08:30-08:50

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08:50-09:00

Opening ceremony, welcome address by the Abbot President Venerable Guo Huei

09:00-09:10

Welcome address by Ting-Ming Chen, President, Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts (DILA)

09:10-10:00

Keynote Speech 1: Buddhist Meditation Between India and China

Speaker: Prof. Eric Greene, Yale University

Moderator: Prof. Weijen Teng

10:00-10:10

Encoding "that which does not abide" – Using DNA for the Preservation of Buddhist Culture

(Marcus Bingenheimer)

10:10-10:30

Refreshment Break

Session 1

10:30-12:10

More of the Same?: Gong’an Antidote and “Baizhang’s Wild Fox”

(Chia-Ju Chang)

The Enlightened Praxis: Buddhist Farmers’ Spiritual Experiences with Practical Intent

(Jijimon Alakkalam Joseph)

Not Just a Technique: A Consideration of Non-Straightforwardly Practicable Aspects of Meditation

(Grzegorz Polak)

Zen for Nothing: The Life and Teaching of Sōtō Master Sawaki Kōdō 澤木興道 (1880-1965)
(Pei-ying Lin)

12:10-12:20

Group photo (The Front Main Stairs)

12:20-14:00

Lunch, Break (Great Wisdom House)

Session 2

14:00-15:40

An Inquiry into the Meditation, Repentance, and the Procedure of Receiving the Bodhisattva Precepts of Yogācārabhūmi
(Huimin Bhikshu)

An Analysis of the Relationship between “Shouyi” in Buddhism and “Shouyi” in Taoism from the “Da Anban Shouyi Jing” in the Late Han Dynasty
(Tsung Ting Lee)

Viewing the “the Known (jñeya)” and “Reality-Object (tattvārtha)” of Yogācāra Buddhism from the Perspective of Meditation – Starting from the Structure of Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra
(I-biau Chen)

The Epistemology and Cultivation：the Interpretation of the "Pramāṇavāda" in the Yizhang Documents of the Dilun

school and the Shelun school Which in the Dunhuang Manuscript.
(Tan-ching Liu)

The practice of the faculties upgrading(indriya sañcāra) according to the Sarvāstivāda school

(Kuo-pin Chuang)

The Emergence and Transcendence of Lust (rāga) —Based on the Śarīrārthagāthā of the Yogācārabhūmi

(Fazhao Shi)

The Meaning of Vitarka-vicāra and its Connection with Meditation of the Sarvāstivāda and Yogācāra Schools

(Polang Tsai)

15:40-16:00

Tea Break

16:00-17:10

Round Table Discussion
主持人(Moderator)：林鎮國(Chen-Kuo Lin)
與談人(Panelists)：釋惠敏(Huimin Bhikshu)、Eric Greene、越建東(Kin-Tung Yit)、林佩瑩(Pei-ying Lin)、鄧偉仁(Weijen Teng)

17:30-20:00

Dinner Reception (Cafeteria)

08:40-09:10

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09:10-10:00

Aming Tu Prize Award Ceremony and Speech

Keynote Speech 2: “Gandhari.org -- A Research Environment for Gāndhārī Buddhist Texts and Beyond” Speaker: Stefan Baums, University of Munich, Germany

Andrew Glass, Program Manager Microsoft Corporation, USA Moderator: Prof. Jen-Jou Hung

10:00-10:20

Refreshment Break

Session 3

10:20-12:00

The Practice and Prospects of the Digitization of the “Jingshan Tripitaka” (Xian-du Shi, Xiao-dong Zhang)

Buddhānusmṛti-samādhi in Fifth-century Chinese Meditation Manuals

(Karen Yeh)

The Second Phase of the Ming Buddhist Revival:

A Social Network Approach to the School of Miyun Yuanwu 密雲圓悟

(Marcus Bingenheimer)

A Preliminary Study on the Evolution of the Image of the Ideal Chan Master in the Chan School of Buddhism and Master Shengyan’s Method of Training a Chan Master (Chang Hui Shi)

Developing Natural Language Processing Tools for Classical Chinese Buddhist Texts

(Yu-Chun Wang)

The Contemporary Transferal Meditation-in-Action Model of Mindfulness-of-Breathing at Pa-Auk Monastery

(Fa Ling Chen)

“All words are forgotten” vs. Cessations of Semantic Processes

- A Phenomenological Exploration of Chan Scriptures and Practices in Silent Illumination

(Elenda Y.J. Huang)

12:20-14:00

Lunch, Break (Cafeteria)

Session 4

14:00-15:20

The Development of Chan Monasteries from Sixth to Seventh Centuries: Based on the Xu Gaoseng Zhuan

(Yaomin Zeng)

An Oscillatory Model of Chan Experience, or An Argument for a Metamodern Perspective in Chan Studies

(Kamil Nowak)

Re-interpretation of Dunhuang Manuscript P.3777 (Ching Hsuan Mei)

No Place to Stand – A Study of the Term pratiṣṭhita in the Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā

(Dharmacārī Śraddhāpa)

Repentance and Chan Practice in the Sanfeng Lineage: Research on Renshan Jizhen’s “Da-Bo-Re-Chan-Fa”
(Ya-wen Chang)

A Taxonomy of Interpretations of Dōgen’s Shikantaza

(Chu Kwan Chan)

15:20-15:40

Tea Break

Session 5

15:40-17:20

Master Chi Chen’s Inheritance and Development of Master Sheng Yen’s Silent Illumination Meditation

(Sik Tsam Yuen)

A study on sitting meditation of Linji school in Song Dynasty

— Based on “Zuochan Ming” written by Qingyuan and “Zuochan Yi” written by Bencai

(Jing-Jia Huang)

Hoofprint of the Ox: A Comparison between Master Sheng-Yen’s Revival of Chinese Chan Buddhism and the Western Mindfulness Movement
(Yining Liu)

Comprehending Everything as Oneself: Zibo Zhenke’s Doctrine of Non-self and Theory of Meditation without Subject-Object Duality
(Wushi Lin)

Chan Meditation Classics and the Buddhist Sutra’s Flower Narrative

(Pua Shiau Chen)

A Preliminary Exploration of the Integration of Huayan’s Dharma Realm View and Biyanlu’s Koan

(Chi San Lo)

The Spreading Impacts of Japanese “Health Caring Methods” in the Early Republic of China

(Yu-Yin Hsu)

A Study of Inherent Realization in Early Chan

(Chen Tao)

Farewell

08:50-09:00

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09:00-11:30

Tea Chan

11:30-13:00

Lunch (Yangsheng Fitness Center)

Farewell