| DATE: | Saturday, March 18, 2006 |
|---|---|
| TIME: | 9:30 AM to 6:00 PM |
| PLACE: | Toll Room, Alumni House, UC Berkeley |
| FORMAT: | Workshop |
| SPONSOR: | Center for Buddhist Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Silkroad Foundation |
Saturday, March 18, 2006
Toll Room, Alumni House, UC Berkeley
9:30 am
Panel I: Local Buddhist Practice at Dunhuang
Jacob Dalton, Yale University
Beyond Anonymity: Paleographic Analyses of the Dunhuang Manuscripts
Sam van Schaik, IDP, British Library
Pilgrims and Palaeography in Tenth-Century Dunhuang
Kuo Liying, École française d’Extrême-Orient
Text Transmission and Ritual as Evidenced at Dunhuang by the Ushnishavijayadharani Sutra
Discussant
Stephen F. Teiser, Princeton University
11:30 am
Lunch Break
1:00 pm
Panel II: Text and Image
Sonya Lee, University of Southern California
A Lesson in Survival: Mogao Cave 148 and the Dali Stele
Neil Schmid, North Carolina State University/University of Pennsylvania
A Reassessment of Dunhuang Popular Narratives in the Study of Medieval Chinese Culture
Amanda Goodman, UC Berkeley
Mandalas and Manuscripts: New Evidence for the Vajra Peak Lineage at Dunhuang
Discussant
Stanley Abe, Duke University
3:00-3:30 pm
Coffee Break
3:30-5:30 pm
Panel III: Ritual Aspects of the Mogao Caves
Ning Qiang, Connecticut College
Ritual Use of Paradise Images at Dunhuang and Turfan
Sarah E. Fraser, Northwestern University
Dialogic Space in Early Tantric Caves at Dunhuang: The Ritual and Artistic Program at Cave 14
Eugene Wang, Harvard University
Of Other Times and Other Spaces in the Dunhuang Caves
Discussant
Robert Sharf, UC Berkeley
5:30-6:00 pm
Concluding Discussion
