Ding Kehan
Thesis title: Chan Monastic Tea in Medieval China: A Deconstruction of Chan-tea Culture
PhD Chinese
- Asian Studies
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
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Background
Kehan received her master's degree in Chinese studies at Edinburgh in 2018 and completed her PhD in Chinese at Edinburgh in 2024. Most of her research interests lie in the overlap of Chan Buddhism and medieval Chinese history, including Buddhist monastic rituals, the state administration of Buddhism, the narrative of Chan hagiographies, and the history of tea.
Fellowship & Scholarship
2020 Associate Fellowship of Higher Education Academy
2016 China National Scholarship
Responsibilities & affiliations
Tutor in Chinese, LLC, University of Edinburgh
Intern at CAMLab, FAS, Harvard University
Member of Edinburgh Buddhist Studies Network
Undergraduate teaching
Pre-Modern East Asian History and the Forces That Shaped It
Society and Culture in Pre-Modern East Asia
Modern East Asian History B
Conference details
20 April 2024 International Conference “Buddhism and Food Ethics”, University of Oxford
“Tea Ethics in Medieval Chinese Chan Monasteries”
23 June 2023 UK Association for Buddhist Studies Conference 2023: Negotiating Boundaries, University of St Andrews
“Tea Samādhi: Material Display and Imagination of Chan Buddhism”
14 June 2023 International Conference “Ritual and Materiality in Buddhism and Asian Religions”, Princeton University
Thesis Introduction “Buddhist Monastic Tea in Song-Yuan China: A Deconstruction of Chan-tea Culture”
12 Sep 2022 34. Deutscher Orientalistentag (DOT), Freie Universität Berlin
“The Musical Signifiers of Buddhist Monastic Rituals in Medieval China”
25 Aug 2022 The 24th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS), Palacký University Olomouc
“The Administration of Buddhism in the Northern Song (960-1127): Inter-Prefectural Restriction and Intra-Prefectural Autonomy”
29 July 2022 International Conference “How Zen Became Chan”, Yale University
“The Spatial Orientation of Chan Rituals: Bridging Buddhist Monastic Practices with Chinese State Rites in Medieval China”
13 Aug 2021 Glorisun International Intensive Program on Buddhism: Young Scholars’ Forum, CAMLab, Harvard University
“The Syntax of Ritual Formulation in the Song-Yuan Buddhist Monasteries”
3-6 Aug 2020 The Third Middle-Period China Humanities Conference (220-1600), Yale University (cancelled)
“Chan Monastic Tea Rituals in Song-Yuan China: A Deconstruction of Chancha”
Ding Kehan. “The Spatial Orientation of Chan Rituals: Bridging Buddhist Monastic Practices with Chinese State Rites in Medieval China”. Journal of Chan Buddhism. (Accepted)
Ding Kehan 丁可含. “Zhonggu Zhongguo Chanyuan yigui de fangwei jiedu” 中古中國禪院儀軌的方位解讀 [An orientational interpretation of medieval Chinese Chan monastic rituals]. In How Zen Became Chan: Pre-modern and Modern Representations of a Transnational East Asian Buddhist Tradition 禪流河東復河西：禪宗跨地域與跨文化傳播的跨學科考察 (Hualin Book Series on Buddhist Studies Vol.5). Edited by Chen Jinhua 陳金華, 303-325. Singapore: World Scholastic Publishers, 2022. ISBN: 978-981-17276-0-3.