Locality and Hybridity in the Sino-Vietnamese Religious Manuscripts in the Hsu Collections

This project aims to offer a comprehensive study of a group of Buddhist and Daoist liturgical manuscripts preserved in the Hsu Collection, one of the largest private collections of Chinese and Southeast Asian texts in Asia. Besides identifying, cataloging and digitizing these religious manuscripts, this project examines the locality and hybridity in the Sino-Vietnamese religious culture. It will help reveal the significance of this group of religious texts that lies in the international network of Chinese Buddhism and Daoism in the 17th to 19th centuries as well as the locality and hybridity of religious practice in Southeast Asia.