SOAS Centre of Buddhist Studies Postgraduate Workshop
Key information
- Date
- Time
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10:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Venue
- Paul Webley Wing (Senate House)
- Room
- SALT
About this event
10:00 - 10:10am OPENING REMARKS: Lucia Dolce, chair of the Centre of Buddhist Studies
10:10 - 11:00am
1st Panel:
Sculpture and the spread of Buddhism
(Discussant: Heidi Tan)
Ziyi Shao
Translating Gods: what can the iconographic pantheon in Fanhualou tell?
Phyllis Lau
Four-armed Maitreya in the so-called 'Prakhon Chai Group’
11:00 - 11:15am
COFFEE BREAK
11:15 - 12:15am
2nd Panel:
The establishment of Esoteric traditions
(Discussant: Monique Filsnoël)
Agneta Niklasson
Is it Possible to Identify the Buddha?
Sooyeun Yang
Seven Star Ritual in Late Joseon Buddhism: Localised Ritual with Multifaceted Elements
12:15am - 1:30pm
LUNCH BREAK
1:30 – 2:30pm
3rd Panel:
Practice and its ramifications
(Discussants: Meng Wang, Rhonwen Sayer)
Pete Cherry
A Critical Study of the ‘Diamond-like samādhi’ (vajropama-sāmadhi)
Ngawang Jungney (Kai-Hsiang Lin)
A History of Khön Vajrakīlaya Practice and Its Multiple Constructions
2:30 – 3:30pm
4th Panel:
Intertextuality and the commentarial tradition
(Discussant: Janine Nicol)
Rusha Jin
The Citations and Their Usages in Zhanran’s Zhiguan Fuxing Chuanhongjue
Huynh Quoc Tuan
An Early Prajñāpāramitā Commentarial Tradition: A Study of the Exegetical Features of the Da zhidu lun (*Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa)
3:30 – 4:00pm
COFFEE BREAK
4:00 – 4:30pm
Final Panel:
Getting your PhD and life after submission
Christopher Foster
Lana Ko
Janine Nicol
Emanuela Sala
4:30-5:00pm
Q&A AND FINAL REMARKS
Organiser: SOAS Centre of Buddhist Studies
Contact email: 633905@soas.ac.uk
