DATE
Saturday, October 23, 2017
TIME
5:00 PM
LOCATION
UBC | Asian Centre |
Room 604 | 1871 West Mall
Dr. Paul Groner from the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia will come to UBC and give us a Guest Lecture entitled:
“The Thirteenth Fourteenth Century Encounter of Chinese Tiantai and Japanese Tendai”
About this event
The Japanese monk Shunjō 俊芿 (1155-1227) traveled to China and studied Tiantai, Pure Land and the precepts for thirteen years. When he returned to Japan, he brought back one of the largest collections of Chinese texts from the Song Dynasty and practices that radically differed from those used by Japanese Tendai monks. Although he enjoyed great success in many ways, he had limited success in influencing Tendai monastic discipline. In this lecture, I look at how an eminent Japanese scholar Ninkū 仁空 (1309-1388) responded to some of Shunjō’s challenges.
About the speaker
Dr. Paul Groner has had a long career as a professor in the department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. In addition to numerous articles on various aspects of Japanese Buddhism, he is the author of Saichō: The Establishment of the Japanese Tendai School, Ryōgen and Mount Hiei: Japanese Tendai in the Tenth Century, and has translated Akira Hirakawa’s History of Early Indian Buddhism into English.