Department of East Asian Studies Leipzig
International Workshop Chongxuanxue 重玄學
We would like to draw your attention to an international workshop on “Chongxuanxue and Its Broader Philosophical Context: Late Sixth Century and Early Tang Philosophy”, which will take place in Leipzig on July 26 and 27, 2024.
The Department of East Asian Studies is organizing a workshop on “Chongxuanxue and Its Broader Philosophical Context: Late Sixth Century and Early Tang Philosophy” in Leipzig from 26 to 27 July 2024. This event will gather scholars from around the world to explore the intellectual environment of Chang’an during the late 6th and early 7th centuries, focusing on the interactions between Buddhist, Daoist, and Confucian philosophies in early Tang China.
Participation: The workshop is open to all interested parties. Please register by e-mail to friederike.assandri.2(at)uni-leipzig.de.
Program
Day 1: 26. Juli 2024
9:00 9:30 am: Welcome
o Philip Clart, Universität Leipzig
o Friederike Assandri, Universität Leipzi
Confucian Perspectives
9:30 10:20 am: Dawid Rogacz, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
o The Advent of the Idea of the Three Teachings: The Cases of Three Llate Sixth-Century Scholars
10:20 11:10 am: Daniel Patrick Morgan, CNRS Paris
o They Want Us to Scare the Stupid: Kong Yingda (584–648) et al. on Scientific Knowledge and Ethics
Philosophical Reflection on Commentaries
11:30 12:20 am: Fabian Heubel, Academia Sinica Taipei
o Being and Non-being? Philosophical Reflections on Commentaries and Translations of Laozi 40
Methodological Approaches and Perspectives
14:00 14:50 pm: Friederike Assandri, Universität Leipzig
o Shared Discourses and/or Dialogues: The Example of Cheng Xuanying’s Discussion of Sage Wisdom
14:50 15:40 pm: C. Lynne Hong, Chinese Culture University Taipei
o Contrast and Communication between Daoist Chongxuanxue and Buddhist Madhyamaka: Cheng Xuanying and Jizang’s Methodologies as a Case Study
Conceptual Discussions I: The Fourfold Proposition
16:10 17:00 pm: Hans Rudolf Kantor, Huafan University Taipei
o Influence and Background of Jizang’s Sanlun Reading of the Catuṣkoṭi
17:00 17:50 pm: Rafael Suter, Universität Zürich
o The Fourfold Proposition (Tetralemma) in Chongxuan Daoist Texts
Tag 2: 27. Juli 2024
Tang Daoist Philosophy: Textual Studies
9:00 9:50 am (Online): Jiang Limei蒋丽梅, Beijing Normal University, Beijing
o The Chaos of Cheng Xuanying from the Perspective of Time and Space
9:50 10:40 am (Online): Yin Zhihua尹志华, Minzu University of China, Beijing
o 《道体论》的哲学解读 (A Philosophical Interpretation of the Daotilun)
Early Tang Meditation and Ritual
11:00 11:50 am: Cheng Tsan-shan 鄭燦山, National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), Taipei
o 隋唐之際道教的各種「觀」法― 佛道思想交流的一個側面 (When Taoism Encounters Buddhism: Various Paths of Meditation in Taoism from Sui to Early Tang Dynasty)
11:50 12:40 am: Anna Sokolova, University of Ghent
o The Formation of the Mandala-Based Ritual Praxis in Medieval China: From Imperial Universal Ritual Template to Local and Doctrinal Adaptations
Conceptual Studies II: Twofold, Threefold, Fourfold Structures
14:15 14:50 am: Brook Ziporyn, University of Chicago
o Three Triplicities in Early Tiantai Buddhism: Three Truths, Three Modes of Dependence, Three Phases of Mentation
14:50 15:40 am: Jörg Plassen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
o Some Remarks on the San 三- and Sichong Er Di 四重二諦
16:00 17:00 am: Final Discussion