2012 Conference
The 2012 AABS Conference was held in conjunction with the 2012 Australian Association for the Study of Religion Conference.
Dates: September 28-30, 2012
Venue: UWS
Topic: Multiple Religious Modernities
Conference Program (includes abstracts)
Panels:
• Buddhism and Epistemology
• Buddhism and Exegesis
• Buddhism in Australia
• Buddhism in Contemporary Asia
• Buddhism: social, political, and ecological engagement
• Buddhism, Studies and Australian Universities
• Buddhist Monks, Nuns and Monasteries
• Exegesis in Islam and Buddhism
• Exegis and Social Context in Religion
• Experiences and Perspectives in Buddhism
• Food, Animals and Religion
• Media, Consumerism, and Religion
• Text and Context in Buddhism
Presenter |
Panel |
Topic |
Wendi Adamek, USYD |
Buddhism and Epistemology |
(At Least) Two Fields of the Practice of Phenomenology |
Mark Allon, USYD |
Buddhism, Studies and Australian Universities |
Buddhist Studies in Australian Universities |
Bunty Avieson, Macquarie |
Media, Consumerism, and Religion |
Building a Buddhist media |
Sally Bamford, ANU |
Buddhism in Contemporary Asia |
Side by side: the Buddha and the nats of |
Rod Bucknell, UQ |
Buddhism and Exegesis |
The Four Truths in Three Turns: Variation in accounts of the Buddha’s first teaching and its possible significance |
Chris Clark, USYD |
Buddhist Monks, Nuns and Monasteries |
How the sixth Buddhist council was presented to the public |
Tamara Ditrich and Royce Wiles, Nan Tien Institute |
Buddhism and Exegesis |
Exegesis of the terms ajjhattaṃ and bahiddhā in the Satipahāna-sutta |
Glenys Eddy, USYD |
Experiences and Perspectives in Buddhism |
Stromberg’s Impression Point: Its Applicability to the Understanding the Socialization and Commitment Experiences of Tibetan Buddhist Practitioners |
Glenys Eddy, USYD |
Food, Animals and Religion |
Tradition and Change at Vajrayana Institute: Traditional and Western Modernist Aspects of Religious Activity at a Local FPMT Centre |
Peter Friedlander, La Trobe |
Buddhism in Australia |
Insight Meditation in Australia |
Aruna K. Gamage, University of Kelaiya |
Buddhism and Exegesis |
Improvisation & Theravada Confraternity: a study of the moot quotations in the Pali Commentaries |
Ruth Gamble, ANU |
Buddhist Monks, Nuns and Monasteries |
The Gendered, Geo-Political Geography of Natural Disasters in the Tibetan Buddhist World |
Niluka Gunawardena & Fiona Kumari Campbell, Griffith |
Buddhism: social, political, and ecological engagement |
Sensing Disability in Buddhism: Reading Lord Buddha Against the Grain |
Anna Halafoff, Deakin |
Buddhism in Australia |
Women and Buddhism in Australia |
John Jorgensen, ANU |
Buddhism and Epistemology |
Hara Tanzan and “Buddhist neuroscience” |
Martin Kovan, University of Melbourne |
Buddhism and |
On The First Buddhist Precept: an ontoepistemic critique of intentional killing as a political and punitive causal operator |
Ian McCrabb, USYD |
Text and Context in |
Gandhāran Reliquary Inscriptions: Relic Identification and Instantiation |
Toby Mendelson (University of Melbourne) & Ruth Fitzpatrick (UWS) |
Buddhism in Australia |
Free to Choose- Tibetan Buddhism in the West, A neo-liberal Therapy? |
Barbara Nelson, ANU |
Text and Context in |
Anutpatikadharmakṣānti and its relationship to the kṣāntipāramīta |
Hakan Sandgren, UQ |
Buddhism in Contemporary Asia |
Local Traditions vs. Government Directives: A Study of the Tsechu Festivals in Bhutan |
Vimala Sarma, USYD |
Exegis and Social |
The Chariot Allegory for Personhood in Two Indic Traditions |
Shi Faxun, Nan Tien Institute |
Buddhist Monks, Nuns and Monasteries |
Active Passivity: Contemporary Taiwanese Bhikkhunis in Search of Liberation |
Arvind Kumar Singh, Gautam Buddha University |
Buddhism: social, political, and ecological engagement |
Buddhist Social Ethics: A Way to Counter Social Evils |
Rana Purushottam Kumar Singh, Nava Nalanda Mahavihara |
Experiences and Perspectives in Buddhism |
Buddhist Psychology and Mind Sciences: A Dialogue Between East and West |
Judith Snodgrass, UWS |
Buddhism, Studies and |
Studies of Buddhism in Australian Universities |
James Stewart, UTAS |
Food, Animals and Religion |
Cow Protection and Buddhism in Sri Lanka |
Malcolm Voyce, Macquarie |
Exegesis in Islam and Buddhism |
The Interpretation of the Vinaya: The Rules of Buddhist Monks and Moral Cultivation |