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Dear list members,
The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore would
like to call for papers for a conference to be held on February
16-18, 2009; Buddhism Across Asia: Networks of Material,
Intellectual and Cultural Exchange.
Kind regards
AABS Executive
Buddhism Across
Asia: Networks of Material, Intellectual and Cultural Exchange
Proposals are invited for papers
based on original research and using primary sources that will
focus on any of the following themes:
1. Education and centers of learning (such as, but not
limited to, Taxila, Nalanda, Vallabhi, Mathura, Bairam-Ali,
Srivijaya,Dunhuang, Chang'an, Hangzhou, etc.);
2. The transmission and translation of ideas and texts;
3. Buddhism and local cultures: assimilation, conflict,
absorption: Buddhism and local cultures;
4. Buddhism, statecraft, and material culture;
5. Excavating Buddhism: the role of archeology in understanding
the history of Buddhism;
6. Buddhist rituals and ceremonies across cultures;
7. Cross-currents in Buddhist art and architecture;
8. Anthropologies of Buddhism in Asia;
9. Contemporary Buddhism and Buddhist Institutions in Asia.
Proposal are to be submitted by July 1, 2008. For a
proposal form and further details please contact
mailto:baac@iseas.edu.sg |
