[Blog] “Buddhist Printing in the Hangzhou Region” Workshop Report

By Yipaer Aierken, Arizona State University On August 3, 2021 a workshop entitled “Buddhist Printing in the Hangzhou Region” was held through Zoom, hosted by Professor Jiang Wu of the University of Arizona and Professor George Keyworth of the University of Saskatchewan. The From the Ground Up: Buddhism and East Asian Religions (Frogbear) Project of …

[Blog] From the Ground Up: Buddhism and East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR) Project Summer Training Session: Metadata and How to Make It, for FROGBEAR and Beyond

By Rui Ding, University of British Columbia On Tuesday, June 29, 2021, From the Ground Up: Buddhism and East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR) project held a workshop entitled “Metadata and How to Make It, for FROGBEAR and Beyond.” In this series of summer training sessions, nearly forty faculty and graduate students from different academic institutions all …

[Blog] Report on the Buddhist Literary Festival (Canada) 2021 by Kimberly Beek

By Kimberly Beek, McMaster University The second Buddhist Literary Festival Canada (BLFC) was held virtually from December 10 to 12, 2021 between 2 and 5 P.M. each day, for a total of nine hours. The festival was conceived and coordinated by Venerable Professor Bhikkhu Mihita (formerly Dr. Suwanda Sugunasiri) and conducted through Emmanuel College of …

[Blog] From Jetavana to Jerusalem: Sacred Biography in Asian Perspectives and Beyond—An International Conference in Honour of Dr. Phyllis Granoff (November 7–9, 2021)

A conference report by Tan Yingxian (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) The international conference “From Jetavana to Jerusalem: Sacred Biography in Asian Perspectives and Beyond” took place between November 7–9, 2021 in honour of Professor Phyllis Granoff, who recently retired from Yale University. The conference was hosted by the Glorisun Global Network for Buddhist Studies at …

[Blog] The Journey of the Deceased: Vietnamese Religion and Mortuary Robe Talismans in Contemporary Vietnam – A Workshop Report

By ZHANG Jie, University of Virginia The workshop, “The Journey of the Deceased: Mortuary Robe Talismans in Contemporary Vietnam” was conducted on July 27, 2021, as part of eight-part FROGBEAR Summer 2021 Training Sessions. The workshop was conducted by Professor Cynthea J. Bogel (Japanese Art History and Buddhist Visual Culture in Asia, Kyushu University), Professor …

[Blog] A Report on the 2021 Summer Frogbear Workshop “Multicultural Dunhuang: Manuscripts and Paintings”

By Guanxiong Qi, Florida State University On July 13th, 2021, with collaboration from the Frogbear project, Professors Imre Galambos (Cambridge University), a Dunhuang manuscript scholar, and Michelle C. Wang (Georgetown University), an art historian of the Silk Road and Buddhist art, together held a summer workshop on ninth- and tenth-century Dunhuang manuscripts and paintings with …

[Blog] “Basic Patterns of Text-Image/Object Relations” Workshop (May 18, June 29, 2021)

By Kelly Carlton, Princeton University The “Basic Patterns of Text-Image/Object Relations” workshop, one of eight training sessions hosted by FROGBEAR during Summer 2021, convened virtually on May 18 and June 29, 2021. Professors Monica Zin (Leipzig University), Christoph Anderl (Ghent University), and Paul Copp (University of Chicago) lectured on three main topics: relations between Buddhist …

[Blog] A Forest of Knowledge about the Texts and Images regarding Buddhist Saints, Sages, Translators, and Encyclopedists: Conference Report

By Nate Lovdahl, Yale University If Buddhist Studies is itself a forest of knowledge, Koichi Shinohara has proved himself one of its most adept guides. Over his fifty-plus year career, Shinohara’s research has aided scholars across Buddhist Studies (to say nothing of those other forests—Asian Studies or Religious Studies, for example—into which his work has …

[Blog] A Forest of Knowledge about the Texts and Images, a conference in celebration of Prof. Koichi Shinohara’s 80th birthday co-hosted by Yale University, the University of Zhejiang, and University of British Columbia, October 14-16, 2021

By Nelson Landry, University of Oxford The “Forest of Knowledge about the Texts and Images” conference took place on October 14-16, 2021, under the auspices of the Glorisun Charitable Foundation in collaboration with the FROGBEAR project at the University of British Columbia. The event was co-hosted by Yale University and the University of Zhejiang. It …

[Blog] Working with Objects and Manuscripts—Wongaksa Temple Museum, Korea: A Workshop Report

By Jiayi Zhu, University of Chicago On June 15, 2021 the Frogbear workshop, “Working with Objects and Manuscripts—Wongaksa Temple Museum, Korea,” was held on Zoom. Teachers and students from all parts of the world gathered together to carefully study the valuable Buddhist objects collected by Venerable Jeonggak at Wongaksa, Korea. The workshop was divided into …