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15 Jun 2024: Search. One of the great privileges of working in The Parker Library is the opportunity to slowly discover the collections, to spend a few minutes looking at a manuscript whose shelfmark you don’t recognise, to talk to readers working on things you’ve never considered, to share in the excitement of new discoveries, and to learn just a little bit more about an item, bit by bit. One could spend a lifetime getting to know the collection, but even given many such lifetimes, there would still be many items that I will never even begin to understand; for now, they must remain filed away in memory, black holes sitting next to the tiny pinpricks of light that are connected to their neighbors on the shelves. Every year we welcome the students from the Corpus Christi Medicine and English Summer School Program to The Parker Library. During each of these visits we give the participants a tour of our current exhibition and then bring out a few items that we believe may be of particular interests to the students that they are allowed to (gently) explore as we talk about the history of the book. This year, I was delighted to share MS 227, Curing Thousands of Diseases, an eight volume Chinese work that was printed in the 1660s, and one of my

10 Jun 2024: 1. “Historiography and Hagiography in Buddhism and Beyond”. Yin-cheng International Conference. Newnham College, University of Cambridge. 8-10 July 2024. Conference Schedule. Monday, July 8. 9:30-10:00 Registration and coffee. 10:00-12:00 Session 1 Welcome Address: Noga Ganany Keynote Addresses. • Rey Sheng Her The Public History in of Contemporary Buddhism: Exemplifying Tzu Chi’s Oral History and Documentation. • Mark Meulenbeld Place and Presence: What Peach Spring tells us about Hagiography. 12:00-13:30 Lunch break. 2. 13:30-15:30 Session 2 The Life/Lives of the Buddha: Chair: Richard Bowring. • Mario Poceski Intersections of History, Legend, and Myth in the Live(s) of the Buddha. • Arun Kumar Yadav Historiography of Some Major Biographical Events of the Śākyamuni Buddha. • Gudrun Bühnemann An Illustrated Life of Śākyamuni Buddha According to the Newar Buddhist Tradition. 15:30-16:00 Coffee break. 16:00-17:30 Session 3 Writing, Publishing, and the Laity: Chair: Noga Ganany. • Marcus Bingenheimer. Uses of Biography in the Longshu jingtuwen (1162 CE). • Guo Xing Bhikshuni (Yu-Chen Tsui) Hongzhi Zhengjue’s Usage of Allusions from Secular Literature in Gong’an Commentarial Verses. • Katherine

10 Jun 2024: 1. “Historiography and Hagiography in Buddhism and Beyond”. Yin-cheng International Conference. Newnham College, University of Cambridge. 8-10 July 2024. Conference Schedule. Monday, July 8. 9:30-10:00 Registration and coffee. 10:00-12:00 Session 1 Welcome Address: Noga Ganany Keynote Addresses. • Rey Sheng Her The Public History in of Contemporary Buddhism: Exemplifying Tzu Chi’s Oral History and Documentation. • Mark Meulenbeld Place and Presence: What Peach Spring tells us about Hagiography. 12:00-13:30 Lunch break. 2. 13:30-15:30 Session 2 The Life/Lives of the Buddha: Chair: Richard Bowring. • Mario Poceski Intersections of History, Legend, and Myth in the Live(s) of the Buddha. • Arun Kumar Yadav Historiography of Some Major Biographical Events of the Śākyamuni Buddha. • Gudrun Bühnemann An Illustrated Life of Śākyamuni Buddha According to the Newar Buddhist Tradition. 15:30-16:00 Coffee break. 16:00-17:30 Session 3 Writing, Publishing, and the Laity: Chair: Noga Ganany. • Marcus Bingenheimer. Uses of Biography in the Longshu jingtuwen (1162 CE). • Guo Xing Bhikshuni (Yu-Chen Tsui) Hongzhi Zhengjue’s Usage of Allusions from Secular Literature in Gong’an Commentarial Verses. • Katherine