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Jinhua CHEN

University of British Columbia

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A member of the Royal Society of Canada, Jinhua CHEN is Professor of East Asian religious history at the University of British Columbia, where he also served as the Canada Research Chair in East Asian Buddhism (2001-2011). He has published extensively on East Asian state-church relationships, monastic (hagio/)biographical literature, Buddhist sacred sites, relic veneration, Buddhism and technological innovation in medieval China, and Buddhist translations.

 

His publications with WSP include:

 

  • From Xiangyuan to Ceylon: The Life and Legacy of the Chinese Monk Faxian (337-422). Co-edited by Jinhua CHEN and KUAN Guang, 2020. 

  • Xiantang shan yu Faxian wenhua: Hanseng Faxian (337-422) qi shengping yu yichan yantaohui lunwenji 僊堂山与法显文化——汉僧法显 (337-422) 其生平与遗产国际研讨会论文集 [Mount Xiantang and the Faxian Culture: Proceedings of the Conference on the Life and Legacy of the Chinese Monk Faxian (337-422)]. Mingshan dasi xilie 名山大寺书系 [Series on Famed Mountains and Great Monasteries] IV. Co-edited by Miao Jiang 妙江, Jinhua CHEN 陈金华, Kuan Guang 释宽广 and JI Yun 纪赟, 2019.

  • From Chang’an to Nālandā: The Life and Legacy of the Chinese Buddhist Monk Xuanzang (602? –664). Edited by SHI Ciguang 释慈光, CHEN Jinhua 陈金华, JI Yun 纪赟 and SHI Xingding 释行定, 2020.

  • Cong Chang’an dao Nalantuo: Xuanzang (602? –664) de shengping yu yichan  从长安到那烂陀：玄奘 (602?-664) 的生平与遗产 [From Chang’an to Nālandā: The Life and Legacy of the Xuanzang (602?–664)]. Mingshan dasi xilie 名山大寺书系 [Series on Famed Mountains and Great Monasteries] V. 2 vols. Edited by SHI Ciguang 释慈光, CHEN Jinhua 陈金华, JI Yun 纪赟 and SHI Xingding 释行定, 2020.

  • Cong Xizhu dao Zhongtu, cong Tangmi dao Dongmi: Fojiao Zhongguohua yu Hanchuan Fojiao guojihua de linglei gushi 从西竺到中土、从唐密到东密: 佛教中国化与汉传佛教国际化的另类故事 [From India to China, from Tang Esoteric Buddhism to Japanese Shingon Buddhism: Another Story of the Sinification of Indian Buddhism and the Globalization of Chinese Buddhism]. Mingshan dasi xilie 名山大寺书系 [Series on Famed Mountains and Great Monasteries] VI. Edited with SHI Ciguang 释慈光, CHEN Jinhua 陈金华 and SHI Xingding 释行定, 2021.

  • Yiseng yisu, zi nei ji wai: Dongya da shiye xia de Fojiao yu jiaoyu guoji yantaohui lunwen ji 亦僧亦俗、自内及外：东亚大视野下的佛教与教育国际研讨会论文集 [Between the Sacred & the Secular, from the Internal to the External: Proceedings for the Conference on Buddhism & Education in the Pan-East Asian Context]. Wutaishan Dongfang Fojiao Wenhua Yanjiuyuan shuxi 五台山东方佛教文化研究院书系 [Wutai Research Institute for Eastern Buddhist Culture Series] II. Co-edited by MIAO Jiang 妙江, CEHN Jinhua 陈金华, JI Yun 纪赟, KUAN Guang 释宽广 and FO Hu 释佛护, 2020. 

  • Qingliang shan yu Huayang jing: Disan jie Wutaishan xinyang guoji xueshu yantaohui lunwenji 清凉山、《华严经》与文殊信仰: 第三届五台山信仰国际学术研讨会论文集 [Mount Qingliang, Huayan jing and the Mañjuśrī Cult: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Wutaishan Faith]. Wutaishan Dongfang Fojiao Wenhua Yanjiuyuan shuxi 五台山东方佛教文化研究院书系 [Wutai Research Institute for Eastern Buddhist Culture Series] III. Edited by MIAO Jiang 妙江, CHEN Jinhua 陈金华, JI Yun 纪赟, KUAN Guang 宽广, and FO Hu 佛护, 2020. 

  • Shan jingji: Fojiao jingjixue de lishi beijing yu xiandai zhanwang 善经济：佛教经济学的历史背景与现代展望 [Good Economy: Historical Backgrounds and Modern Perspectives for Buddhist Economics]. Shanxue yanjiu congshu 善学研究丛书 [Goodness Studies Series] I. Co-edited by CHEN Jinhua 陈金华 and Rey Her 何日生, 2020.

  • Production and Preservation of Buddhist Manuscripts in Central and East Asia. Hualin Series on Buddhist Studies I. Edited by ZHAN Ru 湛 如, CHEN Jinhua 陈金华, JI Yun 纪赟, 2020. 

  • Tones from the Stones: Production, Preservation and Perusal of Buddhist Epigraphy in Central and East Asia. Hualin Series on Buddhist Studies II. Edited by Ru ZHAN 湛如, CHEN Jinhua 陈金华, and JI Yun 纪赟, 2020. 

  • Narratives of Buddhist Practice: Studies on Chinese-Language Canonical Compilations and Translations (Selected Essays by Koichi Shinohara). Hualin Series on Buddhist Studies III. Edited by Jinhua Chen, with assistance of Mingli Sun and Weiyu Lin, 2021. 

  • Fojiao xieben wenhua yanjiu: Xincailiao yu xin shiye 佛教写本文化研究：新材料与新视野 [Study on Buddhist Manuscript Culture: New Material and New Perspectives]. Edited by ZHAN Ru 湛如, CHEN Jinhua 陈金华, JI Yun 纪赟, 2021. 

  • Shi yun chunqiu: Zhongya yu Dongya Fojiao beiming de zhizao, baocun yu jiedu 石蕴春秋：中亚与东亚佛教碑铭的制作、保存与解读 [History Embedded into the Stone: Production and Preservation of Buddhist Manuscripts in Central and East Asia]. Edited by ZHAN Ru湛如 and CHEN Jinhua 陈金华, 2021. 

  • Chinese Transformation of Buddhism & Crossborder Transmission of Buddhism: Pan-Asian Spread of Tiantai/Ch’ŏnt’ae/Tendai Texts, Ideas and Practices and Its Position in East Asian Society. Series on Famed Mountains and Great Monasteries III. Edited by Jing YUE 月净, Jinhua CHEN 陈金华, Song WANG 王颂, 2022.

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