2012 Conference

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
Myanmar

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
Epistemology

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
Buddhism

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
Buddhism

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
Context in Religion

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
Australian Universities

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