A Research on the Tang Buddhist Palace Chapels

I will continue my research on Chinese Buddhism at UBC, with a focus on Tang Buddhist Palace Chapels. The Tang Buddhist palace chapels which are special products of satisfying the royal family’s religious and political needs actually combine religious sanctification and political momentum in the virtue of sacred space, in order to meet the needs of the Tang royal family’s Buddhist belief and consolidate the rule of imperial power. I would like to take advantage of the existing handed-down documents, unearthed information and the materials of the stone inscriptions, in order to reconstruct the historic events happened in the Tang Buddhist palace chapels and the famous monks and nuns of the palace chapels who are not known by the later generations because of a variety of political, historical and religious reasons. It contributes to combine overall grasp and case analysis, in order to elucidate clearly the true historical original appearances, the functions of the palace chapels and the close relationship between the palace chapels and politics as far as possible.
With the help of international academic communication, I will enrich the content of the doctoral dissertation and modify it for the first draft by utilizing… [TBC]

Faculty Supervisor:

Jinhua Chen

Student:

Partner:

Renmin University of China

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program: