| DATE: | Thursday-Saturday, October 18-20, 2007 |
|---|---|
| PLACE: | Toll Room, Alumni House, UC Berkeley |
| FORMAT: | Conference |
| SPONSOR: | Center for Buddhist Studies |
All panels are free and open to the public.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Opening reception by invitation
Friday, October 19, 2007
9:30 am - 11:45 am
Dan Arnold, University of Chicago
Understanding and/as the Translation of Buddhist Philosophy
Parimal Patil, Harvard University
A Buddhist Historiography for Buddhist Philosophy
Shoryu Katsura, Ryukoku University
A Shift of Buddhist Logic from Dignāga to Dharmakīrti
Leslie Kawamura, University of Calgary
Translation of Yogācāra Buddhism: Chinese, Tibetan and Sanskrit Texts
Moderator: Alexander von Rospatt, University of California, Berkeley
11:45 am - 1:00 pm
Lunch break
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Michael Zimmermann, Hamburg University
The Pierced Foot: The Transformation of an Episode from the Buddha's Life
Phyllis Granoff, Yale University
Birds, Babes, and Bodhisattvas: Truth and Fiction in the Life of the Buddha
Moderator: Richard Payne, Institute of Buddhist Studies
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Coffee break
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Alexander von Rospatt, University of California, Berkeley
The Last Phase of Sanskrit Buddhist Literature: Remarks on the Svayambhūpurāṇa
Richard Payne, Institute of Buddhist Studies
Translating Ritual, Translating Buddhism: Moving Beyond our Obsession with Doctrine
Moderator: Lisa Grumbach, Institute of Buddhist Studies
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Reception/Dinner (for participants and attendees)
Jodo Shinshu Center
2140 Durant Avenue, Berkeley
Saturday, October 20, 2007
9:00 am - 11:15 am
Lara Braitstein, McGill University
Re/Writing History: Politics and Religion in the Life of the 10th Zhwa dmar pa
Robert Mayer, University of Oxford
The Dunhuang Thabs kyi zhags pa padma phreng Manuscript: A Source for Understanding the Transmission of Mahāyoga in Tibet
Tadeusz Skorupski, University of London
How and Why New Buddhist Traditions Arise
Peter Verhagen, Leiden University
Latter-day Lo-tsā-bas: Translation Activities in 18th-century Tibet
Moderator: Patricia Berger, University of California, Berkeley
11:15 am - 12:30 pm
Lunch break and photo session
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
James Benn, McMaster University
Hybrid Cosmologies in the Śūramgama Sutra
Natasha Heller, University of California, Los Angeles
Epistolary Chan
Koichi Shinohara, BDK Publication Committee
The Buddhist Culture of the Seventh Century Anthology 'Fayuan zhulin' ('The Jade Forest in the Dharma Garden')
Moderator: Robert Sharf , University of California, Berkeley
2:00 pm - 2:15 pm
Coffee break
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm
Jamie Hubbard, Smith College
Textual Communities in the Production, Translation, and Transmission of Buddhist Scriptures, Then and Now
Michel Mohr, University of Hawaii
On the Proper Use of Traps and Snares: Reflections on Language and Translation
Moderator: Duncan Williams , University of California, Berkeley
