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
