Presentation on Hanyue Fazang's 漢月法藏 Ritual and Procedure for Spreading Ordination (Hongjie fayi 弘戒法儀)

Recently I made a presentation on Hanyue Fazang's 漢月法藏Rituals and Procedures for Spreading Ordination (Hongjie fayi 弘戒法儀) in a conference held at the University of Perugia in Italy and supported by the Chiang Chingkuo Foundation. This work was the first comprehensive manual on the performance of Triple Platform Ordination (Santan dajie 三壇大戒) ceremony, a unique Chinese ordination ritual invented in the late Ming. It was as least fifty years early than Jianyue Duti's 見月讀體 similar work. Yinyuan Longqi 隱元隆琦 adopted this ritual in Japan to spread his Obaku tradition and published a work with the same title based on Hanyue's work.

Buddhist Monastic Discipline in China and Beyond

Tuesday 20 December, h. 9:00-14:00

Palazzo Stocchi, Piazza Morlacchi 30

Università degli Studi di Perugia

Dipartimento di Filosofia, Scienze sociali, umane e della formazione

A conference financed by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange

9:00 Greetings

9:20 Ann Heirman (Ghent University)

Body Movement and Sport Activities: A Buddhist Normative Perspective from India to China.

9:40 Dhammadhinna (Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts, Taiwan)

Women’s Soteriological Agency, Text Transmission and Buddhist Institutions.

10:00 Peiying Lin (UC Berkeley/ Fu Jen Catholic University)

The doctrine of Brahmajala Sutra in a Historical Context.

10:20 Wu Jiang (University of Arizona)

Discipline and Enlightenment: Spreading the Triple Platform Ordination Ceremony in the Seventeenth

Century China.

10:40 Ester Bianchi (Università degli Studi di Perugia)

Bodhisattva Precepts in modern China: Coping with Different Traditions.

11:00 Discussion

11:15 Coffee Break

12:00 Raoul Birnbaum (University of California at Santa Cruz)

Why was Hongyi so interested in Vinaya?: Part one. Issues of self-cultivation.

12:20 Melody Tzu-lung Chiu (UC Berkeley University)

The Practice of Fasting in Contemporary Chinese Buddhism.

12:40 Daniela Campo (Université de Strasbourg)

“Etiquette and rules of the Cloud Dwelling (雲居儀規)”: an Overview.

13:00 Li Yuzhen (Zhengzhi daxue, Taipei)

The Revival and Reconstruction of Vinaya Tradition in Contemporary Taiwan: Nanlin Nunnery and the

Bhikshuni Re-Ordination.

13:20 Federico Squarcini (Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia)

Mirroring Vinaya. Or, why to borrow from each other in normative South Asian textual figurations.

13:40 Discussion