viernes, 5 de abril de 2013

AWARD 2013 Friedrich Weller Award for Seishi Karashima

This is to announce that our colleague Professor Seishi Karashima, Soka University, Tokyo, has been awarded the Friedrich Weller Prize

2013 for his outstanding publication "Die Abhisamâcâcarikâ Dharmâh" (3 vols., Tokyo 2012).

The awarding ceremony will take place at the Spring Session of the Saxon Academy of Sciences, April 12, 2013 at 16:00, in the Altes Rathaus (Old City Hall), Leipzig. The Session is open to the public.

For further details, see http://www.saw-leipzig.de/aktuelles/oeffentliche-fruehjahrssitzung-2013.

On April 11, 17:00, Professor Karashima will give a talk at the Institute of Indology and Central Asian Studies, Leipzig University, on "What did the word mahâyâna originally mean?".

See http://www.gko.uni-leipzig.de/indologie-zaw/aktuelles.html.

All friends and colleagues are cordially invited.

With best wishes,

Eli Franco