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LECTURE / SEMINAR> "Successive Causality and Simultaneous Causality in the Yogācāra Theory of Bīja" (Nobuyoshi Yamabe): SOAS Buddhist Forum lecture and seminar, Saturday 17 March
by Yael Shiri
Dear colleagues,
I am happy to announce the next Buddhist Forum event,
supported by Khyentse Foundation and organised by the SOAS Centre of Buddhist
Studies:
"Successive Causality and Simultaneous Causality in the
Yogācāra Theory of Bīja", A lecture by Prof. Nobuyoshi
Yamabe of Waseda University.
Date: Saturday, 17 March 2018Time: 17:30-19:000
Venue: SOAS, Brunei Gallery Room: B202
During the same day, on Saturday morning, a reading
seminar* will also be led by Prof. Yamabe:
"Reading of a Passage on tathatālambanapratyaya-bīja from
the Viniścayasaṃgrahaṇī of the Yogācārabhūmi"
Time: 10:00-13:00
Venue: SOAS, Russell Square College Buildings Room: MB116
*Both events are free
and open to all, however, registration is required for the seminar,
and participants should be familiar with either Chinese, Tibetan or
Sanskrit. To register for the seminar please email: ys13@soas.ac.uk
Kind regards,
Yael Shiri (SOAS,
University of London)
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About
the speaker:
M.A. in
Indian Philosophy from Osaka University in 1987, Ph.D. in Religious Studies
from Yale University in 1999. Currently Professor of Asian Philosophy at Waseda
University.
Professor Yamabe
specializes in Indian Buddhism, with a particular interest in the Yogācāra and
Buddhist meditation texts. He is the author of numerous works in both English
and Japanese.
Among his most recent
publications:
Yamabe, Nobuyoshi. 2017. "Once Again on
“Dhātu-vāda”." Critical
Review for Buddhist Studies 21:9-43.
Yamabe, Nobuyoshi. 2017. "On Bījāśraya: Successive
Causality and Simultaneous Causality." In Śrāvakabhūmi and Buddhist Manuscripts, edited
by Seongcheol Kim and Jundo Nagashima, 9-25. Tokyo: Nombre.
