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LECTURE> Prof. emer. Dr. Oskar von Hinüber at IRIAB, Sofa University (October 28, 2017)- CONFERENCE> Buddhism and Scepticism, 14-16 November 2017, University of Hamburg, Germany
- NEW BOOK AND LECTURE> The Buddha in Lanna: Art, Lineage, Power and Place In Northern Thailand
- JOB> Non-Tenure Track Professor/Associate Professor/Assistant Professor, UHK
- CONFERENCE> AAR panels hosted by IASBS
LECTURE> Prof. emer. Dr. Oskar von Hinüber at IRIAB, Sofa University (October 28, 2017)
by Noriyuki Kudo
Dear friends and
colleagues,
You are cordially
invited to the following lecture at the International Research Institute for
Advanced Buddhology, Soka University in Tokyo.
Prof. emer. Dr. Oskar
von Hinüber (Freiburg University)
Theme: The Veda,
Indian Grammarians, and the Language of Early Buddhism
Date: 28, October,
2017
Time: 1500-1700
(JST)
Place: Meeting
Room 8, 12th Floor, Global Square, Soka University
(PDF
file in Japanese)
Contact Phone
Number: +81-(0)42-691-2695
Contact E-mail: iriab@soka.ac.jp
Access (Japanese):
https://www.soka.ac.jp/access/
Access (English): https://www.soka.ac.jp/en/access/
All those who are
interested in the topic will be welcome.
Noriyuki KUDO
The International
Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology
Soka University
CONFERENCE> Buddhism and Scepticism, 14-16 November 2017, University of Hamburg, Germany
by Oren Hanner
Dear List Members,
The Numata Center for Buddhist Studies and
the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies at the University of Hamburg are
happy to announce the conference “Buddhism and Scepticism: Historical,
Philosophical, and Comparative Perspectives”, which will be held from the 14th
to the 16th of November, 2017, at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies,
Seminar Room
5060, Schlüterstrasse 51, 20146 Hamburg.
Keynote lecture:
Mark Siderits (Seoul National
University/South Korea)
Invited speakers:
Amber Carpenter (Yale-NUS College, Singapore)
Gordon F. Davis (Carleton University,
Ottawa/Canada)
Dong Xiuyuan (Shandong University/China)
Vincent Eltschinger (École pratique des
hautes études, Paris/France)
Eli Franco (Universität Leipzig/Germany)
Georgios Halkias (University of Hong Kong)
Adrian Kuzminski (Independent Scholar)
Ethan Mills (University of Tennessee at
Chattanooga/USA)
Serena Saccone (Österreichische Akademie der
Wissenschaften)
James Mark Shields (Bucknell University,
Lewisburg/USA)
The event is open to the public, with advance
registration via e-mail: maimonides-centre@uni-hamburg.de
For more details: https://www.maimonides-centre.uni-hamburg.de/en/events/workshops/buddhism-and-scepticism.html
Best wishes,
Dr. des. Oren Hanner
Research Fellow
Numata Center for Buddhist Studies
Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies
University of Hamburg
NEW BOOK AND LECTURE> The Buddha in Lanna: Art, Lineage, Power and Place In Northern Thailand
by Angela Chiu
Dear List Members, I would like to bring to your attention my new book, The Buddha in Lanna: Art, Lineage, Power, and Place in Northern Thailand (University of Hawai'i Press, 2017). Please see the abstract below. The book will be launched by a talk at the British Museum on 6 November, 13:30-14:30. It is free and all are welcome: a place can be booked through the link below.
Thank you and hope to see you in London,
Angela Chiu (Independent Researcher)
British Museum lecture:
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/event_detail.aspx?eventId=4050&title...
Publisher's webpage: http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9745-9780824858742.aspx
Abstract: For centuries, wherever Thai Buddhists have made their homes, statues of the Buddha have provided striking testament to the role of Buddhism in the lives of the people. The Buddha in Lanna offers the first in-depth historical study of the Thai tradition of donation of Buddha statues. Drawing on palm-leaf manuscripts and inscriptions, many never previously translated into English, the book reveals the key roles that Thai Buddha images have played in the social and economic worlds of their makers and devotees from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries.
Author Angela Chiu introduces stories from chronicles, histories, and legends written by monks in Lanna, a region centered in today’s northern Thailand. By examining the stories’ themes, structures, and motifs, she illuminates the complex conceptual and material aspects of Buddha images that influenced their functions in Lanna society. Buddha images were depicted as social agents and mediators, the focal points of pan-regional political-religious lineages and rivalries, indeed, as the very generators of history itself. In the chronicles, Buddha images also unified the Buddha with the northern Thai landscape, thereby integrating Buddhist and local conceptions of place. By comparing Thai Buddha statues with other representations of the Buddha, the author underscores the contribution of the Thai evidence to a broader understanding of how different types of Buddha representations were understood to mediate the “presence” of the Buddha.
The Buddha in Lanna focuses on the Thai Buddha image as a part of the wider society and history of its creators and worshippers beyond monastery walls, shedding much needed light on the Buddha image in history. With its impressive range of primary sources, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Buddhism and Buddhist art history, Thai studies, and Southeast Asian religious studies.
JOB> Non-Tenure Track Professor/Associate Professor/Assistant Professor, UHK
by Franz Metcalf
The University of Hong Kong would like to announce a non-tenure track, but
potentially renewable, two year position in Mahayana Studies. For full
information, please follow the following link.https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55838
CONFERENCE> AAR panels hosted by IASBS
by Scott Mitchell
Colleagues,As (some of us) prepare for AAR, I wanted to bring two events to your attention, hosted by the International Association of Shin Buddhist Studies (IASBS http://www.iasbs.org). Please see the AAR's program book for event locations. (Note: you do not have to register for the AAR meeting to attend these sessions.)
Thank you,
Scott Mitchell
Institute of Buddhist Studies
Mochizuki’s Doctrinal History of Pure Land Buddhism in China
P17-105
Friday, November 17 – 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-103 (Plaza Level)
Kenneth Tanaka, Musashino University, Presiding
All too little known outside circles of specialists working on Japanese Buddhism, Shinko Mochizuki (1896–1948) is one of the pioneering giants of modern Buddhist studies. Mochizuki is perhaps best-known for the encyclopedia of Buddhism (Bukkyō daijiten, 1933, 10 vols.) that he edited, and which is still in print today. The work being featured in this panel discussion, Pure Land Buddhism in China: A Doctrinal History (tr. Leo Pruden, ed. Richard K. Payne and Natalie Quli; Chūgoku Jōdo kyōrishi, published in 1942), was based on a lengthy series of lectures he gave on the history, thought and practice of Pure Land Buddhism in China. The work remains a resource for Japanese Pure Land Buddhist scholarship, and has now been made available in English translation. In order to bring this publication up to date, the translation has been complemented by a second volume of four supplemental essays—a biographical study of Mochizuki (Daniel Getz), and bibliographical essays on scholarship since Mochizuki’s publication in Chinese (Charles B. Jones), Japanese (Mark L. Blum), and English (Scott A. Mitchell). These four contributors will discuss the importance and value of Mochizuki’s work, and its continuing relevance for Pure Land Buddhist studies.
Panelists:
Daniel A. Getz, Bradley University
Charles B. Jones, Catholic University of America
Mark L. Blum, University of California, Berkeley
Scott Mitchell, Institute of Buddhist Studies
Shinran in the Light of Heidegger and Levinas
P17-234
Friday, November 17 – 2:00 PM-5:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-103 (Plaza Level)
Janet Gyatso, Harvard University, Presiding
This panel presents work in an ongoing project jointly sponsored by the Institute of Buddhist Studies and the Ryukoku University Research Center for World Buddhist Cultures. The project seeks to explore resources in recent continental philosophy for illuminating Shinran’s Pure Land Buddhist path, focusing on the thought of Heidegger and Levinas. The panelists will present papers treating a variety of philosophical themes and issues that suggest resonances with aspects of Shinran’s thought—such as non-willful comportment, attunement, and dwelling in the philosophy of Heidegger and conscience, incapacity, and the Other in Levinas. The expectation is that probing such resonances will both cast fresh light on the implications of current philosophical topics and further suggest paths toward developing cogent and compelling contemporary understandings of Shinran’s thought.
Bret W. Davis, Loyola University, Maryland
Gelassenheit and the Entrusting Heart: Toward a Dialogue between Heidegger and Shinran
Ryan Coyne, University of Chicago
“This Burning House”: Heidegger, Shinran, and the Meaning of Licensed Evil
Charles Hallisey, Harvard University
On the Sources of Morality: Reading Shinran with Jankelevitch and Levinas
Leah Kalmanson, Drake University
The (Non-)Practice of Not-Directing-Merit: Levinas, Shinran, and the Impossibility of Doing Good
Dennis Hirota, Ryukoku University
Shinran and Heidegger on Dwelling
Responding:
Janet Gyatso, Harvard University
