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DR Stefania Travagnin's Outputs (25)

Fostering Education Beyond the Classroom: Examples from Republican Buddhism and their Legacy Today (2023)
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Travagnin, S. (2023). Fostering Education Beyond the Classroom: Examples from Republican Buddhism and their Legacy Today

This research explores how Buddhist “education within/for lay society” translated in the Chinese context. In both the Imperial and Republican eras, Buddhist monastics and lay intellectuals did more than simply preach the laity. Trusting that Buddhist... Read More about Fostering Education Beyond the Classroom: Examples from Republican Buddhism and their Legacy Today.

Buddhist Discourses in Modern Suining (Sichuan): Local Discourses within Chinese and Regional Narrative (2021)
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Travagnin, S. (2021). Buddhist Discourses in Modern Suining (Sichuan): Local Discourses within Chinese and Regional Narrative. Asia major, 34(2), 127-179

Research on Buddhism in modern Sichuan has been limited mostly to a few case studies and places. However, the in-depth research undertaken here reveals a richer picture, involving several rural and urban centers, and overlapping monastic and lay netw... Read More about Buddhist Discourses in Modern Suining (Sichuan): Local Discourses within Chinese and Regional Narrative.

Monk Changyuan 昌圓 (1879–1945), Nuns in Chengdu, and Revaluation of Local Heritage: Voicing Local (In)Visible Narratives of Modern Sichuan Buddhism (2021)
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Travagnin, S. (2021). Monk Changyuan 昌圓 (1879–1945), Nuns in Chengdu, and Revaluation of Local Heritage: Voicing Local (In)Visible Narratives of Modern Sichuan Buddhism. Journal of Chinese religions, 49(2), 191-240

The study of Buddhism in modern Sichuan has been limited mostly to a few case studies and places. However, in-depth research reveals a richer picture, involving several rural and urban centers. This article seeks to redirect scholarly focus and give... Read More about Monk Changyuan 昌圓 (1879–1945), Nuns in Chengdu, and Revaluation of Local Heritage: Voicing Local (In)Visible Narratives of Modern Sichuan Buddhism.

Reducing Suffering During Conflict: The Interface Between Buddhism And International Humanitarian Law (2020)
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Bartles-Smith, A., Crosby, K., Harvey, P., Premasiri, P. D., Tilakaratne, A., Ratheiser, D., Deegalle, M., Trew, N. M., Travagnin, S., & Harris, E. J. (2020). Reducing Suffering During Conflict: The Interface Between Buddhism And International Humanitarian Law. Contemporary Buddhism, 21(1/2), 369-435. https://doi.org/10.1080/14639947.2021.1976016

This article stems from a project launched by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in 2017 to examine the degree to which Buddhism might complement or enhance international humanitarian law (IHL), also known as ‘the law of war’ or ‘the... Read More about Reducing Suffering During Conflict: The Interface Between Buddhism And International Humanitarian Law.

Reception History and Limits of Interpretation: The Belgian Étienne Lamotte, Japanese Buddhologists, the Chinese monk Yinshun 印順 and the Formation of a Global ‘Da zhidu lun 大智度論 Scholarship’ (2018)
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Travagnin, S. (2018). Reception History and Limits of Interpretation: The Belgian Étienne Lamotte, Japanese Buddhologists, the Chinese monk Yinshun 印順 and the Formation of a Global ‘Da zhidu lun 大智度論 Scholarship’. Hualin international journal of Buddhist studies, 1(1), 248-277. https://doi.org/10.15239/hijbs.01.01.09

Buddhist Education between Tradition, Modernity and Networks: Reconsidering the ‘Revival’ of Education for the Saṅgha in Twentieth-century China (2017)
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Travagnin, S. (2017). Buddhist Education between Tradition, Modernity and Networks: Reconsidering the ‘Revival’ of Education for the Saṅgha in Twentieth-century China. Studies in Chinese Religions, 3(3), 220-241. https://doi.org/10.1080/23729988.2017.1392193

In line with the overall focus on the special issue, this article offers a critical evaluation of Welch’s writing on Buddhist education. It analyzes the vocabulary and conceptual binaries used by Welch, and assesses the impact of his arguments on the... Read More about Buddhist Education between Tradition, Modernity and Networks: Reconsidering the ‘Revival’ of Education for the Saṅgha in Twentieth-century China.

Elder Gongga 貢噶老人 (1903-1997) between China, Tibet and Taiwan: Assessing Life, Mission and Mummification of a Buddhist Woman (2016)
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Travagnin, S. (2016). Elder Gongga 貢噶老人 (1903-1997) between China, Tibet and Taiwan: Assessing Life, Mission and Mummification of a Buddhist Woman. The journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions, 3, 250-272

Elder Gongga (1903-1997), a Chinese Buddhist woman native of Beiping, played a crucial role in the transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in China and Taiwan, bridged Dharma traditions, and merged Buddhist and cultural identities; she also became an eminen... Read More about Elder Gongga 貢噶老人 (1903-1997) between China, Tibet and Taiwan: Assessing Life, Mission and Mummification of a Buddhist Woman.

The Impact of Politics on the Minnan Buddhist Institute: Sanmin zhuyi 三民主义 and aiguo zhuyi 爱国主义 in the Context of Sangha Education (2015)
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Travagnin, S. (2015). The Impact of Politics on the Minnan Buddhist Institute: Sanmin zhuyi 三民主义 and aiguo zhuyi 爱国主义 in the Context of Sangha Education. Review of Religion and Chinese Society, 2(1), 21-50. https://doi.org/10.1163/22143955-00201004

This article analyzes patterns in the direct and indirect influence of the Chinese government on the redefinition of Sangha education during the twentieth century. My research examines three moments in the history of the Minnan Buddhist Institute (mi... Read More about The Impact of Politics on the Minnan Buddhist Institute: Sanmin zhuyi 三民主义 and aiguo zhuyi 爱国主义 in the Context of Sangha Education.

Concepts and Institutions for a New Buddhist Education: Reforming the Saṃgha between and within State Agencies (2014)
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Travagnin, S. (2014). Concepts and Institutions for a New Buddhist Education: Reforming the Saṃgha between and within State Agencies. East Asian history (Canberra, A.C.T. Online), 39, 88-101

Education reforms have played a key role in the turning points of Chinese history. Slogans like jiaoyu jiuguo 教育救國 became well-known when the first Republic succeeded the Empire, at the dawn of the Mao era, and with Deng Xiaoping in the 1980s. Ch... Read More about Concepts and Institutions for a New Buddhist Education: Reforming the Saṃgha between and within State Agencies.

What is Behind Yinshun’s Re-statement of the Nature of the Mūlamadhyamakakā: Debates on the Creation of a New Mahāyāna in Twentieth-century China (2012)
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Travagnin, S. (2012). What is Behind Yinshun’s Re-statement of the Nature of the Mūlamadhyamakakā: Debates on the Creation of a New Mahāyāna in Twentieth-century China. Buddhist Studies Review, 29(2), 251-272. https://doi.org/10.1558/bsrv.v29i2.251-272

Yinshun (1906–2005) is regarded as one of the most eminent monks in twentieth-century Chinese Buddhism. Previous research has argued that Yinshun especially undertook the mission of writing new commentaries on Madhyamaka texts. His efforts provoked a... Read More about What is Behind Yinshun’s Re-statement of the Nature of the Mūlamadhyamakakā: Debates on the Creation of a New Mahāyāna in Twentieth-century China.