Rituals and Transmission｜儀式與傳承

Three Teachings Studies: Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism (TTS) welcomes contributions that explore how teachings are enacted, transmitted, and sustained through ritual performance, institutional mechanisms, and textual traditions across the Three Teachings.

Ritual practice serves as both vessel and crucible: a medium of continuity and a site of transformation. From ancestral rites and ordinations to talismanic acts, seasonal offerings, and structured transmissions, we seek studies that illuminate the embodied expressions of tradition in classical and contemporary contexts.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• ▪ Structural logic, symbolic language, and performative aesthetics of rituals
• ▪ Doctrinal, social, and political dimensions of transmission lineages (famai, chuanfa, shicheng)
• ▪ Ritual manuals, liturgies, and their relationship to lived practice
• ▪ Points of convergence and divergence among Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist ritual forms
• ▪ Localized innovations and vernacular ritual systems
• ▪ Ritual as a vehicle for ethical cultivation and cosmological expression

We welcome interdisciplinary approaches—textual analysis, historical inquiry, ethnography, and fieldwork—emphasizing ritual as a historically situated, culturally dynamic mode of transmission and transformation.

儀式、傳承與實踐

本專欄聚焦儒、道、佛三教中之儀式實踐、制度設計與傳承機制，探討教義如何透過身體行動、組織系統與文本儀軌得以延續與轉化。

從祭祖、受戒、歲時祀典，到法器使用、符籙施行、傳法制度，儀式既是傳統的承載體，也是創新與再詮的場域。我們歡迎論述三教在古今中外多樣語境下之儀式實踐與演變。

徵稿主題包括但不限於：

• ▪ 三教儀式之結構邏輯、象徵語彙與表演美學
• ▪ 法脈與傳法體系的教義、社會與政治層面
• ▪ 儀式文本（如儀軌、科儀）與實作行動的關聯
• ▪ 儒道佛三教儀式的交涉、融合與差異
• ▪ 地方性與俗民化儀式的發展與變化
• ▪ 儀式在倫理培育與宇宙觀形構中的作用

來稿可運用文本詮釋、歷史考證、田野觀察等多元方法，強調儀式作為一種文化實踐與精神傳承的動態過程。