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Subject: H-ASIA: LEC Kyoto Lectures, Benjamin Penny, Anti-Buddhist Polemics
in mid-19th century China, Nov. 10, 2011
> H-ASIA
> November 4, 2011
>
> H-ASIA: LEC Kyoto Lectures, Benjamin Penny, Anti-Buddhist Polemics in
> mid-19th century China, Kyoto University, November 10, 2011
> *****************************************************************
> From: Nathan Woolley <Nathan.Woolley@anu.edu.au>
>
> Scuola Italiana di Studi sull'Asia Orientale ISEAS
> ecole Francaise d?Extr?me-Orient EFEO
> (European Consortium for Asian Field Study, ECAF)
>
> KYOTO LECTURES 2011
> Thursday, November 10th, 18:00h
>
> co-hosted by the International Research Center (Institute for Research in
> Humanities, Kyoto University)
>
> This lecture will be held at the Institute for Research in Humanities
> (IRH), Kyoto University (seminar room, 1st floor).
>
>
> Philosophy and Vain Deceit: Anti-Buddhist Polemics in mid-nineteenth
> century China Speaker: Benjamin Penny
>
> In the 1848, the English missionary scholar Joseph Edkins (1823-1905)
> arrived in China where he would stay until his death. Resident in
> Shanghai, Yantai and Beijing, he worked for the London Missionary Society
> until 1880 and then for the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs, publishing
> numerous works in English on Chinese language, ethnology, geography,
> finance and notably religion - he was the first person to translate a
> Chinese Buddhist text into English. He also rendered primers on western
> scientific subjects into Chinese as well as writing original works in that
> language. In his time Edkins was truly one of the great conduits of
> knowledge about China to the west, and of the west to China. Edkins?s
> primary motivation for being in China was, of course, to convert the
> Chinese people to his version of Christianity. This lecture is an attempt
> to understand and contextualize ?Correcting the Errors of Buddhism? or
> Shijiao zhengmiu, a tract Edkins wrote in the late 1850s. In 20 sections,
> this tract attacks Buddhism in elegant literary Chinese, quoting liberally
> from the Bible, as well as from works in the Chinese canon. ?Correcting
> the Errors of Buddhism? seems not to have elicited any written response
> from Chinese Buddhists, but, after it had been taken to Japan in the
> 1860s, members of the Japanese sangha as well as laymen attacked it
> without reservation. The lecture will discuss the foundational importance
> of this text for the history of 19th and 20th century understandings of
> China, and Buddhism, by scholars, monks and lay people in China, Japan and
> the west.
>
> Benjamin Penny is Deputy Director of the Australian Centre on China in the
> World, at The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. His
> research focuses on Chinese religious and spiritual movements in medieval
> and modern China, and on the history of western interpretations of Chinese
> religions. His book The Religion of Falun Gong will be published by the
> University of Chicago Press in early 2012. He held a visiting fellowship
> at the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University from January
> to March 2011.
>
> For detailed directions:
> http://www.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/e/institute/access-institute/access_e.htm
>
> Italian School of East Asian Studies (ISEAS)
> Ecole Francaise d?Extr?me-Orient (EFEO)
>
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