2006 Conference
Dates: June 16-17, 2006
Venue: USYD
Topic: Buddhist Studies: Australasian Contributions
Conference Program (includes abstracts)
Panels:
• Contemporary Expressions in Buddhism
• Doctrine and Methodology
• Historical Studies
• Studies in Buddhist Meditation
Presenter |
Panel |
Topic |
Mark Allon, USYD |
Historical Studies |
East meets West: Buddhists and Greeks in the North-west of the Indian subcontinent |
Edward Crangle, USYD |
Contemporary Expressions in Buddhism |
The Altruistic Wish: Guanyin and the Dynamics of Healing in Buddhist Meditation |
Glenys Eddy, USYD |
Contemporary |
A Strand of Contemporary Tantra: Its Discourse and Practice in the FPMT |
Antonio Ferreira-Jardim, UQ |
Studies in |
Some notes towards a history of Early Buddhist & Jaina meditation: vitakka, viynra/-i and terms referring to mental one-pointedness (egatta, egaggamaṇa etc) |
Peter Friedlander, La Trobe |
Doctrine and |
Buddhist Worlds: the development of Buddhist understandings of the world |
Elizabeth Guthrie, Otago |
Contemporary |
Rebuilding Cambodian Buddhism anew: modernity at a cost or Khmer Renaissance? |
Chris Hartney, USYD |
Contemporary |
Non-Standard Buddhisms in Modern Vietnam: Reaffirming Traditions or Creating New Religions? |
John Jorgenson, Griffith |
Doctrine and |
Indian and Confucian text-critical methodologies in Chinese Buddhism |
Sally Mcara, University of Auckland |
Contemporary |
Merit-Making and Relics in a cross cultural setting |
Andrew McGarrity, USYD |
Doctrine and |
Between Exegete and Historian: Hermeneutic Paradigms for Studying Tibetan Reconstructions of Indian Buddhist Thought |
Drasko Mitrikeski, USYD |
Doctrine and |
The Importance of Merit Accumulation for Realizing the Ultimate |
Pankaj Mohan, USYD |
Historical Studies |
The Political Significance of the Benevolent King Sutra (Renwang jing) in Early Silla |
Peter Oldmeadow and Lee Chilton |
Historical Studies |
Modern scholars and tradition on the place of the absolute in Yogācāra Buddhism |
Doug Osto, Massey |
Doctrine and |
Proto-Tantric Elements in The Gaṇḍavyuha-sutra |
John Powers, ANU |
Keynote |
What’s Wrong with the Sutra Path? A Cultural Approach to Tsong Khapa’s Great Exposition of Secret mantra |
Adrian Snodgrass, UWS |
Doctrine and |
A Chinese Puzzle: How to Translate the Dharma |
Judith Snodgrass, UWS |
Keynote |
Discourse, Authority, Demand: The Politics of Early English publications on Buddhism |
Brendon Stewart, UWS |
Studies in |
I have to be careful when I say that Buddhism means this of that to me |
Sonam Thakchoe, UTAS |
Studies in |
Demystifying the Vipassana: Towards the Philosophical & the Phenomenological Basis of the Insightful Meditation |