Dear colleagues,
may I draw your attention to the following panel to be organized by Stefan Baums (Munich) and Ingo Strauch (Lausanne) at the next IABS conference 2014 in Vienna (see information below).
Those of you who are interested in participating, please *contact* Stefan Baums (baums@lmu.de) or Ingo Strauch (ingo.strauch@unil.ch) *as soon as possible*.
The web submission deadline for the conference is fixed at November 1st. Therefore we would like to get your *abstracts by October 20th*.
Best regards
Ingo Strauch (Lausanne)
*Manuscripts and Writing in Buddhist Monasteries: New Discoveries and Research*
Our knowledge of the literature and doctrines of early Buddhism has been greatly improved by recent manuscript discoveries, especially in the northwestern regions of South Asia (ancient Gandha-ra). At the same time, these oldest Indian manuscripts, among them many unknown and incompletely preserved texts, raise many new questions that can only be answered by detailed studies comparing this corpus to other Buddhist manuscript traditions. Among other topics, this concerns their modes of production and use, their relationship to oral modes of knowledge reproduction, and in general their /Sitz im Leben/. While the majority of the manuscripts in question contain religious texts, secular texts that were used by Buddhist monastic communities -- such as administrative and legal documents -- will also have to form part of this study. This panel will therefore present results from the ongoing research on the earliest Buddhist manuscripts and confront these with insights from the study of other Buddhist manuscript traditions. The intended geographical scope of the panel will extend beyond the South Asian cultural area to historical and contemporary manuscript traditions of Central and East Asia, Southeast Asia and Tibet.
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Please, use for further mails MY NEW EMAIL ADDRESS ingo.strauch@unil.ch.
Prof. Dr. Ingo Strauch
Sanskrit et Études Bouddhiques
Université de Lausanne
Anthropole 4118
CH-1015 Lausanne
Phone ++41-(0)21-692-3005
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may I draw your attention to the following panel to be organized by Stefan Baums (Munich) and Ingo Strauch (Lausanne) at the next IABS conference 2014 in Vienna (see information below).
Those of you who are interested in participating, please *contact* Stefan Baums (baums@lmu.de) or Ingo Strauch (ingo.strauch@unil.ch) *as soon as possible*.
The web submission deadline for the conference is fixed at November 1st. Therefore we would like to get your *abstracts by October 20th*.
Best regards
Ingo Strauch (Lausanne)
*Manuscripts and Writing in Buddhist Monasteries: New Discoveries and Research*
Our knowledge of the literature and doctrines of early Buddhism has been greatly improved by recent manuscript discoveries, especially in the northwestern regions of South Asia (ancient Gandha-ra). At the same time, these oldest Indian manuscripts, among them many unknown and incompletely preserved texts, raise many new questions that can only be answered by detailed studies comparing this corpus to other Buddhist manuscript traditions. Among other topics, this concerns their modes of production and use, their relationship to oral modes of knowledge reproduction, and in general their /Sitz im Leben/. While the majority of the manuscripts in question contain religious texts, secular texts that were used by Buddhist monastic communities -- such as administrative and legal documents -- will also have to form part of this study. This panel will therefore present results from the ongoing research on the earliest Buddhist manuscripts and confront these with insights from the study of other Buddhist manuscript traditions. The intended geographical scope of the panel will extend beyond the South Asian cultural area to historical and contemporary manuscript traditions of Central and East Asia, Southeast Asia and Tibet.
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Please, use for further mails MY NEW EMAIL ADDRESS ingo.strauch@unil.ch.
Prof. Dr. Ingo Strauch
Sanskrit et Études Bouddhiques
Université de Lausanne
Anthropole 4118
CH-1015 Lausanne
Phone ++41-(0)21-692-3005
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H-Buddhism (Buddhist Scholars Information Network)
Web Site: <http://www.h-net.org/~buddhism/>
Posting Guidelines: <http://www.h-net.org/~buddhism/posting_guidelines.html>
Handling Your Account: <http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=h-buddhism>
