SCHEDULE
11:00 a.m.
Shari Ruei-Hua Epstein
Stanford
"Decoding the
Dao:
Revealing the Buddhist Core of the Zhuangzi"
Hanshan Deqing's (1546-1623) Commentary
on the Inner Chapters of the Zhuangzi (ca 1620) was unprecedented
in Chinese history. Through this act of exegesis, textual and
religious boundaries collapsed as Hanshan reactivated the revered
language of this formidable classic to reveal Buddhist rather
than Daoist principles. This talk will explore the exegetical
techniques that Hanshan employed in his commentary as well as
the embedded prophecy that he appealed to in order to justify
his interpretation.
12:00 noon
Lunch break
1:30 p.m.
Wen-shing Lucia Chou
Berkeley
"Fluid Landscape,
Timeless Visions, and Truthful Representations:
A Sino-Tibetan Remapping of Qing-Dynasty Wutaishan"
The landscape of Wutaishan underwent major
transformations during the Qing period (1644-1909), when Manchu
emperors patronized temples at Wutaishan with unprecedented vision
and fervor. This paper considers the Sino-Tibetan reinvention
and representation of Wutaishan by studying a hand-colored woodblock
print of Wutaishan carved onsite by a Mongolian lama in 1845.
The image is situated at the intersection of several different
image-making traditions, each containing its own criterion for
truthful representations; examining the particular rhetoric of
history and revelations in this image affords us a glimpse into
the continuous and dynamic processes of religious and cultural
transformation in Chinese sacred geography.
2:30 p.m.
Coffee break
3:00 p.m.
Sarah Fremerman Aptilon
Stanford
"Sacred Impersonations:
Early Visions of Nyoirin Kannon"
According to legend, Shobo (832-909), founder
of the Ono branch of Shingon in Japan, had a vision of Nyoirin
Kannon and Juntei Kannon atop Mt. Kasatori that led him to found
the temple Daigoji on that site. In his vision, the two Kannon
spoke through the goddess Seiryu Gongen or was it the other way
around? Early visions of Nyoirin Kannon reveal the way in which
the "original substance" (honji) of a deity
may serve as a mask of Buddhist orthodoxy through which the "manifest
trace" (suijaku) speaks. This paper explores how
various deities merged with and transformed Nyoirin Kannon in
Japan.
4:00 p.m.
Wine and refreshments
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