Please find below schedule of panels and presenters. Please find attached copy of conference program.
Time |
Panel |
Presenter |
Topic |
Attach. |
10.00 |
Keynote |
Judith Snodgrass |
Discourse, Authority, Demand: The Politics of Early English publications on Buddhism. |
Abstract |
11.30 |
Doctrine and Methodology |
John Jorgenson |
Indian and Confucian text-critical methodologies in Chinese Buddhism |
Abstract |
12.00 |
Doctrine and Methodology |
Adrian Snodgrass |
A Chinese Puzzle: How to Translate the Dharma |
Abstract |
12.30 |
Doctrine and Methodology |
Andrew McGarrity |
Between Exegete and Historian: Hermeneutic Paradigms for Studying Tibetan Reconstructions of Indian Buddhist Thought |
Abstract |
2.00 |
Studies in Buddhist Meditation |
Sonam Thakchoe |
Demystifying the Vipassana: Towards the Philosophical & the Phenomenological Basis of the Insightful Meditation. |
Abstract |
2.30 |
Studies in Buddhist Meditation |
Antonio Ferreira-Jardim |
Some notes towards a history of Early Buddhist & Jaina meditation: vitakka, viyāra/-i and terms referring to mental one-pointedness (egatta, egaggamaṇa etc) |
Abstract |
3.00 |
Studies in Buddhist Meditation |
Brendon Stewart |
I have to be careful when I say that Buddhism means this of that to me. |
Abstract |
4.00 |
Historical Studies |
Mark Allon |
East meets West: Buddhists and Greeks in the North-west of the Indian subcontinent. |
Abstract |
4.30 |
Historical Studies |
Pankaj Mohan |
The Political Significance of Benevolent King Sutra (renwangjing) in Early Korea" |
Abstract |
5.00 |
Historical Studies |
Peter Oldmeadow and Lee Chilton |
Modern scholars and tradition on the place of the absolute in Yogācāra Buddhism
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Abstract |
9.30 |
Keynote |
John Powers |
What's Wrong with the Sutra Path? A Cultural Approach to Tsong Khapa's Great Exposition of Secret mantra |
Abstract |
11.00 |
Doctrine and Methodology |
Doug Osto |
Proto–Tantric Elements in The Gandavyūha–sūtra. |
Abstract |
11.30 |
Doctrine and Methodology |
Peter Friedlander |
Buddhist Worlds: the development of Buddhist understandings of the world. |
Abstract |
12.00 |
Doctrine and Methodology |
Drasko Mitrikeski |
The Importance of Merit Accumulation for Realizing the Ultimate |
Abstract |
1.30 |
Contemporary Expressions in Buddhism |
Chris Hartney |
Non-Standard Buddhisms in Modern Vietnam: Reaffirming Traditions or Creating New Religions?. |
Abstract |
2.00 |
Contemporary Expressions in Buddhism |
Elizabeth Guthrie |
Rebuilding Cambodian Buddhism anew: modernity at a cost or Khmer Renaissance? |
Abstract |
2.30 |
Contemporary Expressions in Buddhism |
Sally Mcara |
Merit-making and relics in a cross-cultural setting. |
Abstract |
3.30 |
Contemporary Expressions in Buddhism |
Edward Crangle |
The altruistic wish: Guanyin and the dynamics of healing in Buddhist meditation. |
Abstract |
4.00 |
Contemporary Expressions in Buddhism |
Glenys Eddy |
A Strand of Contemporary Tantra: Its Discourse and Practice in the FPMT |
Abstract |
