| DATE: | Saturday, March 18, 2006 |
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| TIME: | 9:30 AM to 6:00 PM |
| PLACE: | Toll Room, Alumni House, UC Berkeley |
| FORMAT: | Workshop |
| SPONSOR: | Center for Buddhist Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Silkroad Foundation |
Stanley K. Abe teaches in the Department of Art and Art History at Duke University. He specializes in Chinese art, theory and criticism, and has published on Chinese Buddhist art, contemporary Chinese art, Asian American art, and the colonial contexts of art historical knowledge. He is currently writing a critical study of how Chinese Buddhist sculpture became a category of fine art during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Jacob P. Dalton teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at Yale University. He is currently working on several book length projects, including Liberating Demons: Violence in the Foundations of Tibetan Buddhism, a book exploring the theme of tantric violence and sacrifice in early Tibetan myth, ritual and history, and A Ritual History of Tantric Buddhism, on the early development of tantric ritual in India as seen through the lens of the Dunhuang manuscripts.
Sarah E. Fraser is Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Northwestern University. Her teaching and research focus primarily on Chinese painting and Buddhist art with an emphasis on questions of national identity formation and artistic enterprise. Her books include Performing the Visual: Buddhist Wall Painting Practice in China and Central Asia, 618-960 (Stanford, 2004) and an edited volume Merit, Opulence and the Buddhist Network of Wealth (Shanghai, 2003).
Amanda K. Goodman is currently working towards her Ph.D. in the Berkeley Buddhist Studies program with a focus on Tang-Song Chinese Esoteric Buddhism. Her dissertation research centers on a number of recovered Dunhuang manuscripts, specifically a number of lineage texts that appear to relate the early Chan school with the Chinese Esoteric tradition.
Kuo Liying is Directeur d'études [Professor] at the École française d’Extrême-Orient and at the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris. She has studied Chinese, Japanese and Indian Buddhism at Ôtani University (Kyoto), Kyoto University, University of California in Berkeley, Collège de France and École Pratique des Hautes Etudes. Her thesis, Confession et contrition dans le bouddhisme chinois du Ve au Xe siècle [Confession and Contrition in Chinese Buddhism from the 5th-10th centuries] was published in 1994 by the École française d’Extrême-Orient. Since that time she has contributed many papers on the diffusion of Indian Buddhism in China and Japan.
Sonya Lee is an Assistant Professor of Art History and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. She specializes in Chinese art and visual culture of the medieval period (5th-9th centuries). Her research has focused on Buddhist art along the Silk Road. She is currently working on a book manuscript that deals with imageries of the Buddha Sakyamuni's nirvana in pre-modern China, exploring in particular issues of representation, cultural exchange, patronage, and spectatorship.
Ning Qiang is an Associate Professor of Art History and Curator of the Chu-Griffis Asian Art Collection at Connecticut College. He specializes in Chinese art and religion, and his most recent book, Art, Religion, and Politics in Medieval China: The Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family, is an examination of the interaction of art, religion, and politics in the historical context of medieval China.
Neil Schmid, currently Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, teaches Religious Studies at North Carolina State University. He specializes in Chinese Buddhism, Buddhist literature, and Dunhuang Studies.
Robert H. Sharf teaches in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at UC Berkeley. He works primarily in the area of medieval Chinese Buddhism, but he also dabbles in Japanese Buddhism, Buddhist art, ritual studies, and methodological issues in the study of religion. He is the author of Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism: A Reading of the Treasure Store Treatise (2002).
Sam van Schaik specializes in Tibetan Buddhism and works for the International Dunhuang Project at the British Library. Recent publications include Approaching the Great Perfection: Simultaneous and Gradual Methods of Dzogchen Practice in the Longchen Nyingtig.
Stephen F. Teiser teaches in the Department of Religion at Princeton University. He concentrates on Buddhism and Chinese religions, and is the author of The Scripture on the Ten Kings and the Making of Purgatory in Medieval Chinese Buddhism (2003). His forthcoming book is titled Reinventing the Wheel: Paintings of Rebirth in Medieval Buddhist Temples.
Eugene Wang is Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University. His most recent book is Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China (2005). He is the art history associate editor of Encyclopedia of Buddhism (2004). He has widely published on Chinese art and visual culture. His recent awards include Guggenheim and Charles Ryskamp Fellowships.
