2007 Conference
Dates: December 3-4, 2007
Venue: UWS
Topic: Buddhist Studies: Australasian Contributions
Conference Program (includes abstracts)
Presenter |
Topic |
Mark Allon, USYD |
A Gāndhārī version of the story of the merchants Tapussa and Bhallika and of the gods giving the Buddha his first alms bowl |
Chris Barker, Wollongong |
Men, Buddhism and the Emotional Discontents of Western Modernity |
Diana Cousens, Monash |
The Reflection of the Buddha in the World |
Glenys Eddy, USYD |
Concentration versus Insight: New Embodiments of an Old Relationship |
Ruth Fitzpatrick, UWS |
Transforming Tara; Meanings in Motion |
Peter Friedlander, La Trobe |
Dhammapada |
Ruth Gamble, ANU |
Being There: Place and Space in the 3rd Kamapa’s Travelling Songs |
Chanida Jantrasrisalai, USYD |
Dhammakāya in the Pali Canon |
John Jorgenson, Griffith |
The Commentary on the Lankāvatāra Sūtra by Kokan Shiren (1278-1346) |
Hugh Kemp, Victoria University |
How the Dharma Landed: Towards an Understanding of how Buddhism arrived in New Zealand |
Martin Kovan, UQ |
The Buddha’s Second Renunciation: doubt, groundlessness and autonomy in contemporary Western Buddhism |
Stephen Malloch, UWS |
Infancy, Buddhism and Relating |
Sally Mcara, University of Auckland |
Buddhifying the landscape |
Andrew McGarrity, USYD |
Emptiness and Voidness |
Drasko Mitrikeski, USYD |
On puṇyapariṇāmanā in Nāgārjuna’s works |
Barbara Nelson, ANU |
Finding the path in Śāntideva |
Peter Oldmeadow, USYD |
Approaches to dualism in Indian Madhyamaka and Yogācāra |
Douglas Osto, Massey |
Money, Merchant-Bankers And The Mahāyāna |
Michael Radich |
There is no dhammakāya in the Pāli canon |
Adrian Snodgrass, UWS |
Emptiness and Paradox: Did Nāgārjuna Have the Last Word, or the Last Laugh? |
Judith Snodgrass, UWS |
Naturalising Empire: The Lumbini Festival and Pan-Asian Buddhist Brotherhood |
Rafal Stepien, Oxford |
The Imagery of Emptiness in the Poetry of Wang Wei |
Brendon Stewart, UWS |
Teaching Buddhism and analytical psychology |
David Templeman |
Previous Lives and Present Lives: The Spiritual Life of 16-17th cent. Tibetan Hierarch |
Sonam Thakchoe, UTAS |
Status of Conventional Truth in Tsong khapa’s Mādhyamika Philosophy |
John Wu, USYD |
Ontological Difference and the “Other-Empty”-“Self-Empty” Controversy in Tibetan Buddhism |