佛教的跨地域、跨宗教傳播

In commemoration of Antonino Forte, whose work constitutes a major contribution to the study of Buddhism in medieval China and Japan, the religions of the Silk Road, and East Asian art and archaeology, from July 4 to July 6, 2021, the fifteenth anniversary of his passing, a series of international conferences was jointly held by the Glorisun Global Network, the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) ‘From the Ground Up: Buddhism and East Asian Religions’ (FROGBEAR)’ project (https://frogbear.org), the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’ (his alma mater), the Italian School of East Asian Studies in Kyoto, Princeton University, and Geumgang University in South Korea. The first conference, titled ‘The Transmission of Buddhism in Asia and Beyond,’ was co-organized by the UBC-based FROGBEAR Project and Princeton University, and covered a variety of areas in which Forte conducted research, including Dunhuang studies, the translation of Buddhist scriptures, textual and historical research methodologies, Buddhist institutions, and Buddhist archaeology. After the conference, we have collected fourteen important essays in this book as a memorial to the great intellectual contributions of Professor Forte.