| DATE: | Friday-Sunday, April 17-19, 2009 |
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| PLACE: | 370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley |
| SPONSOR: | Center for Buddhist Studies |
All panels will be held in 370 Dwinelle Hall (see directions tab)
Friday, April 17, 2009
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Orna Tsultem — Ikh Khuree: Mapping Monastic Space in Early Modern Mongolia
Ariana Maki — Nangkar Dok: Ritual and Identity in Bhutanese Drukpa Kagyu Buddhism
Matthew King — Healing and Conversion at the Interface of Tibet, Mongolia and China
Respondent: Jake Dalton (UC Berkeley)
6:30 pm
Reception for conference participants at the Women's Faculty Club
Saturday, April 18. 2009
9:30 am - 11:30 pm
Zhang Dewei — To Contextualize a Religious Enterprise: Centering on the production and circulation of a Ming period northern Buddhist canon (Ming beizang)
Beverly Foulks — Playing with Karma: A Chinese Buddhist Board Game
Wang Xiang — Buddhist Libraries in Tang Chang'an and their Asian Context
Respondent: John McRae (Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley)
11:30 pm - 1:00 pm
Lunch for participants in Ishi Court
1:00 am - 3:00 pm
Frederick Chen — Who are the Eight Kings in the Jingdu sanmei jing 淨度三昧經 (Samādhi-Sūtra of Liberation through Purification)?: A new study on the formation of the Jingdu sanmei jing
Daniel McNamara — Eclectic Visions, Syncretic Visionaries: Drikung Rinchen Phuntsog's Encounters with Jabir ibn-Hayyan
Breton Sullivan — Tibetan Buddhist Blueprints for a Chinese Buddhist Revival: Fazun's (1901-1980) Xizangminzu zhengjiaoshi (Political and Religious History of the Tibetan People)
Respondent: Robert Sharf (UC Berkeley)
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Coffee/tea break
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Nathan McGovern — Revisioning the Buddhist/Brahman Divide: Brahmanical Orthodoxy around the Time of the Buddha
Wayne Bass — Contemplative Practice in the Poṣadhavastu of the Mūlasarvāstvāda-vinaya
Joshua Schapiro — Religious Knowledge in Patrul Rinpoche's Spiritual Advice
Respondent: Paul Harrison (Stanford University)
6:00 pm
Dinner for participants at Le Bateau Ivre Restaurant
Sunday, April 19, 2009
9:30 am - 11:30 pm
Tatsuo Saile — The Making(s) of a Patriarch: The Yakushijibon Jion Daishi zō and Its Role in the Creation of a Hossō Sectarian Identity
Aaron Proffitt — Kōen the Dragon Bodhisattva: History and Hagiography: An Analysis of the Fusō-Ryūjinden, 扶桑龍神伝
Sarah Richardson — The Art of Pilgrimage: Reading a Tibetan Account of a Temple Experience
Respondent: Patricia Berger (UC Berkeley)
11:30 pm - 12:30 pm
Lunch for participants in Ishi Court
