Ding Kehan 丁可含
Teaching Fellow

- Philosophy
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Email: Kehan.Ding@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Room 13.15
- City
- 40 George Square, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9JX
Background
Ding Kehan joined the Department of Philosophy in 2024 after three years of teaching as a Tutor in Chinese at the Department of Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh. She works in the areas of East Asian history and Buddhist studies. Kehan's main research interests lie in Chan Buddhism, the social and institutional history of Chinese Buddhism, ritual studies and the history of tea.
Qualifications
PhD Chinese, University of Edinburgh (2024)
MSc Chinese Society and Culture, University of Edinburgh (2018)
BA English, Capital University of Economics and Business (2017)
Responsibilities & affiliations
Edinburgh Buddhist Studies (EBS) Network
European Association for Chinese Studies
Higher Education Academy
Undergraduate teaching
Buddhist Philosophy
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. From Tea to Buddha: A History of Chinese Chan/Zen Tea. Manuscript submitted for publication.
- Ding Kehan. “Tea Ethics in Medieval Chinese Chan Monasteries.” Yin-Cheng Journal of Contemporary Buddhism. (In press)
- Ding Kehan. “The Spatial Orientation of Chan Rituals: Bridging Buddhist Monastic Practices with Chinese State Rites in Medieval China.” Journal of Chan Buddhism. (In press)
- 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.
- Ding Kehan. Conference report for the international conference “How Zen Became Chan” at Yale University, published on the Glorisun and Frogbear websites, 12 Oct 2022.
- Ding Kehan 丁可含. “Qianxi Tang Xianzu ‘rensheng rumeng’ de renshengguan” 浅析汤显祖“人生如梦”的人生观 [An analysis on Tang Xianzu’s philosophy of “Life is a dream”]. Home Drama 戏剧之家, no.1(2017): 19-20, 26.