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Conférences du CEIB et de l’EFEOMercredi 6 décembre 2017 à partir de 14hINALCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris, Salle 3.15La séance sera animée parFabienne Jagou (EFEO)A Theravada conquest of China? Pan-Asian Buddhism and the Southeast-Asian Model in Modern ChinaEster Bianchi, Maître de conférence (HDR) à l’Università degli Studi di Perugia, ItalieDiscutant : François Lagirarde, EFEOAt the turn of the nineteenth century, in the wake of Buddhism’s addition to the pantheon ofthe “world religions”, the idea of an alleged “original Buddhism” emerged. This was soon tobe identified with the Pāli Buddhism of South and South-East Asia, i.e. with the Theravādatradition.Chinese Buddhists were also exposed to this new perspective, after centuries when therehad not been many – if any – contacts between Chinese and Sinhalese Buddhists. SomeChinese prominent masters and lay people started to espouse the idea whereby theSoutheast Asian traditions reflected more than any other Buddhist form the “originalteaching” of the Buddha and, more precisely, that the “original" Indian Buddhist vinaya hadbeen best preserved by Theravāda monasticism.To what extent and depth was the Chinese saṃgha affected by the Theravāda model interms of rules of conduct and ritual procedures? The present lecture aims to probe into theimpact of these modern ideas on the subsequent developments of Chinese Buddhism,mainly focusing on the vinaya.Tibetan-Tangut Buddhist Encounters through the Patronage of Tangut RulersCarmen Meinert, professeur à la Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Allemagnecoordinatrice du projet ERC « Dynamics in Buddhist Networks in Eastern Central Asia 6th-14th Centuries (Buddhist Road) »Discutant : Matthew Kapstein, EPHEThe Tangut Empire (11th to 13th centuries) was the last Buddhist stronghold in Eastern CentralAsia thanks to generous imperial support. A unique feature of this patronage system was itsdual orientation, favoring Sinitic as well as Tibetan Buddhist traditions nowadays stilldocumented in manuscripts collections, paintings and murals from various Central Asianoases and garrisons. The interest of Tangut rulers in Tibetan Tantric Buddhism is particularlystriking from around the 1130s until the Mongolian conquest in the 1220s. Within this timespan Tibetan teacher were residing at the Tangut court, translations from Tibetan intoTangut and Chinese were prepared e.g. of ritual manual and Buddhist art of a Tantricpantheon was produced on banners and on walls at cave sites. I suggest to closely readtextual and visual materials of this period and from various locations together, in order toget a clearer picture of the dynamics of intercultural exchange, and production anddissemination of Tantric Buddhist knowledge.programme à télécharger&#160;