The research project ChinBuddhPhil—The Ethics of Empty Beliefs: Chinese Buddhist Philosophy in the ‘Period of Disunity’—contributes to the historical and systematic study of Chinese Buddhist philosophy. Its study of the foundational Sanlun school integrates Chinese Buddhist philosophers into world intellectual history and the global history of philosophy. This international conference is devoted to evaluating the influence of Sanlun upon other systematic schools of Chinese Buddhist philosophy.

Program

The conference is scheduled to take place from 09:00 to 17:00 on Thursday 7 and Friday 8 August 2025.

Registration

Scholars and members of the public interested in auditing the conference are kindly requested to contact the project administrator via e-mail by 1 August 2025 at hermine.huber(at)oeaw.ac.at.

Speakers

Ernest B. Brewster, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Chu Kwan Chan, University of Hamburg
Hsun-Mei Chen, Kyoto University
Jérôme Ducor, University of Geneva
Shi Fachi, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Shad Gilbert, University of Helsinki
Hans-Rudolf Kantor, Huafan University
Paulus Kaufmann, Ludwig Maximilian University
Michael Kinadeter, University of Hamburg
Carsten Krause, University of Hamburg
Sangyop Lee, Seoul National University
Chen-kuo Lin, National Chengchi University
Xueni Lin, Heidelberg University
Polina Lukicheva, University of Zurich
Jackson Macor, University of California Berkeley
Henry Shiu, University of Toronto
Rafal K. Stepien, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Jan Vihan, Czech Academy of Sciences
Haishan Zhang, Sichuan University
John Zhao, Taizhou University
Paweł Zygadło, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Convenor

Rafal K. Stepien, Austrian Academy of Sciences