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SUMMARY:Reconciling the Irreconcilable? Revisiting the Dunwu dasheng zheng
 li jue 頓悟大乘正理决 [The Judgement on Sudden Awakening Being the 
 True Principle of Mahāyāna] and the Samyé Debate in the 8th Century
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DESCRIPTION:Guest Lecture by Yi Allan Ding (Chicago)\n\nThe lecture is av
 ailable live at Zoom. Please pre-register here until 21 July 2021\, 12 pm.
 \n\nSince Paul Demiéville published his study on the Dunwu dasheng zhengl
 i jue 頓悟大乘正理决 [The Judgement on Sudden Awakening Being the T
 rue Principle of Mahāyāna] in Le concile de Lhasa in 1952\, many scholar
 s have contributed to the discussion about related issues by closely study
 ing relevant Tibetan materials\, which include PT 823/1\, PT 827/2\, PT 11
 6\, bSam gtan mig sgron [The Eye-Lamp for Meditation]\, Cig car ’jug pa 
 rnam par mi rtog pa’i bsgom don [The Meaning of the Sudden Entry into No
 n-Conceptual Meditation]\, dBa’ bzhed [The Testament of Wa]\, etc. This 
 presentation demonstrates that the Tibetan materials have enabled us to re
 evaluate the composite nature of the Judgement and to extrapolate a ‘deb
 ate’ process underneath the seemingly disorderly questions and answers. 
 For instance\, a large portion of the Judgement should be understood as Ch
 inese translations of original Tibetan queries\; owing to the existence of
  translation procedures\, miscommunication between Kamalaśīla (ca. 740
 –795) and Moheyan (fl. 786–794\, 摩訶衍) did at times happen. A mor
 e nuanced understanding of the Judgement also makes it possible to reconci
 le the narrative in the Judgement with some of the elements in the now wel
 l-studied dBa’ bzhed.\n\n\nYi (Allan) Ding is Assistant Professor at the
  Department of Religious Studies at DePaul University\, Chicago. He has pu
 blished several articles that deal with Buddhist materials from Dunhuang o
 r Sino-Tibetan Buddhism\, including “‘Translating’ Wutai Shan into R
 i bo rtse lnga (‘Five-Peak Mountain’): The Inception of a Sino-Tibetan
  Site in the Mongol-Yuan Era (1206–1368)” Journal of Tibetology 18 (20
 18) \, “The Transformation of Poṣadha/Zhai in Early Medieval China (2n
 d–6th Centuries CE)” Buddhist Studies Review 36.1 (2019)\, and “By t
 he Power of the Perfection of Wisdom: The ‘Sūtra-Rotation’ Liturgy of
  the Mahāprajñāpāramitā in Dunhuang” Journal of the American Orient
 al Society 139.3 (2019). He currently works on a book manuscript that focu
 ses on the zhai feast and relevant liturgical scripts from the sixth to th
 e tenth century.\n\n\nTo join the lecture\, please register here https://r
 uhr-uni-bochum.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5MocuquqD8uE9aXaWfuuwf0HJAa91RZUQ
 LE until 21st of July 2021.
LOCATION:Online Event
URL:https://buddhistroad.ceres.rub.de/en/events/reconciling-the-irreconcil
 able-revisiting-the-en-1/
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