Table of Contents

Schedule
Campus Information
Campus Map
Evening Events
Excursions
Exhibits
Convocation Program
Program of Panels and Sections
Session I: Tuesday Morning
Session II: Tuesday Aernoon
Session III: Wednesday Morning
Session IV: Wednesday Aernoon
Session V: ursday Morning
Session VI: Friday Morning
Session VII: Friday Aernoon
Session VIII: Saturday Morning
Session IX: Saturday Aernoon
Index of Speakers and Moderators
Acknowledgements

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Schedule of the XVth Congressof the IABS

Sunday June 22
2:00pm–8:00pm

Pre-registration for Early Arrivals
Woodruﬀ Residential Hall

Monday June 23
10:00am–6:00pm
2:00pm–4:00pm
4:30pm–6:00pm
6:30pm–8:30pm

Registration*
White Hall Lobby
Convocation
Glenn Memorial Church
IABS Board Meeting
Michael C. Carlos Museum Board Room
Cocktail Reception
Emory Conference Center Hotel

Tuesday June 24
7:30am–9:00am
9:00am–12:30pm

Breakfast
Cox Hall Ballroom
Panels & Sections (I)**Math & Science Center/White Hall

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Schedule

12:30pm–2:00pm
2:00pm–5:30pm
5:30pm–6:30pm
6:15pm–9:30pm

Lunch
Cox Hall Ballroom
Panels & Sections (II)Math & Science Center/White Hall
Sand Mandala Opening Ceremony
Math & Science Center Atrium
Shuttles to Restaurants
Four Atlanta Neighborhoods

Wednesday June 25
7:30am–9:00am
9:00am–5:00pm
9:00am–12:30pm
12:30pm–2:00pm
2:00pm–5:30pm
6:00pm–8:00pm
8:00pm–10:00pm

Breakfast
Cox Hall Ballroom
Sand Mandala Construction
Math & Science Center Atrium
Panels & Sections (III)Math & Science Center/White Hall
Lunch
Cox Hall Ballroom
Panels & Sections (IV)Math & Science Center/White Hall
Buﬀet Dinner
Cox Hall Ballroom“Sacred Music, Sacred Dance”
Performance
Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

Thursday June 26
7:30am–9:00am
9:00am–7:00pm
9:00am–12:30pm

Breakfast
Cox Hall Ballroom
Sand Mandala Construction
Math & Science Center Atrium
Panels & Sections (V)Math & Science Center/White Hall

Schedule

12:30pm–2:00pm
1:45pm–6:00pm
7:00pm–9:00pm
9:00pm–10:00pm

Lunch
Cox Hall Ballroom
Conference Excursions
Around Atlanta
Buﬀet Dinner
Cox Hall Ballroom
Wisdom Publications’ Classics of Indian
Buddhism Series Launch Party
Michael C. Carlos Museum Reception Hall

Friday June 27
7:30am–9:00am
9:00am–7:00pm
9:00am–12:30pm
12:30pm–2:00pm
2:00pm–5:30pm
5:45pm–6:45pm
7:00pm–9:00pm

Breakfast
Cox Hall Ballroom
Sand Mandala Construction
Math & Science Center Atrium
Panels & Sections (VI)
Math & Science Center/White Hall
Lunch
Cox Hall Ballroom
Panels & Sections (VII)Math & Science Center/White Hall
General Assembly of Members
Cox Hall Ballroom
Farewell Dinner
Emory Conference Center HotelSponsored by the Claus M. Halle Institutefor Global Learning

Saturday June 28
7:30am–9:00am
9:00am–4:00pm

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Breakfast
Cox Hall Ballroom
Sand Mandala Construction
Math & Science Center Atrium

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Schedule

9:00am–12:30pm
12:30pm–2:00pm
2:00pm–5:30pm
5:30pm–7:30pm

Panels & Sections (VIII)
Math & Science Center/White Hall
Lunch
Cox Hall Ballroom
Panels & Sections (IX)
Math & Science Center/White Hall
Sand Mandala Closing Ceremony
Math & Science Center Atrium* Registration will be available in White Hall on Tuesday, 9:00am–
5:00pm, and on Wednesday, ursday and Friday, 9:00am–12:00pm.
** All Panels and Sections include a 30-minute coﬀee break. In themornings, these occur from 10:30am–11:00am, and in the aernoons, from 3:30pm–4:00pm.

Campus Information

Food
Breakfasts, lunches, coﬀee breaks, two dinners, and two receptions are included in your conference registration fee. Meals will be served in the Cox
Hall Ballroom (Cox Hall, third ﬂoor) and coﬀee breaks will occur in the
Math and Science Center and White Hall. e receptions will take placeat the Emory Conference Center Hotel. If you wish to dine elsewhere,
there are a number of options both on and oﬀ campus.

On Campus Dining
Asbury Court Cafeteria (Emory Hospital ground ﬂoor)
Hot entrées, sandwiches, salad bar, cold drinks.
Monday–Sunday 6:30am–9:30am; 11:00am–2:30pm; 5:00pm–
8:00pme Bishop’s Pantry (Emory Hospital)
Coﬀee, espresso drinks, desserts, cold drinks.
Monday–Friday 6:30am–3:00pm

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Caﬀé Antico (Michael C. Carlos Museum, third ﬂoor)
Table service with hot entrées, sandwiches, coﬀee, espresso, tea.
Monday–Friday 11:00am–4:00pm; Saturday–Sunday 12:00pm–
4:00pmCox Hall Food Court (Cox Hall, ﬁrst ﬂoor)
Features a variety of foods, including sandwiches, burritos, sushi, hot
entrées, espresso, coﬀee.
Monday–Friday 8:00am–5:00pm
Einstein Bros. Bagels (Dobbs University Center = DUC)
Sandwiches, coﬀee, cold drinks.
Monday–Friday 8:30am–5:00pm; Saturday–Sunday 10:00am–6:00pm
Sub Connection (Rollins School of Public Health)
Sandwiches, cold drinks.
Monday–Friday 8:30am–2:00pm

Off Campus Dining
e restaurants listed below are all located in Emory Village, just a shortwalk from campus, at the intersections of Dowman Drive, North Decatur
Road, and Oxford Road.
Doc Chey’s Noodle House
Features healthy, bountiful bowls that feature the bold ﬂavors ofailand, Japan, Viet Nam and Korea.
Everybody’s
Everybody’s has been a part of Emory Village since 1971, serving
pizza, salads, and specialty sandwiches. Beer and wine also available.
Falafel King
Despite its name, this small, inexpensive restaurant
also serves sushi.

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Rise’n’Dine
One of the newest additions to Emory Village, this restaurant features breakfast, brunch, and lunch options.
Panera Bread
Specializing in freshly baked bread, sandwiches, and soups, Panera islocated on the western edge of Emory Village.
Saba
Delicious and interesting pastas ranging from simple linguine withtomato sauce to far-out combos, such as ai tofu spaghetti with
peanut coconut curry sauce. Beer and wine also available.
Starbucks
Starbucks coﬀee is served at Caﬀé Antico and at the Bishop’s Pantry
at the Emory Hospital on campus, but a larger store is located in the
Village.

Banks and ATMs
Bank of America, Wachovia and SunTrust Bank Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) are located outside of the Dobbs University Center(DUC) at the Asbury Circle entrance. e Emory Federal Credit Union
ATM machine is located in the Dobbs University Center Commons.
Local banks within walking distance of the University include Wachovia(725 Houston Mill Road), Bank of America (1615 N. Decatur Road),
and SunTrust Bank (2155 North Decatur Road).

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Other Things To See and Do
In addition to the events planned during the week, there are a number offacilities located on Emory’s campus that conference attendees are invited
to explore.
Lullwater Conservation Park
Located at 1463 Clion Road, right next to the Woodruﬀ Residential Center, Lullwater is a beautiful 185 acre park in the middle ofEmory’s campus. It features gardens, paved and unpaved walking
trails, and a lake. e park is also the location of the University President’s home. Open during daylight hours.
Michael C. Carlos Museum
e Carlos Museum is one of the Southeast’s premier art museums
with major collections of Classical, Ancient Egyptian, Near Eastern,
Ancient American, African and Asian art, as well as a collection of ofworks on paper from the Renaissance to the present. e AsianGallery is found on the second ﬂoor. e Museum is centrally located on campus, and Congress participants all receive one ticket for
gallery admission in their registration packets. A small bookstore isfound on the ﬁrst ﬂoor, and a café is on the third ﬂoor. Museum
Hours: Tuesday–Saturday 10:00am–5:00pm; Sunday 12:00pm–
5:00pm. Closed Mondays.
Woodruﬀ Library
The main library on campus, which is generally only accessible to
Emory students, faculty, and staff, will be available for conference
participants to explore throughout the week. Simply show yourconference ID badge to the guard at the front desk and ask to sign
in. The library also contains an exhibition space on the third floor,
the Schatten Gallery, which during the Congress will feature a
photography exhibit entitled “Nubian Dreams: Images of the
Sudan” by Chester Higgins. Library Hours: Monday–Thursday12Campus Information

8:00am–10:00pm; Friday 8:00am–6:00pm; Saturday 9:00am–
6:00pm; Sunday 1:00pm–10:00pm.
Woodruﬀ Physical Education Center
Guests staying in the Woodruﬀ Residence Hall will have access tothe Woodruﬀ Physical Education Center for personal recreationaluse. You will receive a yellow ID card at check-in. Please present thiscard to the Center staﬀ for access to the facility. If you need to checkout any equipment (i.e., basketballs, towels, etc.) you must present avalid driver’s license at the Equipment Room on the lower level of
the Center. Facility Hours: Monday–ursday 6:30am–9:00pm;
Friday 6:30am–7:30pm; Saturday–Sunday 9:00am–6:00pm

Evening Events

Monday, June 23
Cocktail Reception
6:30pm–8:30pm, Emory Conference Center Hotel

Tuesday, June 24
Sand Mandala Opening Ceremony
5:30pm–6:30pm, Math & Science Center Atrium
Monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will construct a Tibetansand mandala during the conference. e mandala will be dedicatedto Mañjuśrī, the bodhisattva of wisdom and learning. Aer the
opening ceremony on Tuesday evening, construction will continue
daily in the Math and Science Center Atrium. e mandala will bedismantled on Saturday at the end of the conference.
Shuttles to Restaurants
6:15pm–9:30pm, Atlanta Neighborhoods
Four buses will run continuous loops to Atlanta neighborhoods withrestaurants. Detailed information will be included in the registration
package.

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Evening Events

Wednesday, June 25“Sacred Music, Sacred Dance” Performance
8:00pm–10:00pm, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts
Ritual music and dance performed by the Drepung Loseling monks.
e performance includes Tibetan polyphonic chanting, colorful
dances such as the wrathful black hat dance and the dance of theplayful skeleton lords, a demonstration of Tibetan monastic debate,
and rituals for world peace. Conference attendees receive a ticket tothis public event in their registration packets.

Thursday, June 26
Wisdom Publications’ Classics of Indian Buddhism
Series Launch Party
9:00pm–10:00pm, Michael C. Carlos Museum of Art Reception HallLight dessert and wine in a lovely environment.

Friday, June 27
Farewell Dinner
7:00pm–9:00pm, Emory Conference Center HotelSponsored by the Claus M. Halle Institute for Global Learning.

Saturday, June 28
Sand Mandala Closing Ceremony
5:30pm–7:30pm, Math & Science Center Atrium
e monks will dismantle the mandala, sweeping up the sands tosymbolize, and enact, impermanence. Half of the sand will be distributed among the audience, while the other half will be swept into
an urn and carried in a procession to be released into a stream on
Emory’s campus.

Excursions
Thursday, June 26, 1:45pm–6:00pm
e planning committee has arranged complimentary excursions to threearea attractions as described below. Reservations will be taken on a ﬁrstcome, ﬁrst served basis during breakfast and lunch on Wednesday, June
25 just outside the Cox Hall Ballroom. Please note that we cannot guarantee your excursion trip if you do not make a reservation during the allotted sign up times. Tour groups and departure times will be posted in
Cox Hall by dinner on Wednesday. Excursion buses will depart from the
Clock Tower at Asbury Circle every 45 minutes, beginning at 1:45pm.
ere are a limited number of seats on each bus; please be sure to board
your assigned bus so that we may accommodate everyone.

Atlanta Botanical Garden
Situated on over 30 acres in historic Piedmont Park, the Atlanta Botanical Garden boasts an impressive collection of gardens and woodlands. eGarden features rare and endangered tropical and desert plants as well as
one of the world’s largest permanent orchid displays in the Fuqua Conservatory. e Garden also stages regular installations of sculpture andother art forms. e current exhibition, entitled “Sculpture in Motion:
Art Choreographed by Nature,” includes 32 outdoor kinetic sculptures
powered by the wind, sun and other natural elements.

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Excursions

High Museum of Art
Founded in 1905, the High Museum of Art is the leading art museum in
the Southeastern United States. Located in Atlanta’s Midtown district,the High has over 11,000 works of art in its permanent collection. Current exhibitions include “Louvre Atlanta: e Louvre and the AncientWorld,” “Young Americans: Photographs by Sheila Pree Bright,” ”Cassatt,
Pissarro, Bonnard, Vuillard: New Acquisitions for the Collection,” “Street
Life: American Photographs from the 1960s and 70s,” “Toshiko Takaezu:
Master Ceramist,” and “Southern Vernacular: Nineteenth-Century Southern Folk Art.”

The King Centere King Center, established in 1968 by Coretta Scott King, is the oﬃcial
memorial dedicated to the legacy of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. Visitors can view multi-media exhibits of Dr. King’s life
and the movement he inspired, as well as visit the King Center Library,Archives, and Dr King’s birth home and ﬁnal resting place. Across thestreet from the Center is the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Dr. King
served as pastor, preaching nonviolence and civil rights.

Exhibits
Daily, 8:00am–7:00pm
e XVth Congress of the IABS is pleased to welcome a number of outstanding exhibitors whose work and products actively support the on-goingstudy of Buddhism. We encourage participants to visit the displays locatedin the second ﬂoor lobby area of White Hall from Tuesday, June 24
through Saturday, June 28.
Exhibitors include:
Egbert Forsten Publishing
Equinox Press/UK Association for Buddhist Studies
Motilal Banarsidass Publishers
Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers
Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research
Snow Lion Publications
Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center
University of Hawai’i Press
Wisdom Publications

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Exhibits

In addition, a variety of books on Buddhism will be featured on display at Druid Hills Bookstore at 1401 Oxford Road at the edge ofEmory’s main campus. Please visit the bookstore during its normal
hours: Monday–Friday, 9:00am–6:00pm and Saturday, 9:00am–
12:00pm.

Convocation
Monday June 23, 2:00–4:00pm
XVth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies
Welcome

Invocation Prayer

Dr. Lobsang Tenzin Negi, Director,
Emory Tibet Partnership
Venerable Chao Koun and the Monksof the Wat Buddha Bucha Center

Introduction

e Emory Tibet Partnership

Brief Remarks on Buddhist Studies
and the Global Citizen

John D. Dunne,
Congress Convener
Robert A. Paul,
Dean of Emory College
Lisa Tedesco,
Dean of the
Graduate School

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Convocation Program“Hoary Past and Hazy Memories:
Tracing the History of
Early Buddhist Texts”

Oskar von Hinüber,President, IABS

Practical Matters forCongress Attendees

Sara L. McClintock,
Congress Planning
Committee Chair

Dedication Prayer

Monks of the Drepung
Loseling MonasteryProgram of Panels and Sections
Tuesday, June 24–Saturday, June 28
e Panels and Sections of the Congress will take place in two buildingson Emory’s main campus: White Hall and the Math and Science Center.
Panels have been organized by one or more Conveners, who are listed in
the program. e Conveners are responsible for determining content andstructure of the Panel (e.g., whether questions will be entertained at theend of each paper or will be reserved for a discussion period at the end of
the Panel, and so on). Sections have been organized by the conference
planning committee, who have grouped together papers that were submitted individually. In the Sections, each presenter is entitled to determine how best to use his or her thirty minutes (i.e., whether to speak forthe full thirty minutes or to leave time for questions at the end).
All the Panels and Sections have a Moderator, who is responsible for
introducing the speakers, and ensuring that they keep to the publishedtimetable. It is imperative that all presentations begin on the hour and thehalf-hour in accord with the published program so that conference participants may attend the papers they wish to hear. Please note that all names
appear with the family name in the second position.

SESSION I
Tuesday June 24: 9:00am–12:30pm
Panel: e Academic Discipline of Buddhist Studies
in North America
Convener: Charles Prebish
Moderator: Luis Gómez
Location: White Hall 111
9:00

José I. Cabezón, “Recent Shis in the Study of Buddhism
in the United States”

9:30

Oliver Freiberger, “Buddhist Studies or the Study of
Buddhism? Reﬂecting on Religious Commitment in
Scholarship”

10:00 Leslie S. Kawamura, “Buddhist Studies in Canada”
10:30 Break
11:00 Charles Prebish, “North American Buddhist Studies:
A Current Survey of the Field”

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11:30 Luis Gómez, Respondent
12:00 Discussion
Panel: Chinese Buddhist Meditation Practices and Chan
Conveners: John McRae and Eric Goodell
Moderator: Griﬃth Foulk
Location: White Hall 205
9:00

Ching-wei Wang, “e Practice of Mahāyāna Si Nianchu in
the Sixth-Century China: Huisi’s (515–577) Interpretations of Si Nianchu (smrty-upasthāna) based on the Mohe
Bore Boluomi Jing 摩訶般若波羅蜜經 (Pañcavimśatisāhasrikā prajñāpāramitā sūtra) and the Lotus Sūtra 妙法蓮華經(Saddharmapuṇḍarīka sūtra)”9:30

John McRae, “Early Chan Meditation: Between Tiantai
Samādhi Practice and Tang Encounter Dialogue”

10:00 Yi-hsun Huang, “e Use of Old Cases as Chan Practice in
the Records of Master Xuedou at Dongting”
10:30 Break
11:00 Eric Goodell, “e Role of Chan in the Life of Taixu”
11:30 Huimin Bhikṣu, “An Inquiry of Master Xuyun’s Experiencesof Long-dwelling in Samādhi”
12:00 Discussion

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Panel: Tibetan Scholasticism in the 11th and 12th Centuries (I)Conveners: Pascale Hugon, Kazuo Kano, and Kevin Vose
Moderator: Orna Almogi
Location: White Hall 101
9:00

Pascale Hugon, “e Origin of the eory of Deﬁnition
and its Function in Phya pa Chos kyi seng ge’s
Epistemological eory”

9:30

Jonathan Stoltz, “Phywa pa’s Argumentative Analogy
Between yid dpyod and rtog pa”

10:00 Dorji Wangchuk, “Phywa-pa Chos-kyi-seng-ge’s
Commentary on Śāntarakṣita’s Madhyamakālaṃkāra:
A Preliminary Assessment”
10:30 Break
11:00 Kevin Vose, “Early bKa’ gdams pa Exegesis of Śāntideva’s
Bodhicaryāvatāra”
11:30 Kazuo Kano, “rNgog-lo’s Doctrinal Position on the
Buddha-nature Doctrine and its Impact on Early
bKa’ gdams pa Masters”
12:00 Discussion
Panel: Universal Claims, Postcolonial Frames: An Interdisciplinary
Session on Bodhgaya (I)Conveners: Tara Doyle and David Geary
Moderator: Tara Doyle
Location: White Hall 207

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Program of Panels and Sections

9:00

Abhishek Singh, “Negotiating Landscapes: Inter-religious
Dynamics and Religious Transformations in the Bodhgaya
Region”

9:30

Matthew R. Sayers, “Let’s Meet at the Akshayavata:
Conjunction of Hindu and Buddhist Traditions at
Bodhgaya”

10:00 Sraman Mukherjee, “e Bodh Gaya Temple Case:
Archaeology, Communities of Practice and Place Making
1874–1914”
10:30 Noel Salmond, “Queen Victoria Beneath the Bodhi Tree:e Ambivalence of Dharmapala and Dharmapala’s
Ambivalent Legacy”
11:00 Robert Pryor, “Bodh Gaya in the 1950s: Jawaharlal Nehru,
Mahant Giri, and Anagarika Munindra”
11:30 Frederick M. Asher, “Bodhgaya and the Issue of Originality
in Art”
12:00 Janice Leoshko, Respondent
Section: Early Buddhism
Moderator: Steven Collins
Location: Math & Science Center N302
9:00

Lance Cousins, “e Teachings of the Abhayagiri School”

9:30

Alexander Wynne, “On the Sarvāstivādins andMūlasarvāstivādins”

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10:00 Bimalendra Kumar, “eravāda as Vibhajjavāda”
10:30 Break
11:00 Antonio Ferreira-Jardim, “Stereotype & Schulzugehörigkeit: the Formula of the Four Meditations (caturdhyāna) as a Yardstick in Assessing Lines of Scriptural
Transmission”
11:30 Qian Lin, “e antarābhava Dispute among Abhidharma
Traditions: e Interpretation of antarāparinirvāyin”
12:00 Akio Minoura, “Sthiramati and Yaśomitra”
Section: Himalayan Buddhism
Moderator: Todd Lewis
Location: White Hall 110
9:00

Holger Neuwirth and Christian Luczanits,“e Development of the Alchi Temple Complex” (1 hour)

10:00 Cynthia Col, “Picturing the Canon: e Murals of theDerge Religious Text Printing Academy”
10:30 Break
11:00 Paul Nietupski, “Religious and Political Authority at
Labrang Monastery: Labrang’s Golden rone Holders”

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Program of Panels and Sections

Section: Textual and Philological Studies
Moderator: Robert urman
Location: Math & Science Center N304
9:00

Shaoyong Ye, “A Re-examination of the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā on the Basis of the Newly Identiﬁed Sanskrit
Manuscripts from Tibet”

9:30

Henry C.H. Shiu, “An Attempt to Render the Chinese term
benjue (‘original enlightenment’) into Sanskrit”

10:00 Junko Matsumura, “e Legend of Prince Sāli in the
Post-canonical Pāli Literature: Evidence of the Ancient
Literal Tradition Inherited by Medieval Sri Lankan
Buddhists”
10:30 Break
11:00 Jue Yao, “A Study of the Indigenization of Pāli by Dai in
Xishuangbanna: e Case of the Postscript toMūllakammathā”
11:30 Kin-Tung Yit, “Fixed Units of Wording
in the Pāli Sutta Literature”

SESSION II
Tuesday June 24, 2:00pm–5:30pm
Panel: Indian Buddhist Metaethics
Convener: Martin Adam
Moderator: Charles Hallisey
Location: White Hall 205
2:00

Abraham Velez, “Pluralism and the Foundations of Early
Buddhist Ethics”

2:30

Jay L. Garﬁeld, “Buddhist Ethics”

3:00

Barbra Clayton, “Making Ends Meet Means?:
e Implications of kuśala and puñya for Śāntideva’sMorality”

3:30

Break

4:00

Stephen Jenkins, “e Auspiciousness of Compassionate
Violence”

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Program of Panels and Sections

4:30

Bronwyn Finnigan, “How Can a Buddha Come to Act: ePossibility of a Buddhist Account of Ethical Agency”

5:00

Discussion

Panel: Rebirth of Buddhist Scholasticisms in
Twentieth-Century China
Conveners: Eyal Aviv and Jason Clower
Moderator: Huaiyu Chen
Location: White Hall 110
2:00

Chen-kuo Lin, “Chen-kuo Lü Cheng (1896–1989) andModern Chinese Buddhism”

2:30

Marcus Bingenheimer, “Between Tradition and Modernity:
Yinshun’s History of Buddhist Doctrine”

3:00

Erik Hammerstrom, “e Cachet of Kexue: Buddhist Intellectuals and Modern Astronomy in Twentieth-Century
China”

3:30

Break

4:00

Eyal Aviv, “Redeﬁning the Terms of Chinese Buddhism:
Ouyang Jingwu’s eory of Buddhism’s Twofold Paradigm”

4:30

Jason Clower, “e Unlikely Buddhologist Mou Zongsan:
What a Confucian Apologist Wanted with Tiantai Learning”

5:00

Discussion

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Panel: Tibetan Scholasticism in the 11th and 12th Centuries (II)Conveners: Pascale Hugon, Kazuo Kano, and Kevin Vose
Moderator: Kevin Vose
Location: White Hall 101
2:00

Georges Dreyfus, “A Tibetan Skeptic? A Preliminary
Analysis of Patsab’s Prāsaṅgika Philosophy”

2:30

Chizuko Yoshimizu, “Zhang ang sag pa on the
Mādhyamika’s Use and Disowning of a esis(pratijñā, dam bca’)”

3:00

Orna Almogi, “Rong-zom Chos-kyi-bzang-po’s
Subclassiﬁcation of the Madhyamaka School”

3:30

Break

4:00

Nathaniel Rich, “Rong zom chos kyi bzang po on‘Dialectics’ (mtshan nyid), ‘Secret Mantra’ (gsang sngags),
and the ‘View’ (lta ba)”

4:30

Heidrun Köppl, “Rong zom chos bzang on Mahāyoga andMadhyamaka”

5:00

Discussion

Panel: Universal Claims, Postcolonial Frames:
An Interdisciplinary Session on Bodhgaya (II)Conveners: Tara Doyle and David Geary
Moderator: Tara Doyle
Location: White Hall 207

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Program of Panels and Sections

2:00

Prabhat Krishna, “Buddhist Minorities in India: A Human
Rights Perspective and its Legal Implications”

2:30

David Geary, “‘Capturing the Centre’: Managing Universal
Heritage and the Enlightenment Aﬀect”

3:00

Jessica Falcone, “Maitreya, or e Love of Buddhism:
e Non-Event of a Giant Statue in Bodh Gaya”

3:30

Break

4:00

Kory Goldberg, “Buddhists Without Borders: Pilgrimage
and Education in Bodhgaya”

4:30

Jason Rodriguez, “NGOs and Intersecting Desires in
Bodhgaya”

5:00

Alan Trevithick, Respondent

Section: Buddhism and the West
Moderator: Eve L. Mullen
Location: Math & Science Center N304
2:00

Jürgen Oﬀermanns, “When Buddha Came to Ultima ule:
e Initial Reception of Buddhism in Sweden during the17th and the 18th Centuries”

2:30

Elizabeth Harris, “Manipulating Meaning: Daniel John
Gogerly’s Nineteenth-Century Translations of the eravāda texts”

3:00

Jiri Holba, “Buddhism and its Reﬂection in the Czech
Republic Aer the First World War Until the ‘Velvet
Revolution’ in 1989”

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3:30

Break

4:00

Stuart Lachs, “e Zen Master in America: Dressing theDonkey with Bells and Scarves”

4:30

J. Gordon Melton, “Taiwanese Vajrayāna Buddhism in the
West: e Case of the True Buddha School”

Section: Narrative Studies
Moderator: Charles B. Jones
Location: Math & Science Center N302
2:00

Naomi Appleton, “Buddha and Bodhisatta in eravadā
Jataka Stories”

2:30

Karen Lang, “Doubt, Emptiness, and the Demon Woman:
Candrakīrti on Catuḥśataka VIII.5”

3:00

Todd Lewis, “Sources and Sentiments in Sugata Saurabha, a
Mid-Twentieth-Century Narrative on the Buddha’s Life
from the Kathmandu Valley”

3:30

Break

4:00

Mario Poceski, “Baizhang’s Hagiographic Transmutations
and the Reconstituting of the Past in Chan Buddhism”

4:30

Hongyu Wu, “Buddhist Practices and the Womanly Way:
Biographical Narratives of Lay Buddhist Women in theHigh Qing Period (1683–1839)”

5:00

David Need, “A Summer of Desolation: What We Learn
from Jack Kerouac’s Retreat Journals”

34

Program of Panels and Sections

Section: Vajrayāna Buddhism
Moderator: Christian K. Wedemeyer
Location: White Hall 111
2:00

Yael Bentor, “Can Women Attain Enlightenment roughVajrayāna Practice?”

2:30

Tsunehiko Sugiki, “e Psychophysiological Homa of
Esoteric Buddhism in India”

3:00

Andreas Doctor, “Deity Practice in the gTer ma Tradition”

3:30

Break

4:00

Daniel Berounsky, “Entering Dead Bodies and the Miraculous Power of the Kings: Notes on Karma Pakshi’s
Reincarnation in Tibet”

4:30

Padma ’Tsho, “A Ritual Dance of Padmasambhava inTibetan Buddhism”

SESSION III
Wednesday June 25, 9:00am–12:30pm
Panel: Analyzing and Advancing Buddhist Philosophy (I):e Two Truths in India and Tibet
Conveners: Jay Garﬁeld and Jan Westerhoﬀ
Moderator: Jan Westerhoﬀ
Location: White Hall 111
9:00

Tom J.F. Tillemans, “How Far Can a Mādhyamika Buddhist
Reform Customary Truth?”

9:30

Dan Lusthaus, “e Use and Signiﬁcance of Two-Trutheory in Yogācāra ought”

10:00 James Blumenthal, “Dynamic Dimensions to Śāntarakṣita’s
Presentation of the Two Truths”
10:30 Break
11:00 Sonam akchoe, “Candrakīrti on the Two Truths andPramāṇa: Two Tibetan Ways of Interpreting Candrakīrti’s
Position”

36

Program of Panels and Sections

11:30 Dan Arnold, Respondent
12:00 Discussion
Panel: How eravāda is eravāda? (I)Convener: Peter Skilling
Moderator: Peter Skilling
Location: White Hall 101
9:00

Peter Skilling, “Lineage and Identity: Will the True aieravāda Please Stand Up?”

9:30

Rupert Gethin, “In Search of the eravādins: theravāda
and theriya in the Pāli Sources”

10:00 Max Deeg, “‘High-seated’ but Low-ranking? Sthavira andSthaviravāda in Chinese Buddhist Sources”
10:30 Break
11:00 Lilian Handlin, “Taking ‘Refuge’ in Late Eleventh-Century
Pagan”
11:30 Jason Carbine, “eravāda, Kalyani-style: Simas, Sasana,and Religious Space in Pre-Colonial South and Southeast
Asia”
12:00 Discussion
Panel: Miracles and Superhuman Powers in Buddhism
Convener: David Fiordalis
Moderator: John Strong
Location: White Hall 207

Wednesday Morning

37

9:00

David Fiordalis, “Form and Function of the Buddhist
Miracle”

9:30

Bradley Clough, “e Importance of the Abhijñas in Indian
Buddhism”

10:00 Kristin Scheible, “Priming the Lamp of Dhamma: theBuddha’s Miracles in the Pāli Mahāvaṃsa”
10:30 Break
11:00 Patrick Pranke, “On Saints and Sorcerers: Ideals of Human
Perfection and Power in Contemporary Burmese Buddhism”
11:30 Rachelle Scott, “Meditation, Miracles, and SuperhumanPowers: A Case Study of Two Remarkable ai Nuns”
12:00 Luis Gómez , Respondent
Section: Buddhist Art
Moderator: Cristina Scherrer-Schaub
Location: White Hall 205
9:00

Daniel Veidlinger, “Sarvāstivāda Buddhism and the Adventof the Buddha Image”

9:30

Carolyn Schmidt, “On-Going Studies of Bodhisattva
Imagery from Greater Gandhāra: Turban Ornamentationin the Form of Winged-Lion Plaques”

10:00 Katia Juhel, “A Very Signiﬁcant Aspect of Gandhāran Art:
the Example of the ‘Great Departure’”38

Program of Panels and Sections

10:30 Break
11:00 Gail Chin, “A Representation of the Body in a Japanese
Image of the Ten Worlds of Buddhism”
11:30 Mohammad Gharipour, “Building as a Temporary Object:
A Study on the Concept of Evanescence in the Productionof Architecture in Japan between the 1950s and 1980s”
Section: Contemporary Developments in Buddhism
Moderator: Eve L. Mullen
Location: White Hall 110
9:00

Michael Jerryson, “Signifying the Other in ai eravāda
Buddhism”

9:30

Pram Sounsamut, “Buddha Blessings and Dharma Products:
A New Trend of Dharma Teaching in ailand”

10:00 Mahinda Deegalle, “Parliamentary Politics of the Jathika
Hela Urumaya Monks of Sri Lanka”
10:30 Break
11:00 Brian J. Nichols, “Purple Cloud Towers and the Role of Cultural Properties in Eﬀecting Reverence and Protection at
China’s Quanzhou Kaiyuan Monastery”
11:30 Matthew King, “Rebirth, Recovery and Creation:
Dynamics of Buddhist Revivalism in Contemporary Mongolia”
12:00 Ashley Pryor, “Gesturing Toward Peace: e Gesture of Women’s
Silence in Contemporary Anti-War Protest Movements”

Wednesday Morning

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Session: Hermeneutics, Scholasticism, and Commentarial Techniques
Moderator: Robert Gimello
Location: Math & Science Center N304
9:00

Tao Jin, “Hermeneutics in the Reconstruction of Scriptural
Basis in Early Qixinlun Commentaries”

9:30

Rajesh Ranjan, “An Analytical Note on the Origin andDevelopment of Exegetical Literature in Pāli Language”

10:00 Grace Song, “Hermeneutics as Metaphor in the Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra”
10:30 Break
11:00 Wei Zhang, “Hau Yen Buddhist Hermeneutic Strategies—inConversation with Heidegger’s Ontological Hermeneutics”
11:30 Robert urman, “Translating the Tengyur (bstan-’gyur):
Help from Rolway Dorjey”
Section: Vinaya Studies
Moderator: Charles Prebish
Location: Math & Science Center N302
9:00

Gudrun Pinte, “Taisho 1462: e alleged translation of the
Pāli Samantapasadika or a vinaya-vibhasha?”

9:30

Malcolm Voyce, “e Vinaya and the Dharmaśāstra:
Monastic Law and Legal Pluralism in Ancient India”

10:00 Ute Hüsken, “Buddhist Monastic Rules as Ritual and Law”

40

Program of Panels and Sections

10:30 Break
11:00 Amy Langenberg “Child-Snatchers vs. Buddhist Monks:
Child Ordination as Child Protection in First Millennium
Buddhist India”
11:30 Klaus Pinte, “Kūkai’s Interpretation of Vinaya and Śīla:How to Understand the Concept of ‘Precepts’ in Shingon
Mikkyō?”SESSION IV
Wednesday June 25, 2:00pm–5:30pm
Panel: Analyzing and Advancing Buddhist Philosophy (II):e Two Truths in East Asia
Conveners: Jay L. Garﬁeld and Jan Westerhoﬀ
Moderator: Geshe Ngawang Samten
Location: White Hall 111
2:00

Peter Gregory, “e Two Truths in the Huayan Tradition”

2:30

Daniel Getz, “Renyue and the Tiantai ree Truths”

3:00

Griﬃth Foulk, “Modern Misinterpretations of the Two
Truths in the Rhetoric of Chan”

3:30

Break

4:00

Mark Blum, “When Truth Come to Shove: Politicizing the
Two Truths as a Response to Modernism”

42

Program of Panels and Sections

4:30

Koji Tanaka, Respondent

5:00

Discussion

Panel: Buddhism in the Writings of Ippolito Desideri, S.J. (1684–1733)
Convener: Trent Pomplun
Moderator: Brian Cuevas
Location: Math & Science Center N304
2:00

Enzo Gualtiero Bargiacchi, “Desideri and Emptiness:
Discovery, Description, Discussion”

2:30

Leonard Zwilling, “‘To Go Where Fr. Andrade Had Been’:
Another View of the Desideri Mission”

3:00

Erberto Lo Bue, “Ippolito Desideri and the History of
Tibetan Art and Architecture”

3:30

Break

4:00

Michael J. Sweet, “Human Fraud or the Devil’s Work:
Desideri’s Analysis of the Selection of the Dalai Lama”

4:30

Simon Wickham-Smith, “‘At the Right Hand, Honest andTrue’: e Cryptic Signiﬁcations of the Lexical Choices
Made by Ippolito Desideri in his Tibetan Translation of
the Pater Noster”

5:00

Trent Pomplun, “Ippolito Desideri’s Presentation of theHoly Trinity in the chos lugs kyi snying po”

Wednesday Afternoon

43

Panel: How eravāda is eravāda? (II)Convener: Peter Skilling
Moderator: Justin McDaniel
Location: White Hall 101
2:00

Anne Blackburn, “Views on Lineage from the Siyam
Nikāya: Writings from Kandy and Colombo”

2:30

Arthid Sheravanichkul, “Exploring Hīnayāna-Mahāyāna:
Puccha-Visajjana between King Chulalongkorn and Prince
Narisara Nuwattiwong”

3:00

Todd Perreira, “Whence eravāda? e ‘Way of the Elders’or the Way of Modern Discourse?”

3:30

Break

4:00

José Cabezón, Respondent

4:30

Discussion

Panel: Mahāmudrā: Approaching the Great Seal
Conveners: Roger Jackson and Lara Braitstein
Moderator: Barbra Clayton
Location: White Hall 205
2:00

Michelle Sorensen, “Phyag rgya chen po gcod: Qualiﬁcations
and Constructs”

2:30

Marta Sernesi, “e Great Seal of Illuminating Primordial
Wisdom (Phyag rgya chen po ye shes gsal byed): Milarepian
Instructions on the Great Seal Practice”

44

Program of Panels and Sections

3:00

Lara Braitstein, “Swooning for the Great Seal: dran pa, dran
med and Saraha’s Mahāmudrā”

3:30

Break

4:00

Anne Burchardi, “Epistemology as a Path to the Realizationof Mahāmudrā”

4:30

Roger Jackson, “Archer Among the Yellow Hats: Uses ofSaraha in the Dge lugs Traditions”

5:00

Discussion

Panel: New Research in Avadāna Literature
Convener: Andy Rotman
Moderator: John Strong
Location: White Hall 110
2:00

Timothy Lenz, “In Between the Lines a Begging Bowl is
Raised, A Convert is Made, A Doctrine is Learned”

2:30

Todd Lewis, “Avadānas and Jātakas Domesticated in the
Kathmandu Valley: Considerations on Newar Mahāyāna
Buddhism in its Geo-cultural Context”

3:00

Joel Tatelman, “A Famous Buddhist Story Almost No One
Has Read: Reﬂections on the Śārdūlakarṇāvadāna”

3:30

Break

4:00

Andy Rotman, “Marketing Morality: e Economy of Faithin Early Indian Buddhism”

Wednesday Afternoon

4:30

Reiko Ohnuma, “Good, Bad, or Both?—Polarized
Motherhood in Some Indian Buddhist Narratives”

5:00

John Strong, Respondent

45

Section: Dunhuang Studies
Moderator: Cristina Scherrer-Schaub and Liying Kuo
Location: White Hall 207
2:00

Ching Keng, “Attributing the Dunhuang Fragment TaishōNo. 2805 to Paramārtha’s Disciple—An Experiment Using
the Digitized Chinese Canon”

2:30

Cathy Cantwell and Robert Mayer, “e Dunhuang abs
kyi zhags pa padma ’phreng manuscript (IOL Tib J 321): A
Mahāyoga Tantra with a Commentary attributed to
Padmasambhava’s Teachings”

3:00

Break

3:30

Liying Kuo, “From Text to Images: Representations of the
Buddhoṣṇīṣavijayā Dhāraṇīsūtra at Dunhuang”

4:00

Carmen Meinert, “Harmful or Harmless? Violent Ritual in
Dunhuang Texts”

Section: Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy
Moderator: John Dunne
Location: Math & Science Center N302
2:00

Eviatar Shulman, “Reading Nāgārjuna in Light of the
Yuktiṣaṣṭikā-kārikā and the Śūnyatāsaptati”

46

Program of Panels and Sections

2:30

Anne MacDonald, “Red mda’ ba’s Commentary on the
Mūla-madhyamakakārikā”

3:00

Andrew McGarrity, “Why the Self is not like a Raven: An
Overlooked Argument in Āryadeva’s Catuḥśataka and theInsights it May Aﬀord into Tibetan Scholasticism”

3:30

Break

4:00

Pramod Kumar, “Semantic Aspects of Buddhist Logic”

4:30

Albion Butters, “It’s All in Your Mind: kLong chen pa’s
Refutation of Similarities between rDzogs chen andCittamātra”

5:00

Christian Coseru, “Naturalizing Buddhist Epistemology”

SESSION V
Thursday June 26, 9:00am–12:30pm
Panel: Analyzing and Advancing Buddhist Philosophy (III):
Philosophical Reﬂections on the Two Truths
Conveners: Jay Garﬁeld and Jan Westerhoﬀ
Moderator: Tom J.F. Tillemans
Location: White Hall 111
9:00

Jan Westerhoﬀ, “Nāgājuna’s Vigrahavyāvartanī:Some Philosophical Problems”

9:30

Guy Newland, “Paths of Deception: Characteristics ofConventional Truth Along the Middle Way”

10:00 Graham Priest, “Two Truths, Two Approaches”
10:30 Break
11:00 Edward R. Falls, “Realism, Mysticism, and Gradations of
Anti-Realism: Classifying Gorampa’s View in the Context
of Mark Siderits’ and Andrew Joseph Cortens’ Accounts ofAnti-Realism”

48

Program of Panels and Sections

11:30 Jay Garﬁeld, Respondent
12:00 Discussion
Panel: Beyond Simple Constructions of So-called Humanistic
Buddhism (renjian fojiao): Reinterpreting Modernity in TwentiethCentury Buddhism in China and Taiwan
Convener: Esther-Maria Guggenmos
Moderator: Stefania Travagnin
Location: White Hall 110
9:00

Stefania Travagnin, “e Mādhyamika Framework of theModern ‘Engaged’ Buddhism: A Re-statement of the Schoolof Nāgārjuna in Twentieth-Century Chinese Buddhism”

9:30

Yu-chen Li, “Female Piety and Social Involvement of the
Lotus Community in the 1920s China”

10:00 Xue Yu, “Humanistic Buddhism in Hong Kong”
10:30 Break
11:00 Esther-Maria Guggenmos, “Changes in the BiographicalSelf-constructions of Lay Buddhists in Twentieth-Century
Taiwan: On the Eﬀects of Modernization and renjian
fojiao”
11:30 Hung-Yok Ip, “Modernity and Chinese Buddhist Activism:
An Overview”
12:00 Discussion

Thursday Morning

49

Panel: Buddhist Monumental Sculpture and Architecture
Convener: Cameron David Warner
Moderator: Christian Luczanits
Location: White Hall 207
9:00

Huaiyu Chen, “Jewel-ﬂower Ordination Platform: e
Making of a Buddhist Monument in Late Imperial China”

9:30

Warner A. Belanger, III, “Redaction and the Ritual Eﬃcacy
of the Stūpa Cult in the Pradakṣiṇa Gāthā Textual
Tradition”

10:00 Arthur McKeown, “(Re)placing Vajrāsana: Metonymy,
Metaphor and Models of the Bodh Gaya Temple”
10:30 Break
11:00 James B. Apple, “Redescribing Maṇḍalas: A Test Case in
Bodh Gaya”
11:30 Catherine Becker, “Re-membering the Amarāvatī Stūpa”
12:00 Cameron David Warner, Respondent
Panel: Mahāyāna Sūtras
Convener: Jonathan A. Silk
Moderator: Andrew Glass
Location: White Hall 101
9:00

Joseph Walser, “Mahāyāna: What’s in a Name?”

9:30

Jan Nattier, “Becoming a Sūtra: How Mahāyāna Litearture
Began”

50

Program of Panels and Sections

10:00 Jonathan A. Silk, “Intertextuality in Mahāyāna Scripture:e Case of the Kāśyapaparivarta”
10:30 Break
11:00 Toshio Horiuchi, “Some Remarks on the Proof of theAuthenticity of the Mahāyāna Teachings: e Disputes
Between the Śrāvakayānikas and Mahāyānikas”
11:30 Elsa I. Legittimo, “Conservative Counter-currents in
So-called Mahāyāna Scriptures”
12:00 Kaie Mochizuki, “e List of Digits Enumerated in theAsaṁkhya Chapter of the Avataṁsaka-sūtra and theGaṇḍavyūha-sūtra”
Panel: Representations of Brahmins and Brahmanism in Early
Buddhist Literature
Convener: Brian Black
Moderator: Johannes Bronkhorst
Location: Math & Science Center N302
9:00

Brian Black, “Literary Features of the Buddhist Brahmodya:
Debates Between Buddhists and Brahmins as depicted in
the Dīgha Nikāya”

9:30

James M. Hegarty, “e Narrative Construction of theBrahmin and Brahmanical Knowledge in the Dīgha Nikāya”

10:00 Alf Hiltebeitel, “Recontextualizing Satire of BrahmanicalDharmaśāstra in the Aggañña Sutta”
10:30 BreakThursday Morning51

11:00 Karen Muldoon-Hules, “Brides of the Buddha:
Brahmanical Marriage and Buddhist Renunciation”
11:30 Laurie L. Patton, “Neither Age nor Family Decides:
e Failure of the Primordial Sages in the Buddhacarita”
12:00 Parimal Patil, Respondent
Panel: eory and Practice of Healing, Medicine and Longevity in
Buddhism
Conveners: Robert Mayer and Geoﬀrey Samuel
Moderator: Sarah Jacoby
Location: White Hall 205
9:00

Cathy Cantwell and Robert Mayer, “Imagery for Creating
Longevity: Artwork Used for the ’Chi med srog thig
(Immortal Life’s Creative Seed) Tradition” (1 hour)

10:00 Geoﬀrey Samuel, “Tibetan Longevity Practices: e Body
in the ’Chi med srog thig Tradition”
10:30 Break
11:00 Janet Gyatso, “inking about Buddhism and Medicine:Reﬂections from Some Tibetan Cases”
11:30 Discussion
Section: Ethnographic Studies
Moderator: Abraham Zablocki
Location: Math & Science Center N304
9:00

Donna S. Mote, Film Screening and Discussion: A Miyoshi
Obon (2007) (1 hour)

52

Program of Panels and Sections

10:00 Lisa Battaglia, “Becoming Bhikkhuni?: e Perspectives of
Mae Chis on the Women’s Ordination Movement in
Buddhist ailand”
10:30 Break
11:00 Julia Cassaniti, “e Power of Letting Go: eravāda
Buddhism in Everyday Life in ailand”
11:30 Jitka Cirklova, “e Czech Buddhist Sangha: Completing
the Mosaic of Features”
12:00 Scott A. Mitchell, “Taking Refuge in the Dharma: Ritualand the Study of Buddhism in the West”

SESSION VI
Friday June 27, 9:00am–12:30pm
Panel: Borobudur in International Perspective
Convener: Hudaya Kandahjaya
Moderator: Richard Payne
Location: White Hall 110
9:00

Hiram Woodward, “Bianhong, Mastermind of Borobudur?”

9:30

Te-chi Tsao, “Borobudur and the Representation of
Buddhakāya: From the Viewpoint of Avataṃsaka”

10:00 Hudaya Kandahjaya, “e Lord of All Virtues”
10:30 Break
11:00 Julie Giﬀord, “Training the Mind at Barabuḍur: Śailendra
Buddhism, the Gaṇḍavyūha, and the Development ofTibetan Lojong Practice”

54

Program of Panels and Sections

11:30 Luis Gómez, Respondent
12:00 Discussion
Panel: Buddhist Funerary Cultures: Art, Text, Ritual, Performance (I)Conveners: Justin McDaniel and Pattaratorn Chirapravati
Moderator: Naomi Appleton
Location: White Hall 101
9:00

Justin McDaniel, “You Can’t Keep the Dead Down in
Bangkok: Re-Funerals and Repertoires in Modern ai
Buddhism”

9:30

Suchitra Chongstitvatana, “Contemplation on Human
Body And Death in ai Chanting Texts”

10:00 Patrice Ladwig, “Caring for the Dead, Caring for the Self:
Two Festivals for the Deceased in Vientiane Buddhism”
10:30 Break
11:00 Arthid Sheravanichkul, “Funeral for the Living: Buddhist
Teaching in Lanna Funerary Texts”
11:30 Nicola Tannenbaum, “Continuity and Transformation:
Rebirth, Power-Protection, and Community”
12:00 Discussion
Panel: Gandhāran Manuscripts and Gandhāran Buddhism (I)Convener: Richard Salomon
Moderator: Collett Cox
Location: White Hall 207

Friday Morning

9:00

Ingo Strauch, “e Gāndhārī Vinaya texts of the Bajaur
Collection”

9:30

Andrew Glass, “e Bhadrakalpika-sūtra in Gāndhārī”

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10:00 Mark Allon, “A Gāndhārī Version of the Story of the
Merchants Tapussa and Bhallika and of the Gods Giving
the Buddha his First Alms Bowl”
10:30 Break
11:00 Harry Falk, “Another Collection of Kharoṣṭhi Manuscripts
from Gandhāra”
11:30 Richard Salomon, “Results of Radiocarbon Testing of the
Gāndhārī *Bahubuddha sūtra Scroll”
12:00 Discussion
Panel: Madhyamaka and Yogācāra Models of Truth or Reality in IndoTibetan Buddhism (I)Convener: Klaus-Dieter Mathes
Moderator: Roger Jackson
Location: White Hall 205
9:00

José Cabezón, “Dol po pa as a Polemicist: Some Comments
on his Clearing Away Darkness: Distinguishing Between theViews [of the Ultimate] (Lta ba’i shan ’byed yid kyi mun sel)”

9:30

omas H. Doctor, “In Pursuit of Transparent Means ofKnowledge: the Madhyamaka Project of rMa bya byangchub brtson ’grus”

56

Program of Panels and Sections

10:00 Douglas Duckworth, “Mipham’s Middle Way throughPrāsaṅgika and Yogācāra”
10:30 Break
11:00 Yaroslav Komarovski, “Competing Compatibilities:
Ratnākaraśānti, Shākya mchog ldan, Chos grags rgya mtsho,
and Mi pham on the Issue of Compatibility of Madhyamaka
and Yogācāra”
11:30 Tomoko Makidono, “Kathog Dge rtse Mahāpaṇḍita’s View
on Great Madhyamaka of the Other-emptiness”
12:00 Discussion
Panel: Wonhyo (617–686) and his Comprehensive Buddhist
Philosophical Vision
Convener: Charles Muller
Moderator: Dan Lusthaus
Location: Math & Science Center N302
9:00

Yong-pyo Kim, “On Hyodang’s Restoration of Wonhyo’s
Commentary on the Heart Sūtra”

9:30

Eun-su Cho, “Wonhyo’s Ontology: A Hermeneutical Shiin Seventh-Century East Asian Buddhism”

10:00 Jörg Plassen, “Early Chinese Hua-yen and Silla Hwaōm:Some Remarks on Wonhyo’s ‘Universal Dharma’”
10:30 Break
11:00 Robert E. Buswell, Jr., “Wonhyo (617–686) as Commentator”

Friday Morning57

11:30 Charles Muller, “Mixing Logic and the Expression of FaithOriented Insight: Wonhyo’s Commentarial Approaches”
12:00 Discussion
Panel: “Terms of Art” in Indian Esoteric Buddhism
Conveners: David B. Gray and Christian K. Wedemeyer
Moderator: Charles Orzech
Location: Math & Science Center N304
9:00

David B. Gray, “Imprints of the ‘Great Seal’: On theDevelopment of the Concept of mahāmudrā in Indian
Buddhist Literature”

9:30

John Campbell, “Ornamenting and Obscuring: On the Useof Terms from Sanskrit Poetics (alaṃkāraśāstra) in
Buddhist Tantric Exegesis”

10:00 Ronald M. Davidson, “Secrecy, Furtiveness and Exclusion in
Buddhist Tantrism”
10:30 Break
11:00 Christian K. Wedemeyer, “Packaging Tantric Sensuality:
An Intellectual History of the ‘Practices’ (caryā)”
11:30 Harunaga Isaacson, “Problems in the Study of Tantric
Technical Terminology”
12:00 Discussion

58

Program of Panels and Sections

Section: South Asian Buddhism
Moderator: Shoryu Katsura
Location: White Hall 111
9:00

Chanida Jantrasrisalai, “Traditional Interpretations ofDhammakāya in Pāli Buddhism”

9:30

Helmut Krasser, “Much Ado About Incest: Bhāviveka andDharmakīrti on Some Habits of the Brahmins, the Persians
and the Nāstikas”

10:00 Johannes Bronkhorst, “Buddhism Sanskritized, Buddhism
Brahmanized”
10:30 Break
11:00 Alice Collett, “Soma: Social and Socio-religious Lifestyle
Choices for Women in Ancient and Early Medieval India”
11:30 Vincent Tournier, “Fragments of Mahā-Kāśyapa’s presence:
Reinterpreting the So-called ‘Image Inscription from Silao’(Bihār), its Legendary and Doctrinal Implications and its
Relations to the Magadhan Sacred Geography”

SESSION VII
Friday June 27, 2:00pm–5:30pm
Panel: Buddhist Funerary Cultures: Art, Text, Ritual, Performance (II)Conveners: Justin McDaniel and Pattaratorn Chirapravati
Moderator: Naomi Appleton
Location: White Hall 101
2:00

Daniel Kent, “Shelter For You, Nirvāna for Our Sons:
Remembering the War Dead in Contemporary Sri Lanka”

2:30

Erik Davis, “Mourning and Memory in Contemporary
Cambodian Buddhism”

3:00

Leedom Leﬀerts, “Gis to e Buddha, the Sangha, Spirits,
and Laity: e Courses of ings in Northeast ai-Laoeravāda Buddhist Funerals”

3:30

Break

4:00

Robert DeCaroli, “Shedding Skins: Nāga Imagery andLayers of Meaning in South Asian Funerary Contexts”

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Program of Panels and Sections

4:30

Pattaratorn Chirapravati, “Funeral of the Buddha in aiArt: Texts and Interpretation of Maha Kasappa and Dona
Brahmana’s Roles”

5:00

Discussion

Panel: Gandhāran Manuscripts and Gandhāran Buddhism (II)Convener: Richard Salomon
Moderator: Harry Falk
Location: White Hall 207
2:00

Jens Braarvig, Paul Harrison, and Kazunobu Matsuda,“More Buddhist Fragments from the Schøyen Collection”

2:30

Daniel Boucher, “Is ere an Early Gandhāran Source for
the Avalokiteśvara Cult?”

3:00

Jason Neelis, “Domestication of Gandhāran Avadāna
Narratives in British Library Kharoṣṭhī Manuscripts”

3:30

Break

4:00

Stefan Baums, “Gāndhārī Verse Commentaries: Exegetical
Technique and Historial Connections”

4:30

Collett Cox, “Enumerate and Elaborate: Gāndhārī
Sangitisūtra Fragments and Early Modes of Commentary”

5:00

Discussion

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Panel: Humor and Buddhism
Convener: Shayne Clarke
Moderator: Eric Reinders
Location: White Hall 110
2:00

James A. Benn, “e Inﬂuence of Buddhist Literature on
Medieval Chinese Concepts of Wit and Humor”

2:30

Shayne Clarke, “On the Role of Humor in Buddhist
Monastic Law Codes”

3:00

David J. Cooper, “Tricksters, ‘Mad’ Yogins and Satire in the
Tibetan Buddhist World”

3:30

Break

4:00

Satoshi Hiraoka, “Humor in Indian Buddhist Narrative
Literature”

4:30

James Mark Shields, “What’s So Funny About ‘Mu’? Irony,
Redescription and Humor in East Asian Buddhist ought& Practice”

5:00

Discussion

Panel: Madhyamaka and Yogācāra Models of Truth or Reality in IndoTibetan Buddhism (II)Convener: Klaus-Dieter Mathes
Moderator: Tom J.F. Tillemans
Location: White Hall 205
2:00

David Higgins, “Klong-chen-pa’s Use of Transcendental
Arugments in Distinguishing Dualistic Mind (sems) andPrimordial Gnosis (ye shes)”

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Program of Panels and Sections

2:30

Klaus-Dieter Mathes, “Was the ird Karmapa Rang byungrdo rje (1284–1339) a Proponent of Gzhan stong? Some
More Material from rJe Bkra shis ‘od zer’s (Fieenth/
Sixteeth-Century) Ratnagotravibhāga Commentary”

3:00

Akira Saito, “On the Meaning and Beginning of the
Madhyamaka/Mādhyamika School”

3:30

Break

4:00

Koichi Takahashi, “On the Meaning and Self-recognition of
the So-called ‘Yogacara’ School”

4:30

Tsering Wangchuk, “Distinguishing the Diﬀerence between
the Cittamātra and the Madhyamaka Schools in Dolpopa
Sherab Gyaltsen’s Works”

5:00

Discussion

Section: Buddhist eories of Mind and Meditation
Moderator: Tao Jiang
Location: Math & Science Center N304
2:00

Matthew Kosuta, “e Four Kinds of Kamma in the Pāli
Canon with Special Attention to the ird Kind of
Kamma”

2:30

Daniel Stuart, “New Findings from the Dīrghāgama of the
Sarvāstivādins: e Pṛṣṭhapālasūtra”

3:00

Zhihua Yao, “Some Mahāsāṃghika Arguments for the
Cognition of Nonexistent Objects”

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3:30

Break

4:00

Jowita Kramer, “Matter and Mind in the Abhidharma of the
Yogācāra Tradition”

4:30

Karin Meyers, “Memory, Volition, and Moral Formation in
Vasubandhu’s Abhidharmakośabhāṣya”

5:00

David Rounds, “Rescuing Ānanda: An Overview of theŚūragama Sūtra”

Section: East Asian Buddhism
Moderator: Mark Blum
Location: White Hall 111
2:00

Hiroshi Kanno, “On the Concept of ‘Salviﬁc Impetus’ and‘Resonantal Stimulus and Response’ in the Early Period ofChinese Buddhism, Focusing on the Case of Daosheng and
Sengliang”

2:30

Soonil Hwang, “e Origin and Development of the Ten
Appellations of the Buddha”

3:00

Charles Jones, “Contextualizing Gentry Buddhism in the
Late Ming Dynasty”

3:30

Break

4:00

Xiaofei Tu, “‘e Buddha Didn’t Say at’: A Debate
Between Chinese and Japanese Buddhists at the Turnof the Twentieth Century”

4:30

Yue Xiao, “What is the Meaning of Jingtu in Pure Land
Buddhism?”

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Program of Panels and Sections

5:00

Shinobu Apple, “e Lotus Sūtra, Mountain Asceticism,
and Expiation: An East Asian Perspective”

Section: Logic and Epistemology
Moderator: Helmut Krasser
Location: Math & Science Center N302
2:00

Horst Lasic, “Dignāga on Logic”

2:30

Junjie Chu, “Dignāga’s Idea of the Relationship between
Mental Perception and its Object”

3:00

Hisataka Ishida, “Discussion of the bhāvābhāvasādhāraṇya:Material for the study of the apoha eory”

3:30

Break

4:00

Vincent Eltschinger, “Dharmakīrti’s views on Nescience(avidyā)”4:30

Taiken Kyuma, “Śālikanātha’s Criticism of Dharmakīrti’s
svasaṃvedanā eory”

5:00

Jeson Woo, “Bhāsarvajña and Jñānaśrīmitra on
yogipratyakṣa”

SESSION VIII
Saturday June 28, 9:00am–12:30pm
Panel: Buddhist eories of Self-Awareness (svasaṃvedanā):Interpretations and Critiques
Convener: Birgit Kellner
Moderator: Birgit Kellner
Location: White Hall 110
9:00

Birgit Kellner, “Self-Awareness in Dharmakīrti’sPramāṇavārttika: a First Guide rough a icket of a Text”

9:30

Shinya Moriyama, “e Status of Self-Awareness in the
Sautrāntika Epistemology”

10:00 Dan Arnold, “Buddhist Idealism, Epistemic and Otherwise:oughts on the Alternating Perspectives of Dharmakīrti”
10:30 Break
11:00 Hisayasu Kobayashi, “Self-Awareness and Mental
Perception”

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Program of Panels and Sections

11:30 Alex Watson, “Self-Awareness in the Writings of Bhaṭṭa
Rāmakaṇṭha; its Meaning and a Hypothesis Concerning
How it Came to Be ere”
12:00 John Taber, “Kumārila’s Presentation of a Buddhist View of
Svasaṃvitti”
Panel: Pioneer Translators, Missionaries, and eir Transmitted Texts
Convener: Mariko Namba Walter
Moderator: Charles Orzech
Location: Math & Science Center N304
9:00

Mariko Namba Walter, “An-shi-gao and Yue-zhi Translators:
Lakoraksha, Zhi Qian, and Dharmaraksha—Some
Challenges Faced by the Pioneer Missionaries in China”

9:30

Jungnok Park, “Notes on a Sinocised Translation in the Wu
dynasty (222–80): Questions Regarding the Attribution ofT20 (Fo kaijie fan zhi aba jing) to Zhi Qian”

10:00 Jenkuan Shih, “Translation eories of Kumārajīva (344–413) and Xuanzang (600–664): A Buddhist Philosophical
Perspective”
10:30 Break
11:00 Ryan Overbey, “‘Why Don’t we Translate Spells in Our
Scriptures?’: Zhiyi and Jizang on the Untranslatable
Dhāraṇī of the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka”
11:30 David B. Gray, “Translating the Untranslatable: Rinchen
Zangpo and the Tibetan Encounter with Indian Buddhist
Esotericism”

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12:00 Robert Buswell, Respondent
Panel: Reexamining Tibetan Auto/Biographical Writing
Conveners: Sarah Jacoby and Andrew Quintman
Moderator: Antonio Terrone
Location: White Hall 101
9:00

Carl Yamamoto, “Reading Lama Zhang’s Life: Textual
Economies and the Birth of Genres”

9:30

Benjamin Bogin, “e Autobiographical Illuminations ofYolmo Tendzin Norbu”

10:00 Andrew Quintman, “Manuscripts in the Age of Print
Biography: Soundings in the Book Culture of EighteenthCentury Tibet”
10:30 Break
11:00 Sarah Jacoby, “On the Edges of Autobiography andRevelation”
11:30 Annabella Pitkin, “e Guru’s Death as a Site of Modernity:
Reading Narratives of Loss and Change”
12:00 Kurtis Schaeﬀer, “Charting Tibetan Auto/Biography”

68

Program of Panels and Sections

Panel: Recovering Anew the Lotus Sūtra’s Originality as a
Religio-Philosophical System
Convener: Joseph Logan
Moderator: Joseph Logan
Location: White Hall 207
9:00

Tsugunari Kubo, “Bodhi and Anuttara-Samyak-Sambodhi inthe Lotus Sūtra”

9:30

Gene Reeves, “Togetherness of Past, Present and Future in
the Dharma Flower Sūtra”

10:00 Shin’ichi Tsuda, “Signiﬁcance of the Fulﬁllment of
Shakyamuni Buddha’s Vow as the Foundation of theSoteriology of the Lotus Sūtra”
10:30 Break
11:00 Carmen Dragonetti and Fernando Tola, “e Universalismof the Lotus Sūtra: An Emblematic Reaction for a New
World”
11:30 Asaf Federman, “Literal Means and Hidden Meanings:
A New Analysis of ‘Skilful Means’”
12:00 Gyokai Sekido, “e Inﬂuence of the Lotus Sūtra’s Dramatic
Aspects on Japanese Culture”
Section: East Asian Buddhist Philosophy Session
Moderator: Chen-kuo Lin
Location: White Hall 111
9:00

Alnis Dickson, “A Defense of Nishitani’s Ethics of Emptiness”

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9:30

69

Hans-Rudolf Kantor, “Ambiguity and the Concern of
Language in Chinese Buddhist Philosophy”

10:00 Shoryu Katsura, “Trace of Apoha eory in Kui-ji’s Chengwei-shi-lun-shu-ji”
10:30 Break
11:00 Eiji Suhara, “Re-visioning the 17th Chapter of the Platform
Sūtra from a Phenomenological Perspective with
Consideration of the Critical Buddhism”
11:30 Julian Menezes, “Playing with Karma: An Exploration of thePlace of Karma in Nishitani’s Religion and Nothingness”
12:00 Eric S. Nelson, “Virtues and Encounters: Zen Buddhism,
Ethics, and the Environment”
Section: Inner Asian, Mongolian and Korean Buddhism Session
Moderator: Jiri Holba
Location: Math & Science Center N302
9:00

Lubos Belka, “Buryat ‘Triad of National Buddhist Jewels’:
Religious and Political Context”

9:30

Tibor Porcio, “Religious Contacts and Interactions Between
the Uygurs and the Tibetans”

10:00 Jongmyung Kim, “Korean Kings’ Buddhist Views:
An Examination from the Fourth to the Tenth Centuries”
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Program of Panels and Sections

11:00 Tina Do Kyung Lee, “Forming an Earthly Paradise: The
Sacred Aesthetics of Koryŏ celadon”
Section: Technology and Resources
Moderator: Aming Tu
Location: White Hall 205
9:00

Aming Tu, “Spatial-temporal Information System
Technology and Tripiṭaka Catalogs”

9:30

Marcus Bingenheimer, “Untangling Āgama Literature:
A Digital Comparative Edition of the Bieyi za’ahan jing
(T.100)”

10:00 Daza Drukpa and Anne Burchardi, “A Survey of Bhutanese
Buddhist Literature”
10:30 Break
11:00 William Magee, Abstract for “Learning Tibetan in the
Virtual World”
11:30 Jeﬀ Wallman, “Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center Digital
Library: Searching Via Multiple Pathways” (1 hour)SESSION IX
Saturday June 28, 2:00pm–5:30pm
Panel: Buddhist Commentarial Traditions: Transdiscursivity andTextual Production in Buddhist Intellectual History
Conveners: Mark Dennis
Moderator: Charles Hallisey
Location: Math & Science Center N302
2:00

Mark Dennis, “Reimagining Buddhist Authors: Shōtoku
Taishi as a Model of ‘Transdiscursivity’”

2:30

Ron Green, “Interplay of Contexts in Kūkai’s Production of
Secret Key to the Heart of the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra”

3:00

Wei-jen Teng, “Commentarial Practices as an ‘Author’ to thePrimary Text: Kuiji’s (632–682) Commentary to the Lotus
Sūtra”

3:30

Break

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Program of Panels and Sections

4:00

Charles Hallisey, Respondent

4:30

Discussion

Panel: Facets of Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia
Convener: Charles D. Orzech
Moderator: David Gray
Location: White Hall 207
2:00

William Bodiford, “Spells and Dhāraṇī in Japanese Zen”

2:30

Rob Gimello, “Occult Buddhism in a Time of Turbulence”

3:00

Barbara Ambros, “e Networks and Demographics of the
Nineteenth-Century Kogi Shingon School”

3:30

Break

4:00

Charles D. Orzech, “What Jōjin Saw: Glimpses of Esoteric
Buddhism in the Song Capital circa 1073 C.E.”

4:30

Richard K. Payne, Respondent

Panel: Uses and Abuses of the “Modern” in Tibet andTibetan Buddhism
Conveners: Leigh Sangster, Robbie Barnett, and Laura Harrington
Moderator: Janet Gyatso
Location: White Hall 111
2:00

Laura Harrington, “Alternate Pathways: Mediating the‘Modernity-Tradition’ Divide in Tibetan Buddhist Studies”

2:30

Robbie Barnett, “Pholhanas’s Letter to the Capuchins and
the Question of Religious Tolerance”

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3:00

Leigh Miller Sangster, “‘Buddhist’ Imagery inContemporary Tibetan Art”

3:30

Break

4:00

Abraham Zablocki, “Aer Protestant Buddhism: Beyond
the Modern/Traditional Binary in the Anthropology ofContemporary Buddhism”

4:30

Jessica Falcone, “e Buddhist Lama vs. the Indian Farmer:
Negotiating Various ‘Modernities’ and ‘Traditionalisms’ inPlanning the Maitreya Project”

5:00

Annabella Pitkin, “Of Indian Beggars, Crazy Lamas, andSanskrit Scholars: Modern Tibetan Buddhist Identities andthe Reappropriation of Tradition”

Panel: Yogācāra Buddhism: Approaches
Convener: Tao Jiang
Moderator: Eric Reinders
Location: White Hall 101
2:00

Dan Lusthaus, “Husserl, Nietzsche, Dignāga andDharmakīrti on Cognition, Negation and Apodictic
Evidenz (Svasaṃvitti)”

2:30

Tao Jiang, “Direct Access and Immanence in Xuanzang’s
Conceptualization of Ālayavijñāna”

3:00

Sakuma Hidenori, “On Doctrinal Similarities between
Sthiramati and Xuanzang”

3:30

Break

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Program of Panels and Sections

4:00

Sonam Kachru, “e Elusive Coat-Hanger: Dignāga on
Minima and Proper Sensibles”

4:30

Ching Keng, “A Re-examination of the Notion of Jiexing in
the Chinese Translation of the Mahāyānasaṃgrahabhāṣya
by Paramārtha”

5:00

Discussion

Panel: Śāntideva and the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra
Convener: Ani Kunga Chodron
Moderator: Alf Hiltebeitl
Location: White Hall 110
2:00

Lama Kalsang Gyaltsen, “An Overview of Sazang Mati
Panchen’s Commentary on Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra”

2:30

Ani Kunga Chodron, “Western Accounts of the Biographyof Śāntideva: Some Observations on the Eﬀect of Culture”

3:00

Jaqueline Abdalla, “Śāntideva’s Life in Historical Context”

3:30

Break

4:00

C. Upender Rao, “e Inﬂuence of Gaṇḍavyuhasūtra on
Bodhicaryāvatāra”

4:30

Barbra Clayton, Respondent

5:00

Discussion

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Section: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Moderator: Andy Rotman
Location: Math & Science Center N304
2:00

Douglas Osto, “Research on ‘Early Mahāyāna’: Reassessing
the Evidence”

2:30

David Drewes, “Mahāyāna as a Textual Phenomenon”

3:00

James Apple, “Emergent Ideology through Semantic
Elucidation: A Case Study in the Rhetoric of Mahāyāna
Buddhist Formations”

3:30

Break

4:00

Boaz Amichay, “It’s all about the Gotra, Stupid…”

4:30

Michael Sheehy, “Retelling Mahāyāna History: Jo nangSources for the Indian and Tibetan Transmissions of Gzhan
stong Madhyamaka”

5:00

Justin Fiﬁeld, “Who is Taking the Bodhisattva Vow?”

Index of Speakers and Moderators

Abdalla, Jacqueline. George Washington University, USA ..................74
Adam, Martin. University of Victoria, Canada ........................................29
Allon, Mark. University of Sydney, Australia............................................55
Almogi, Orna. University of Hamburg, Germany ............................25, 31
Ambros, Barbara. University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, USA......................................................................................72
Amichay, Boaz. Tel Aviv University, Israel ................................................75
Apple, James. University of Calgary, Canada......................................49, 75
Apple, Shinobu. Institute of Oriental Philosophy, Japan........................64
Appleton, Naomi. University of Oxford, UK..............................33, 54, 58
Arnold, Dan. University of Chicago, USA ........................................36, 65
Asher, Frederick. University of Minnesota, USA ....................................26
Aviv, Eyal. Harvard University, USA..........................................................30
Bargiacchi, Enzo Gualtiero.
Istitute Italiana per l’Africa e l’Oriente, Rome ....................................42
Barnett, Robert. Columbia University, USA ............................................72
Battaglia, Lisa. Ohio University, USA........................................................52
Baums, Stefan. University of Washington, USA ......................................60
Becker, Catherine. University of Illinois, USA ........................................49
Belanger, Warner. Harvard University, USA ............................................49

78

Index of Speakers and Moderators

Belka, Lubos. Masaryk University, Czech Republic ................................69
Benn, James. McMaster University, Canada..............................................61
Bentor, Yael. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel ..............................34
Berounsky, Daniel. Charles University, Czech Republic ........................34Bhikṣu, Huimin. Dharma Drum Buddhist College, Taiwan ................24
Bingenheimer, Marcus.
Dharma Drum Buddhist College, Taiwan....................................30, 70
Black, Brian. SOAS, University of London, UK......................................50
Blackburn, Anne. Cornell University, USA ..............................................43
Blum, Mark. State University of New York, Albany, USA ..............41, 63
Blumenthal, James. Oregon State University, USA ................................35
Bodiford, William. University of California, Los Angeles, USA ........72
Bogin, Benjamin. University of California, Berkeley, USA ..................67
Boucher, Daniel. Cornell University, USA................................................60
Braarvig, Jens. University of Oslo, Norway ..............................................60
Braitstein, Lara. McGill University, Canada ......................................43, 44
Bronkhorst, Johannes. University of Lausanne, Switzerland ..........50, 58
Burchardi, Anne. University of Copenhagen, Denmark..................44, 70
Buswell, Robert. University of California, Los Angeles, USA........56, 67
Butters, Albion. Independent Scholar, USA ............................................46
Cabezón, José. University of California,
Santa Barbara, USA ....................................................................23, 43, 55
Campbell, John. Columbia University, USA ............................................57
Cantwell, Cathy. University of Oxford,
and University of Cardiﬀ, UK ........................................................45, 51
Carbine, Jason. Whittier College, USA ....................................................36
Cassaniti, Julia. University of Chicago, USA............................................52
Chen, Huaiyu. University of the West, USA......................................30, 49
Chin, Gail. University of Regina, Canada ................................................38
Chirapravati, Pattaratorn. California State University,
Sacramento, USA ........................................................................54, 59, 60
Cho, Eun-Su. Seoul National University, South Korea ..........................56
Chodron, Ani Kunga. George Washington University, USA ..............74

Index of Speakers and Moderators

79

Chongstitvatana, Suchitra. Chulalongkorn University, ailand ........54
Chu, Junjie. University of Leipzig, Germany ............................................64
Cirklova, Jitka. Charles University, Czech Republic ..............................52
Clarke, Shayne. McMaster University, Canada ........................................61
Clayton, Barbra. Mount Allison University, Canada ................29, 43, 74
Clough, Bradley. University of Montana, USA........................................37
Clower, Jason. Harvard University, USA ..................................................30
Col, Cynthia. Graduate eological Union, USA ..................................27
Collett, Alice. York St. John University, UK ............................................58
Collins, Steven. University of Chicago, USA ..........................................27
Cooper, David. University of California, Santa Barbara, USA ............61
Coseru, Christian. College of Charleston, USA ......................................46
Cousins, Lance. Wolfson College, Oxford, UK ......................................27
Cox, Collett. University of Washington, USA ..................................54, 60
Cuevas, Brian. Florida State University, USA ..........................................42
Davidson, Ronald. Fairﬁeld University, USA ..........................................57
Davis, Erik. Macalester College, USA. ......................................................59
DeCaroli, Robert. George Mason University, USA ................................59
Deeg, Max. Cardiﬀ University, UK ............................................................36
Deegalle, Mahinda. Bath Spa University, UK ..........................................38
Dennis, Mark. Texas Christian University, USA......................................71
Dickson, Alnis. McGill University, Canada ..............................................69
Doctor, Andreas. Kathmandu University
and Rangjung Yeshe Institute, Nepal ....................................................34
Doctor, omas H. University of Lausanne, Switzerland ......................55
Doyle, Tara. Emory University, USA ..................................................25, 31
Dragonetti, Carmen.
National Council of Scientiﬁc Research, Argentina..........................68
Drewes, David. University of Manitoba, Canada ....................................75
Dreyfus, Georges. Williams College, USA................................................31
Drukpa, Daza. National Library of Bhutan, Bhutan ..............................70
Duckworth, Douglas. University of North Carolina,
Greensboro, USA......................................................................................56

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Index of Speakers and Moderators

Dunne, John. Emory University, USA ................................................19, 45
Eltschinger, Vincent. IKGA, Austrian Academy of Sciences,
Austria..........................................................................................................64
Falcone, Jessica. Cornell University, USA ..........................................32, 73
Falk, Harry. Free University of Berlin, Germany ..............................55, 60
Falls, Edward. Emory University, USA ......................................................47
Federman, Asaf. Warwick University, UK ................................................68
Ferreira-Jardim. Antonio. University of Queensland, Australia ..........27
Fiﬁeld, Justin. University of Texas–Austin, USA ....................................75
Finnigan, Bronwyn. University of Auckland, New Zealand..................30
Fiordalis, David. University of Michigan, USA ................................36, 37
Foulk, Griﬃth. Sarah Lawrence College, USA..................................24, 41
Freiberger, Oliver. University of Texas–Austin, USA ............................23
Garﬁeld, Jay. Smith College, USA ....................................29, 35, 41, 47, 48
Geary, David. University of British Columbia, Canada ............25, 31, 32
Gethin, Rupert. University of Bristol, UK ................................................36
Getz, Daniel. Bradley University, USA ......................................................41
Gharipour, Mohammad. Georgia Institute of Technology, USA ........38
Giﬀord, Julie. Miami University, USA ......................................................53
Gimello, Robert. University of Notre Dame, USA ..........................39, 72
Glass, Andrew. University of Washington, USA ..............................49, 55
Goldberg, Kory. Université du Quebec á Montreal, Canada ................32
Gómez, Luis. University of Michigan, USA..........................23, 24, 37, 54
Goodell, Eric. Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies, Taiwan ......24
Gray, David. Santa Clara University, USA ..................................57, 66, 72
Green, Ron. Coastal Carolina University, USA ......................................71
Gregory, Peter. Smith College, USA ..........................................................41
Guggenmos, Esther-Maria. University of Ghent, Belgium ....................48
Gyaltsen, Lama Kalsang. Tsechen Kunchab Ling, USA ..................62, 74
Gyatso, Janet. Harvard Divinity School, USA ..................................51, 72
Hallisey, Charles. Harvard Divinity School, USA......................29, 71, 72
Hammerstrom, Erik. Indiana University, Bloomington, USA..............30
Handlin, Lilian. Harvard University, USA................................................36

Index of Speakers and Moderators

81

Harrington, Laura. Wesleyan University, USA ........................................73
Harris, Elizabeth. Birmingham University, UK ......................................32
Harrison, Paul. Stanford University, USA ................................................60
Hegarty, James. Cardiﬀ University, UK ....................................................50
Hidenori, Sakuma. Tsukuba University, Japan..........................................73
Higgins, David. University of Lausanne, Switzerland ............................61
Hiltebeitel, Alf. George Washington University, USA ..........................51
Hiraoka, Satoshi. Kyoto Bunkyo University, Japan ................................61
Holba, Jiri. Charles University, Czech Republic................................32, 69
Horiuchi, Toshio. University of Tokyo, Japan ..........................................50
Huang, Yi-hsun. Dharma Drum Buddhist College, Taiwan ................24
Hugon, Pascale. IKGA, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria ....35, 31
Hüsken, Ute. University of Oslo, Norway ................................................39
Hwang, Soonil. Dongguk University, South Korea ................................63
Ip, Hung-Yok. Oregon State University, USA ..........................................48
Isaacson, Harunaga. University of Hamburg, Germany ........................57
Ishida, Hisataka. University of Vienna, Austria ......................................64
Jackson, Roger. Carleton College, USA........................................43, 44, 55
Jacoby, Sarah. Columbia University, USA ..........................................51, 67
Jantrasrisalai, Chanida. University of Sydney, Australia ........................58
Jenkins, Stephen. Humboldt State University, USA ..............................29
Jerryson, Michael. University of California, Santa Barbara, USA........38
Jiang, Tao. Rutgers University, USA ....................................................62, 73
Jin, Tao. University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, USA................39
Jones, Charles. e Catholic University of America, USA..............33, 63
Juhel, Katia. Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, France..........................37
Kachru, Sonam. University of Chicago, USA ..........................................74
Kandahjaya, Hudaya.
Numata Center for Buddhist Translation, USA ................................53
Kanno, Hiroshi. Soka University, Japan ....................................................63
Kano, Kazuo. Koyasan University, Japan ............................................25, 31
Kantor, Hans-Rudolf. Huafan University, Taiwan ..................................69
Katsura, Shoryu. Ryukoku University, Japan......................................58, 69

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Index of Speakers and Moderators

Kawamura, Leslie. University of Calgary, Canada ..................................23
Kellner, Birgit. University of Vienna, Austria ..........................................65
Keng, Ching. Harvard University, USA..............................................45, 74
Kent, Daniel. University of Virginia, USA................................................59
Kim, Jongmyung. e Academy of Korean Studies, South Korea........69
Kim, Yong-pyo. Dongguk University, South Korea ................................56
King, Matthew. Toronto University, Canada............................................38
Kobayashi, Hisayasu. Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan ........................65
Komarovski, Yaroslav. Washington University, USA..............................56
Köppl, Heidrun. University of Lausanne, Switzerland ..........................31
Kosuta, Matthew. Mahidol University, ailand ....................................62
Kramer, Jowita. University of Munich, Germany ....................................63
Krasser, Helmut. IKGA, Austrian Academy of Sciences,
Austria ..................................................................................................58, 64
Krishna, Prabhat. SOAS, University of London, UK ............................32
Kubo, Tsugunari. Essential Lay Buddhism Study Center, Japan ..........68
Kumar, Bimalendra. Banaras Hindu University, India............................27
Kumar, Pramod. Magadha University, India ............................................46
Kuo, Liying. École française d’Extreme-Orient, France ........................45
Kyuma, Taiken. Mie University, Japan........................................................64
Lachs, Stuart. Independent Scholar, USA..................................................33
Ladwig, Patrice. University of Bristol, UK ................................................54
Lang, Karen. University of Virginia, USA ................................................33
Langenberg, Amy. Independent Scholar, USA ........................................40
Lasic, Horst. IKGA, Austrian Academy of Science, Austria ..................64
Lee, Tina Do Kyung. Independent Scholar, USA....................................70
Leﬀerts, Leedom. Drew University, USA..................................................59
Legittimo, Elsa. University of Munich, Germany ....................................50
Lenz, Timothy. University of Washington, USA ....................................44
Leoshko, Janice. University of Texas-Austin, USA ..................................27
Lewis, Todd. College of the Holy Cross, USA ............................27, 33, 44
Li, Yu-chen. National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan ..............................48
Lin, Chen-kuo. National Chengchi University, Taiwan ..................30, 68

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Lin, Qian. University of Washington, USA ..............................................27
Lo Bue, Erberto. University of Milan, Italy ..............................................42
Logan, Joseph. Essential Lay Buddhist Study Center, Japan..................68
Luczanits, Christian. University of California,
Santa Barbara, USA ..........................................................................27, 49
Lusthaus, Dan. Harvard University, USA ....................................35, 56, 73
MacDonald, Anne. University of Vienna, Austria ..................................46
Magee, William. Dharma Drum Buddhist College, Taiwan ................70
Makidono, Tomoko. Harvard University, USA ......................................56
Mathes, Klaus-Dieter. University of Hamburg, Germany ........55, 61, 62
Matsuda, Kozunobu. Bukkyo University, Japan ......................................60
Matsumura, Junko. Kobe International University, Japan......................28
Mayer, Robert. University of Oxford andUniversity of Cardiﬀ, UK ................................................................45, 51
McDaniel, Justin. University of California,
Riverside, USA ............................................................................43, 54, 59
McGarrity, Andrew. University of Sydney, Australia ..............................46
McKeown, Arthur. Harvard University, USA ..........................................49
McRae, John. Komazawa University, Japan ..............................................24
Meinert, Carmen. Hamburg University, Germany ..................................45
Melton, J. Gordon.
Institute for the Study of American Religion, USA ..........................33
Menezes, Julian. McGill University, Canada ............................................69
Meyers, Karin. University of Chicago, USA ............................................63
Minoura, Akio. Otani University, Japan ....................................................27
Mitchell, Scott A. Institute of Buddhist Studies, USA ..........................52
Mochizuki, Kaie. Minobusan University, Japan ......................................50
Moriyama, Shinya. Shinshu University, Japan ..........................................65
Mote, Donna S. Emory University, USA ..................................................51
Mukherjee, Sraman. Centre for Studies in Social Sciences,
Calcutta, India ..........................................................................................26
Muldoon-Hules, Karen.
University of California, Los Angeles, USA ......................................51

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Index of Speakers and Moderators

Mullen, Eve L. Oxford College, USA ..................................................32, 38
Muller, Charles. Toyo Gakuen University, Japan ..............................56, 57
Nattier, Jan. International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology,
Soka University, Japan..............................................................................49
Need, David. Duke University, USA ..........................................................33
Neelis, Jason. University of Florida, USA..................................................60
Nelson, Eric. University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA ......................69
Neuwirth, Holger. University of Vienna, Austria ....................................27
Newland, Guy. Central Michigan University, USA ................................47
Nichols, Brian. Rice University, USA ........................................................38
Nietupski, Paul. John Carroll University, USA ........................................27
Oﬀermanns, Jürgen. Lund University, Sweden ........................................33
Ohnuma, Reiko. Dartmouth College, USA..............................................45
Orzech, Charles. University of North Carolina,
Greensboro, USA ........................................................................57, 66, 72
Osto, Douglas. Massey University, New Zealand ....................................75
Overbey, Ryan. Harvard University, USA ................................................67
Park, Jungnok. University of Oxford, UK ................................................66
Patil, Parimal. Harvard University, USA....................................................51
Patton, Laurie. Emory University, USA ....................................................51
Payne, Richard. Institute of Buddhist Studies, USA ........................53, 72
Perreira, Todd. University of California, Santa Barbara, USA..............43
Pinte, Gudrun. Ghent University, Belgium ..............................................39
Pinte, Klaus. Ghent University, Belgium....................................................40
Pitkin, Annabella. Columbia University, USA ..................................67, 73
Plassen, Jörg. Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany ................................56
Poceski, Mario. University of Florida, USA ..............................................33
Pomplun, Trent. Loyola College, USA ......................................................42
Porcio, Tibor. University of Szeged, Hungary ..........................................69
Pranke, Patrick. University of Michigan, USA ........................................37
Prebish, Charles. Utah State University, USA....................................22, 39
Priest, Graham. University of Melbourne, Australia ..............................46
Pryor, Ashley. University of Toledo, USA ................................................38

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Pryor, Robert. Antioch College, USA ........................................................26
Quintman, Andrew. Princeton University, USA ....................................67
Ranjan, Rajesh. Punjabi University, India..................................................39
Rao, C. Upender. Jawaharlal Nehru University, India ......................61, 73
Reeves, Gene. Rissho Kosei-kai, Japan........................................................68
Reinders, Eric. Emory University, USA ..............................................61, 73
Rich, Nathaniel. University of California, Santa Barbara, USA ..........31
Rodriguez, Jason. University of California, Santa Cruz, USA..............32
Rotman, Andy. Smith College, USA....................................................44, 75
Rounds, David. Institute for World Religions, USA ..............................63
Saito, Akira. Tokyo University, Japan ........................................................62
Salmond, Noel. Carleton University, Canada ..........................................26
Salomon, Richard. University of Washington, USA ..............................54
Samten, Ngawang.
Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, India ..........................41
Samuel, Geoﬀrey. Cardiﬀ University, UK ................................................51
Sangster, Leigh Miller. Emory University, USA ................................72, 73
Sayers, Matthew. University of Texas, USA ..............................................26
Schaeﬀer, Kurtis. University of Virginia, USA ........................................67
Scheible, Kristin. Bard College, USA ........................................................37
Scherrer-Schaub, Cristina.
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, France ....................................37, 45
Schmidt, Carolyn. Ohio State University, USA ......................................37
Scott, Rachelle. University of Tennessee-Knoxville, USA......................37
Sekido, Gyokai. Rissho University, Japan ..................................................68
Sernesi, Marta. University of Rome, Italy ..................................................43
Sheehy, Michael. Jonang Foundation, USA ..............................................75
Sheravanichkul, Arthid. Chulalongkorn University, ailand ......43, 54
Shields, James. Bucknell University, USA..................................................61
Shih, Jenkuan. Gustavus Adolphus College, USA ..................................66
Shiu, Henry. University of Toronto–Scarborough, Canada ..................28
Shulman, Eviatar. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel ....................45
Silk, Jonathan. University of California, Los Angeles, USA ..........49, 50

86Index of Speakers and Moderators

Singh, Abhishek. SOAS, University of London, UK..............................26
Skilling, Peter. École française d’Extreme-Orient, ailand ..........36, 43
Song, Grace. Seoul National University, South Korea............................39
Sorensen, Michelle. Columbia University, USA ......................................43
Sounsamut, Pram. Chulalongkorn University, ailand........................38
Stoltz, Jonathan. University of St. omas, USA ....................................25
Strauch, Ingo. Free University of Berlin, Germany ..................................55
Strong, John. Bates College, USA ..................................................36, 44, 45
Stuart, Daniel. University of California Berkeley, USA..........................62
Sugiki, Tsunehiko. Waseda University, Japan ............................................34
Suhara, Eiji. Arizona State University, USA..............................................69
Sweet, Michael. University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA......................42
Taber, John. University of New Mexico, USA ..........................................66
Takahashi, Koichi. Tokyo University, Japan..............................................62
Tanaka, Koji. University of Auckland, New Zealand..............................42
Tannenbaum, Nicola. Lehigh University, USA........................................54
Tatelman, Joel. Philologica Canadensis, Toronto, Canada ....................44
Teng, Wei-jen. Harvard University, USA ..................................................71
Terrone, Antonio. Leiden University, e Netherlands ........................67
akchoe, Sonam. University of Tasmania, Australia ............................35
urman, Robert. Columbia University, USA ..................................28, 39
Tillemans, Tom. University of Lausanne, Switzerland ..............35, 47, 61
Tola, Fernando.
Institute of Buddhist Studies Foundation, Argentina ......................68
Tournier, Vincent. Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, France ..............58
Travagnin, Stefania. SOAS, University of London, UK ........................48
Trevithick, Alan. State University of New York,
Stony Brook, USA ....................................................................................32
Tsao, Te-chi. Academia Sinica, Taiwan ......................................................52‘Tsho, Padma. Southwest Nationalities University, China ....................34
Tsuda, Shin’ichi.
International College for Advanced Buddhist Studies, Japan ........68
Tu, Aming. Dharma Drum Buddhist College, Taiwan ..........................70
Tu, Xiaofei. West Virginia University, USA..............................................63

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Veidlinger, Daniel. California State University at Chico, USA ............37
Velez, Abraham. Eastern Kentucky University, USA ..............................29
von Hinüber, Oskar. University of Freiburg, Germany ..........................20
Vose, Kevin. College of William and Mary, USA..............................25, 31
Voyce, Malcolm. Macquarie University, Australia ..................................39
Wallman, Jeﬀ. Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center, USA ......................70
Walser, Joseph. Tus University, USA........................................................49
Walter, Mariko Namba. Harvard University, USA..................................66
Wang, Ching-wei.
National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan....24
Wangchuk, Dorji. University of Hamburg, Germany ............................25
Wangchuk, Tsering. University of Virginia, USA....................................62
Warner, Cameron. Harvard University, USA ..........................................49
Watson, Alex. École française d’Extreme-Orient,Pondicherry, India ....................................................................................66
Wedemeyer, Christian. University of Chicago, USA........................34, 57
Westerhoﬀ, Jan. Durham University, UK ....................................35, 41, 47
Wickham-Smith, Simon. Independent Scholar, UK ..............................42
Woo, Jeson. Dongguk University, South Korea ......................................64
Woodward, Hiram. Walters Art Museum (Emeritus), USA ................53
Wu, Hongyu. University of Pittsburgh, USA ..........................................33
Wynne, Alexander. Mahidol University, ailand ..................................27
Xiao, Yue. Bukkyo University, Japan ..........................................................63
Yamamoto, Carl. University of Virginia, USA ........................................67
Yao, Jue. Yunnan University, China ............................................................28
Yao, Zhihua. e Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong......62
Ye, Shaoyong. Peking University, China ....................................................28
Yit, Kin-Tung. National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan ......................28
Yoshimizu, Chizuko. Tsukuba University, Japan......................................31
Yu, Xue. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China ......48
Zablocki, Abraham. Agnes Scott College, USA ................................51, 73
Zhang, Wei. University of South Florida, USA........................................39
Zwilling, Leonard. University of Wisconsin, USA..................................42

XVth Congress of the IABS:
Planning Committee and Team

President: Dr. Robert A. Paul
Chair: Dr. Sara L. McClintock
Convener: Dr. John D. Dunne
Committee: Dr. Tara Doyle, Dr. Eve L. Mullen, Dr. Eric Reinders, Dr.
Lobsang Tenzin Negi, Dr. Abraham Zablocki
Advisors: Dr. Joyce Flueckiger, Dr. Paul Courtright, Dr. Gary Laderman,
Dr. Bobbi Patterson, Dr. Laurie L. Patton, Dr. Andy Rotman, Dr.
Vaidy Sunderam
Graduate Student Team: Brooke Dodson-Lavelle, Connie Kassor, Derek
Alan Olsen
Wonderful Others: Toni Avery, Kate Bennett, Elsie Blankson, LucyBlau, Angie Brewer, Nancy Caro, Chris Clark, Allison Cohen, Ora
Craine, Monica Duncan, Amanda Dunk, Sherry Ebrahimi, NeilFried, Jane Hershman, Elizabeth Horner, Pescha Penso, Teri Sivilli,
B. Joy Wasson, Pam Wedding, Emilia Zargham.
The Planning Committee wishes to give a special thanks to Timothy
McNeil and Tony Lulek of Wisdom Publications for their help in
preparing the program brochure.