Fw: Fw: Xuanzang studies [Xuan Zang later chapters?]

[Jaap Pranger]

       "The participants discussed different questions
        related to Xuanzang's biography...."



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>Date:    Mon, 29 Mar 1999 08:52:01 EST
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>H-ASIA
>March 28, 1999
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>From: Evgueni Tortchinov <blade at comset.net>
>Subject: Xuanzang studies
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>On March 22-24, 1999 I have participated in the Second International
>Academic Conference on Xuanzang studies held in the town of Tongchuan
>(Shaanxi province, not far from Xi'an); the place was chosen as located
>near the Yuhuasi monastery where Xuanzang died (obtained his Nirvana) 1335
>years before. The participants of the conference were scholars and
>interested people from China (PRC and Taiwan) -- overwhelming majority,
>South Korea (mostly, Buddhist monks and nuns), Vietnam, Japan, Nepal and
>Russia. The ambassadors of India and Nepal in China have also participated
>in the conference as distinguished guests. The participants discussed
>different questions related to Xuanzang's biography, his influence on the
>Chinese culture, his translational activities, Yogacara Buddhist philosophy
>represented by Xuanzang's school of Faxiang (Dharmalaksana), etc.
>On March, 22nd the participants of this event took part in the ceremony of
>the opening of the new museum of Xuanzang in the restored buildings of the
>Yuhuasi Monastery.
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>Evgueni Tortchinov
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>TORTCHINOV Evgueni, Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor,
>Department of Oriental Philosophy and Cultural Studies, Chair
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