Sponsored by the Princeton University Buddhist Studies Workshop and the Tang Center for East Asian Art

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1 Sponsored by the Princeton University Buddhist Studies Workshop and the Tang Center for East Asian Art

2 Conference Schedule Friday, Jan. 15 4:00 Registration McCormick Lobby 4:30-6:00 Keynote Lecture McCormick 101 Stephen F. Teiser, Welcoming remarks Susan Naquin, Introduction Lothar Ledderose, Paper or Rock? Lessons from Mount Tai 6:00-7:00 Public Reception McCormick Lobby 7:00-8:30 Dinner* Schultz Dining Room, Robertson Hall (WWS) Saturday, Jan. 16 8:15-9:00 Breakfast* Jones 203 9:00-10:30 Panel 1 Jones 202 Tom Hare, Presiding Stefan Baums, Inventing the Pothi: Manuscript Formats and the Economy of Knowledge in Ancient India Abdurishid Yakup, On the Classification and Dating of Old Uyghur Block Prints of Buddhist Content Justin McDaniel, Lead Discussant 10:30-11:00 Break 11:00-12:30 Panel 2 Jones 202 Jacqueline Stone, Presiding AKAO Eikei, Two Outstanding Tang Manuscripts in the Kyoto National Museum s Moriya Collection OCHIAI Toshinori, A Manuscript Fragment of Woncheuk s Yogacara Commentary Bryan D. Lowe, Lead Discussant 12:30-2:00 Lunch* Frist Multi-Purpose Room 2:00-4:00 Panel 3 Jones 202 Jonathan Gold, Presiding Brandon Dotson, Sūtras as Royal Gifts: Buddhism and the Ritual Economy in Imperial Tibet and Dunhuang Imre Galambos, Links and Connections in Manuscripts Copied by Students Christian Lammerts, Colophons, Post-colophons, and Paratexts in the Study of Buddhist Legal Literature: Dhammavilāsa Manuscripts from Central Burma and Southeastern Bengal Matthew Kapstein, Lead Discussant 4:00-4:30 Break

3 4:30-6:00 Panel 4 Jones 202 Anna Shields, Presiding KUO Liying, The Early Sixth Century Dunhuang Manuscripts of a Fifth Century Dhāraṇī sūtra FUNAYAMA Toru, Coping with Too Many Variants: A New Type of Edition of the Scripture of Brahma's Net Stephen F. Teiser, Lead Discussant 6:30-8:30 Dinner* Prospect House, Garden Room Presentation of Dissertation topics Sunday, Jan. 17 8:15-9:00 Breakfast* Jones 203 9:00-10:30 Panel 5 Jones 202 Brian Steininger, Presiding YU Xin, Sacred Space, Manuscripts, and Liturgies for Installing Parasols Brian Ruppert, Great Notes (Maka shō), Assemblage Practices for Esoteric-ritual Shōgyō Manuscripts, and the Production of Lineage History in Early Medieval Japan Paul Copp, Lead Discussant 10:30-11:00 Break 11:00-1:00 Concluding Discussion Jones 202 Stephen F. Teiser, Presiding Justin McDaniel, Conference Discussant Discussion 1:00-2:00 Box Lunch* Jones 203 * Meals open to preregistered participants Conference website:

4 Panelists AKAO Eikei is Special Research Chair and Curator Emeritus of Buddhist Manuscripts at the Kyoto National Museum. His writings include Shakyō no kanshō kiso chishiki 写経の鑑賞基礎知識 (1994) and studies of rare books held by the Kyoto National Museum and Buddhist temples. Stefan Baums teaches Sanskrit, Prakrit and Pali language and literature and South Asian Buddhism at the Institute for Indian and Tibetan Studies of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and is lead researcher of the Buddhist Manuscripts from Gandhāra project at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. His research interests include Buddhist philology and epigraphy, the beginnings of written Buddhist literature, the development of Buddhist hermeneutics, and the description of Gāndhārī language and literature. He is the editor (with Andrew Glass) of the Dictionary of Gāndhārī. Paul Copp received his Ph.D. from the Princeton University Religion Department in 2005 and is currently associate professor in Chinese religion and thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Body Incantatory: Spells and the Ritual Imagination in Medieval Chinese Buddhism (Columbia, 2014), as well as various articles on Chinese Buddhist manuscripts and material culture. He is at work on a new book, tentatively titled Seal and Scroll: Buddhism and Manuscript Culture at Dunhuang and Beyond. Brandon Dotson (Institute for Indian and Tibetan Studies, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). Dotson s first monograph (2009) is a translation and study of Tibet s earliest historical and bureaucratic record, the Old Tibetan Annals. From 2010 to 2015, he directed the Kingship and Religion in Tibet research project at LMU. He now works on codicology and manuscript studies, particularly the production of Buddhist sutras by Chinese scribes and editors in Tibetan-occupied Dunhuang; early Tibetan law and jurisprudence; divination, ritual, and hunting; and the relationship between ritual and narrative in Tibetan religious historiography. FUNAYAMA Toru (Kyoto University) works on Indian logic, Yogacāra thought, Chinese Buddhist biography, and the origins and development of the Chinese Buddhist apocryphon, Sūtra on Brahmā s Net. His most recent book is a study of Buddhist translation practices entitled Butten wa dō kan'yaku sareta no ka sūtora ga kyōten ni naru toki 仏典はどう漢訳されたのか スートラが経典になるとき (Making Sutras into Classics : How Buddhist Scriptures Were Translated into Chinese, Tokyo: Iwanami shoten, 2013). Imre Galambos is a specialist of Chinese manuscripts, initially working on scribal habits of the Warring States period. After receiving his Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley for ten years he worked for the International Dunhuang Project at the British Library, where his research interest gradually shifted to the study of Dunhuang manuscripts. Since 2012 he has been teaching at the University of Cambridge. His books include Orthography of Early Chinese Writing (2006), Manuscripts and Travellers (2012, coauthored with Sam van Schaik) and, most recently, Translating Chinese Tradition and Teaching Tangut Culture (2015). Jonathan Gold is Associate Professor of Religion at Princeton University. His research focuses on Sanskrit and Tibetan Buddhist intellectual traditions especially philosophical approaches to language, interpretation, translation, and learning. He is the author of The

5 Dharma's Gatekeepers: Sakya Pandita on Buddhist Scholarship in Tibet (SUNY Press, 2007) and Paving the Great Way: Vasubandhu s Unifying Buddhist Philosophy (Columbia University Press, 2015). Current projects include studies in Buddhist ethics and Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra, and a trans-national history of the doctrine of nonviolence. He is co-chair of the Columbia University Seminar on Comparative Philosophy and is Acting Director of Princeton s Program in South Asian Studies. Tom Hare (Princeton University) works in Japanese drama and literature through the eighteenth century, Buddhism in Japanese cultural history, the music of Noh drama, and ancient Egyptian literature and arts. His most recent book, Zeami, Performance Notes won the Kanze Hisao Memorial Prize in Noh Drama, awarded by Hosei University, in Matthew Kapstein is director of Tibetan Studies at the École pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, and Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School. His publications include The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism (Oxford), The Rise of Wisdom Moon (Clay Sanskrit Series), and, as co-editor, Sources of Tibetan Tradition (Columbia). He is currently heading the international project Tibetan Manuscripts and Early Printed Books sponsored by the Henry Luce Foundation. KUO Liying is professor of Chinese Buddhism at the Ecole française d Extrême-Orient and Ecole pratique des Hautes Études, Paris. Her research interests center on manuscripts, texts, rites and representations resulting from the adaptation of Buddhism in Central and East Asia. Publications include Confession et contrition dans le bouddhisme chinois (1994), La récitation des noms de buddha en Chine et au Japon (1995), Maṇḍala et rituel de confession à Dunhuang (1998), Apocryphes bouddhiques chinois (2000), Dakini/ḍākinī, Hōbōgirin (2003), Rite and diffusion of the Buddhoṣṇisavijayādhāraṇī (2007), Dunhuang sūtras copies and associated elements (2012), and Dhāraṇī Pillars in China: Function and Symbol (2014). D. Christian Lammerts is assistant professor of religious studies at Rutgers University. His research primarily focuses on Southeast Asian Buddhism, legal history, and literary culture, especially during the 16 th 19 th centuries. His recent publications include Buddhist Dynamics in Premodern and Early Modern Southeast Asia (2015), Genres and Jurisdictions: Laws Governing Monastic Inheritance in Seventeenth-Century Burma in Buddhism and Law: An Introduction (2014), and The Murray Manuscripts and Buddhist Dhammasattha Literature Transmitted in Chittagong and Arakan in the Journal of Burma Studies (2015). Lother Ledderose (Heidelberg University) was chair and Professor of East Asian art history at Heidelberg University from 1976 until 2010 and was awarded the Balzan Prize in His most recent publications are Ten Thousand Things, Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art (Princeton University Press 2000) and a continuing series on Buddhist Stone Sutras in China (4 volumes to date), part of a research project supported by the Heidelberg Academy of Science and Humanities. Bryan D. Lowe is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University. He specializes in Buddhism in ancient Japan (seventh through ninth centuries). He is broadly interested in ritual practice, Buddhist manuscript cultures, and religion and the state. He has published articles on Buddhist canons, scribal and manuscript cultures, the study of Buddhism in modern Japan, and Chinese indigenous scriptures. His book, Ritualized Writing: Buddhist Practice and Scriptural Cultures in Ancient Japan, is forthcoming

6 from University of Hawai i Press. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from Princeton University and his B.A. from Middlebury College. Justin McDaniel (University of Pennsylvania) is Professor of Religious Studies. His research foci include Lao, Thai, Pali and Sanskrit literature, art and architecture, and manuscript studies. His first book, Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words, won the Harry Benda Prize. His second book, The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magic Monk, won the Kahin Prize. His forthcoming work includes edited books on Thai manuscripts, Buddhist biographies, and Buddhist ritual. He also has a new book called Architects of Buddhist Leisure on modern Buddhist architecture (University of Hawaii Press, 2016). Susan Naquin (Princeton University) works on the social and cultural history of late imperial and early modern China ( ). She earned her B.A. from Stanford (1966), Ph.D. in History from Yale (1974), and taught at the University of Pennsylvania between 1977 and She came to Princeton in 1993 in History and East Asian Studies. She has been Professor Emerita since Her books include Peking: Temples and City Life, (2000). Her current research focuses on material culture and artisanal technologies, considered within the religious world of northern China in the Ming and Qing periods. OCHIAI Toshinori is President of the International College for Advanced Buddhist Studies and Director of the national Academic Frontier Project: Research Centre for Buddhist Manuscripts Copied in the Nara and Heian Periods. He co-edited the six volume series on ancient Buddhist manuscripts in Japan, Nanatsudera koitsu kyōten kenkyū sōsho 七寺古逸經典研究叢書 ( ), among other works. Brian Ruppert, Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Department of Religion, University of Illinois, is author of Jewel in the Ashes: Buddha Relics and Power (Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard UP), and co-author recently of A Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism (Wiley-Blackwell). He is also author of Buddhism in Japan (Encyclopedia of Religion, 2 nd ed.), Buddhism and Law in Japan (in Buddhism and Law, Cambridge UP), and other publications on premodern Japanese religions. In October he presented a lecture at Kyoto Prefectural University on the value of the Tōji Hyakugō monjo archival collection. Anna Shields (Professor of East Asian Studies, Princeton University) works in modern and classical Chinese and Chinese literature. Her recent books are Crafting a Collection: The Cultural Contexts and Poetic Practice of the Huajian Ji (Collection from Among the Flowers) (2006) and One Who Knows Me: Friendship and Literary Culture in Mid-Tang China (2015). Brian Steininger is Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature in the Department of East Asian Studies at Princeton University, specializing in the reception of Chinese literary culture in early and medieval Japan. He recently completed a manuscript examining the sponsorship and performance of literary Chinese genres of poetry and parallel prose in the mid-heian period, and has begun work on a new project drawing on manuscript colophons and marginalia to trace intellectual networks in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Jacqueline I. Stone received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in East Asian Languages and Cultures, with a focus in Buddhist Studies. She is now Professor of Japanese Religions in the Religion Department of Princeton University. Her major research field is Japanese Buddhism. Her research interests include death in Buddhism; Buddhist eschatology; Buddhism and Japanese identity formation in the medieval and

7 modern periods; and traditions related to the Lotus Sūtra, especially Tendai and Nichiren Buddhism. Stephen F. Teiser (Princeton University) uses texts, art, and artifacts from the Silk Road to think about the interaction between Buddhism and Chinese society. His 2014 Guanghua Lectures at Fudan University are forthcoming as Yili yu fojiao yanjiu 儀禮與佛教研究 (Ritual and the Study of Buddhism, Beijing: Sanlian chubanshe, 2016). He is co-principal investigator in a four-year project on Dunhuang Art and Manuscripts funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. Abdurishid Yakup (Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities) holds degrees from Xinjiang University, Central University for Nationalities, and Kyoto University. He works in the areas of Turkic languages in China (including Uyghur, Kazakh, Yellow Uyghur and Salar) and has researched poetry and texts on Amitāyus in Old Uyghur. YU Xin (Department of History, Fudan University), Visiting Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University in , is a historian of medieval China specializing in Dunhuang manuscripts and the Tang dynasty. He recently published Dunhuang de bowuxue shijie 敦煌的博物學世界 (The World of Natural History in Dunhuang, Lanzhou: Gansu jiaoyu chubanshe, 2014). History and Sponsors The conference on Buddhist Manuscript Cultures in 2016 is the third in a series of four public events organized at Princeton University by the Buddhist Studies Workshop and the Tang Center for East Asian Art. Major funding for the project is provided by the Henry Luce Foundation, supplemented by the Dunhuang Foundation, International Liaison Committee for Dunhuang Studies, Princeton University s Program in East Asian Studies, Department of Art and Archaeology, Center for the Study of Religion, and Department of Religion. For the conference on Prospects for the Study of Dunhuang Manuscripts: The Next 20 Years (Sept. 6-8, 2014), see the conference website: which includes program, abstracts, and audio files of the opening keynote address (in Chinese) by FANG Guangchang and the closing keynote address (in English) by Susan Whitfield. For the Symposium on Visualizing Dunhuang (November 13-14, 2015), see the conference website: which includes program and abstracts. The fourth public event will be a follow-up conference on Buddhist Manuscript Cultures, tentatively scheduled for Jan , 2017.

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