2009 Conference
Dates: December 10-11, 2009
Venue: USYD
Topic: Buddhist Studies: Australasian Contributions
Conference Program (includes abstracts)
Panels:
• Buddhism in Australia
• Buddhism in Practice
• Buddhism in the West
• Buddhist Philosophy
• Text and Function
• Transmission of Buddhism
Presenter |
Panel |
Topic |
Mark Allon, USYD |
Transmission of Buddhism |
Mahāyāna in Gandhāra |
Paul Brownell, ANU |
Buddhist Philosophy |
Defining and Understanding Hermeneutics in the Yogācāra Text dbus dang mtha’ rnam par ‘byed pa kyi ‘grel ba (The Commentary on Differentiating the Middle from the Extremes) |
Chris Clark, USYD |
Text and Function |
Buddhaghosa as depicted in the Buddhaghosuppatti |
Eddie Crangle, USYD |
Buddhist Philosophy 2 |
Buddhism and the Construction of the Enemy |
Glenys Eddy, USYD |
Buddhism in the West |
Methodology and Meditative Experience: Evaluating My Experience of the Hindrances as an Interpretive Tool for Vipassana Field Research |
Peter Friedlander, Singapore |
Buddhism in Practice |
Surati and nirati: mindfulness and awareness |
Ruth Gamble, ANU |
Buddhism in Practice |
Dancing with the Censor: Dondrup Gyal on Buddhism |
Meredith Hughes, ANU |
Buddhism in the West |
Concepts and Practices of Disruption and Interrogation in Contemporary Art and Indo Tibetan Buddhism, A Practice Based Enquiry |
Peter Jilks, ANU |
Buddhist Philosophy |
A Development in the Notion of Irreversibility (avaivartika) on the Bodhisattva Path |
John Jorgenson, Griffith |
Transmission of Buddhism |
Colloquial Chinese and the problem of the accurate transmission of Chan Buddhism into Korea, Japan and Vietnam |
Andrew McGarrity, USYD |
Buddhist Philosophy |
The Logic of Omniscience: A Madhyamaka Buddhist Argument for Realising the Emptiness of All Things |
Drasko Mitrikeski, USYD |
Text and Function |
Dharmadhatustotra: Nagarjuna’s revolutionary corrective to his doctrine of emptiness |
Peter Oldmeadow, USYD |
Buddhist Philosophy 2 |
Approaching the problem of dualism in Buddhism through Martin Heidegger |
Doug Osto, Massey |
Buddhist Philosophy 2 |
A Comparative Look at Classical Sāṃkhya and Theravāda Buddhism |
Trevor Robertson, USYD |
Buddhism in Australia |
Trends and Development in Theravāda Buddhism in Australia |
Geoffrey Samuel, Cardiff |
Keynote |
Buddhism and a Sustainable World: Some Reflections |
Clarke Scott, UTAS |
Buddhism in Practice |
Madhyamaka Constructionism: Establishing the Unreal |
Iain Sinclair |
Buddhist Philosophy 2 |
To Make or Not make Maṇḍalas: Buddhist Controversies on the Value of Rituals |
Adrian Snodgrass, UWS |
Keynote |
Multiple Arms, Multiple Eyes, Multiple Heads, Multiple Rationalities |
Judith Snodgrass, UWS |
Transmission of Buddhism |
The Young East: Buddhism, Colonialism, and Asian Modernity in the Japanese Empire |
Brendon Stewart, UWS |
Buddhism in the West |
The Koan of the Clone |
James Stewart, UTAS |
Buddhism in Practice 2 |
On the Very Idea of the Good in Pāli Buddhism |
Bhante Sujato, Santi Forest Monastery |
Buddhism in Australia |
Text formation of the earliest Buddhist literature, with special reference to the Bhikkhuni |
Gesar Temur, ANU |
Buddhism in Australia |
The Dispersion of the Buddha’s Teachings to the West: The Attraction of Westerners, at Buddha House in Adelaide, to the Buddha’s Teachings |
Bhikṣu Chang Tzu Shi, USYD |
Text and Function |
The Evolution of the Story of Sadāprarudita in the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra |
Malcolm Voyce, Macquarie |
Buddhism in Practice 2 |
Foucault, Buddhism and the rules of Buddhist monks |