT & IMAGE (CHAIR: Christina LAFFIN
[UBC] 主持)
2.1. 13:30-13:45 Amanda GOODMAN (UoT): “Signs and Signatures: Some
thoughts on the Circulation of Dunhuang Ritual Manuscripts
P3913, P3835 based on Codicological Considerations”
2.2. 13:45-14:00 SUN Yinggang 孫英剛 (Fudan University 復旦大學): “Text
and Image: Empress Wu’s Seven Treasures, Symbols,
Images and Political Meanings of Cakravatin in Medieval
China"
2.3. 14:00-14:15 ZHANG Yu 張煜 (Shanghai University of Foreign Languages
上海外國語大學): Text and Image in the Context of South
Asian Buddhism: Some Preliminary Remarks
COMMENT (14:15-14:30) Stephen TEISER (Princeton) 評議
DISCUSSION (14:30-15:20) Open Floor 開放討論
15:20-15:30 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 茶歇
15:30-18:00 PANEL 部會 3: CARVING THE DHARMA ON THE
EMPTY SPACE: DIGITALIZATION (CHAIR: Wei-jen TENG
[DILA] 主持)
3.1. 15:30-15:45 Christoph ANDERL (Ghent University): "Working with
Manuscripts from a Linguistic Standpoint: The Database of
the Syntax of Medieval Chinese at the Department of
Languages and Cultures, Ghent University - Current State
and Future Perspectives"
3.2. 15:45-16:00 Marcus BINGENHEIMER (Temple University/Dharma Drum
Institute of Liberal Arts): "Problems and Solutions in the
Full-Text Digitization of Dunhuang Manuscripts"
3.3. 16:00-16:15 Susan ANDREWS (Mount Alison University): “Many
Producers, Many Pasts: Presentations of Tanzan Shrine’s
Histories on Participatory Websites”
3.4. 16:15-16:30 Paul CROWE (SFU): “E-scriptures from the Altar of Lü
Dongbin: Dispensations to Spirit-writing Communities on
the Move"
3.5. 16:30-16:45 Robban TOLENO (UBC): “Media Chains and Reading
Methods: Illustrating Strengths and Limitations of Digital
Media with a Non-Canonical Tenth-Century Chinese
Buddhist Encyclopedia”
COMMENT (16:45-17:00) Robert BUSWELL (UCLA) 評議
DISCUSSION (17:00-18:00) Open Floor 開放討論
18:15-20:00 DINNER 晚宴