Prof. Dr. Christoph Anderl

Conference and PhD training organization, conference papers, guest lectures, and guest teaching

• Invited lecture: "Working with Manuscripts in the Database of Medieval Chinese Texts: Exemplified by Non-canonical biographies of Buddha Discovered in Dunhuang (如何利用中古中國文獻的電子資料庫來研究寫本：以敦煌佛傳變文為例). Foguang University, Taiwan, December 15, 2022.
• Conference lecture: "Silence as Action in the Literary Devices of Medieval Chán Buddhist Literature"; Panel: "Exploring the Sound of Silence – The unspoken, omitted, and hidden in Early and Medieval China"; Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS); Olomouc; August 24-27, 2022.
• Panel chair: "Animal Management in Chinese Buddhist Monasteries: Ethical, Commercial, and Normative Discourse"; Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS); Olomouc; August 24-27, 2022.
• Co-teacher (main instructor: Prof. Robert Sharf, Univ. of California, Berkeley) of the Doctoral School "“Demystifying Chan (Japanese: Zen) Buddhism”; Ghent University; July 4-8, 2022.
• Conference lecture: "A Study of the yīn tóng yì bié 音同義別” Category of the Zhèng míng yào lù 正名要錄"; Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL); Olomouc; July 1-2, 2022.
• Invited Guanlian Tang Lecture: "从树木、岩石到狩猎部队：自然在佛教叙事中的角色变化——着重于睒子本生"; Sichuan University; June 21, 2022.
• Lecture: "Buddhism - Text and Image: Techniques of Adaptation to Local Spaces."  "Image - Text - Reality in Buddhism: Interrelation and Internegation"; Research Cluster "Typologies of Text-Image Relations",  Frogbear: "From the Ground Up: Buddhist and East Asian Religions"; June 23-26, 2022.
• Organizer of conference (with Polina Lukicheva):  "Image - Text - Reality in Buddhism: Interrelation and Internegation"; Research Cluster "Typologies of Text-Image Relations",  Frogbear: "From the Ground Up: Buddhist and East Asian Religions"; June 23-26, 2022.
• Organizer of virtual field work (Sichuan sites: Wofo yuan, Qianfo zhai, Huayan dong, Pilu dong); Research Cluster "Typologies of Text-Image Relations",  Frogbear: "From the Ground Up: Buddhist and East Asian Religions"; online (ca. 40 participants); June 26-July 31, 2022.
• Organzier (with Linda Badan): "Hani Phonology Course"; online / Ghent Univeristy; January 12-23, 2022.
• Invited lecture (online): “Western Studies on the Development of the Chinese Language Based on Buddhist Texts: A Concise Overview”; conference: “The Spread of Buddhism and Language Change”; 第十四屆漢文佛典語言學國際學術研討會; Hong Kong; December 10-12, 2021.
• Invited lecture: "Graphic variation in vernacular Dunhuang manuscripts of the 10th century"; CRLAO, Paris; December 7, 2021.
• Seminar organizer / lecturer: “Graphical Variation in Dunhuang Manuscripts”; Frogbear Seminar, UBC (“From the Ground Up: Studies in Buddhism and East Asian Religions”): “Graphic Variation, Modification and Replacement in Medieval Chinese Writing: Case Studies and Resources”; Part 2; November 30, 2021 (online).
• Seminar (online): “Deciphering difficult character forms in Dunhuang manuscripts of the 5th and 6th centuries: Theory and practice”; (organized by Imre Galambos, Cambridge Univ., and Christoph Anderl, Ghent Univ.), Oct. 16, 2021.
• Keynote lecture: “The Development of the System of Interrogatives in Buddhist Texts from the Early to the Late Medieval Period.” Conference: “Linguistic Features of Buddhist Texts”. Munich, Oct. 22-23, 2021 (online).
• Panel chair: “Reflecting on the Dunhuang Manuscripts: Transmission and Transformation.” Aug. 19, 2021. 23rd Biennial Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies. Leipzig, Aug. 24-28 (online).
• Panel chair: “Primary Education in Imperial China.” Aug. 20, 2021. 23rd Biennial Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies. Leipzig, Aug. 24-28 (online).
• Seminar organizer / lecturer: “Graphical Variation in Dunhuang Manuscripts.” Frogbear Seminar, UBC (“From the Ground Up: Studies in Buddhism and East Asian Religions”): “Graphic Variation, Modification and Replacement in Medieval Chinese Writing: Case Studies and Resources”;  Part 1, August 17, 2021 (online).
• Keynote lecture: “SOAS Chinese Buddhist Texts Translation Workshop”. June, 14-16, 2021 (online).
• Keynote lecture: “《正名要錄》‘本音雖同字義各別’初探”. Conference at 復旦大學出土文獻與古文字研究中心. June 18-19, 2021 (online).
• Seminar organizer / lecturer: “Basic Patterns of Text-image Relations in Buddhist Narratives.” Frogbear Seminar, UBC (“From the Ground Up: Studies in Buddhism and East Asian Religions”). May 18, 2021 (online).
• Accepted panel: Panel organizer at the conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics 2020: “Recycling Characters: The Significance of Phonetic Loan Characters and Substitutions in the Medieval Chinese Writing System” [cancelled because of COVID]
• Lecture: "From Trees and Rocks to Hunting Parties: The Transformation of Peripheral Objects in the Transmission of Buddhist Narratives"; Conference "The Exchange of Goods and Knowledge in China's Cultural History"; Università degli studi della Tuscia; Decemember 16, 2020.

• Main organizer of the Doctoral School "Sino-Tibetan Languages: Research Methodologies and Approaches to Linguistic Field Studies and LanguageDocumentation among Tibeto-Burman Speaking Minorities in China"; Ghent Univ. (online); Oct. 26-30, 2020.

• Lecture: "Vernacular Dunhuang Versions of Buddha's Biography"; Sichuan University; November 27, 2019.
• Lecture: "在歐洲為何，如何成為“漢學家”的一些思想"; Sichuan University; November 26, 2019.
• Lecture: "Typology of Predictions in the Gaoseng zhuan and the Xu gaoseng zhuan."  Workshop "Prophecy and Foretelling of Destiny in Buddhism"; International Consortium for Research in the Humanities; University of Erlangen; November 19-20, 2019.
• Main organizer of the Doctoral School "Chinese Buddhist Historical Records in the Context of Digital Humanities" (main instructors: Prof. Christian Wittern, Kyoto Univ.; Marcus Bingenheimer, Temple Univ.); Ghent Unviverstiy; Oct. 21-25, 2019.
• Summer School teaching (European Association of Chinese Linguistics, EACL): “The Study of the Vernacular Based on Dunhuang Manuscripts”; 6 hours; Naples University, 9th -13th September, 2019.
• Lecture: “Dunhuang Studies in Europe – A Short Overview”; Sichuan University, 19th May, 2019.
• Lecture: “Aspects of Dunhuang Manuscript Studies 研究敦煌寫本幾個方面”; Sichuan University, 20th May, 2019.
• Erasmus teaching (2 lectures): “Text – Image Relations in the Transmission of Buddhist Narratives / Chinese Buddhist Iconography”; Ljubljana University, March, 2019.
• Intensive course at the University of Zurich (8th – 9th March, 2019): “Medieval Chinese Texts from Dunhuang: Introduction and Readings."
• Conference paper: "Discussing soem Textual Problems of the Fóshuō Lèngqié jīng chánmén xītán zhāng 佛說楞伽經禪門悉談章. 佛學文獻與文學國際學術研討會, Sichuan University, 10th -12th Nov., 2018.
• Lecture: "Dūnhuáng Buddhism and the 'Chán Songs'". 中国俗文化研究所海外学系列讲座. Sichuan University, 10. Nov., 2018.
• Lecture: "跟特大学汉学研究的历史，现状与未来." Sichuan University (中华文化研究院), 11th Nov., 2018.

• Main organizer and co-instructor of the Doctoral School "Chinese Writing and Lexicography in Medieval China"; Ghent University; Oct. 8-12, 2018.

• Guest teaching: 10-day Summer School on "Chinese Buddhist Iconography" at University of British Columbia (7 lectures, August 2018).
• Lecture: "The Mahāsattva jātaka: Continuities and Discontinuities in the Transmission of a Birth Story." Khyentse Lecture Series, ELTE University Budapest, 3rd Oct. 2018.
• Guest teaching: 2-week Summer School course on "Medieval Chinese" at Leiden University (10 lectures, "Leiden Summer School of Linguistics", July 2018).
• Co-organizer (with Prof. Ann Heirman) of the Doctoral School "Buddhism in Medieval Silk Culture"; Ghent University; May 28 - June 1, 2018.
• Erasmus teaching: Classical and Medieval Chinese, Perugia, May 7th – 11th, 2018.
• Invited lecture on Dunhuang manuscripts (Cambridge University, January 25th, 2018).
• "《龍龕手鏡》中的佛教術語及異字 [Buddhist Terms and Character Variants in the Longkan shoujing]." Conference paper; "New Frontiers of Huayan Studies: One Asia, Multiple Paths"; Peking University, 10.-13. Nov., 2017.
• Panel "Religion" fascilitator for the "Second Conference on Middle Period Chinese Humanities 第二屆唐至明人文會議." Leiden University, 14.-17., Sept., 2017.
• "The Siddham Songs among the Dunhuang Manuscripts." Second Conference on Middle Period Chinese Humanities 第二屆唐至明人文會議. Leiden University, 14.-17., Sept. 2017.
• Workshop: "Dunhuang Manuscripts: Analysis of Linguistic and Textual Features." Second Conference on Middle Period Chinese Humanities 第二屆唐至明人文會議. Leiden University, 14.-17. Sept., 2017.
• "The Mahāsattva Jātaka in China: Continuities and Discontinuities in the Transmission of the Birth Story." Conference paper; "Where the Buddha Was Previously Born"; Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), 27.-28. Aug., 2017.
• "The Development of Māra Iconography in China: Continuities and Transformations. With an Emphasis on the Narrative Tableaux in Yúlín 榆林 Cave 33." Conference paper; International Association of Buddhist Studies (IABS); Toronto, 23. Aug., 2017.
• Main organizer of the Doctoral School "East Asian Historical Phonology in a Comparative Perspective"; Ghent University, March 13-17, 2017.
• "An Introduction to Chinese Buddhist Art." MA intensive course. Six lectures at King's College, London, 12.-13. Jan., 2017.
• "The Terminology of Internal Visual Processes in Early Chán Buddhism: A Preliminary Analysis." Invited conference paper; "Vision and Visuality in Buddhism and Beyond", Zurich University, 24.-26. Nov., 2016.
• "根特中古汉语数据库 [The Ghent Database of Medieval Chinese]." Conference paper; "东亚文献与文学中的佛教世界", 四川大学中国俗文化研究所, Chengdu, 28. Oct., 2016.
• "比利时根特大学佛学中心: 根特中古汉语数据库 [The Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies and the Ghent Database of Medieval Chinese]." Invited guest lecture; Institute of Chinese Folk Cultural Studies, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 27. Oct., 2016.
• "Narrative Tableaux in Yúlín Cave 33: An Analaysis of Structure and Content." Conference paper; European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS), St.Petersburg, 23. -28.  Aug., 2016.

• "Some Reflections on the Use and Distribution of Interrogative Pronouns in Medieval Chinese, With a Focus on Rhetorical Questions." Conference paper; Workshop, 9th International Symposium on Ancient Chinese Grammar (ISACG-9), Berlin, 29. July – 1. Aug., 2016.

• "Yánjiū zăoqī kŏuyŭ jĭge wẻntĭ 研究早期口語幾個問題 [Several problems related to the research on early colloquial Chinese]." Fǎgŭ wénlǐ xuéyuản 法鼓文理學院 (DILA, Dharma Drum), Taiwan, 10. May 2016.
•  "The Interplay of Text and Image: Programmatic Representations of Buddhist Narratives (with case studies from China)." Guest lecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 5. May, 2016.
• "The Development of Early Chán Buddhism Revisited: Manuscripts, "Chán Languages", and the Diversification of Chán Thought and Literature." Hong Kong University, Centre of Buddhist Studies, 3. May 2016.
• "Aspects of Text-Image Relations in Representations of Buddhist Narratives: With Selected Case Studies from China." Guest lecture, SOAS, London, 4. Feb., 2016.
• "Chinese Buddhist Biographical/Hagiographical Writing." Guest lecture, King's College, London, 5. Feb. 2016.
• Organizer of the Doctoral School "Chinese Buddhist Apologetic Literature through the Ages"; Ghent University; Sept. 28 - Oct. 2, 2015.
• "An Introduction to Chinese Buddhist Iconography." Lecture series/guest teaching (course: "Buddhist Art of South Asia and China: an Introduction"), Kuroda Institute of Buddhist Studies, Hamburg Univ., 5.-6. June, 2015.
• "Aspects of Maitreya Cult in China - Past and Present." Lecture series "Permanent Training in Buddhist Studies." Ghent Univ., 10. March, 2015.
• "The Oxhead Mountain Tableau and Auspicious Statues Depictions in Yulin Cave 33: Some Initial Thoughts." Conference: "International Conference on Dunhuang Studies", Kyoto Univ., 23.-24. Jan., 2015.
• "Coercing the Reader: Forced Textual Reproduction and Strategies of Self-referencing in Medieval Chinese Apocryphal Scriptures." Conference: "Apokryphe Texte im Kultur- und Religionskontakt", Ruhr Univ. Bochum, 30.-31. Oct., 2014.
• "Analyzing Grammar of Late Medieval Chinese in an eXist 2.x Environment." Conference: "Digital Sinology and Taiwan Studies", Czech Academy of Sciences, Praha, 23.-24., Oct. 2014.
• "Where is the Buddha Located: Buddhist Deites and their 'Doubles' in the Form of Auspicious Statues." Conference: 17th Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Univ. of Vienna, 18.-23. Aug., 2014.
• "The Oxhead Mountain Tableau and Auspicious Statues Depictions in Yulin Cave 33: Some Initial Thoughts." Conference: "Ancient Central Asian Networks." KHK, Ruhr Univ. Bochum, 24.-26. June 2014.
• "Bridging Time and Space: Flying Buddha Statues and the Transmission of Buddhism to China: Tang Dynasty Buddhist Historiographical Narratives in Text and Image." Lecture at the Ghent Centre of Buddhist Studies (Permanent Training in Buddhist Studies lecture series), Ghent, 22. April 2014.
• "Damaging One's Body for the Sake of the Dharma? Aspects of Self-Immolation in Medieval Chinese Buddhism." Conference: "Body Trouble: The Ambivalence of Sex, Gender, and Desire in Religious Discourse", Parador de Santo Domingo de la Calzad (Spain), 10.-14. March 2014.
• "Text-Image Relations in Buddhist Iconography as Exemplified by the Programmatic Rock Carvings in Baoding Shan." (with Jessie Pons) Conference: "Texture III". KHK, Ruhr Univ. Bochum, 5.-6. March 2014
• "Chinese Buddhist Historiography - A Concise Introduction." Guest lecture at King's College, London, 28. Feb. 2014.
• "Lineage as Network - Creating Sectarian Indentity in Chán/Zen Buddhism and the Role of Linguistic Devices in the Transfer Processes from China to Japan." (Part of Panel: "Paradigms of Identity Building in an Emergent Translocal Network of Buddhism in Premodern Asia.") Conference: "Network and Identity: Exchange Relations between China and the World", Ghent Univ. (in collaboration with KHK, Ruhr Univ. Bochum), 18.-20. Dec. 2013.
• "Buddhist Narratives: Aspects of Transfer and Distribution." Conference: The 11th Annual Conference of Asian Studies in Israel 2012, Tel Aviv, 22. – 23. May 2012
• "Transfer and Conversion in Buddhism: Narratives, Metaphors, and and Depictions." Conference: "Between Imagination and Encounter: Religious Cultures in Contact in Pre-Modern Central Asia and its Borders." Ruhr Univ. Bochum, 5.-6. June 2012.
• "Māra’s Assault on the Meditating Buddha: Iconographic and Textual Development of a Buddhist Narrative in Medieval China." Lecture: The Oslo Buddhist Studies Forum, Oslo Univ., 7. Feb. 2012.
• "Māra’s Assault: Transformation of a Codified Iconography along the Silk Road", with Jessie Pons. Conference: Buddhist Text Corpora and Iconography along the Silk Road – Dynamics of Transfer and Interaction; Ruhr Univ. Bochum, 23rd - 25th 2011.
• "The MERCATUR/CERES Buddhist Narratives Database Project." Conference: Buddhist Text Corpora and Iconography along the Silk Road – Dynamics of Transfer and Interaction; Ruhr Univ. Bochum, 23rd - 25th 2011.
• "From 'Cause and Effect' to 'Deficient Cause and Great Effect': Transformations and Distortions of the mārga in Medieval China". Conference: Between Borrowing and Taking over: The Problem of Sinification and its Implication for a Theory of Religious Contacts; CERES/KHK, Ruhr Univ. Bochum, August 5th, 2011
• "Mittelalterliche buddhistische Lexikographie und das Liáo Wörterbuch Lóngkān shǒujìng 龍龕手鏡 (10. Jahrh.): Kurze Bemerkungen über Inhalt und Struktur." Lecture: Mittagsforum; June 1st, 2011.
• "The Role of Lay Believers in Early Chán Scriptures." Conference: Lay Buddhism: An Old Issue Viewed in New Perspectives. The Ninth International Symposium Sponsored by UBC Buddhist Forum; Vancouver, March 26th, 2011.
• "Yánjiū Lóngkān shǒujìng jǐge wèntí 研究“龍龕手境”幾個問題 [Some Problems Related to the Study of the Dictionary Lóngkān shǒujìng]." Lecture: Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology – Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing; April 29th, 2010.
• "The Chán Database Project." Lecture: Tokyo Univ., April 21st, 2010.
• "The Chán Database Project." Lecture: UCLA, April 9th, 2010.
• "Dūnhuáng studies." Lecture: International Univ. of Florida, March 2010.
• Two invited lectures on Buddhist Chinese and Medieval Chinese Buddhism at the Univ. of Texas, Austin; March 19th – 27th, 2010.
• "The Buddhist Liáo Dictionary Lóngkān shŏujìng." Conference: The Tangut Language and the Religions and Cultures of the Northern China in the Age of the Xixia, the Liao, and the Jin; Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Dec. 17th – 22nd ,2009.
• "Buddhist Texts in the Form of Medical Texts among the Dūnhuáng Findings." Conference: Early Chán Manuscripts among the Dūnhuáng Findings – Resources in the Mark-up and Digitization of Historical Texts. Univ. of Oslo, Sept. 28th to Oct. 2nd, 2009.
• "Strategies in the Digitization and Mark-up of the Platform Sūtra." Conference: Early Chán Manuscripts among the Dūnhuáng Findings – Resources in the Mark-up and Digitization of Historical Texts; Univ. of Oslo, Sept. 28th - Oct. 2nd, 2009.
• "Dūnhuáng Manuscripts and the Study of Vernacular Chinese." Conference: The 6th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL-6); Poznań, Aug. 26th – 28th, 2009.
• "The Interplay of Text and Picture in East Asian Buddhist Texts." Conference: Iconicity, Iconography and Classification; Univ. of Münster, 21st – 22nd May, 2009.
• "A Guided Tour Through Buddhist Hells. – Notions Regarding Purgatories and Afterlife in China and Japan." Lecture: The Oslo Buddhist Studies Forum; Oslo, 27th Jan., 2009.
• "The Rhetorical Function of Buddhist Technical Terms in Chán Texts." Conference: Zen Texts as 'Public' Documents – Zen Rhetoric in a Diachronic and Comparative Perspective; Oslo and Rosendal, 29th Aug. – 1st Sept., 2008.
• "Introduction of Buddhism to China – Material and Religious Culture along the Silk Road." Lectures on East Asian Buddhism and Zen. Series of Guest Lectures; Oslo, 25.08. – 27.08., 2008.
• "Special Functions of Third Person Pronoun tā 他 in Middle Chinese." The XVIIth Biennal Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies; Univ. of Lund, 6th Aug,. 2008.
• "關於《新編漢文典》:一部探究漢語言概念範疇網絡的歷史和比較類書 [A Short Introduction to the Thesaurus Linguae Sericae Database]." Conference: 第一屆中國古籍數字化國際學術研討 [The First International Conference on the Digitalization of Chinese Classical Texts]; Beijing 15th Aug., 2007.
• "The Structure of the Buddhist Dictionary Lóngkān shǒujìng 龍龕手鏡 (10th cent.)." Conference: The Role of Writing: Organizing the World of Knowledge: Lexical Classifications in a Cross-cultural Perspective; Vienna, 29th June, 2007.
• "The emergence of the notion of Buddhist purgatories and hells in Medieval China: A cross-cultural study on ideas concerning afterlife in India, China, and Japan." Workshop: Cost A31, workgroup on language contact; Jerusalem, March 2nd-5th, 2007.
• "The analysis of Middle Chinese texts in Theaurus Linguae Sericae." Workshop: Cost A31; Berlin, Humbold Univ. Dec. 6th-10th, 2006.
• "The Heterogeneous Use of Interrogative Pronouns in the Recorded Sayings – A Case of Layering?" Conference: The 20th Paris Meeting on Chinese Linguistics, Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale; CRLAO, EHESS, June 22nd-23rd, 2006.
• "Notes on the Development of Modal Verbs and Their Functions in Late Middle Chinese Texts." Conference: 4th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics EACL-4; Budapest, January 20th-22nd, 2006.
• "Strategies of Recording the Spoken Word – Notes on the Emergence of Vernacular Texts and their Syntactic Features." Lecture: The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences; Uppsala, June 2005.
• "Zǔtáng jí yánjiū jǐge fāngmiàn 《祖堂集》研究幾個方面 [Various Aspects Concerning the Study of the Collection from the Patriarchs’ Hall]." Lecture: Nankai Univ., Tianjin, Oct. 2002.
• "Abusive Speech in Late Middle Chinese / Early Mandarin." Conference: NACS, 2001.