| DATE: | Friday-Saturday, February 9-10, 2007 |
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| PLACE: | Toll Room, Alumni House, UC Berkeley |
| FORMAT: | Conference |
| SPONSOR: | Center for Buddhist Studies |
Friday, February 9, 2007
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Donald Lopez, University of Michigan
What's So Funny About the Laughing Buddha?
Saturday, February 10, 2007
9:30 am - 11:30 am
Charles Hallisey, University of Wisconsin
A Man's Sense of Humor: The Buddha in the Sutta Pitaka
Gregory Schopen, UCLA
Doctrinal Jokes and Poking Fun at Learned and Meditative Monks in a Monastic Code
Alexander von Rospatt, UC Berkeley
The Psychology of Smiles and Laughter in Abhidharma Buddhism
Respondent: Reiko Ohnuma, Dartmouth College
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
James Robson, University of Michigan
The Truth of the Trickster: Holy Fools and Loathsome Monks in East Asian Buddhism
Natasha Heller, UC Berkeley
Laughter Once Removed: Audience, Performance and Humor in Chan Texts
George Tanabe, University of Hawaii
Making and Having Fun in Japanese Buddhist Literature
Respondent: Robert Sharf, UC Berkeley
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm: Coffee Break
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Jacob Dalton, Yale University
The Limits of Demonic Laughter: Translating Humor in the Buddhist Tantras
Janet Gyatso, Harvard University
A Tibetan Buddhist Biography Gets Down to Earth: Why Milarepa's Story is Funny
Georges Dreyfus, Williams College
We Will See Who Laughs Last: Dialectic and Rhetoric in Tibetan Debate and the Role of Humor
Respondent: Donald Lopez, University of Michigan
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm
