Journey to the East
Enlightening Your Worldview via Chinese Culture

by Jonathan Krause

A Chinese and business double major during undergraduate training, recipient of the Joseph Fletcher Memorial Award for Excellence in an A.M. Thesis at Harvard, who trained in Asia for five years in Kagyu and Nyingma Buddhist traditions related to mantra, meditation and mindfulness, currently Class of 2017 at Paul L. Foster School of Medicine in Texas, and the calligrapher of the following work:

4:00 – 6:00 PM, Thursday, 15 May 2014
104 Wilder Hall, Dartmouth College
Sponsored by DAMELL

Project for Calligraphy and Manuscript Culture

Presents CCMC Workshop 2

The Hengxian 恒先 Manuscript:
“Ante-Eternity” in the Warring States China

Led by Profs. Chen Jing and Xing Wen

8:00 PM – 9:00 PM, 14 May 2014
105A Bartlett Hall, Dartmouth College

Free Registration:
Wen.Xing@Dartmouth.EDU (by midnight 13 May 2014)

Image of the 4th century BCE bamboo-slip manuscript Hengxian
(Ma Chengyuan, ed., Shanghai bowuguan cang Zhanguo Chu zhushu [san]. Shanghai: Shanghai guji, 2003, p. 9):

The first English article and translation of the Hengxian by Chen Jing, “Interpretation of Hengxian: An Explanation from a Point of View of Intellectual History.” Frontiers of Philosophy in China Vol. 3, No. 3 (2008), 366-388:

Part 1  Part 2  Part 3

Xing Wen’s transcription and reconstruction (in Chinese): “The Chu Bamboo-slip Hengxian: A Reconstructed Transcription with Section Division.” History of Chinese Philosophy 2010.2 (May 2010), 51-56.

Selected further reading (in Chinese): Xing Wen, “The Chu Bamboo-slip Hengxian and the ‘Eight-Couplet Essay.'” Guangming Daily 1 March 2010, page 12.