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- CFP> Conference:
Buddhist Approaches to Hospice Care and Life Education
- Pali
Advanced Reading Course
- Re:
ANNOUNCEMENT> "Primer in Chinese Buddhist Writings"
CFP> Conference:
Buddhist Approaches to Hospice Care and Life Education
by shiying pang
Dear
colleagues,
Juequn
Center for the Studies of Humanistic Buddhism 覺群人間佛教研究中心, with the support
of Shanghai Jade Buddha Temple 上海玉佛禪寺, invites paper
proposals for the “International Conference on Buddhist Approaches To Hospice
Care And Life Education” to be held on November 3rd to 4th, 2018,
Shanghai, China.
Featured
Panels
The
Conference is unique in its multidisciplinary approach to Life and Death
Studies. It will feature panels on the following topics, but are not limited
to:
1)
Buddhist Insights into Life and Death (doctrinal studies and case studies in
different traditions);
2)
Views of Life and Death in Chinese and/or Western Philosophy;
3)
Medical Science and Palliative Care (including case studies from hospice care
wards);
4)
Promoting Life and Death Studies in Mainland China (with a joint discussion by
scholars from both Mainland China and Taiwan);
5)
Life Education and Elderly Care Service; etc.
Application
Deadline
All
conference participants are by invitation. Please send abstracts of
approximately 200 words and a brief biographical note to pangshiying@yufotemple.com or wangfengshuo@yufotemple.com by July
20, 2018.
Key
Benefits For Participants
1)
Honorarium for each participant
2)
Subsidy of round-trip travel expenses and accommodations for overseas
participants
3)
Opportunity to discuss your concerns with a panel of renowned academic experts
4)
Privilege to publish your paper in the conference proceedings
5)
Brief experience of monastic life
About
US
Shanghai
Jade Buddha Temple is one of the three major temples in Shanghai, China. It is
working with two local hospitals this year, sending Buddhist volunteers to
practice palliative care and provide spiritual service when necessary. This
long-term project, known as "Project on Life Care and
Education," is supported by local government and multiple religious
foundations in Shanghai.
If
you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.
We
are looking forward to welcoming you in Shanghai!
Sincerely,
Shiying
Pang & Fengshuo Wang
Pali
Advanced Reading Course
by Steven Egan
This August, Prof. Richard Gombrich will run another Pali Advanced Reading
course at Oxford University.The dates for this course are as follows: arrive Tuesday evening, 14th August, depart Thursday morning 23rd August. There will be no class on Sunday 19th August.
This course will mainly consist of reading texts together in class.
As in previous years, students on the course will be housed in Clive Booth Student Village, which is owned by Oxford Brookes University. Accommodation costs for the entire course come to £240. The accommodation block is about 10 mins walk from the lecture room that we shall be using.
The cost of the course, excluding the accommodation, will be £360 (covering lecture room hire and expenses).
Only twelve pupils will be accepted for the course.
Access to the Pali-English Dictionary is essential. Access to Warder’s Introduction to Pali and Geiger’s grammar is desirable (a few copies will be supplied in the classroom).
For more details visit https://ocbs.org/courses/advanced-pali-course/
Re:
ANNOUNCEMENT> "Primer in Chinese Buddhist Writings"
by Matthew Kapstein
Dear Bertram Liyanage,Sorry for this delayed reply, but, if your goal is just to begin to read classical Buddhist texts in Tibetan, then your best bet is probably Stephen Hodge, An Introduction to Classical Tibetan, which focuses more closely on the language of canonical texts than do other available works in English. If you are at ease with German, however, I would recommend the works by Michael Hahn (Lehrbuch der klassischen tibetischen Schriftsprache) or Peter Schwieger (Handbuch zur Grammatik der klassischen tibetischen Schriftsprache).
Good luck!
Matthew Kapstein
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
