SOAS Centre of Buddhist Studies Postgraduate Workshop

Workshop Programme

9:30-9:40 Introductory words

9:40-10:40 1st panel (Discussant: Antonello Palumbo)

• Roberta Ginleiz Gattodoro: The Transmission of the Puṇyavanta- Jātaka, A Sanskrit Buddhist text handed down into Chinese, Tocharian and Tibetan
• Janine Nicol: Shi Daoxuan (c. 596-667) and the Creation of a Buddhist Sacred
• Geography of China

10:40 – 11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:00-12:00 2nd panel (Discussant: Christian Luczanits)

• Kulamitra David Zukas: The Search for Water: Indicators of the Buddhist Transition to Permanent Monastic Living
• Monique Filsnöel: Ogyen Choling in Bhutan an interpretation of the Temple and its Art

12:00-13:00 LUNCH BREAK

13:00-14:00 3rd panel (Discussant: Ulrich Pagel)

• Yael Shiri: Buddhist Identity and the Śākyas in the Buddha’s hagiographies
• Susan Roach: Humour in the Mūlasarvāstivāda-vinaya

14:00-14:15 COFFEE BREAK

14:15-15:15 4th panel (Discussant: Vincent Tournier)

• Aruna Gamage: Buddhaghosa’s Critique of Divergent Buddhist Views
• Karen O’Brien-Kop: Joining the dots between Buddhist Yoga and Classical Yoga

15:15-15:40 Khyentse award ceremony

• Emanuela Sala: Word Games in Kamakura Commentaries and Esoteric Hermeneutics