Lecture Series -Buddhism 2025/2026

Buddhism in Modern China: Concepts, Practices, and History

Over the past two centuries, Buddhism in China has engaged dynamically with shifting socio-political landscapes, global circulations of knowledge, and the multifaceted pressures associated with modernity, resulting in enduring transformations of doctrine, ritual life, institutional structures, and China’s cultural imagination and identity. This lecture series traces how Buddhist ideas and practices have been interpreted, adapted, and reconfigured from the late Qing through the Republican era to the present, drawing on perspectives from history, religious studies, anthropology, and philosophy. By following these trajectories of change, the series highlights the intricate ways in which Buddhism has shaped—and been reshaped by—the changing intellectual, social, and political life in modern China, providing a forum for interdisciplinary dialogue across fields, methods, and historical contexts.

 

Dates and times

2025/2026

Location

University of Göttingen & Online (hybrid)

Organizers

Peng Qinqin (University of Göttingen)
Zhu Ziyi (University of Göttingen)

Contact persons

Peng Qinqin: qinqin.peng@uni-goettingen.de
Zhu Ziyi: ziyi.zhu@uni-goettingen.de

Language

Chinese and English