Transmission of Buddhism in Asia and Beyond

Transmission of Buddhism in Asia and Beyond: Essays in Memory of Antonino Forte (1940–2006). Edited by CHEN Jinhua 陳金華, 2022.

 

In commemoration of Antonino Forte, whose work constitutes a major contribution to the study of Buddhism in medieval China and Japan, the religions of the Silk Road, and East Asian art and archaeology, from July 4 to July 6, 2021, the fifteenth anniversary of his passing, a series of international conferences was jointly held by the Glorisun Global Network, the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) ‘From the Ground Up: Buddhism and East Asian Religions’ (FROGBEAR)’ project (https://frogbear.org), the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’ (his alma mater), the Italian School of East Asian Studies in Kyoto, Princeton University, and Geumgang University金剛大學 in South Korea. The first conference, titled ‘The Transmission of Buddhism in Asia and Beyond,’ was co-organized by the UBC-based FROGBEAR Project and Princeton University, and covered a variety of areas in which Forte conducted research, including Dunhuang studies, the translation of Buddhist scriptures, textual and historical research methodologies, Buddhist institutions, and Buddhist archaeology. Most of the twelve essays collected in this volume were originally presented at this conference.

Antonino Forte, a Biographical Note

 

Preface: Hualin Series on Buddhist Studies (by Ru Zhan)

 

Conventions

 

Foreword: In Memory of Antonino Forte (by Jinhua Chen)

Cross-border Doctrinal Transmission: Abhidharma and Chan

1.    Huang Lu 黃露
From Huisong 慧嵩 (fl. 511–560) to Xuanzang 玄奘 (602?–664): The ‘Borderland Complex’ in the Transmission of Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma

2.    T. H. Barrett
An Exploration of Japanese Reprints and Lost Chinese Books: Rethinking the Song Period Platform Sutra

3.    Morten Schlütter
Pojo Chinul 普照知訥 (1158–1210), the Fabaoji tanjing 法寶記壇經, and the Evolution of the Platform Sūtra

Political Ideals

4.    Max Deeg
A Chinese ‘Hitopadeśa’ – Or: A Ruler’s Mirror: The Didactic Aspects of the Da Tang Xiyu Ji

5.    Tan Yingxian 談穎嫻
Religious Reform under Western Wei/Northern Zhou

6.    Dorothy C. Wong 王靜芬
Empress Wu’s Impact Beyond China: Kingship and Female Sovereigns

Interactions with Other Religions

7.    Shen Ruiwen 沈睿文
What Was the Destination?: Burial System and Buddhist Influence Found in Tao Hongjing’s Tomb

8.    Lei Wen 雷聞
From Jingguan 京觀 to Buddhist Temples: Dealing with Providing Salvation to Fallen Soldiers during the Sui and Early Tang

9.    †Norman Harry Rothschild
Heroic Śāktism with Chinese Characteristics: The Female Warrior Sovereign Prophecy, the Navarātri, and a Trio of Devīs of War in the Accession of Female Emperor Wu Zhao

Primer and Map

10.    Jeffrey Kotyk
The Study of Sanskrit in Medieval East Asia: China and Japan

11.    Shuheng (Diana) Zhang 張舒姮
A Tang Period ‘Sanskrit-Chinese Thousand-Character Primer’

12.    D. Max Moerman
Xuanzang à Paris: The European Reception of the Japanese Buddhist World Map

Contributors