BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.5//EN TZID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:82@buddhiststudies.utoronto.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200227T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200227T170000 DTSTAMP:20200218T203811Z URL:https://buddhiststudies.utoronto.ca/events/mobility-identity-lineage-n etworks-modern-chinese-buddhism/ SUMMARY:Mobility\, Identity\, and Lineage Networks in Modern Chinese Buddhi sm DESCRIPTION:University of Toronto/McMaster University\n\nYEHAN NUMATA BUDDH IST STUDIES PROGRAM 2019-20\n\nRONGDAO LAI (McGill University)\n\nLECTURE: Tiantai Transnationalism: Mobility\, Identity\, and Lineage Networks in M odern Chinese Buddhism\n\nTHURSDAY\, February 27\, 2020\, 3-5pm\, Universi ty of Toronto\, JHB 317\n\nCurrent scholarship on modern Chinese Buddhism has tended to focus heavily on the globalized reform organizations that em erged in Taiwan in the last few decades. The success of these groups has m ade it easy to overlook other more “traditional” Buddhist networks tha t followed different expansion paradigms in forming local and translocal c onnections. Despite their decentralized nature and fluidity\, these networ ks remain immensely powerful and influential in shaping Chinese Buddhist p ractices and border-crossing activities. Focusing on the Tiantai lineage n etwork\, this lecture will explore the transnational forms of circulation\ , the intersection between identity and institution\, and the visions of o rthodoxy in modern Chinese Buddhism.\n\nREADING GROUP: “Rewriting Orthod oxy: Historical Production in Twentieth-Century Chinese Buddhism”\n\nFRI DAY\, February 28\, 2020\, 4-6pm\, McMaster\, University Hall 122\n\n  \;\n\nRongdao Lai is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and East Asi an Studies at McGill University. She received her PhD in Religious Studies from McGill University in 2014\, and was based at the University of South ern California before returning to Montreal. She specializes in modern Chi nese Religions\, focusing especially on the changing landscape in Chinese Buddhism and identity production. She is co-editor for the Eastern Buddhis t feature on Socially Engaged Buddhism (2014). She has recently completed a book manuscript\, based on her doctoral dissertation\, on modern Buddhis t education and citizenship in China. Her other on-going projects include Chinese Buddhist networks and transnational movements\, and monastic econo my in the twentieth century. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://buddhiststudies.utoronto.ca/wp-content/u ploads/2019/09/rongdaolai_80.jpg CATEGORIES:Lecture,Numata Program,Public Talk,Reading Group LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Rm 317\, 170 St George St\, Toronto\ , ON - Ontario\, M5R2M8\, Canada GEO:43.667732;-79.400261 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=170 St George St\, Toronto\ , ON - Ontario\, M5R2M8\, Canada;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Jackman Humani ties Building\, Rm 317:geo:43.667732,-79.400261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20191103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR