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Ann Heirman

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141 Results

2025

Buddhist monasticism

Ann HeirmanAnna SokolovaMariia Lepneva

Bookchapter in Oxford bibliographies in Chinese studies

The poet–monk Taixu and his imagery world

Xiaoxiao XuAnn HeirmanEster Bianchi

佛教寺院和其中的牛 (上) = Buddhist monasteries and (their) oxen

Ann HeirmanSheng Ning

Text translation

2024

Bouddha : l'expérience du sensible : album de l'expo

Lyce JankowskiLara BaudenAnn Heirman

Buddhist monasteries and (their) oxen : Daoxuan's vinaya commentaries

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF CHINESE BUDDHIST STUDIES

Fighting Fu Yi : Daoxuan and his defense of Buddhism in the social and political context of the early Tang period

Shi FalingAnn HeirmanAnna Sokolova

Bookchapter in Interactions between religious and political authority : case studies from Japan and China, past and present

La vie de Siddhartha Gautama, le Bouddha Sakyamuni

Bookchapter in Bouddha : l'expérience du sensible

2023

Body movement and sport activities : a Buddhist normative perspective from India to China

Ann HeirmanTzu-Lung Chiu

Bookchapter in 'Take the Vinaya as your master' : monastic discipline and practices in modern Chinese Buddhism

Chan before Chan : meditation, repentance, and visionary experience in Chinese Buddhism

Physical exercise and sporting activities in contemporary Taiwanese and mainland Chinese Buddhist monasteries

Tzu-Lung ChiuAnn Heirman

Bookchapter in 'Take the Vinaya as your master' : monastic discipline and practices in modern Chinese Buddhism

2022

Joseph VerheydenGeert RoskamAnn HeirmanJohan Leemans

Editorial material

Reaching for perfection : studies on the means and goals of ascetical practices in an interreligious perspective

2021

18-20 juli 2007

Bookchapter in Dates with gender and diversity : huldeboek voor Marysa Demoor

How does one become ordained?

Bookchapter in Buddhism in five minutes

State, bureaucracy, and the formation of regional monastic communities in Tang buddhism

Anna SokolovaBart DesseinAnn Heirman

The consumption of garlic : vinaya rules

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF CHINESE BUDDHIST STUDIES

What about rats? Buddhist disciplinary guidelines on rats : Daoxuan’s vinaya commentaries

A1 Journal Article in RELIGIONS

What is the position of nuns in Buddhism?

Bookchapter in Buddhism in five minutes

What is the role of monasticism in Buddhism?

Bookchapter in Buddhism in five minutes

2020

A missing Buddhist biography : Li Yong 李邕 (678-747) and his stele inscription for Daoxuan 道宣 (596-667)

Anna SokolovaAnn Heirman

A1 Journal Article in ACTA ORIENTALIA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARUM HUNGARICAE

A reevaluation of so-called passive constructions in ancient Chinese : from Pre-Qin to the Han dynasty

Jianhong ZengChristoph AnderlAnn Heirman

Book review : Wilt L. Idema : Insects in Chinese Literature : A Study and Anthology. (Cambria Sinophone World Series.) x, 341 pp. Amherst, NY : Cambria Press, 2019. ISBN 978 1 60497 954 1

Buddhism and the dynamics of transculturality : new approaches

Fojiao de chuanbo 佛教的传播 (translation of Spread of Buddhism, 2007)

Ann HeirmanStephan Peter Bumbacher

Protecting insects in medieval Chinese Buddhism : Daoxuan’s Vinaya commentaries

A1 Journal Article in BUDDHIST STUDIES REVIEW

初转法轮 : 说一切有部与大众部的论争

Bookchapter in 佛教的传播

2019

Buddhist translation practices in Medieval China : the case of the Buddhacarita

Laura LettereAnn Heirman

How to deal with dangerous and annoying animals : a Vinaya perspective

A1 Journal Article in RELIGIONS

Vinaya rules for monks and nuns

Bookchapter in Oxford research encyclopedia of religion

印度戒律規則及其在早期中國的成熱 – 一個佛教事實 (trans. of Indian disciplinary rules and their early Chinese adepts : a Buddhist reality)

Ann HeirmanJia Qiao

A2 Journal Article in 宏德學報

2018

Because they entrusted to them a part of their Buddhist selves : imagined communities, layered identities, and networking

Bookchapter in Buddhist encounters and identities across East Asia

Bodily care identity in Buddhist monastic life of ancient India and China : an advancing purity threshold

Bookchapter in Buddhist encounters and identities across east Asia

Christoph AnderlBart DesseinAnn Heirman

Bookchapter in Oxford bibliographies in Chinese studies

Buddhist encounters and identities across East Asia

Buddhist monasticism

Bookchapter in Oxford bibliographies in Chinese studies

The formation of the kě 可 and kě yǐ 可以 constructions

Jianhong ZengChristoph AnderlAnn Heirman

A2 Journal Article in CAHIERS DE LINGUISTIQUE ASIE ORIENTALE

The life of Daoxuan : according to others and his own words

Ang ZouAnn Heirman

Withdrawal from the monastic community and re-ordination of former monastics in the Dharmaguptaka tradition

A2 Journal Article in BUDDHISM, LAW & SOCIETY

2017

'I believe in Buddhism and travelling', denoting oneself a Lay Buddhist in contemporary urban Taiwan

Esther-Maria Guggenmos

Buddhism on war and peace : some thoughts and examples

Bookchapter in Philosophy of war and peace

Sleeping equipment in early Buddhism : from India to China

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF THE OXFORD CENTRE FOR BUDDHIST STUDIES

Sleeping Equipment in Early Buddhism from India to China

Bookchapter in A Festschrift for Florentina Visan

Toilet care in Buddhist monasteries : health, decency, and ritual

Ann HeirmanMathieu Torck

Bookchapter in Buddhism and Medicine

2016

Ba jing fa ji qi dui biqiuni seng tuan de yingxiang 八敬法及其对比丘尼僧团影响

Bookchapter in Zongjiao, fazhi yu Zhongguo chuantong = 宗教、法治与中国传统

Buddhism on war and peace : some thoughts and examples

Bookchapter in Philosophy of war and peace (IPO 2016)

Contemporary Buddhist nunneries in Taiwan and mainland China : a study of Vinaya practices

Tzu-Lung ChiuAnn Heirman

Shoes in Buddhist monasteries from India to China : from practical attire to symbol of respect

A1 Journal Article in ACTA ORIENTALIA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARUM HUNGARICAE

2015

Boeddhisme en abortus

Bookchapter in Hier staan we voor! Levensbeschouwingen over cruciale ethisch-maatschappelijke thema's

Buddhist nuns through the eyes of leading early tang masters

A2 Journal Article in CHINESE HISTORICAL REVIEW

C. Pierce Salguero, Translating Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (Encounters with Asia), 2014, 245 pp

Dialogues with(in) the Pali Vinaya: a research into the dynamics and dialectics of the Pali Vinaya's Ascetic others, with a special focus on the Jain other

Claire MaesAnn Heirman

2014

Abridged Teaching (Lüe Jiao): monastic rules between India and China

Bookchapter in Buddhism across Asia : networks of material, cultural and intellectual exchange

Buddhist monasticism

Bookchapter in Oxford bibliographies in Chinese studies

Gente Daxue de Zhongguo xue yanjiu 跟特大学的中國学研究 (Chinese Studies in Ghent University)

Bookchapter in Guoji yu xue 国际汉学, International Sinology

The Gurudharmas in Buddhist Nunneries of Mainland China

Tzu-Lung ChiuAnn Heirman

A1 Journal Article in BUDDHIST STUDIES REVIEW

Washing and dyeing Buddhist monastic robes

A1 Journal Article in ACTA ORIENTALIA

2013

Elements of the syncretist tradition in the Chunqiu Fanlu's chapters on the theory of rulership

Ivana BuljanAnn HeirmanBart DesseinJana S RoškerAnkica Čakardić

Ethnicity and sinicization : the theory of assimilative power in the making of the Chinese nation-state (1900s-1920s)

Julia SchneiderAnn HeirmanEric VanhauteAlex Schneider

Taiwan's Tzu Chi as engaged Buddhism, origins, organization, appeal and social Impact, by Yu-Shuang Yao. Leiden, Boston: Global Oriental, Brill, 2012 (review article)

2012

A pure mind in a clean body : bodily care in the Buddhist monasteries of ancient India and China

Ann HeirmanMathieu Torck

Sleep well! Sleeping practices in Buddhist disciplinary rules

A1 Journal Article in ACTA ORIENTALIA

The Gurudharmas in Taiwanese Buddhist Nunneries

Ann HeirmanTzu-Lung Chiu

A1 Journal Article in BUDDHIST STUDIES REVIEW

The spread of Buddhism

Tsai Suey-Ling: the life of the Buddha: Woodblock Illustrated Books in China and Korea. Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, 76. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2012 (review article)

2011

Boeddha, zijn leer en zijn gemeenschap: een inleiding tot geschiedenis, filosofie en kloosterleven

Bart DesseinAnn Heirman

Buddhist nuns : between past and present

A1 Journal Article in NUMEN-INTERNATIONAL REVIEW FOR THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS

China's education system at the beginning of the 21st century

Bart DesseinAnn Heirman

Fengzeng system in Song China

Jian SunAnn Heirman

Good accounts make good friends : economic aspects of temple investment projects in nineteenth-century South China

Tobias WisslerAnn Heirman

Konrad Meisig (ed.). Translating Buddhist Chinese, Problems and Prospects. East Asian Intercultural Studies 3. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010. vii, 166 pp. (review article)

Lost in translation: a case study of Sanghabhadra's Shanjian lü piposha (T.1462)

Gudrun PinteAnn Heirman

Monks for hire: Liang Wudi's use of household Monks (jiaseng 家僧)

Tom De RauwAnn Heirman

A1 Journal Article in MEDIEVAL HISTORY JOURNAL

2010

'I believe in buddhism and travelling' : on the attractiveness of denoting oneself a lay buddhist in contemporary urban Taiwan : an analysis of lay buddhist self-construction within the context of social change and buddhist reformatory efforts based on narrative biographical interviews

Esther-Maria GuggenmosAnn Heirman

Animal symbolism in eighteenth-century Chinese fantastic literature : Yuan Mei and the writing of Zi Bu Yu

Evelien VandenhauteAnn Heirman

Boeddhisme: situering

Bookchapter in Overgangsrituelen : een brug tussen het andere en het gelijke

Fifth Century Chinese Nuns: An Exemplary Case

A2 Journal Article in Buddhist Studies Review

Konrad Meisig: the beginnings of Buddhist ethics: the Chinese parallel to the Kūṭadantasutta, edited, translated and compared with the Pāli. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2011. vii, 120 pp. (review article)

2009

Chinees culturalisme en nationalisme: wording en ontwikkeling van een visie op de wereld

Bart DesseinAnn Heirman

A4 Journal Article in HERMES (RIEMST)

Francesco Sambiasi, a missing link in European map making in China?

Ann HeirmanPaolo De TroiaJan Parmentier

A1 Journal Article in IMAGO MUNDI-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY

Speech is silver, silence is golden? Speech and Silence in the Buddhist samgha

A1 Journal Article in The Eastern Buddhist

2008

Becoming a Nun in the Dharmaguptaka Tradition.

A2 Journal Article in Buddhist Studies Review

Beyond Buddhist apology: the political use of Buddhism by emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty (r. 502-549)

Tom De RauwAnn Heirman

China: een maatschappelijke en filosofische geschiedenis van de vroegste tijden tot de twintigste eeuw.

Ann HeirmanBart DesseinDominiek Delporte

Indian Disciplinary Rules and Their Early Chinese Adepts: A Buddhist Reality

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY

Where is the probationer in the Chinese Buddhist nunneries?

A1 Journal Article in ZEITSCHRIFT DER DEUTSCHEN MORGENLANDISCHEN GESELLSCHAFT

Yijing's view on the Bhiksunis' standard robes

A2 Journal Article in CHUNG-HWA BUDDHIST JOURNAL

2007

Introduction: The Spread of Buddhism.

Bookchapter in The Spread of Buddhism

Sramaneris and Siksamanas in the Dharmaguptaka Tradition

The spread of Buddhism.

Vinaya: from India to China.

Bookchapter in The Spread of Buddhism

2006

Offenders, sinners and criminals: the consumption of forbidden food

Ann HeirmanTom De Rauw

A2 Journal Article in ACTA ORIENTALIA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARUM HUNGARICAE

Recensie: ‘Delporte, Dominiek, ‘Precedents and the Dissolution of Marriage Agreements in Ming China (1368-1644). Insights from the “Classified Regulations of the Great Ming,” Book 13’. Law and History Review 21, 2, 2003, p. 271-296

Recensie: ‘Robinson, Kenneth R., Treated as Treasures: the Circulation of Sutras in Maritime Northeast Asia from 1388 to the Mid-sixteenth Century. East Asian History 21, 2001, p. 33-54

Recensie: ‘Yuan Naiying 袁乃瑛, Tang Haitao 唐海濤, Geiss James, Selections from Classical Chinese, Historical Texts. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. X + 292 p

Recensie: ‘Yuan Naiying 袁乃瑛, Tang Haitao 唐海濤, Geiss James, Classical Chinese, A Basic Reader. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. 3 Vols. (XIV + 282; VI + 192; VI + 374)

2005

Boeddha, zijn leer en zijn gemeenschap: een inleiding tot geschiedenis, filosofie en kloosterleven

Bart DesseinAnn Heirman

Der Ursprung der japanischen Vinaya-Schule, Risshu, und die Entwicklung ihrer Lehre und Praxis. László Hankó, Göttingen (review article)

A2 Journal Article in BUDDHIST STUDIES REVIEW

2004

Charming Cadavers. Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in the Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature (review article)

A2 Journal Article in BUDDHIST STUDIES REVIEW

The Chinese Samantapasadika and its School Affiliation.

A1 Journal Article in ZEITSCHRIFT DER DEUTSCHEN MORGENLANDISCHEN GESELLSCHAFT

2003

Hanyü lüben mingxiang de cihui yanjiu: a lexicographical research: technical terms of vinaya texts

A4 Journal Article in UNIVERSAL GATE BUDDHIST JOURNAL = PUMEN XUEBAO

Recensie: Chen Jinhua, "The Birth of a Polymath: The Genealogical Background of the Tang Monk-Scientist Yixing (673-727)". T'ang Studies 18-19, 2000-2001, p. 1-39

Recensie: Goldfuss, Gabriele, Vers un bouddhisme du XXième siècle. Yang Wenhui (1837-1911), réformateur laïque et imprimeur. Paris: Collège de France, Institut des Hautes Etudes Chinoises, 2001. 262 p. (Memoires de l'Institut des Hautes Etudes Chinoises 38)

Recensie: Goossaert, Vincent, "Starved of Resources: Clerical Hunger and Enclosures in Nineteenth-Century China". Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 62, 2002, p. 77-133

Recensie: Hinton, Carmelita, "In Search of Erlang". East Asian History 21, 2001, p. 1-32

Recensie: Long, Darui, "A Note on the Hongwu Nanzang, a Rare Edition of the Buddhist Canon". The East Asian Library Journal 9,2, 2000, p.112-147

The Origins of Buddhist Monastic Codes in China. An Annotated Translation and Study of the Chanyuan qinggui (review article)

A2 Journal Article in BUDDHIST STUDIES REVIEW

The Parajika Precepts for Nuns

A2 Journal Article in BUDDHIST STUDIES REVIEW

The Time Schedule of the Kathina Period

A2 Journal Article in ACTA ORIENTALIA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARUM HUNGARICAE

2002

A lexicographical research: technical terms of vinaya texts

A4 Journal Article in UNIVERSAL GATE BUDDHIST JOURNAL = PUMEN XUEBAO

Can we trace the early Dharmagupatakas?

A1 Journal Article in TOUNG PAO

Controversies over Buddhist nuns

Introduction to the World-map of Francesco Sambiasi

A2 Journal Article in ANNALI : ISTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO ORIENTALE

The Discipline in Four Parts: Rules for Nuns according to the Dharmaguptakavinaya, 3 vols.

2001

A Comparative Study of the Pratimoksa, on the Basis of its Chinese, Tibetan, Sanskrit and Pali Versions / W. Pachow. - Delhi (review article)

A2 Journal Article in BUDDHIST STUDIES REVIEW

China, een maatschappelijke en filosofische geschiedenis van de vroegste tijden tot de twintigste eeuw.

Ann HeirmanBart DesseinDominiek Delporte

Chinese nuns and their ordination in fifth century China

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BUDDHIST STUDIES

Der Orden in der Lehre, Zur religiösen Deutung des Sangha im frühen Buddhismus / Oliver Freiberger. - Wiesbaden (review article)

A2 Journal Article in BUDDHIST STUDIES REVIEW

Is er in het boeddhisme plaats voor vrouwelijke religieuzen?

A4 Journal Article in VERSLAGEN VAN HET RUG-CENTRUM VOOR GENDER-STUDIES

Pratimoksasutra der Sarvastivadins, Teil II Kritische Textausgabe, Ubersetzung, Wortindex sowie Nachträge zu Teil I / Georg von Simson. - Göttingen (review article)

A2 Journal Article in BUDDHIST STUDIES REVIEW

The Sarvastivada Parajika precepts for nuns

A2 Journal Article in ANNALI : ISTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO ORIENTALE

2000

Modern Education Technology and Chinese Teaching to Foreigners'.

Bart DesseinAnn HeirmanPiotr Bogumil KaczmarskiLi MaFernand VandammeDirk Vervenne

On Some Fragments of the Bhiksunipratimoksa of the Sarvastivadins.

A2 Journal Article in BUDDHIST STUDIES REVIEW

Rules, Buddhist (Vinaya): Monks

Rules, Buddhist (Vinaya): Nuns

What happened to the nun Maitreyi?

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BUDDHIST STUDIES

1999

Boeddha, zijn leer en zijn gemeenschap: een inleiding tot geschiedenis, filosofie en kloosterleven

Bart DesseinAnn Heirman

Die Pravarana in den kanonischen Vinaya-Texten der Mulasarvastivadin und der Sarvastivadin / Jin-il Chung. - Göttingen, 1999 (review article)

A2 Journal Article in BUDDHIST STUDIES REVIEW

A2 Journal Article in BUDDHIST STUDIES REVIEW

Rethinking classroom teaching - transposing teaching techniques to a computer environment.

Bart DesseinAnn Heirman

Vinaya: perpetuum mobile

A2 Journal Article in Etudes Asiatiques

1998

Bart DesseinAnn Heirman

A2 Journal Article in Asiatische Studien/Etudes Asiatiques

Die Vorschriften für die Buddhistische Nonnengemeinde im Vinaya- Pitaka der Theravadin. Ute Hüsken, Dietrich Meier Verlag, Berlin 1997, Monographien zur Indischen Archäologie, Kunst und Philologie 11, 519pp., ISBN 3-496-02632-4 (review article)

A2 Journal Article in ASIATISCHE STUDIEN. ETUDES ASIATIQUES

Die Vorschriften für die Buddhistische Nonnengemeinde im Vinaya-Pitaka der Theravadin / Ute Hüsken. - Berlin (review article)

A2 Journal Article in BUDDHIST STUDIES REVIEW

Dierenverhalen van de Lisu

A4 Journal Article in HET TRAGE VUUR

Disciplinaire voorschriften voor boeddhistische nonnen : Bhikṣuṇīvibhaṅga van de dharmaguptaka's (T. Vol. 22, Nr. 1428, pp. 714-778)

Ann HeirmanCharles Willemen

Gurudharma: an important vinaya rule.

A2 Journal Article in Indian Journal of Buddhist Studies

1997

Bart DesseinAnn HeirmanXi Chen

De parabel van koningin Mallika

A4 Journal Article in HET TRAGE VUUR

Some remarks on the rise of the bhikṣuṇīsaṃgha and on the ordination ceremony for bhikṣuṇīs according to the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BUDDHIST STUDIES

The Great Wall of China: A 'VAR, Multimedia and Language Teaching' Project

Bart DesseinAnn Heirman

A2 Journal Article in New Technologies and Education - The Journal for the Integrated Study of Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and Apllied Epistemology

VR in the Schools, East-Carolina University, VS, 15 p. web: http://eastnet.educ.ecu.edu/vr/vrits/3-4VLT.htm.

TG De PaepeBart DesseinAnn HeirmanL MAF VANDAMMED VERVENNECharles Willemen