Abstract: Mr. Qian Mu once took "Biography of the Emerging Monk" as an example to briefly explain his understanding of "Sinicization of Buddhism", that is, "adding historical significance into it will at least become much more enlightened by its own religious concepts and will be

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October 25, 2022 (Tuesday) 7:00-9:00 pm 4:00 pm 4:00 pm 4:00 pm 4:00 pm 4:00 pm 4:3

Qian Mu once used "Hyper Biography of the Monk " as an example to briefly explain his understanding of "Sinicization of Buddhism", that is, "adding historical significance into it, at least its own religious concept will become much more enlightened and will become a new concept, which is like opening up a new world in religion" (" Chinese Historical Classics "). This reminds that when dealing with Buddhist historical documents, people cannot just regard it as an auxiliary material for "orthodox" historical literature to investigate and make up for shortcomings, but should also analyze the writing characteristics in it.

Reviewing the research on Buddhist history and biography in the international academic community in the past century, we can find such a development trend, namely: "from document to text" (restores the original reality of the document, focusing on the processive investigation of the generation of Buddhist historical texts), "from material to background" (from the past to restore the classical literature itself, and converts it into perspective on the ideological, political and cultural situation behind the documents through various historical sources).

In the new era and academic development context, thinking about the approach to research on Chinese Buddhist history is of no neglect. In this academic conversation, nine young scholars who are currently active in the field of Chinese Buddhist history research will talk about their ideas about the research of Buddhist history based on their latest research. Involve it and go beyond it. This dual observation of "inside" and "outside" is hoped to build consensus and create unique effects.

Host:

Liu Xuejun Associate Professor

Liu Xuejun, born in 1982, from Lu'an, Anhui Province. Nanjing University graduated from with a doctorate and is currently an associate professor at Jiangsu Second Normal University School of Literature. Its main research directions are the history of medieval Buddhism, medieval Buddhism and literature, East Asian art history, etc. He was once selected as the training target for the " Qinglan Project " young backbone teacher in Jiangsu Province. More than ten papers have been published in publications such as "Literary Heritage", " Chinese Literature and History Collection ", "Historical Materials of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties", published ancient books and compiled works "New Translation of the Sentences of the Sentences" (2018), and academic translations "Mantras, Holy Images and Mandala - Research on the Evolution of Tantric Rites" (2021), and presided over the completion of a National Social Science Fund project.

talk guests (in the order of surname pinyin):

Chen Zhiyuan Institute of Ancient History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Fangyuan Qingdao University School of History

Feng Guodong Zhejiang University School of Literature (prepared)

Ji Yun Singapore Buddhist College

Li Meng Department of Chinese Fudan University

Tan Qin Zhejiang Normal University School of Humanities

Wang Zhaoguo (Dingyuan) School of Philosophy and Law and Political, Shanghai Normal University

Yang Zhifei Xi'an Foreign Studies University School of Chinese Language and Literature

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Theme Book:

Tension and Model

Huijiao's Biography of the Empressive Monk's Writing Research

(Jinxin Library)

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Liu Xuejun

ISBN: 978-7-100-21346-2

Published in August 2022

The model status of the text of "Biography of Emerging Monks"

interprets the issue of "Sinicization of Buddhism"

The author takes the classic text of "Biography of Emerging Monks" as the research object and conducts in-depth analysis from the cutting-edge academic perspective of writing research. Unlike the previous historical perspective, it adopts the "literary perspective", focusing on the value of rhetoric and narrative, and discovers the characteristics of monks' writing and the significance of ideological history from specific cases.

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[Content Introduction]

Huijiao's "Biography of the Empressive Monk" is the earliest existing work of monks in . It is not only a treasure house of medieval thought history, but also created the history of Buddhist history and a model written for monks in all dynasties.

Mr. Qian Mu once said: "Biography of the Empressed Monk" "includes the humanistic and historical views in Chinese cultural traditions into religion." book draws on this perspective and focuses on the writing of "Biography of the Emerging Monks", and explores the systematic characteristics of the writing of ancient monks from the aspects of material origin, style and spiritual dimension, such as what is the relationship between the scriptures and the monks' biography? What is the reason for the formation of the "biography + theory + praise" style combination model? How do the three dimensions of history, religion and literature structure the writing of the deeds of eminent monks? How do tension-rich factors such as the foreign land and Middle-earth, monk system and royal power, academic and political, trends of the times and individual destiny shape the face of the monk text?

This book strives to to reveal the various tension phenomena in the writing of ancient monks and their relationship with the exemplary status of the "Biography of Emerging Monks", and then interpret and think about the proposition of "Sinicization of Buddhism" from a new perspective.

[Author Profile]

Liu Xuejun, born in 1982, from Lu'an, Anhui Province. He graduated from Nanjing University with a doctorate and is currently an associate professor at the School of Literature, Jiangsu Second Normal University. His main research directions are the history of medieval Buddhism, medieval Buddhism and literature, East Asian art history, etc. He was once selected as the training target for the "Blue and Blue Project" young backbone teachers in Jiangsu Province. More than ten papers have been published in publications such as "Literary Heritage", "Chinese Literature and History Series", "Historical Materials of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties", etc., published ancient books and compiled works "New Translation of the Sentences" (2018), academic translations "Mantras, Holy Images and Mandalas - Research on the Evolution of Tantric Rites" (2021), and presided over the completion of a National Social Science Fund project.

Directory

Introduction

Section 1 Propose of the problem of writing monks

Section 2 Review of the research on ancient monks in the past century

Section 3 Research method and framework structure

Chapter 1 From the Sutra to the Monk’s Biography: Compilation of the Biography of the Emerging Monk’s Biography and the Academic Background

Section 1 Huijiao’s “I want to talk but I’ll stop”

Section 2 From the Sutra to the Monk’s Biography

Chapter 2 From the Sutra to the Monk’s Biography

Chapter 2 From the Sutra to the Monk’s Biography

Chapter 2 From the Silk Praise to the Monk’s Biography: The Style Selection and Cultural Connotation of the Writing of the Emerging Monk’s Biography

Section 1 "Translation of the Sutra" and the Problems behind

Section 2 Section 2 From the Image Praise to the Monk’s Biography: The Style Selection and Cultural Connotation of the Writing of the "Biography of the Emerging Monk”

Section 1 "Translation of the Sutra" and the Problems behind

Section 2 Section 2 Introduction of a "relationship" perspective

Section 3 "Biography + Theory + Praise" mode of "Biography + Praise" in "Biography of the Emerging Monks"

Section 4 Traditional Chinese paintings and production of ancient monks

Section 5 Characteristics and significance of "Share Praise" style

Chapter 3 History·Religion·Literature: An Shigao Image

Section 1 Copying of existing materials

Section 2 The founding of An Shigao's story

Section 3 An Shigao's shape as "events" and "myths"

Section 4 Multidimensional writing and meaning

Chapter 4 Space·Imagination·Identification: The Writing and Construction of the "Taiwu Destroying Buddha" Incident in the "Taiwu Destroying Buddha"

Section 1 Two important records

Section 2 Comparison of historical materials

Section 3 Huijiao's understanding of the "Taiwu Destroying Buddha" Incident

Section 4 Huijiao's position issue

Section 5 Huijiao's writing background

Section 6 Huijiao's writing meaning

Chapter 5 Academic·Month system·Royal power: Buddha Multi-faceted writing of the "rejected" incident

Section 1 The Buddha vadra's "rejected" incident

Section 2 Academic and Monks

Section 3 Monks and regime

Section 4 Huijiao's writing and connotation

Chapter 6 Monks · Literature and scripture · Politics: Faxian "Down to the Capital" incident

Section 1 Issues behind historical materials

Section 2 The relationship between Faxian and Buddha Bhadhara

Section 3 Faxian's inevitability of "Down to the Capital"

Section 4 Faxian's selection dilemma

Conclusion

Main reference

Postscript

Expert recommendation 1 (Zhang Bowei)

Expert recommendation 2 (Chen Jinhua)

Expert recommendation

Zhang Bowei

Professor of the School of Literature of Nanjing University

On the basis of a comprehensive grasp of the literature, the author used an in-depth analysis of the issues that predecessors had not been consistent or not paid attention to in the "Biography of the Emerging Monks" in a way that was not consistent or not paid attention to in the "Biography of the Emerging Monks", so its conclusions are not only eye-catching for new people, but also inspiring people to think deeply.

Chen Jinhua

Professor of Columbia University in Canada

The author can break the differences between disciplines and sects in the traditional sense, and break the private opinions of various sects of Buddhism, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and even religion, philosophy, literature, history, etc. Therefore, we can often go in and out of the internal and external scriptures to explain the historical and meaningful issues of Buddhism. This open attitude also gives his research a material thickness and a discipline depth.

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