IEAS - Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley

Symposium on Literati Buddhism in Middle-Period China

Literati symposium image
DATE:Saturday, April 19, 2008, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
SPONSORS:Center for Buddhist Studies
Center for Chinese Studies
Institute of East Asian Studies
Townsend Center for the Humanities

Schedule

Saturday, April 19

9:30 am - 12:00 pm

Panel I

Anthony DeBlasi, SUNY-Albany
Thinking about Regulation: Literati and Clerical Views of Monastic Codes

Elizabeth Morrison, Middlebury College
The Category of Ruseng and the Case of Qisong

Morten Schlütter, University of Iowa
The Literati Role in the Evolution of Chan Ideology as Seen Through the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch

Moderator: Mark Halperin, University of California, Davis



12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Lunch break



1:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Panel II

Albert Welter, The University of Winnipeg
Literati Motive and Literary Craft in Chan Buddhism's Records of Sayings Literature

Miriam Levering, University of Tennessee
What Was Dahui Like? The Representation of a Song Dynasty Chan Master in his Recorded Sayings

Chi-chiang Huang, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Engaging Literati: Literary Monks and Zhang Jizhi (1186-1266) in Late Southern Song

Moderator: Natasha Heller, University of California, Berkeley



6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Dinner (for participants and invited guests)
Seaborg Room, Faculty Club

UC Berkeley view