Date: 21 March 2014Time: 9:00 AM
Finishes: 21 March 2014Time: 6:00 PM
Venue: Brunei Gallery Room: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
Type of Event: Workshop
The full day workshop follows on from the lecture by Dr Saryu Doshi (Mumbai) which is held on Thursday, 20 March.
Programme
| Time | Description |
|---|
| 9.00 | Tea and Coffee |
First Session: Early Jaina Hagiography and Biography |
| 9.15 | Samaṇī Pratibhāprajñā (SOAS) Autobiographical and Biographical Accounts of Ācārya Tulasī |
| 9.45 | Renate Söhnen-Thieme (SOAS) Ṛṣabha and Bharata in Hindu Purāṇas |
| 10.15 | Ruth Satinsky (University of Lausanne) What the Lifespans of Ṛṣabha, Bharata, Śreyāṃsa, and Ara can tell us about the History of the Concept of Mount Meru |
| 10.45 | Tea and Coffee |
Second Session: Medieval and Early Modern Jaina Hagiography and Biography |
| 11.15 | Eva De Clerq (University of Ghent, Belgium) Biographies of Ṛṣabha and the Rise of Śatruñjaya |
| 11.45 | Anna Esposito (University of Würzburg, Germany) Why Narrating the Same Biography Twice? Tiviṭṭhu, Ayala and Āsaggīva in Saṅghadāsa’s Vasudevahiṇḍī |
| 12.15 | Steve M. Vose (Florida International University, USA) A Kharatara Gaccha Monk in the Tapā Gaccha Imaginaire: Tapā Gaccha Re-tellings of the Life of Jinaprabhasūri |
| 12.45 | Group Photo |
| 13.00 | Lunch: Brunei Gallery Suite |
Third Session: Narrating Lives |
| 14.00 | Sin Fujinaga (Miyakonojo, Miyazaki, Japan) On Muni Jambūvijaya |
| 14.30 | Andrea Luithle-Hardenberg (University of Tübingen, Germany) Rāmacandrasūri (1897-1992): A Life Between Consistent Asceticism and Political Controversies |
| 15.00 | Whitney M. Kelting (Northeastern University, USA) Great Nun as Mother: Hagiography and the Biography of Divyaprabhāsrījī |
| 15.30 | Tea and Coffee |
Fourth Session: Analytical Perspectives |
| 16.00 | Luitgard Soni (Innsbruck) Lifes' Ends: Jaina Modes of Dying in Ārādhanā Texts |
| 16.30 | Tillo Detige (University of Ghent, Belgium) Singing the Praises of the Bhaṭṭārakas: Digambara Hagiographic Compositions from Rājasthān |
| 17.00 | Peter Flügel & Kornelius Krümpelmann (SOAS) Johannes Klatt’s Jaina Onomasticon |
| Brief Break | |
Fifth Session: Final Discussion & Remarks |
| 17.45-18.00 | Final Discussion & Remarks |
Admission
Free and open to all.
Organiser: Centre of Jaina Studies, Centres & Programmes Office
Contact email: centres@soas.ac.uk
Contact Tel: 020 7898 4893/2
Sponsor: SOAS, University of Lund
