Lectures and Conference Presentations

Invited

“Revisiting the Silla Presence in the Zutang ji,” Presented at the International Conference “Philological Perspectives on Textual Transmission and Translation: Buddhism in East Asia and Beyond,” Dongguk Univ., Sept. 19, 2025.

“Recovering Lost Voices: Nanyue Huairang’s (d. 744) Account in the Baolin zhuan and Its Influence on Post-Tang Chan Historiography,” Special Lecture, Dongguk Univ., Sept. 17, 2025.

“Notes on the Zutang ji’s Textual History: Aspects of Textual Reuse and Paleography,” Presented at the International Conference “Currents of Buddhist Thought in Korea and China: An Analysis Through East Asian Buddhist Scriptures,” Dongguk Univ., March 20, 2025.

“Chan Historiography in Fragments: The Shengzhou ji 聖冑集 and the Dunhuang Manuscript Or.8210/S.4478,” Presented at the International Workshop “Buddhist Civilization and Manuscript Culture along the Silk Road 絲綢之路上的佛教文明與寫本文化國際工作坊,” School of History 歷史學院, Zhejiang Univ. 浙江大學, Nov. 15–18, 2024.

“Texts Within Texts: A Study of the Fragments of the Baolin zhuan 寶林傳 Quoted in the Keitoku dentō shōroku 景德傳燈鈔錄 (駒澤大學圖書館藏《景德傳燈鈔錄》中《寶林傳》引文研究).” Presented at the International Conference “Cross-Regional and Cross-Cultural Interaction and Integration between Buddhism and Other Asian Religions 佛教與亞洲宗教跨地域與跨文化的互鑒與共融,” organized by the Center for Buddhist Culture Studies 佛教文化研究中心 at Zhejiang Univ. 浙江大學, in collaboration with the Glorisun Global Network of Buddhist Studies, with administration support from the FROGBEAR project at the Univ. of British Columbia. Zhejiang Univ., August 16–19, 2024.

“Towards a Definition of Yitizi 異體字: Some Preliminary Remarks.” Presented at the “ALTERGRAPHY project launch workshop,” Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco, Paris), Nov. 31–Dec. 1, 2023.

“Chan/Zen and the Art of Quoting (Part II): A Comparative Philological Analysis of the Fragments of the Baolin zhuan 寶林傳 Quoted in the Keitoku dentō shōroku 景德傳燈鈔錄 against the Jinzang 金藏 Edition.” Presented at the Symposium “International Travels of Chinese Text: Global Perspectives and New Approaches to Chinese Textual Culture 漢籍文本之國際漫遊：對漢籍文本文化之當代態度與寰宇視角,” National Library of Latvia, in collaboration with the National Central Library 國家圖書館, Nov. 10–11, 2023.

“Lineages as Network: An Inquiry into the Representation of Dharma Lineages of Chan Buddhism in the Zutang ji 祖堂集.” Presented at the Symposium “Perspectives of Digital Humanities in the Field of Buddhist Studies,” Hamburg Univ., Jan. 13, 2023.

“From Quanzhou to Dunhuang: A Multifaceted Approach to Wendeng’s 文僜 (d. 972) Praise Verses for the Patriarchs and Early Masters of the Southern Chan Tradition.” Presented at the Dunhuang & Silk Road Seminar Series, Easter 2022, Univ. of Cambridge, May 19, 2022.

Anonymous Peer-Review Selection

“Did the Indian Patriarchs Matter?: A Diachronic Study of Chan Hagiographies of Ānanda from the Late Tang to the Early Northern Song (晚唐至北宋早期禪宗文獻中阿難傳的歷時性研究).” Presented at the International Conference “Canonical, Non-Canonical and Extra-Canonical: Interdisciplinary and Multi-media Studies of the Formation, Translation and Transmission of Buddhist Texts 佛教典籍的成立與傳譯視閾下的佛教中國化,” co-organized by The Wutai Shan Institute of Buddhism and Eastern Asian Culture 五臺山東方佛教文化研究院, the FROGBEAR project at the Univ. of British Columbia, and the Institute for Ethics and Religions Studies 道德與宗教研究院 at Tsinghua Univ. 清華大學. Great Bamboo Grove Monastery 大聖竹林, Mount Wutai 五臺山, August 11–15, 2024.

“Chan/Zen and the Art of Quoting: On the Surviving Fragments of the Nonextant Tenth Juan of the Baolin zhuan 寶林傳 in the Keitoku dentō shōroku 景德傳燈鈔錄 and their Relationship with the Zutang ji 祖堂集.” Presented at the International Conference “How Zen Became Chan: Pre-modern and Modern Representations of a Transnational East Asian Buddhist Tradition,” co-organized by the FROGBEAR project at the Univ. of British Columbia and the Glorisun Global Network of Buddhist Studies at Yale Univ., July 29–31, 2022.

“An Attempt at Editing and Translating the Quqnzhou Qianfo xinzhu zhuzushi song 泉州千佛新著諸祖師頌 (Or.8210/S.1635).” Presented at the Workshop “Pre-modern Chinese Buddhist Texts: a translation workshop of readings from the Sinophone world,” SOAS, Univ. of London, June 14–16, 2021.

Others

“A Typology of Demotic Characters Used in Dunhuang Manuscripts.” Presented at an ALTERGRAPHY meeting, Ghent Univ., Inalco, and Heidelberg Univ., July 3, 2024.

“Texts Within Texts: A Study of the Fragments of the Baolin zhuan 寶林傳 Quoted in the Keitoku dentō shōroku 景德傳燈鈔錄.” Presented at the Research Forum of the Department of Oriental Languages and Cultures, Ghent Univ., March 25, 2024.

“Lineage Claims in the Quanzhou Qianfo xinzhu zhuzushi song 泉州千佛新著諸祖師頌 (Or.8210/S.1635).” Presented at the Doctoral School “Demystifying Chan (Japanese: Zen) Buddhism,” Ghent Univ., July 5, 2022.

“The Preface to the Quanzhou Qianfo xinzhu zhuzushi song 泉州千佛新著諸祖師頌 (Or.8210/S.1635): Aspects of Textual History and Translation.” Presented at the Research Forum of the Department of Oriental Languages and Cultures, Ghent Univ., Nov. 16, 2021.

“The Zutang ji 祖堂集 Between ‘Transmission’ and ‘Teaching’: Some Reflections on the Nature of Early of Denglu 傳燈錄.” Presented at the Symposium “Stone Carved Scriptures, Belief, and Religious Life: The Ideology and Medium of the Chinese Buddhist Social Life 石刻，信仰與生活－漢傳佛教社會生活的觀念與載體, ” organized by Tsinghua University 清華大學, July 6–7, 2019.