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CONFERENCE> Reading Aśvghoṣa across Boundaries International Conference
CROSSPOST FROM H-ASIA: https://networks.h-net.org/node/22055/discussions/102173/reading-a%C5%9Bvgho%E1%B9%A3a-acr...December 20 2015
All lectures will take place at Tel Aviv University,
Entin Faculty of Humanities,
Gilman Building, room 496
Organizer: Roy Tzohar (Tel Aviv University)
8:30-9:00 Gathering
9:00- 9:15: Greetings
Opening Session: Reading Aśvghoṣa
9:15 – 13:00
Chair: Galia Pat Shamir (Tel Aviv University)
Gary Tubb (university of Chicago) Aśvaghoṣa's Poetic Works and the Early History of Kāvya Literature.
Patrick Olivelle (university of Austin, Texas) Aśvaghoṣa's Apologia : Brahmanical Ideology and Female Allure
David Shulman (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) Two Laments : Saundarananda Cantos 6 and 7
11:15 – 11:30 Break
Roy Tzohar (Tel Aviv University) A Tree in Bloom or a Tree Stripped Bare : Ways of Seeing in the Buddhacarita
Eviatar Shulman (Hebrew University) Aśvaghoṣa’s Viśeṣaka : The Saudarananda and its Pāli “equivalents”
13:00- 14:30 Lunch on campus for participants
Afternoon Session: Aśvghoṣa in the Asian Realm
14:30 – 17:45
Chair: Meir Shahar (Tel Aviv University)
Richard G. Salomon (University of Washington, Seattle ) The Sincerest Form of Flattery: On Imitations of Aśvaghoṣa’s Mahākāvyas Shenghai Li (Harvard University; AIS, Hebrew University) The Nirvāṇa of the Buddha and Aśvaghoṣa’s Buddhacarita in China
16:00-16:15 Coffee Break
Andrew Ollett (Harvard University) Make It Nice: Kāvya in the Second Century
Thomas M. Hunter (University of British Columbia) Processions, Seductions, Divine Battles: Aśvaghoṣa at the foundations of Old Javanese literature
Round Table Discussion
17:45 – 19:00
Respondents:
Janet Gyatso (Harvard University), Charles Hallisey (Harvard University)
19:30 Dinner off campus for Participants
For More details: http://humanities.tau.ac.il/yad_hanadiv/he/test-he/forth-events-he
Asia On its Own Terms Program, with the Support of Yad Ha Nadiv Foundation
