2011 Conference
The 2011 AABS Conference was held in conjunction with the 2011 New Zealand Association for the Study of Religions Conference.
Dates: December 7-9, 2011
Venue: Queenstown, NZ
Conference Program (includes abstracts)
Panels:
• Buddhism in China
• Buddhism in Practice
• Buddhism in Western Practice
• Mahāyāna Scholarship
• Method in the Study of Buddhism
• Orientalism
• Ritual, Art and Archaeology
Presenter |
Panel |
Topic |
Mark Allon, USYD |
Method in the Study of Buddhism |
Current trends in cataloging, photographing, editing, and studying Pali manuscripts |
Chris Clark, USYD |
Method in the Study of Buddhism |
Editing practices used to prepare the ‘European editions’ of Pāli texts |
Shayne Clarke, McMaster |
Mahāyāna Scholarship | On the Plurality of Vinaya Traditions in the Mūlasarvāstivāda and the Inconsistencies between the Tibetan Bhikṣuṇī Prātimokṣa and its Purported Canonical Commentary |
Joshua Esler, UWA |
Buddhism in China |
Tibetan Buddhism and Han Chinese: hybrid religious and cultural identity in contemporary China |
Ruth Fitzpatrick, UWS |
Buddhism in Western Practice | ‘Extra-ordinary Teachers’: The Teacher-Student relationship in Australian Tibetan Buddhism |
Kathleen Gregory, La Trobe |
Buddhism in Practice |
Where does Buddhism exist? A living tradition perspective |
Elizabeth Guthrie, Otago |
Buddhism in Practice | Buddhism in the time of war: four ballads from the Khmer Republic |
Anna Halafoff, Monash |
Buddhism in Western Practice |
Robina Courtin: an Unconventional Buddhist? |
Karen Lang, USYD |
Keynote |
The Buddha’s Middle Way: In Defense of Nice Clothes, Good Food, and Beautiful Monasteries |
Sally McAra, Victoria University of Wellington |
Buddhism in Western Practice |
Local and international themes in New Zealand Buddhism |
Ian McCrabb, USYD |
Ritual, Art and Archaeology |
Gandhāran Reliquary Inscriptions |
Andrew McGarrity, USYD |
Mahāyāna Scholarship |
The Case for Self-Interest on the Buddhist Path |
Nicolas Morrissey, University of Georgia |
Ritual, Art and Archaeology |
Wilderness Isolation, Mahayana Buddhism and the Reoccupation of Abandoned Monastic Sites in the Deccan |
Tenzin Mullin, Otago |
Buddhism in China | Lay ritual at Baoguo Monastery: Constant Walking Meditation |
Barbara Nelson, ANU |
Method in the Study of Buddhism |
Translating the Bodhicaryāvatāra |
Douglas Osto, Massey |
Buddhism in Western Practice |
LSD DHARMA: Psychedelics and Buddhism in America |
Phra Kiattisak Ponampon, Otago |
Buddhism in China |
An Shigao and Early Chinese Buddhist Meditation |
Maithree Moorthree Pubbiliye, DIRI |
Buddhism in Practice |
Ehi Passiko: Monastic Code and the Role of Monarchy in Theravada Buddhism |
Michael Radich, Victoria University of Wellington |
Mahāyāna Scholarship |
Don’t Like What You Hear? Then Go to Hell! Fearmongering, Seduction and the ‘Cult of the Book’ in the Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa-mahāsutra |
Adrian Snodgrass, UWS |
Ritual, Art and Archaeology |
Role Reversals in Buddhist Rituals |
Judith Snodgrass, UWS |
Orientalism |
Beyond Zen: Eastern Buddhism at the World’s Parliament of Religions, 1893 |
James Stewart, UTAS |
Buddhism in Practice |
Vegetarianism and Buddhapūja in Urban Sri Lanka |
Chaisit Suwanvarangkul, Otago |
Mahāyāna Scholarship |
Dharmadhātu in the Avataṃsakasūtra |
Edie Young, NGA |
Ritual, Art and Archaeology |
The world’s biggest artwork is rolled down a mountainside |