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XVIIITH CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONALASSOCIATION OF BUDDHIST STUDIES

University of Toronto, Canada
August, 20 – 25, 20173

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Welcome56

Dr. Christoph Emmrich
Associate Professor of Buddhist Studies
University of Toronto
Chair, Planning Committee of the XVIIIth IABS Congress

Dear Friends and Colleagues,
It is a great honour for the Department for the Study of Religion at the University ofToronto to be hosting and an incredible pleasure for me to welcome you to the XVIIIth
Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies. I sincerely thank theformer and the current President and the Board of the IABS for giving to the
University of Toronto the opportunity to convene this conference and for allowing me
to be your host. I hope your travels have been smooth and happy and that, for those
who have come from afar, the jet lag and, for those who have come from closer-by,
the beginning of term, are not weighing too heavily as we convene here today. I hopethat you have found a satisfactory accommodation for the days you will be spending
here, and that you are in the best possible condition to profit from this truly
extraordinary gathering.
I am particularly happy that, after several circumambulations of the globe, on thiscurrent pradakṣiṇa for the very first time this Congress has assembled in Canada.
This coincides with the celebration of 150 years of Canadian Confederation, theprocess by which British colonies in North America became the Dominion of Canada.
Just as Canada owes so much to its indigenous people, Buddhist Studies in Canada
owes so much to the generations of scholars who were here before Buddhist Studies
established itself here and who have worked towards giving it a home. And just as
Canada owes so much to its immigrants, Buddhist Studies here owes so much tothe many scholars born and trained in places far away who made a foreign country
their own and have helped build Buddhist Studies there. In that sense, hosting thisconference is about, if not reciprocating, at least acknowledging the gift that
Canadian Buddhist Studies has, throughout its history, received from the people ofCanada and from the many schools and countries from which most of you hail.
Though Canada is, in indigenous terms, a very old country and though even a 150– year old confederation places Canada in a group of nations that have come of age,
Buddhist Studies in Canada is certainly a very young field. Herbert Günther, B. K.
Matilal, A. K. Warder, and Leslie Kawamura, to name just a few, were all instrumental
in preparing the ground for our field in this country, making it yield the fruits we now
reap. In the 1970s, at the University of Toronto, A. K. Warder, B. M.

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Matilal, Jeffrey Masson, T. Venkatacharya, Narendra Wagle, David Waterhouse,
Joseph O’Connell, Arthur Basham, Stella Sandahl, and Leonard Priestley fostered
Indological and Buddhist Studies at what was then the largest Sanskrit Department,- now long dissolved, - outside of India. UofT is proud to hold one of the oldest
Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai endowments on this continent, brought to our University
through the help of Professor emeritus Neil McMullin, and to be the home of one of
the longest running Numata Programs, including an annual lecture series, jointly run
with McMaster University in Hamilton. Since the first decade of the 21st century, due
to a changing country and a changing world, Asian and Buddhist Studies has
become a top-priority in our university’s academic planning. The Department for the
Study of Religion now covers Tibetan Buddhism, East Asian Buddhism, and Southand Southeast Asian Buddhism, represented by Frances Garrett, Amanda Goodman
and myself, respectively, training undergraduate, Masters, and doctoral students in
Buddhist Studies. Emmanuel College offers, within the Master of Pastoral Studies,a Buddhism stream, represented by Cuilan Liu. In keeping with A. K. Warder’s
Indological legacy, UofT regularly offers Pali, Sanskrit, and Tibetan, on all levels, aswell as Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, with training in Burmese and Newar alsoavailable to students. The culmination of the growth of Buddhist Studies at UofT has
been the establishment last year of The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Centre
for Buddhist Studies. The celebration of its launch at this very conference is anexpression of both our joy and thankfulness.
But the University of Toronto is only one node of a larger network of outstanding
schools advancing Buddhist Studies in the province of Ontario. They include
McMaster University, Wilfrid Laurier University, the University of Waterloo, and York
University. The schools of francophone Canada, McGill University, Université Laval,
and Université de Québec a Montréal, as well as the ones on the Pacific coast, theUniversity of British Columbia, the University of Victoria, Simon Fraser University,
form equally formidable clusters with faculty working on Buddhism, as does the stringof schools running through this vast country, including the University of Calgary, theUniversity of Manitoba, the University of Sasketchewan, and Mount Allison
University. Our teaching and research in Canada would not be what it is without the
many people and communities of Buddhist faith, who have made this country theirhome and who are our interlocutors, our colleagues, students, supporters, partners,
and friends. This conference is an opportunity to not just express our deeply felt
gratitude, but to invite you to get to know Buddhist Studies in Canada better and tokeep following the work we are doing.

8This opportunity would not have been possible without our gracious sponsors. My
thanks go, first and foremost, to The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation and its
Centre for Buddhist Studies at the University of Toronto. I also thank our otherpartner, Fo Guang Shan and the Fo Guang Shan Temple of Toronto. My thanks go
to the University of Toronto and their magnificent staff, to my colleagues on the
Planning Committee of the XVIIIth Congress, led by our Congress President
Professor Anne MacDonald, to the team, including the volunteers. A very special
thank-you goes to my trusted associate, Academic Coordinator Tony Scott.

Christoph Emmrich
Toronto, July 20179

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Table of Contents

Welcome................................................................................................................ 5
XVIIIth IABS Congress Schedule ..................................................................... 13
Finding the Congress Venues .......................................................................... 19
Opening Session ................................................................................................ 35
Excursions .......................................................................................................... 39
IABS 2017 Evening Events ................................................................................ 47
Sponsors ............................................................................................................. 59
Exhibitors attending ........................................................................................... 63
Schedule of Panels and Sections ..................................................................... 67
Monday, August 21st .......................................................................................... 69
Tuesday, August 22nd ........................................................................................ 89
Wednesday, August 23rd .................................................................................. 107
Thursday, August 24th ...................................................................................... 125
Friday, August 25th ........................................................................................... 137
Index .................................................................................................................. 155
The XVIIIth IABS Congress Team ................................................................... 188

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XVIIIth
IABS
Congress
Schedule13

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*All event venues are at the University of Toronto, St. George Campus.
Presentations are in the Bahen Centre; tea and coffee are provided to conferencedelegates in the Bahen Centre Atrium, lunch is served at University College, Eastand West Halls.

Saturday, August 19, 2017
15:00 – 18:00 Pre-registration (Bahen Centre, Atrium)

Sunday, August 20, 2017
10:00 – 18:00 Registration (Bahen Centre, Atrium)
15:00 – 17:00 Opening Session (Convocation Hall)
18:00 – 20:00 Welcome Reception (Hart House, The Great Hall)

Monday, August 21, 2017
09:00 – 10:30 Panels & Sections (Bahen Centre)
10:30 – 11:00 Tea & Coffee
11:00 – 12:30 Panels & Sections (Bahen Centre)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Panels & Sections (Bahen Centre)
15:30 – 16:00 Tea & Coffee
16:00 – 17:30 Panels & Sections (Bahen Centre)

Evening Program:
18:00 – 19:30 The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies at the
University of Toronto: Roundtable (Royal Ontario Museum Auditorium)

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Tuesday, August 22, 2017
09:00 – 10:30 Panels & Sections (Bahen Centre)
10:30 – 11:00 Tea & Coffee
11:00 – 12:30 Panels & Sections (Bahen Centre)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Panels & Sections (Bahen Centre)
15:30 – 16:00 Tea & Coffee
16:00 – 17:30 Panels & Sections (Bahen Centre)
18:00 – 20:00 1st IABS Board Meeting (Simcoe Hall, President’s Boardroom)

Evening Program:
18:00 – 18:40 Introducing the Fo Guang Buddhist Art Encyclopedia (Bahen Centre, Room1160)
18:00 – 19:00 Publishers Panel (Bahen Centre, Room 1220)
18:00 – 19:30 Buddhist Studies in Canada: Roundtable (Bahen Centre, Room 1200)
18:00 – 20:00 Buddhist Universal Digital Archive: Workshop (Bahen Centre, Room 1210)
18:45 – 20:00 Humanistic Buddhism in the Contemporary Age: Fo Guang Shan 佛光⼭ at
50 (Bahen Centre, Room 1160)

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Wednesday, August 23, 2017
09:00 – 10:30 Panels & Sections (Bahen Centre)
10:30 – 11:00 Tea & Coffee
11:00 – 12:30 Panels & Sections (Bahen Centre)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Panels & Sections (Bahen Centre)
15:30 – 16:00 Tea & Coffee
16:00 – 17:30 Panels & Sections (Bahen Centre)

Evening Program:
18:00 – 19:00 Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai Fellowship: Roundtable(Bahen Centre, Room 1210)
19:00 – 20:00 Launch of Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Reception (Bahen Centre,
Atrium)
18:00 – 19:00 Release of A.K. Narain Commemoration Volume: From Local to Global—
Papers in Asian History and Culture (Bahen Centre, Room 1220)

Thursday, August 24, 2017
09:00 – 10:30 Panels & Sections (Bahen Centre)
10:30 – 11:00 Tea & Coffee
11:00 – 12:30 Panels & Sections (Bahen Centre)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

Afternoon Excursions

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Friday, August 25, 2017
09:00 – 10:30 Panels & Sections (Bahen Centre)
10:30 – 11:00 Tea & Coffee
11:00 – 12:30 Panels & Sections (Bahen Centre)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Panels & Sections (Bahen Centre)
15:30 – 16:00 Tea & Coffee
16:00 – 17:30 Panels & Sections (Bahen Centre)
17:45 – 18:15 2nd IABS Board Meeting (Simcoe Hall, President’s Boardroom)
18:30 – 19:30 General Meeting (Convocation Hall)
20:00 – 22:00 Farewell Dinner (Hart House, The Great Hall)18

Finding theCongress
Venues19

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IABS 2017 Congress Venues

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Bahen Centre for Information Technology
Registration, Panels, Sections, and Evening Sessions
40 St. George Street

The Bahen Centre is a state of the art facility for IT education and research, and isperfectly suited for a conference of our size and requirements. It is located on 40 St.
George Street, just one minute walk north of College Street. If arriving by subway, it
is recommended that you disembark at Queen’s Park Station on Line 1, and either
walk six minutes west on College Street to St. George Street, or take streetcar #506
westbound two stops to the St George Street stop.
Pre-registration
If arriving early, pre-registration occurs at 15:00 to 18:00 on Saturday, August 19th,
in the Atrium of the Bahen Centre on the ground floor.
Registration
Registration is open from 10:00 to 18:00 on Sunday, August 20th, in the Atrium of
the Bahen Centre on the ground floor.
Panels and Sections
All panels and sections occur in classrooms and lecture halls on the ground floor of
the Bahen Centre.

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Map of Bahen Centre Interior Floor 123Map of Bahen Centre Interior Floor 2

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Convocation Hall
Opening Session and General Meeting
31 King’s College Circle

Convocation Hall is a domed rotunda used for convocation ceremonies and otherlarge events. It will be the venue for our opening session and general meeting.
Opening Session
The opening session occurs at 15:00 to 17:00 on Sunday, August 20th.
General Meeting
The general meeting occurs at 18:00 to 19:30 on Friday, August 25th.

25Map of Convocation Hall Interior
Convocation Hall - University of Toronto

26University College
Lunch, East and West Room (266 and 273)
15 King’s College Circle

University College, founded in 1853 and completed in 1859, is the founding
constituent college of the University of Toronto. We shall be enjoying lunch in the
East and West Halls of the College, Monday through Friday. The University College
is at the heart of the University of Toronto campus, overlooking King’s Circle, and isnortheast of the Bahen Building, about 10-15 minutes walk.
Lunch
Meals will be served in both the East and West Halls from 12:30 to 14:00. The Eastand West Halls occupy the second floor of the University College, and stairs can befound on either side of the main entrance on the south side of the building. There iselevator access at the north east corner, and volunteers will be available to help
throughout the week.

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Map of University College

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Hart House, The Great Hall
Welcome Reception and Farewell Dinner
7 Hart House Circle

Hart House is a Gothic-revival complex that serves as a student activity centre and
the Great Hall on the east side of the building will be the venue for our welcome
reception and farewell dinner.
Welcome Reception
The welcome reception occurs at 18:00 to 20:00 on Sunday, August 20th.
Farewell Dinner
The farewell dinner occurs at 20:00 to 22:00 on Friday, August 25th.

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Map with Location of Hart House30

Map of Hart House, Main Floor

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The Royal Ontario Museum, Signy and Cléophée Eaton
TheatreThe Ho Foundation Roundtable
Level B1, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queens Park

The Eaton Theatre is used for lectures and presentations at the Royal Ontario
Museum. The entrance is at the south side of the building.
The Ho Foundation Centre Roundtable
The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies at the UniversityofToronto:August 21st.

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Roundtable

will

occur

at

18:00

to

19:30

on

Monday,Simcoe Hall, President's Board Room
IABS Board meetings

The IABS Board meetings are scheduled for 18:00 to 20:00 on Tuesday, August 22
and for 17:45 to 18:15 on Friday, August 25 both in the President’s Boardroom.
Simcoe Hall at 27 King's College Circle is the building attached to Convocation Hall.
Its entrance faces north-east.
Map with location of Simcoe Hall

Simcoe Hall

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Opening
Session35

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Sunday, August 20, 15:00 - 17:00
15:00 – 15:05

Land Acknowledgment

15:05 – 15:10

Opening Address, Office of the Provost, University of Toronto.
Joseph Wong, Professor, Vice-Provost & Associate VicePresident, International Student Experience

15:10 – 15:15

Opening Address, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University ofToronto. Joshua Barker, Associate Professor, Vice-Dean of
Graduate Studies

15:15 – 16:00

Presidential Address, IABS, Richard Salomon, Professor,
President of the IABS: "What Happened to Buddhism in India?"

16:00 – 16:20

Welcome Address, Christoph Emmrich, Associate Professor, Chairof the Planning Committee and Convener

16:20 – 16:45

Keynote Address, President of the Congress. Anne MacDonald,
Professor, President of the XVIIIth Congress of the IABS

16:45 – 17:00

Announcements, Tony Scott, PhD cand. Academic Coordinator

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Excursions39

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Thursday, August 24th, 2017
In the afternoon of Thursday, August 24, conference participants will have theopportunity to choose from a variety of activities and jointly explore museum
holdings, temple hospitality, or the natural wonders the Greater Toronto Area has tooffer.
Please book your excursions via the Excursions page on the conference website.
The excursion “Buddhist Practice and Hospitality: Visit to the Fo Guang Shan
Temple of Toronto” needs to be booked in person on-site at the registration counterat the main conference venue, the Bahen Centre of Information Technology.
The deadline for all excursion bookings is Tuesday, August 22, 2017.

Behind the Scenes Tour of the Royal Ontario Museum
Himalayan Paintings
Led by Dr. Sarah Richardson (University of Toronto Mississauga and Departmental
Associate, Royal Ontario Museum)
Explore some of the Tibetan and Sino-Tibetan Thangka paintings collected by the
ROM in the early 20th century. This collection includes Thangka paintings produced
from the 15th to the 20th centuries, and this session will give participants anopportunity to get up close to these paintings in the collection storage rooms, andtake a look at some of their minute details. Learn about the history of this collection,some of the conservation and storage concerns that the museum continues toaddress, and plans for their inclusion in a future exhibition. The maximum group size
is 20.

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The Art of Gandhara
Led by David Jongeward (Independent Scholar and Departmental Associate, Royal
Ontario Museum)
Explore the breadth of ROM’s well-known Gandharan collection, how and whenthese items came into the collection, and the commonly published pieces. We’ll
focus on three or four works for further discussion and examination of their stylistic
and iconographic details, especially a rare standing figure identified as Siddhartha.
The maximum group size is 20.
Early Burmese Photographs
Led by Dr. Deepali Dewan (Senior Curator, Royal Ontario Museum) and Ron
Graham (Independent Scholar)
Explore a recently acquired collection of documents and early photographs of Burmaassociated with the first British Agent in Upper Burma, Clement Williams, and his
nephew Louis Allan Goss, often considered the father of Burmese language studies.
We will look at unpublished early photographs of Burma prior to British rule andconsider how the intersection of politics, trade, and photography proved fertile
ground for the production of knowledge about religion and language in an emerging
Burmese Studies. The maximum group size is 20.
Price: $23.20

Begin: 14:00

End: 16:00

Departure Address: Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queens Park, Toronto, ON
M5S2C6, staff entrance (located on south side of building, by Museum Subway)
Please book this excursion via the conference website.

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Bicycle Tour on Toronto Islands
This bicycle tour begins with a ferry ride across the harbour, and allows you to bikein the car free neighbourhood of the eastern Islands, and visit landmarks such as
the Royal Canadian Yacht Club and the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse. You will be able
to enjoy the scenery, parks, beaches, lake, and cottages, while hearing about theislands history. As this is a twilight tour, you will be able to view the sunset and enjoy
the Toronto skyline as it lights up for the night while experiencing the serenity of theislands after dusk. The fee incudes a bicycle with lights, helmet, vest, water, a ferryticket, snacks, and a tour guide. This activity was ranked as the #1 outdoor activity
in Toronto on TripAdvisor.
Price: $89.40

Begin: 17:30

End: 21:00

Departure Address: 275 Dundas St. W
Please book this excursion via the conference website.

Buddhist Practice and Hospitality: Visit to the Fo Guang
Shan Temple of Toronto
This visit to the Fo Guang Shan Temple of Toronto will depart at 15:30 and after
arriving at 16:30, will include a number of different activities and events, such as an
exhibition of Venerable Master Hsing Yun’s “One Stroke Calligraphy,” and Tea Chán,and Chinese calligraphy, the copying of sūtras. At 18:30 the temple will treat you toa vegetarian dinner, and before departing at 20:00, you can experience a lightoffering ceremony at 19:50.
Price: None

Begin: 15:30

End: 20:00

Departure and Return Address: Conference Venue, Bahen Centre, 40 St. George
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Venue: Fo Guang Shan Temple of Toronto, 6525 Millcreek Drive, Mississauga
Please book this excursion in person on-site at the conference registration counterin the main conference venue in the Bahen Centre for Information Technology.

Niagara Falls TourThis 7-hour guided tour includes visits to the world-famous Niagara Falls, the historic
town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, and wine tasting at nearby wineries. The tour departs
from the university on a tour bus, and begins with a fully guided tour of Niagara Falls,
continuing with a drive up the scenic Niagara Parkway, visiting the Niagara wine
region and sampling some complementary local wines, and finishing with a visit tothe beautiful area of Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Price: $84.75

Begin: 13:30

End: 22:00

Itinerary
13:30

Pick-up at the University of Toronto and Depart to Niagara Falls

15:00 – 17:00

Enjoy a fully Guided tour of Niagara Falls with your Tour Director.

17:00 – 18:30

Enjoy free time in the area.

18:30

Meet your tour director and depart on a scenic drive along Niagara
Parkway. En route, stop for a beautiful view at the Niagara River
Gorge and Whirlpool.

19:00 – 20:30

Enjoy free time in the Niagara-on-the-Lake area. Here, takepleasure in exploring the many gardens, art galleries and shops ofcharming Niagara-On-the-Lake, a beautiful Victorian town, andhave a meal at one of the many restaurants on Queen Street.

20:30

Departure for Toronto.

22:00

Approximate arrival time at the University of Toronto.

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American/Bridal Veil and Canadian, Horseshoe Falls, Victoria Park and Gardens, Table
Rock Welcome Centre, Murray Hill and the new Casino, Floral Showhouse, And much
more…

Please book this excursion via the conference website.

Toronto Boat CruiseThis three-hour Toronto harbour boat cruise on the 165’ three-masted schooner,
Kajama, allows you to sit back and relax while viewing Toronto from the calm watersof Lake Ontario. Food is served on the schooner, and it also features a fully licensed
bar. The first half hour of boarding allows you to explore throughout the tall ship. For
the next hour and a half the schooner ventures out into the lake and you will havethe opportunity to raise the sails and witness the firing of a cannon.
Price: $31.46

Begin: 15:30

End: 17:30

Departure and Return Address: The Tall Ship Kajama, 235 Queens Quay W
Please book this excursion via the conference website.

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Evening
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Bridging Divides in Buddhist Studies. The Robert H. N. Ho
Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies at the
University of Toronto Roundtable
Monday, August 21
Royal Ontario Museum, Level B1, The Signy and Cléophée Eaton Theatre

18:00 – 19:30“Bridging Divides in Buddhist Studies,” a roundtable discussion is
open to the public. The topic refers to the fact that the field of
Buddhist Studies, like the traditions it investigates, has shown atendency to subdivide. Speakers will reflect on the degree to which
their own specialties have become barriers to bridging divides.
Have the boundaries of language, nation, period, and discipline
lent the field a hermetic character?
James Benn, McMaster University, will speak on “The divide
between textual and historical studies;” Amanda Goodman,
University of Toronto, on “Translation from Sanskrit to Chinese;”and Juhyung Rhi, Seoul National University, on “Buddhist art inIndia, Mongolia, and Korea.

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Introducing the Fo Guang Buddhist Art Encyclopedia
Tuesday, August 22
Bahen Centre, Room 1160, First Floor

18:00 – 18:40

Published by Fo Guang Shan, a Buddhist Order founded by
Venerable Master Hsing Yun, The Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts
is a collection of nearly 10,000 entries and over 14,000 pictures on
Buddhist arts from around the world.
Presenters: Venerable Zhi Yue and Arthur Van Sevendonck, Fo
Guang Shan Institute of Humanistic Buddhism Center ofInternational Affairs

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Guang Shan 佛光⼭ at 50
Tuesday, August 22
Bahen Centre, Room 1160, First Floor

18:45 – 20:00

Humanistic Buddhism in the Contemporary Age: Fo Guang
Shan 佛光⼭ at 50
Bahen Centre, Room 1160, First Floor
In the new millennium, the religious outlook and organizational
structures of Buddhist groups have changed to meet the contours
and needs of an increasingly globalized world. Fo Guang Shan 佛
光⼭, founded in 1967 by Master Hsing Yun, now includes branch
temples in six continents, a well-defined monastic order, andthriving lay presence. As such, it represents one of the mostsuccessful and widespread Buddhist movements in recent times.
The panel will offer a multi-dimensional view of Fo Guang Shan,
including its vision, contemporary commitments, and current
challenges, and provide insight into global Buddhist movements inthe new millennium.
Panelists include Venerable Huifeng, Fo Guang University; Janet
McLellan, Wilfrid Laurier University; Venerable Jue Qian, Fo
Guang Buddhist Temple, Boston; Shou Jen Kuo, University ofCalifornia, Riverside; Venerable Miao Guang, Fo Guang Shan
Institute of Humanistic Buddhism Center of International Affairs
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Buddhist Universal Digital Archive Workshop
Tuesday, August 22
Bahen Centre, Room 1210, First Floor

18:00 – 20:00

Buddhist Digital Resource Center (formerly Tibetan Buddhist
Resource Center) Exectutive Director Jeff Wallman will lead a
conversation about the new Buddhist Universal Digital Archive(BUDA), its program of preservation, access and collaborative
networking.
Moderator: Jeff Wallman, Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center

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Publisher’s Panel
Tuesday, August 22
Bahen Centre, Room 1220, First Floor

18:00 – 19:00

A panel of publishers will be a rare chance for scholars to better
understand the publishing process and the players in Buddhist
publications. Representatives from both trade publishers andacademic publishers present. This panel will highlight important
publishing concerns including how to approach publishers,
contracts and advances, trade versus academic publishing,content and presentation (why can’t I include all my color photos inthe book?), writing best practices, target readership, issues oftranslation style, the editing process, and more. Since theseapproaches will vary between publishers, this panel will be an
occasion for publishers to illustrate the focus of their publications
in order to help scholars understand the range of publishing
opportunities. Since this panel will facilitate a discussion rather than
individual presentations, the majority of time will be dedicated toquestions and answers.
With Nikko Odiseos, President, Shambhala Publications; Chris
Ahn, Senior Acquisitions Editor for Asian Studies and Religious
Studies, SUNY Press; Victoria Menson, Editor, Asian Studies at
Brill; Casey Kemp, Editor at Shambhala Publications; Daniel
Aitken, Publisher at Wisdom Publications
Moderator: Nikko Odiseos, Shambala Publications

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Buddhist Studies in Canada. Roundtable
Tuesday, August 22
Bahen Centre, Room 1200, First Floor

18:00 – 19:30

This roundtable will be an open and wide-ranging discussion
considering several aspects of Buddhist Studies in Canada with aview to sharing information on the current situation and stimulating
discussion on possible future opportunities and directions.
Panelists will consider: the historical development of Buddhist
Studies in Canada, the general status of graduate andundergraduate programmes at Canadian universities, current
major research projects and some of the international research
networks associated with those projects.
Invited Participants: Wendy Adamek, University of Calgary; Susan
Andrews, Mount Allison University; James Benn, McMaster
University; Paul Crowe, Simon Fraser University; Christoph
Emmrich, University of Toronto

54BDK Fellowship. Roundtable
Wednesday, August 23
Bahen Centre, Room 1210, First Floor

18:00 – 19:00

Former BDK fellowship holders will share their experiences and willtalk about the way their careers and their scholarship have been
shaped and have profited from the fellowship opportunity.

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Release of A. K. Narain Commemoration Volume: From
Local to Global - Papers in Asian History & Culture.
Buddhist World Press, Delhi, 2017
Wednesday, August 23
Bahen Centre, Room 1220, First Floor

18:00 – 19:00

Professor Awadh Kishore Narain (“AK” to his contemporaries), a
noted Indian historian, chaired the founding meeting of theInternational Association of Buddhist Studies in Madison,
Wisconsin, in 1977. He subsequently served as our President andChief Editor of our Journal. He devoted his lifetime to exploring
Buddhism and offering leadership to our academic community, until
his passing in 2013. He focussed on India but often stretched it toother areas of Asia reflecting a broader interconnectedness.
Buddhism, an international aspect of Indian and of Asian culture
and beyond, was a constant topic in all his endeavours. He saw
cultural areas, not nation states and boundaries, and Buddhism
was a focus of his considerable activities, both organisational andin the field of academic contributions.
This brief panel will formally release two publications celebrating
his life:-a book entitled From Global to Local: Papers in Indian
History and Culture – Prof. A.K. Narain Commemoration
Volume, edited by Kamal Sheel, Charles Willemen &Kenneth Zysk (Delhi: Buddhist World Press, 2017); and-a special issue of the Indian International Journal of
Buddhist Studies, edited by Roger Jackson.

The event is hosted by John Deyell, and Monika Zin, Saxon
Academy of Sciences, and other contributors.
Convener: Kamal Sheel, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

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Launch of Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Reception
Wednesday, August 23
Bahen Centre, Atrium

19:00 – 20:00

The event is sponsored by Brill as a small token of appreciationand gratitude to the editors and contributors of the Encyclopedia.
Light refreshments will be served.
With Jonathan Silk, Leiden University and Editor-in-chief of BEB,
Victoria Menson, Brill, and Christoph Emmrich, University ofToronto57

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Without the generousity of our sponsors, the XVIIIth IABS Congress would not be
possible. We are honoured to have parterned with the following organizations andthank them for their support:

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Exhibitors
attending63

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The XVIIIth IABS Congress is very honoured to host the following institutions andpublishers whose work and passion uplifts the field of Buddhist Studies:
American Council of Learned Societies
Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai America
Biblia Impex
Brill USA
ISD
Buddha’s Light Publications
Motilal Banarsidass Publishers
Scholar's Choice
Shambhala Publications
SUNY Press
University of Hawaiʻi Press
Wisdom Publications

Participants can visit most of these exhibitors in the Atrium of the Bahen Centre
throughout the Congress, where they will display their products and services tointerested scholars.

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Monday,st
August 21
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Schedule of Panels and Sections
The Congress has been organized into panels and sections. Panels are organizedby their respective conveners, who are responsible for their thematic and topicalunity, while sections have been organized by the Planning Committee from individual
submissions. Both individual panel and section papers are limited to 20 minutes each,with an additional 10 minutes permitted for discussion immediately afterward.
Individual papers will begin on the hour and half hour as per the conference schedule,
which ensures participants can see all the papers of their choice.
For abstracts of all invited presentations, please refer to the Congress website.

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Panel 05
Buddhism and the Information Network in Medieval East
Asia
Mon., Aug. 21st, 9:00 – 12:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1130, First Floor.
Convener: Chen, Jinhua
9:00 – 9:30

Bauer, Mikael (McGill University): The Chronicle of Jōe: The
Murder of a Young Fujiwara Monk in 7th Century Japan

9:30 – 10:00

Carlton, Kelly (University of Oxford): Monastic Spies, Secret
Envoys, and Cross-Border Rendezvous: Buddhist Monk
Deokjang 德昌 and His Contemporaries in Three Kingdoms Korea

10:00 – 10:30

Chen, Jinhua (University of British Columbia): Monastic Espionage
in Sui-Tang and Song dynasties

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:30 – 12:00

Doell, Steffen (Universität Hamburg): Undercover dharma: Chan
Masters in the Kamakura period

12:00 – 12:30

Discussion72Panel 11
Buddhist Tourism in Asia: Sacred Sites within Global
Networks
Mon., Aug. 21st, 9:00 – 12:00
Bahen Centre, Room 1240, First Floor.
Conveners: Schedneck, Brooke; Bruntz, Courtney
9:00 – 9:30

Geary, David (University of British Columbia): Performing Love:
Tourism and Transnational Courting at the Place of Buddha’s
Enlightenment

9:30 – 10:00

Lau, Ngar-sze (Lancaster University): Constructing Burmese
Meditation Communities in Mainland China through Buddhist
Tourism

10:00 – 10:30

Marchman, Kendall (Young Harris College): Buddhism and the
Bottom Line: The Nanshan Group and Buddhist Culture Parks

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Friedrich, Daniel (Hosei University): Recreational Buddhists: Travel
and the Construction of Contemporary Japanese Buddhist
Identities

11:30 – 12:00

Bruntz, Courtney (Doane University): Discussion73Panel 13
Concepts and Techniques of Prognostication
Mon., Aug. 21st, 9:00 – 11:30
Bahen Centre, Room 2155, Second Floor
Conveners: Guggenmos, Esther-Maria; Scheuermann, Rolf
9:00 – 9:30

Scheuermann, Rolf (IKGF, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg): What Can
We Learn from Tibetan Buddhist Divinatory Manuals?

9:30 – 10:00

Maurer, Petra (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität): Diagrams
Astrology and Divination

10:00 – 10:30

Smith, Alexander (École Pratique des Hautes Études): Prognostic
Structure and the Question of Efficacy

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Seymour, Kelsey (University of Pennsylvania): Child Idols:
Possession, Purity, and Prognoses in Accounts of Child Mediums
in Medieval Chinese Buddhism

74onPanel 35
The Manuscript Tradition of the Pali Texts in South andSoutheast Asia
Mon., Aug. 21st, 9:00 – 12:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1200, First Floor
Convener: Yamanaka, Yukio
9:00 – 9:30

von Hinüber, Oskar (University of Freiburg): The Wonderful Worldof Artificial Words in Pāli: An Editor’s Nightmare and a Linguist’s
Delight

9:30 – 10:00

Shimizu, Yohei (Otani University): Report on the Pāli Manuscript
Tradition and Transmission in Central Thailand

10:00 – 10:30

Kodaññakitti, Venerable (Dhammachai Tipitaka Project): Selectionof Burmese Pāli Manuscripts at the Dhammakaya Tipiṭaka Project

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Kasamatsu, Sunao (Sendai National College of Technology): On
the Jinālaṅkāra and Its ṭīkā11:30 – 12:00

Scott, Tony (University of Toronto): Buddhist Commentary,
Discourses of Modernity, and the Political in Post/Colonial Burma:
The Milindapañha-aṭṭhakathā of Mingun Zetawun Sayadaw

12:00 – 12:30

von Hinüber, Oskar (University of Freiburg); Kodaññakitti,
Venerable (Dhammachai Tipitaka Project); Yamanaka, Yukio(Dhammachai Tipitaka Project): Discussion75Panel 36
The Roles of Iconic Imagery in South Asian Buddhist
Architectural Contexts: Reconstructions and New
Perspectives
Mon., Aug. 21st, 9:00 – 12:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1160, First Floor
Convener: Morrissey, Nicolas
9:00 – 9:30

DeCaroli, Robert (George Mason University): Snakes andGutters: Nāga Imagery as an Aspect of Water Control at Buddhist
Sites in the Western Deccan

9:30 – 10:00

Rhi, Juhyung (Seoul National University): Images in the Showcase:
The Architectural Placement of Images and Its Bearings on Their
Significance in Gandharan Monasteries

10:00 – 10:30

Huntington, Susan (Ohio State University): The Origin of the
Buddha Image and the Buddha Image Hall: Some Thoughts on the
Aniconic Theory

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Behrendt, Kurt (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York): The Riseof Esoteric Buddhism and the 7th c. Rock-Cut Sites of Dhamnar,
Binnayaga and Kolvi

11:30 – 12:00

Morrissey, Nicolas (University of Georgia): Observations on the
Terracotta Plaques from Nandhadīrghika-vihāra, Jagjivanpur,
West Bengal

12:00 – 12:30

Dhingra, Sonali (Harvard University): Beyond the vihāra andthe stūpa: Locating Bodhisattva Steles from Odisha, Eighth toTenth Centuries CE

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Section 02
Buddhism and Its Relation to Other Religions (I)Mon., Aug. 21st, 9:00 – 14:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1230, First Floor
Chair: Adamek, Wendi
9:00 – 9:30

Jenkins, Stephen (Humboldt State University): Debate, Magic, andMassacre: The High Stakes and Ethical Dynamics of Battling
Slanderers of the Dharma in Indian Narrative and Ethical Theory

9:30 – 10:00

Jones, Chris (University of Oxford): The Tīrthika in Mahāyāna
Buddhism

10:00 – 10:30

Neri, Chiara (University La Sapienza of Rome); Pontillo, Tiziana(University of Cagliari): A Philological Approach to Comparative
Religious Studies: The Case of yogakkhema/yogakṣema in
Theravāda Buddhism and Brahmanism

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Osto, Douglas (Massey University): No-Self in Sāṃkhya: A
Comparative Look at Classical Sāṃkhya and Theravāda Buddhism

12:00 – 12:30

Son, Jewongwan (Dongguk University): Dual Structure of Funeral
Rites in the Southern Song Period

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch

Buddhism and Its Relation to Other Religions (II)
14:00 – 14:30

Welter, Albert (University of Arizona): Literati Monks as
Buddhist Junzi (“Confucian” Gentleman): Buddhist Administratorsin the Chinese Context

77Section 07
Buddhist Literature (I)Mon., Aug. 21st, 9:00 – 15:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1220, First Floor
Chair: Levman, Bryan
9:00 – 9:30

Wu, Hongyu (Ohio Northern University): Sword and Lotus: The
Buddhist Life of a Woman Warrior in the Late Ming Dynasty (13681644)

9:30 – 10:00

Stepien, Rafal (University of Oxford): Chinese Buddhist Literature,
Literary Theory, and Philosophy of Language: A Study of Liu Xie &Chan

10:00 – 10:30

Ponampon, Phra Kiattisak (SOAS, University of London): Yi xin guanqi: Visualization Meditation in Early Chinese Buddhist Texts during the
5th Century

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Yagi, Toru (Osaka Gakuin University): A Note on the Saundarananda
3.32d

Buddhist Literature (II)
Chair: Keyworth, George A.
14:00 – 14:30

Daribazaron, Darima (Buryat State University): Buryat Annotations
on Lamrim

14:30 – 15:00

Mochizuki, Kaie (Minobusan University): A Commentary on the
Lotus Sutra Translated from Chinese into Tibetan

15:00 – 15:30

Sirisawad,
Natchapol(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität):
Comparative Studies of the Quotations in Śamathadeva'sAbhidharmakośopāyikā-ṭīkā Parallel to the Mahāprātihāryasūtra in
the Tibetan Translation of the Mūlasarvāstivāda-vinaya andthe Prātihāryasūtra in the Divyāvadāna

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Section 08
Buddhist Places
Mon., Aug. 21st, 9:00 – 12:30
Bahen Centre, Room 2145, Second Floor
Chair: Andrews, Susan
9:00 – 9:30

Coura, Gabriele (TU Dresden and University of Vienna): A
Buddhist Place of Education: dPal spungs Monastery from the 18th
to the Early 20th Century

9:30 – 10:00

Namgyal, Tsetan (Jawaharlal Nehru University): Lineage andLinkages of Buddhism in Indian Trans-Himalaya region—A Case
Study of Affiliation Between Stag na Lho Druk Monastery of Ladakh
and Bhutan’s Drup pa Tradition

10:00 – 10:30

Wiles, Royce (Nan Tien Institute); Ditrich, Tamara (University ofSydney); Clark, Chris (University of Sydney): Research on the
Kuthodaw Pagoda Marble-stelae Recension of the Pāli Canon in
Mandalay, Myanmar

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Ouyang, Nan (The University of Arizona): To Localize a
Bodhisattva in Late Imperial China: Kṣitigarbha, Moutain Jiuhua
and Their Associations in Precious Scrolls (baojuan 寶卷)

11:30 – 12:00

Wenzel, Claudia (Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften):
Buddhist Places Evoking Prajñāpāramitā: Chinese Stone Sutra
Inscriptions of the Northern Qi in Shandong

12:00 – 12:30

Winfield, Pamela (Elon University): Building Materials and Bodhi
Mind at Eiheiji Temple, Japan79

Section 11
Epistemology and Logic in Buddhism (I)Mon., Aug. 21st, 9:00 – 17:00
Bahen Centre, Room 1210, First Floor
Chair: Arnold, Dan
9:00 – 9:30

Hayashi, Itsuki (Columbia University): Rebirth Versus
Epiphenomenalism: Buddhist Theory of Ontological Dependence
and Persistence

9:30 – 10:00

Nowakowski, David (Union College): The Isomorphism of Time andSpace in Buddhist Arguments for Momentariness

10:00 – 10:30

Sakai, Masamichi (Kansai University): On the Time-Gap Problem
in the Buddhist Theory of Momentariness

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Shida, Taisei (University of Tsukuba): The Non-Comparative Typeof pratyabhijñā[na] Referred to by Śālikanātha

11:30 – 12:00

Siderits, Mark (Seoul National University): Buddhism Naturalized?

12:00 – 14:00

Lunch

Chair: Kellner, Birgit
14:00 – 14:30

Forman, Jed (University of California, Santa Barbara): Pus, Blood,and Falling Hairs: Polemical Debates on Valid Perception

14:30 – 15:00

Hugon, Pascale (Austrian Academy of Sciences): Are There Any
Real Universals in the Epistemological Works of Phya pa Chos kyi
seng ge (1109–1169)? On the Source of the Moderate Realist
Perspective on Universals in the Tibetan Tradition

15:00 – 15:30

Kellner, Birgit (Austrian Academy of Sciences): How to Read
Dharmakīrti’s saṃvedana-inference

15:30 – 16:00

Tea and Coffee

8016:00 – 16:30

Nishizawa, Fumihito (Otani University): On the Origin of Non-valid
Cognitions (apramāṇa/tshad min gyi blo)

16:30 – 17:00

Saccone, Margherita Serena (Austrian Academy of Sciences): Of
Authoritativeness and Perception, the Sarvajñasiddhikārikā byŚubhagupta

81Panel 03
Bell Inscriptions Across the Buddhist World
Mon., Aug. 21st, 14:00 – 17:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1200, First Floor
Conveners: Bretfeld, Sven; Doney, Lewis
14:00 – 14:30

Willis, Michael (British Museum): Buddhist Bells in the British
Museum

14:30 – 15:00

Burdorf, Suzanne (Universiteit Ghent): Read the Bell: Tracing the
Cultural and Social History of Monastic Bells through Inscriptions
from Song (960–1276) China

15:00 – 15:30

Doney, Lewis (British Museum): Large Tibetan Imperial Bells andTheir Epigraphy

15:30 – 16:00

Tea and Coffee

16:00 – 16:30

Martin, Dan (Institute of Tibetan Classics): The Tibetan Bell in
Armenia and Its Inscription: An Account of a Quest to Account forit

16:30 – 17:00

Bretfeld, Sven (Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet):
Buddhist Bells and the Study of Religious Materiality: Some
Theoretical Reflections

17:00 – 17:30

Discussion82Panel 17
Discipline, Agency, Inquiry: Vinaya Reception in Women’s
Monastic Communities Past and Present
Mon., Aug. 21st, 14:00 – 17:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1160, First Floor
Convener: Langenberg, Amy Paris
14:00 – 14:30

Langenberg, Amy Paris (Eckerd College): The Textual Communityof the Mahāsāṅghika-lokottaravādin Bhikṣuṇī-vinaya

14:30 – 15:00

Dhammadinnā, Bhikkhunī (Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal
Arts): The Legal Status of the sikkhamānā & the Contemporary ReEstablishment of the Theravāda bhikkhunī Lineage

15:00 – 15:30

Heirman, Anne (Ghent University); Chiu, Tzu-Lung (Ghent
University): Body Movement and Sport Activities for Buddhist
Nuns: A Normative Perspective from India to China

15:30 – 16:00

Tea and Coffee

16:00 – 16:30

Hüsken, Ute (Oslo University): The Re-making of the
Bhikkhunīsaṃgha in Transcultural Contexts; Therī, Tathālokā
(Bhikkhunī Vibhaṅga Project): Perspective of a BhikkhunīPreceptor on Discipline, Agency & Inquiry Amidst the Renascent
Theravāda Bhikkhuni Sangha/s

16:30 – 17:00

Ng, Zhiru (Pomona College): Rethinking Vinaya Practice in Urban
Buddhist Architecture and Space: A Female Buddhist Community
in South Taiwan

17:00 – 17:30

Mrozik, Susanne (Mt. Holyoke College): Discussion

83Panel 23
Monastic Espionage in East Asia in the Age of
Isolationism, 14th to 19th Century
Mon., Aug. 21st, 14:00 – 15:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1130, First Floor
Convener: Bingenheimer, Marcus
14:00 – 14:30

Wu, Jiang (University of Arizona): Was Yinyuan a Chinese Spy?
Buddhism during the Ming-Qing Transition in Early Modern East
Asia

14:30 – 15:00

Bingenheimer, Marcus (Temple University): Disguised as Monks in
Ming and Qing China: Glimpses and Anecdotal Evidence

15:00 – 15:30

Olah, Csaba (International Christian University, Tokyo): Gozan
Monks and the Gathering of Domestic and International
Intelligence in the 15-17th Century Japan84

Section 03
Buddhism and Medicine
Mon., Aug. 21st, 14:00 – 15:30
Bahen Centre, Room 2155, Second Floor
Chair: Garrett, Frances
14:00 – 14:30

Bright, Jennifer (University of Toronto): A Tibetan Buddhist
Scientist: Gendun Chöphel in Contemporary Tibetan Medical
Literature

15:00 – 15:30

Sik, Hin-Tak (University of Hong Kong): Diseases and Treatmentsin the Chapter on Medicine in the Vinaya Piṭakas

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Section 10
Early Buddhism
Mon., Aug. 21st,14:00 – 17:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1240, First Floor
Chair: Neelis, Jason
14:00 – 14:30

Maes, Claire (University of Texas at Austin): Early Buddhists andTheir Jain Ascetic Other, an Examination

14:30 – 15:00

Kong, Man-Shik (King's College, London): The Way which Flavourof and Quantity of Food are Dealt with in Early Buddhism

15:00 – 15:30

Li, Channa (Leiden University): The Sixth Arhat and Multiple
Buddhas: The Ambiguity of Arhatship and Buddhahood Found in
the Early Buddhist Texts

15:30 – 16:00

Tea and Coffee

16:00 – 16:30

Levman, Bryan (University of Toronto): Language Theory,
Phonology, and Etymology in Buddhism

16:30 – 17:00

Gruszewska, Joanna (Jagiellonian University): Puṇṇā’s Verses(Therīgāthā 236-251) in the Light of Buddhist Criticism of Brahmins
in Early Buddhist Literature

17:00 – 17:30

Polak, Grzegorz (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University): Can the‘End of the World’ be Reached by Means of jhāna? A
Reexamination of the Role and Place of saññā in Early
Buddhist jhāna Meditation

86Section 12
Information Technologies in Buddhist Studies
Mon., Aug. 21st,14:00 – 16:30
Bahen Centre, Room 2145, Second Floor
Chair: Bauer, Mikael
14:00 – 14:30

Hackett, Paul (Columbia University): Experiments with E-text: On
the Oral Commentary Embedded in the Tibetan Canon

14:30 – 15:00

Lugli, Ligeia (Mangalam Research Center/King's College
London/UC Berkeley): Corpus Methods for Buddhist Sanskrit
Lexicography

15:00 – 15:30

McCrabb, Ian (University of Sydney): READ Workbench – A
Collaborative Corpus Development Framework

15:30 – 16:00

Tea and Coffee

16:00 – 16:30

Nagasaki, Kiyonori (International Institute for Digital Humanities):
Possibilities of SAT Taishōzō Image DB through IIIF

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Panel 12
Buddhist Ways of Reading
Tue., Aug. 22nd, 9:00 – 12:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1180, First Floor
Conveners: Gummer, Natalie; Heim, Maria
9:00 – 9:30

Hallisey, Charles (Harvard University): Reading Buddhist Texts for
Texture and Density

9:30 – 10:00

Derris, Karen (Redlands University): Sharing Time: The
Importance of Community Across Cosmic and Historic Time in Pāli
Commentaries

10:00 – 10:30

Shulman, Eviatar (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): The
Buddha's Death as a Literary Event

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Gummer, Natalie (Beloit College): Speech Acts of the Buddha

11:30 – 12:00

Nance, Richard (Indiana University): Reading as Yielding:
Passages of Reception in Indian Buddhist Literature

12:00 – 12:30

Heim, Maria (Amherst College): Discussion

91Panel 19
Early Buddhist Manuscripts from Gandhāra: New
Discoveries and ResearchTue., Aug. 22nd, 9:00 – 12:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1160, First Floor
Conveners: Baums, Stefan; Strauch, Ingo
9:00 – 9:30

Baums, Stefan (University of Munich): Manuscripts from Gandhāra
and Gāndhārī Texts: History and State of the Field

9:30 – 10:00

Strauch, Ingo (University of Lausanne): The Prātimokṣasūtra
Fragments of the Bajaur Collection of Kharoṣṭhī Manuscripts

10:00 – 10:30

Marino, Joseph (Cornell University): Burning, Blazing, Glowing:“The Great Conflagration Hell” and Other Problems in a Gāndhārī
Sūtra of the Senior Collection

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Cox, Collett (University of Washington): Commentarial
Entanglements: The Case of the University of Washington Scroll

11:30 – 12:00

Schlosser, Andrea (University of Munich): The Bajaur Mahāyāna
Sūtra in Relation to Other Buddhist Texts

12:00 – 12:30

Ching, Chao-jung (Kyoto University): Gāndhārī Manuscripts andDocuments from Kuchean Buddhist Monasteries92Panel 24
Monastic Espionage in East Asia: Modern Period
Tue., Aug. 22nd, 9:00 – 12:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1130, First Floor
Convener: Brose, Benjamin
9:00 – 9:30

Sen, Tansen (Baruch College): Monk-spies? The Activities ofChinese Monks in South Asia in the Early Twentieth Century

9:30 – 10:00

Hamar, Imre (Eötvös Loránd University): Ignatius Timothy
Trebitsch-Lincoln (1879-1943): International Spy and First
Westerner Ordained as a Buddhist Monk in China

10:00 – 10:30

Schicketanz, Erik (University of Tokyo): Japanese Buddhism and
Military Intelligence in North China–The Case of the SinoJapanese Society for the Study of Esoteric Buddhism

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Brose, Benjamin (University of Michigan): Missionary or Mole?
Mizuno Baigyō’s Forty Years in China, 1904–1944

11:30 – 12:00

Jagou, Fabienne (École française d'Extrême-Orient): Ouyang
Wuwei 歐 陽 無 畏 (1913˗1991): a Han Monk Working for the
Chinese Intelligence Service in Tibet

12:00 – 12:30

Discussion

93Panel 25
New Approaches to Wŏnhyo and His Thought-- A Panel in
Commemoration of the 1400th Anniversary of His BirthTue., Aug. 22nd, 9:00 – 12:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1200, First Floor
Conveners: Buswell, Jr., Robert E.; Cho, Eun-su
9:00 – 9:30

Buswell, Jr., RobertCommentator

9:30 – 10:00

Cho, Eun-su (Seoul National University): Approaching BuddhaNature in a Mādhyamika Way—Wŏnhyo’s Commentary on
the Nirvana Sutra

10:00 – 10:30

Guerra-Glarner, Monika (University of Geneva): Tankuang’s
Commentary on the Dasheng Qixin Lun: Evidence of Wonhyo’s
influence

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Lee, Sumi (Dongguk University): Interpreting the Awakening ofFaith: Wŏnhyo (617-686) and Fazang’s (643-712) Distinct
Readings of the Tathāgatagarbha in the Awakening of Faith

11:30 – 12:00

Muller, Charles (University of Tokyo): The Role of Wonhyo's"System of the Two Hindrances" (Ijang-ui) in East Asian Buddhist
Hindrances Discourse

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E.

(UCLA):

Wŏnhyo(617-686)

asPanel 26
New Research on Newar Buddhism
Tue., Aug. 22nd, 9: 00 – 11:30
Bahen Centre, Room 2155, Second Floor
Convener: Bühnemann, Gudrun
9:00 – 9:30

Emmrich, Christoph (University of Toronto): Lists of Things in
Newar Buddhist Ritual

9:30 – 10:00

O’Neill, Alexander James (University of Toronto): Intraparatexts:
The Agency of Texts in Newar Buddhism

10:00 – 10:30

Shakya, Miroj (University of the West): The Worship of Mañjuśrī in
Nepal

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Panel 31
Ritual, Doctrine, and Monasticism: Buddhist Practices inDunhuang
Tue., Aug. 22nd, 9:00 – 12:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1220, First Floor
Conveners: Liu, Cuilan; Chen, Huaiyu
9:00 – 9:30

Coleman, Fletcher (Harvard University): The Buddha and theBrahman: Deciphering Ascetic Imagery in Early Medieval China

9:30 – 10:00

Lee, Kwi Jeong (Princeton University): Celebrating the Buddha:
Dedication of Images in Medieval Dunhuang

10:00 – 10:30

Ding, Yi (Stanford University): Consecrating with Myths, Images,
and Rituals: The Case of the Mogao Site

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Chen, Huaiyu (Arizona State University): Liturgies for Creating
Four Mandalas in Dunhuang Manuscripts

11:30 – 12:00

Zhanru (Peking University): The Rituals and Rules for theHousehold Patrons in Medieval Dunhuang: With Special
Reference to the Manuscript P. 2984v.

12:00 – 12:30

Liu, Cuilan (Emmanuel College): Adoptive Mother or Slave Owner?
Adoption and Slavery in Buddhist Monasteries and Nunneries inDunhuang

96Section 04
Buddhism and Society (I)Tue, Aug. 22nd, 9:00 – 15:00
Bahen Centre, Room 1230, First Floor
Chair: Sasson, Vanessa
9:00 – 9:30

Lai, Rongdao (University of Southern California): Becoming
Bodhisattva Citizens: Buddhist Citizenship Discourse in
Republican China

9:30 – 10:00

Lu, Lianghao (University of Pittsburgh): Creating a Dharma Market:
Advertisements in Buddhist Periodicals in Early 20th Century
Shanghai

10:00 – 10:30

Xing, Guang (University of Hong
Qisong’s Xiaolun (Treatise on Filial Piety)10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Kobbun, Pisit (Ubon Ratchathani University): Buddhist Art andPolitics: A Case Study of Paintings along the Mekong

11:30 – 12:00

Kawanami, Hiroko (Lancaster University): Mòpyar Gaing: A Case
Study of a Heterodox Sect in Modern Myanmar

12:00 – 12:30

Chakravarti, Ranabir (Jawaharlal Nehru University): Negation of
the Varna-Jati System: Gleanings from the Sardulakarnavadanam

12:30 – 14:00

LunchKong): A

Study

of

Buddhism and Society (II)
Chair: Crowe, Paul
14:00 – 14:30

Lele, Amod (Boston University): Disengaged Buddhism: The
Rejection of Activism in Classical South Asia

14:30 – 15:00

Richard, Frédéric (Université de Lausanne): Buddhism and the‘Secularized’ Tibetan Government in Exile

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Section 11
Epistemology and Logic in Buddhism (II)Tue, Aug. 22nd, 9:00 – 12:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1210, First Floor
Chair: Pagel, Ulrich
9:00 – 9:30

Stoltz, Jonathan (University of St. Thomas): The Scope and Unity
of “Mistaken Cognition” in the Epistemology of Phya pa Chos kyi
seng ge

9:30 – 10:00

Zamorski, Jakub (Jagiellonian University): What Remained ofPramāṇa Theory in China? “Direct Perception” and “Inference” inthe Works of Early Modern Chinese Buddhists

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Lo, King Chung (University of Leipzig): Prāsaṅgika Mādhyamika’s
Refutation of Self-awareness

11:30 – 12:00

Vose,
Kevin
(CollegeofWilliamandMary): When
Did Svatantra Gain Its Autonomy? An Investigation into the Indian
Sources of a Tibetan Claim

12:00 – 12:30

Westerhoff, Jan (University of Oxford): Madhyamaka andPhilosophy of Language

98Panel 14
Conventional Reality, Conventional Truth
Tue., Aug. 22nd, 14:00 – 17:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1220, First Floor
Convener: McClintock, Sara
14:00 – 14:30

Prueitt, Catherine (Emory University): Conventional Truth When
There Is No Conventional Reality: Understanding Dharmakīrti on
Conventional vs. Ultimate Means of Trustworthy Awareness

14:30 – 15:00

Arnold, Dan (University of Chicago): How ‘Conventional’ isConventional Truth? Thoughts on the Divergent Intuitions of
Candrakīrti and Śāntarakṣita

15:00 – 15:30

Discussion

15:30 – 16:00

Tea and Coffee

16:30 – 17:00

Sharf, Robert (University of California, Berkeley): Two Truths,
Dialetheism, and Chan

17:00 – 17:30

Discussion99

Panel 29
Recent Research on the Dīrghāgama
Tue., Aug. 22nd, 14:00 – 17:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1200, First Floor
Conveners: Melzer, Gudrun; DiSimone, Charles; Choi, Jinkyoung
14:00 – 14:30

Hartmann,Jens-Uwe(UniversityofMunich): Which Daśottarasūtra? A Curious Fragment and Its
Manifold Problems

14:30 – 15:00

Yao, Fumi (Waseda University): The Mahāgovindasūtra andMahāgovinda’s Stories: with the Focus on a Version in the
Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya

15:00 – 15:30

DiSimone,
Charles(Ludwig-Maximilians
Universität): Anyatīrthikaparivrājakas and Their Doctrines as
Portrayed in the (Mūla-) Sarvāstivāda Dīrghāgama

15:30 – 16:00

Tea and Coffee

16:00 – 16:30

Matsuda, Kazunobu (Bukkyo University); Choi, Jinkyoung (LudwigMaximilians Universität): The Source and Structure of
the Tridaṇḍisūtra

16:30 – 17:00

Melzer, Gudrun (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität): The State of
Research on the Dīrghāgama Manuscript and inquiries intothe Śīlaskandha-nipāta

17:00 – 17:30

Discussion

100Panel 30
Reconstructing the History of Late Indian Buddhism (PartIII)—Relationship between Tantric and Non-tantric
Doctrines
Tue., Aug. 22nd, 14:00 – 17:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1240, First Floor
Convener: Kyuma, Taiken
14:00 – 14:30

Yiannopoulos,
Alexander(EmoryUniversity): Abhiṣeka as Saṃskāra: Initiation and Meditation in
Ratnākaraśānti’s Tantric Commentaries

14:30 – 15:00

Seton, Gregory (Dartmouth College): Integrating Non-tantric andTantric Doctrines through Prajñāpāramitā at Vikramaśīla during the
mid-Eleventh Century

15:00 – 15:30

Tanemura, Ryugen (Taisho University); Kano, Kazuo (Koyasan
University); Kuranishi, Kenichi (Taisho University): Ratnarakṣita on
the Practice of Meditation—Its Validity and Fruit in Tantric
Buddhism—

15:30 – 16:00

Tea and Coffee

16:00 – 16:30

Miyazaki, Izumi (Kyoto University): The Abhijñās and Preaching
Dharma in the Bodhimārgadīpa-pañjikā

16:30 – 17:00

Sferra, Francesco (University of Naples “L’Orientale”): Adapting the
Middle Path to the Vajra Vehicle: an Enquiry into the Doctrinal
Settings of the Wheel of Time

17:00 – 17:30

Wangchuk, Dorji (Universität Hamburg): Is Tantric Meditation Like
Imagining Oneself a Lion When Afraid of Dogs? The Issue of theSuperiority Claim of Vajrayāna
Kyuma, Taiken (Mie University): Discussion

101Panel 39
Transparent, Translucent, or Opaque: Chinese
ranslations of Indic Texts as Windows onto Indian
Buddhism
Tue., Aug. 22nd, 14:00 – 17:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1160, First Floor
Convener: Witkowski, Nicholas
14:00 – 14:30

Zacchetti, Stefano (University of Oxford): The Many Shades ofRetranslation

14:30 – 15:00

Shimoda, Masahiro (University of Tokyo): Chinese Translations
and a Pali Commentary to Bridge a Gap between the “Northern”
and the “Southern” Traditions

15:00 – 15:30

Radich, Michael (Victoria University of Wellington): New ComputerAssisted Techniques for Assessing Internal Evidence of Questionsof Ascription in Chinese Buddhist Canonical Texts

15:30 – 16:00

Tea and Coffee

16:00 – 16:30

Silk, Jonathan (Leiden University): Chinese Sutras in Tibetan:
Tapping the Guidance of Contemporary Readers of Buddhist
Chinese

16:30 – 17:00

Baba, Norihisa (University of Tokyo): Language Ideology of Pāli by
the Mahāvihāra

17:00 – 17:30

Witkowski, Nicholas (University of Tokyo): The Practice of Aśubhabhāvanā in the Indian Buddhist Monastery: A Presentation of New
Evidence from Vinaya Traditions Preserved in Chinese102Panel 40
Travel, Transmission, and Affiliation: Lineage in the
Buddhist Crossroads of Inner Asia
Tue., Aug. 22nd, 14:00 – 17:30
Bahen Centre, Room 2155, Second Floor
Convener: King, Matthew
14:00 – 14:30

Wallace, Vesna (University of California, Santa Barbara): A
Formation of the Lineage of the Lordly Incarnations (Noyan
Khutukthus) of the Gobi and Its Affiliation with the Kagyu Traditionof Tibet

14:30 – 15:00

Tsultem, Uranchimeg (University of California, Berkeley): The
Mighty dGe lugs: Their Emergence and Domination in Khalkha
Mongolia

15:00 – 15:30

King, Matthew (University of California, Riverside): Making andUnmaking Monastic, Scholastic, and Tantric Subjects in Late andPost-Imperial Inner Asia

15:30 – 16:00

Tea and Coffee

16:00 – 16:30

Van Vleet, Stacey (University of California, Berkeley): How Medical
Technologies Travelled across Qing Imperial Cultures

16:30 – 17:00

Ujeed, Sangseraima (Oxford University): The Biography ofLineages: the "thob yig gsal ba'i me long" of Khalkha Dza-yaPaṇḍita (1642-1715)

17:00 – 17:30

Sullivan, Brenton (Colgate University): Instituting Right Religious
Practice from Afar: The Celestial Sands of Alashaa, Inner Mongolia
and the Monastery of Pendé Gyatso Ling

103

Panel 42
What Makes a Monastery a Great Monastery? Textual, art
historical, and archaeological evidence from India to [theborders of] China
Tue., Aug. 22nd, 14:00 – 17:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1210, First Floor
Convener: Forte, Erika
14:00 – 14:30

Scherrer-Schaub, Cristina (École Pratique des Hautes Études(EPHE), Paris and Université de Lausanne): Indian Monastic
Residences in Historical Perspective

14:30 – 15:00

Brancaccio, Pia (Drexel University): A Mahāvihāra in the Living
Rock: The Later Horizon of the Kanheri Caves

15:00 – 15:30

Amar, Abhishek S. (Hamilton College): Telhara: What Does it Dean
to be a ‘Mahavihara’ in the Early Medieval Magadha

15:30 – 16:00

Tea and Coffee

16:30 – 17:00

Filigenzi, Anna (University of Naples “L’Orientale”): Early Buddhist
Monasteries in South Asia: Archaeological Mapping as Culturalhistorical Inquiry

17:00 – 17:30

Forte, Erika (Ruhr-Universität Bochum): Defining Greatness:
Monasteries of the Tarim Area Oases

104Section 13
Mahāyāna Buddhism (I)Tue, Aug. 22nd, 14:00 – 17:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1130, First Floor
Chair: Shiu, Henry
14:00 – 14:30

Ahn, Sungdoo (Seoul National University): Paramārtha’s Concept
of *Amalavijñāna and Tathāgatagarbha

14:30 – 15:00

Saito, Akira (International College for Postgraduate Buddhist
Studies): Buddha-Nature or Buddha Within?: Revisiting the
Meaning of tathāgata-garbha

15:00 – 15:30

Nelson, Barbara (Australian National University): Kṣāntipāramitā inthe Works of Śāntideva

15:30 – 16:00

Tea and Coffee

16:00 – 16:30

Kosaka, Arihiro (University of Tsukuba): The Readingof śubhāśubhaviparyāsāḥ in the Twenty-third Chapter ofthe Mūlamadhyamakakārikā with a Special Focus on Candrakīrti’s
Interpretation

17:00 – 17:30

Kanno, Hiroshi (Soka University): Jizang’s View of the Nirvāṇa
Sūtra: Focusing on the Niepan jing youyi

105Section 15
Manuscripts, Codicology, and Epigraphy (I)Tue, Aug. 22nd, 14:00 – 17:30
Bahen Centre, Room 2145, Second Floor
Chair: Keyworth, George A.
14:00 – 14:30

Long, Darui (University of the West): A Study on the Colophons ofDonors of Rock-Cut Buddhist Scriptures in Fangshan in the Ming
Dynasty (1368-1644)

14:30 – 15:00

Miyazaki, Tensho (Otani University): Relations among Old
Japanese Manuscripts of Buddhist Scriptures and WoodblockPrinted Buddhist Canons: With Reference to the Puchao Sanmei
Jing 普超三昧経

15:00 – 15:30

Nam, Dongsin (Seoul National University): The Sound of Great
Enlightenment: the Divine Bell of King Seongdeok of Silla and Its
Inscription

15:30 – 16:00

Tea and Coffee

16:30 – 17:00

Kirichenko, Alexey (Moscow State University): The Role of Medium
in History-Writing and the Construction of Identity of the Hnget-pittaung Monastery, Burma

17:00 – 17:30

Acri, Andrea (EPHE): The Cult of Hevajra in Southeast Asia, 10th13th Century106

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Panel 09
Buddhist Cosmology and Astral Science
Wed., Aug. 23rd, 9:00 – 12:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1220, First Floor
Convener: Mak, Bill M.
9:00 – 9:30

Huntington, Eric (Princeton University): Cosmology
Framework for Expression in Text and Imageasa

9:30 – 10:00

Satinsky, Ruth (University of Lausanne): Untangling the Historical
Relationship between the Concepts of Mount Meru in Early
Buddhist, Jaina, and Brahmanical literature

10:00 – 10:30

Hiyama-Karino, Satomi (Ryukoku University): Iconography ofSumeru in the Buddhist Art in Central Asia

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Mak, Bill M. (Kyoto University): The Buddhist Transmission ofGrahamātṛkādhāraṇī and Other Planetary Astral Texts

11:30 – 12:00

Okada, Masahiko (Tenri University): The Emergence of Buddhist
Astronomy and Buddhist Science in Nineteenth Century Japan

12:00 – 12:30

Yano, Michio (Kyoto Sangyo University): Discussion

109

Panel 22
Literatures of Contemplation
Wed., Aug. 23rd, 9:00 – 12:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1130, First Floor
Conveners: Quintman, Andrew; Schaeffer, Kurtis
9:00 – 9:30

Crosby, Kate (Kings College): Traces of Experience: The Texts of
Traditional
Theravada
Meditation(borānkammaṭṭhāna/yogāvacara)

9:30 – 10:00

Bentor, Yael (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Awakening in
the Present Body

10:00 – 10:30

Greene, Eric (Yale University): What Exactly are “Meditation Texts”
and What Should We Do with Them?

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Kachru, Sonam (University of Virginia): Overhearing Śāntideva

11:30 – 12:00

Quintman, Andrew (Yale University): Illuminating Carefree
Awareness: Tibetan Poetry Collections and the Landscape of Self

12:00 – 12:30

Schaeffer, Kurtis (University of Virginia): Nature Imagery in Tibetan
Contemplative Poetry

110Panel 28
Recent Approaches in Vinaya Studies
Wed., Aug. 23rd, 9:00 – 11:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1230, First Floor
Convener: LaRose, Joseph
9:00 – 9:30

Aono, Michihiko (University of Tokyo): The Relationship between
the Dantaponasikkhāpada and Its Introductory Story

9:30 – 10:00

Handy, Christopher (McMaster University): Politeness andPropriety in Buddhist Monastic Law: Applying Face Theory toVinaya Texts

10:00 – 10:30

Sasaki,Shizuka(Hanazono
University): Why
Does
the Mūlasarvāstivāda-vinaya Contain a Large Number of Tales?

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

LaRose, Joseph (McMaster University): Cows, Leather, Sandals
andMonks:
Materiality
inthe Carmavastu of
the Mūlasarvāstivādavinaya

111Panel 34
The Buddha’s Footprint in Asian Cultures
Wed., Aug. 23rd, 9:00 – 12:00
Bahen Centre, Room 1210, First Floor
Convener: Handlin, Lilian
9:00 – 9:30

Skilling, Peter (École française d'Extrême-Orient): Symbols ofPower and Fortune in Early India

9:30 – 10:00

Analayo, Bhikkhu (Universität Hamburg): The Buddhapada and
Early Buddhism

10:00 – 10:30

Blackburn, Anne M. (Cornell University): Buddha Footprints in
Lankan and Indian Ocean Networks

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Handlin, Lilian (Independent Scholar): Uttamasikkha and His
Discontents

11:30 – 12:00

Kim, Jinah (Harvard University): Discussion112Panel 37
Transmission and Transformation of Buddhist Logic andEpistemology in East Asia (I): Dignāga and Pre-Dignāga
LogicWed., Aug. 23rd, 9:00 – 12:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1240, First Floor
Conveners: Ono, Motoi; Inami, Masahiro
9:00 – 9:30

Ono, Motoi (Tsukuba University): A Reconsideration of PreDignāga Buddhist Texts on Logic (the *Upāyahṛdaya, theDialectical Portion of the Spitzer Manuscript, the *Tarkaśāstra andthe Vādavidhi)

9:30 – 10:00

Gillon, Brendan S. (McGill University): The Emergence of theCanonical Indian Syllogism as Revealed by Early Chinese
Buddhist Texts

10:00 – 10:30

Lasic, Horst (Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia
(IKGA), OEAW): How Dignāga Treats His Opponents Observations from the Pramāṇasamuccaya, Chapter Two

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Muroya, Yasutaka (Austrian Academy of Sciences): On a
Fragment of Dignāga’s Nyāyamukha

11:30 – 12:00

Watanabe, Toshikazu (Austrian Academy of Sciences): On theConcept of nyūna in Dignāga’s Theory of Fallacy

12:00 – 12:30

Inami, Masahiro (Tokyo Gakugei University): Pre-DharmakīrtiInterpretations of Dignāga’s Theory of pakṣābhāsa

113

Section 05
Buddhist Art and Architecture (I)Wed., Aug. 23rd, 9:00 – 17:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1160, First Floor
Chair: Shen, Chen
9:00 – 9:30

Bruneau, Laurianne (École Pratique des Hautes Études):Archaeology of Ladakh: New Data for the History of Buddhism in
the Western Himalayas

10:00 – 10:30

Seegers, Eva (Universität Hamburg): The Decoration andIconographic Program of Selected Stūpas in Eastern Tibet after
1959

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Anderl, Christoph (Ghent University): The Development of Māra
Iconography in China: Continuities and Transformations

11:30 – 12:00

Bieberly, Rebecca (Oakland University): Naturalistic Style, Natural
Gesture:A
Study
of
LingyanTemple’sSongera Luohan Sculptures

12:00 – 12:30

Lin, Nancy (Vanderbilt University); Chou, Weng-shing (HunterCollege): Recalling the Past Lives of a Qing Ruler: An Album of the
Qianlong Emperor's Previous Incarnations

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch

Buddhist Art and Architecture (II)
14:00 – 14:30

Lin, Fan (Leiden University): Dimensions of Non-duality andLiminality: Visual Images of Vimalakīrti in Medieval China (500 –
1200)

14:30 – 15:00

Tuzzeo, Daniel (Stanford University): To Steal the Sun and Moon:
Notes on Cosmological Representation and Relationships
Between Word and Image at Mogao

114

15:30 – 16:00

Tea and Coffee

16:00 – 16:30

Hirama, Naoko (Taisho University): How to Make a Saint:
Biographical Picture Scrolls in the Construction of Hōnen’s Identity

16:30 – 17:00

Matsunami, Fuki (The Jodo Shu Research Institute): Arts ofJapanese Pure Land Buddhism: The Value of Hōnen Shōnin
Gyōjōezu

17:00 – 17:30

Saradum, Natpiya (Dhammachai International ResearchInstitute): The Earliest Style of Buddhist Stūpas in Thailand: A
Study of the Evolution of the Buddhist Stūpas of the Dvāravatī
Period115Section 13
Mahāyāna Buddhism (II)Wed., Aug. 23rd, 9:00 – 12:30
Bahen Centre, Room 2145, Second Floor
Chair: Chen, Jinhua
9:00 – 9:30

Buckelew, Kevin (Columbia University): How Chan Masters
Became “Great Men”: Masculinity and the Aesthetics of Heroism in
Middle-Period Chinese Buddhism

9:30 – 10:00

Jones, Charles (The Catholic University of America): What is the
Chinese Pure Land Tradition?

10:00 – 10:30

Yasui, Mitsuhiro (Taisho University, Research Institute of Chisan
Shingon): Some Remarks on the Akutobhayā and the Zhong lun

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Denis, Diane (Laval University): Looking for theof trilakṣana in the Dharmadharmatāvibhāga and kārikā

11:30 – 12:00

Nemoto, Hiroshi (Hiroshima University): Tsong kha pa on
Dependent Origination and Emptiness

12:00 – 12:30

Shi (Lee), Fazhao (Hsu-Feng) (Sydney
Tibetan uddāna in the Śarīrārthagāthā

116

NotionUniversity): The

Section 16
Tantric Buddhism
Wed., Aug. 23rd, 9:00 – 12:00
Bahen Centre, Room 1200, First Floor
Chair: Mills, Libbie
9:00 – 9:30

Wenta, Aleksandra (Oxford University): The Making of Tantric
Orthodoxy in the Eleventh Century Indo-Tibetan World:
Jñānākara’s Mantrāvatāra

9:30 – 10:00

Nagasawa, Jake (University of California, Santa Barbara): A
Kadampa’s Defense of the Guhyagarbha Tantra: On Chomden
Rigpé Reldri’s (Bcom ldan rig pa’i ral gri) An Ornamental Flower for
the Proof of the Guhyagarbha (Gsang snying sgrub pa rgyan gyi
me tog)10:00 – 10:30

Hammar, Urban (Stockholm University): Chag lo tsa ba III Rin chenrnam rgyal (15th century) on the History of Kālacakra in Tibet.

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Payne, Richard (Institute of Buddhist Studies, Berkeley): Tendai
Homa: Ritual Change and Ritual Invariance

11:30 – 12:00

Kotyk, Jeffrey (Leiden University): Sources of Japanese Buddhist
Astrology117

Panel 32
Stories Behind the Story: Revisiting the Buddha’s
Hagiography
Wed., Aug. 23rd, 14:00 – 17:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1130, First Floor
Convener: Sasson, Vanessa
14:00 – 14:30

Strong, John S. (Bates College): Buddhist Miracles and the
Hagiography of the Buddha

14:30 – 15:00

He, Xi (Appalachian State University): Behind the Stories: A Studyof the Fo benxing jing

15:00 – 15:30

Scheible, Kristin (Reed College): “Behind Every Great Man”:
Engendering the Mahāpuruṣa

15:30 – 16:00

Tea and Coffee

16:00 – 16:30

Shiri, Yael (SOAS): Revisiting the Śākya Clan as a Marker of Indian
Monastic Self-representation in the Buddha’s Hagiographies

16:30 – 17:00

Sasson, Vanessa (Marianopolis College): Yasodhara’s Story

17:00 – 17:30

Discussion118

Panel 38
Transmission and Transformation of Buddhist Logic andEpistemology in East Asia (II): Dharmapāla, Bhāviveka,
Xuanzang, and Their impact on East Asian Buddhism
Wed., Aug. 23rd, 14:00 – 17:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1240, First Floor
Conveners: Moriyama, Shinya; Moro, Shigeki
14:00 – 14:30

Lin, Chen-kuo (National Chengchi University): Allegory and Logic
in Dharmapāla’s Commentary on the Viṃśikā

14:30 – 15:00

He, Huanhuan (Zhejiang University): Can the Emptiness and the
Existence be Proved by the Trairūpya?

15:00 – 15:30

Moro, Shigeki (Hanazono University): Was There a Dispute
between Dharmapāla and Bhāviveka? East Asian Discussions on
Their Proofs of Śūnyatā

15:30 – 16:00

Tea and Coffee

16:00 – 16:30

Kobayashi, Hisayasu (Chikushi Jogakuen University): Xuanzang’s
Argument for vijñaptimātratā and Its Indian Sources

16:30 – 17:00

Moriyama, Shinya (Shinshu University): Kuiji on the Four Kinds ofContradictory Reasons (viruddhahetu)

17:00 – 17:30

Discussion

119Panel 41
Vinaya Commentaries
Wed., Aug. 23rd, 14:00 – 17:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1170, First Floor
Convener: Clarke, Shayne
14:00 – 14:30

Yonezawa, Yoshiyasu (Taisho University): A Survey ofthe Vinayasūtra: With Reference to the Mūlasarvāstivāda-vinaya

14:30 – 15:00

Nietupski, Paul (John Carroll University): Studying Buddhist Beliefs
and Practices through Vinaya Commentaries

15:00 – 15:30

Emms, Christopher (McMaster University): Canonical Vinaya
Quotations in the Work of Śākyaprabha

15:30 – 16:00

Tea and Coffee

16:00 – 16:30

Kishino, Ryoji (Otani University): The Implications of Bu ston’s
Doubts about the Authenticity of the Vinaya-saṃgraha

16:30 – 17:00

Newhall, Thomas (University of Tokyo): Daoxuan’s Vinaya
Commentaries: An Overview of Materials Available, the Current
State of Research, and Some Important Topics

17:00 – 17:30

Clarke, Shayne (McMaster University): On the Nun-Friendly Vinaya
Manuscript Traditions of Bhutan and Their Relationship to Indian
Vinaya Commentaries

120Panel 44
Zones of Contact: Facets of Buddhist Interactions in
Eastern Central Asia During the 9th-14th Centuries
Wed., Aug. 23rd, 14:00 – 17:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1210, First Floor
Convener: Meinert, Carmen
14:00 – 14:30

Meinert,Carmen(Ruhr-Universität
Bochum):Buddhist
Localisations in Pre-modern Eastern Central Asia within aTranscultural Buddhist Network

14:30 – 15:00

Kasai, Yukiyo (Ruhr-Universität Bochum): The Old Uyghur
Abhidharma Texts Containing Brāhmī Elements

15:00 – 15:30

Sørensen,HenrikH.
(Ruhr-Universität
Padmapāni Dhāraṇī-Amulet from Dunhuang

15:30 – 16:00

Tea and Coffee

16:30 – 17:00

Turek, Maria (Universität Bonn): Formation of the Tibetan Kingdomof Nangchen as Zone of Contact

Bochum):A

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Section 14
Mahāyāna Sūtras (I)Wed., Aug. 23rd, 14:00 – 15:00
Bahen Centre, Room 1200, First Floor
Chair: Drewes, David
14:00 – 14:30

Xiao, Yue (The Research Institute of Bukkyo University): The Vows
of
AmitābhaintheLarger Sukhāvatīvyūha andthe Karuṇāpuṇḍarīka

14:30 – 15:00

Yamabe, Nobuyoshi (Waseda University): The Nine Similesof Tathāgatagarbha in Tathāgatagarbha-sūtra and the Six Similesof Buddhānusmṛti in Guanfo sanmei hai jing

122

Section 15
Manuscripts, Codicology, and Epigraphy (II)Wed., Aug. 23rd, 14:00 – 16:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1220, First Floor
Chair: Cox, Collett
14:00 – 14:30

Delhey, Martin (Universität Hamburg): The ‘Vanaratna Codex’: A
Unique Witness of Indian, Nepalese and Tibetan Buddhism

14:30 – 15:00

Hori, Shin’ichiro (International College for Postgraduate Buddhist
Studies): Buddhism in 15th-Century Eastern India: Sanskrit
Manuscript Evidence and Tibetan Sources

15:00 – 15:30

Milligan, Matthew (Georgia College & State University): Text andEpigraph, King and Monk: Comparing and Contrasting Patronage
in Early Indian Buddhism

15:30 – 16:00

Tea and Coffee

16:00 – 16:30

Walter, Mariko (ACANSRS): Greek Buddhists Revisited: Early
Religious Contacts in Greco-Bactria and Indo-Greek Kingdoms
According to Donor Inscriptions

123Section 17
Theravāda Buddhism
Wed., Aug. 23rd, 14:00 – 15:00
Bahen Centre, Room 1230, First Floor
Chair: Turner, Alicia
14:00 – 14:30

Stewart, James (University of Tasmania): Revenge Literature inContemporary Sinhala Buddhism

14:30 – 15:00

Revire, Nicolas (Thammasat University): “In Times Yet to Come”:
The Cult of the Five Buddhas and Ten Bodhisattas in Mainland
Southeast Asia

15:00 – 15:30

Carbine, Jason (Whittier College): King Rāmādhipati, Prime
Minister U Nu, and the Kalyāṇī Sīmā

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Panel 02
Approaches to the Bodhicaryāvatāra
Thurs., Aug. 24th, 9:00 – 12:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1200, First Floor
Convener: Gold, Jonathan C.
9:00 – 9:30

Gyatso, Janet (Harvard University): Seeing Oneself from theOutside, and Its Moral Work

9:30 – 10:00

Carpenter, Amber (Yale-NUS): Reason and Knowledge on thePath

10:00 – 10:30

Ohnuma,Reiko(Dartmouth
the Bodhicaryāvatāra

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Harris, Stephen (Leiden University): Demandingness and Shaping
the Self in the Bodhicaryāvatāra

11:30 – 12:00

Goodman, Charles (Binghamton University-SUNY): Can We Know
Whether Śāntideva was a Consequentialist?

12:00 – 12:30

Chien, Gloria I-Ling (Gonzaga University): The Vision and Moral
Formation of a Bodhisattva Practitioner

College): Embodiment

in

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Panel 07
Buddhism in the Sātavāhana Age
Thurs., Aug. 24th, 9:00 – 12:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1240, First Floor
Convener: Ollett, Andrew
9:00 – 9:30

Collett, Alice (Nalanda University): Women under Sātavāhana
Rule

9:30 – 10:00

Ollett, Andrew (Harvard University): Sātakarṇi and Nāgārjuna:
Buddhism as a Public Religion under the Sātavāhanas

10:00 – 10:30

Efurd, David (Wofford College): The Satavahana-Ksaharata War
and Early Buddhist Patronage

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Shimada, Akira (SUNY New Paltz): Royal and Non-Royal Buddhist
Patronage in the Early Deccan

11:30 – 12:00

Visvanathan, Meera (Shiv Nadar University): The Idea ofthe ‘Perpetual Gift’: The akṣaya-nīvi in the Inscriptions of the Early
Historic Deccan

12:00 – 12:30

Zin-Oczkowska, Monika (University of Leipzig): Kanaganahalli in
the Satavahana Art and Buddhism128Panel 08
Buddhist Conceptions of History
Thurs., Aug. 24th, 9:00 – 12:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1210, First Floor
Convener: Thompson, Luke Noel
9:00 – 9:30

Kieschnick, John (Stanford University): Dreams, Omens andProphecy in Chinese Buddhist Historiography

9:30 – 10:00

Stortini, Paride (University of Chicago): Promulgating the Law
through History: What is Modern in Nanjō Bunyū’s A Short Historyof the Twelve Japanese Buddhist Sects?

10:00 – 10:30

Balkwill, Stephanie (University of Southern California): Who Owns
the Buddhist Past?: The Northern Wei as Bearers of High Buddhist
Culture in Medieval China

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Stone, Jacqueline (Princeton University): Time, History, andthe Lotus Sūtra in Nichiren’s Thought

11:30 – 12:00

MacCormack, Ian James (Harvard University): Buddhist Rule andHistorical Thinking in Seventeenth-Century Tibet

12:00 – 12:30

Thompson, Luke Noel (Columbia University): Japanese Buddhist
Optimism about the Future, as Seen in the Rebuilding of Nara andthe Fabrication of New Myths

129

Panel 10
Buddhist Studies and the Scientific Study of Meditation
Thurs., Aug. 24th, 9:00 – 12:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1170, First Floor
Conveners: Braun, Erik; McMahan, David
9:00 – 9:30

Braun, Erik (University of Virginia): Mindful but not
Religious: Meditation and Enchantment in the Work of Jon KabatZinn

9:30 – 10:00

Davis, Jake (Brown University): The Value of Mindfulness

10:00 – 10:30

Wilson, Jeff (University of Waterloo): The New Science of Healthand Happiness: Investigating Buddhist and Non-Buddhist
Engagements with the Scientific Study of Mindfulness

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Edelglass, William (Marlboro College): Buddhism, Happiness, andthe Science of Meditation

11:30 – 12:00

McMahan, David (Franklin & Marshall College): Epistemic
Presuppositions in the Scientific Study of Meditation

12:00 – 12:30

Discussion

130Panel 18
Does Candrakīrti Offer Any Epistemology (pramāṇa)?
Thurs., Aug. 24th, 9:00 – 12:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1220, First Floor
Conveners: Thakchoe, Sonam; Westerhoff, Jan
9:00 – 9:30

Garfield, Jay L. (Smith College): Prāsaṅgika, Pramāṇa and the
Problem of Foundations

9:30 – 10:00

Powers, John (Deakin University): ’Jam dbyangs bshad pa’s
Polemical Doxography

10:00 – 10:30

Duckworth, Douglas (Temple University): Truth or Consequences:
Implicit Commitments and the Logic of Prāsaṅgika

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Doctor, Thomas (Rangjung Yeshe Institute): Madhyamaka
Dynamics: Early Tibetan Attitudes to Knowledge and the Problemof Emptiness

11:30 – 12:00

Thakchoe, Sonam (University of Tasmania): The Problem of Nomind and Buddhahood: Taktsang and Tsongkhapa on Candrakīrti’s
Epistemology

12:00 – 12:30

Yi, Jongbok (Stockton University): Discussion

131Panel 21
Insights into Gandhāran Buddhist Narratives through Art
and Texts
Thurs., Aug. 24th, 9:00 – 12:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1160, First Floor
Convener: Neelis, Jason
9:00 – 9:30

Neelis, Jason (Wilfrid Laurier University): Regional Diversity and
Doctrinal Standardization in the Transmission of Gandhāran
Narratives

9:30 – 10:00

Allon, Mark (University of Sydney): Accounts of the Buddha’s life in
the Senior Kharoṣṭhī Manuscript Collection and Their Counterpartsin the Art of Gandhāra and Ancient India

10:00 – 10:30

Lenz, Timothy (University of Washington): What is the Buddha’s
Gandhāran Game?

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Giuliano, Laura (National Museum of Oriental Art, Rome): The
Archery Competition of Siddhārtha in Gandhāran art

11:30 – 12:00

Zhu, Tianshu (University of Macau): Reassessing the Iconographyof the Request of Brahmā and Indra from Gandhāra

12:00 – 12:30

Discussion

132Section 01
Abhidharma Studies (I)Thurs., Aug. 24th, 9:00 – 12:30
Bahen Centre, Room 2145, Second Floor
Chair: Cox, Collett
9:00 – 9:30

Toleno, Robban (Columbia University): Theories of Nourishment in
Premodern Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedias and the Limits ofConsilience

9:30 – 10:00

Hanner, Oren (Universität Hamburg): An Abhidharmic View on the
Relation
betweenAgentsandActions
Basedon
the Abhidharmakośabhāṣya of Vasubandhu

10:00 – 10:30

Yi, Kyoowan (Seoul National University): The Theories of Buddhist
Atomism- the Ultimate or the Conventional?

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Lin, Qian (University of California Berkeley): What Is a Buddhist
School? A Case Study of Harivarman and His Chengshi Lun

133

Section 06
Buddhist Hermeneutics, Scholasticism, andCommentarial Techniques (I)Thurs., Aug. 24th, 9:00 – 12:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1230, First Floor
Chair: Tatelman, Joel
9:00 – 9:30

Mathes, Klaus-Dieter (University of Vienna): Karma bKa’
brgyud gZhan stong (“Empti[ness] of Other”) in the Works of theThird, Seventh and Eighth Karma pa

9:30 – 10:00

Brambilla, Filippo (University of Vienna): The Path of Preparationin the Jo nang Tradition. Tshogs gnyis rgya mtsho on the Views of
Nya dbon kun dga’ dpal and Tā ra nā tha.

10:00 – 10:30

Draszczyk, Martina (University of Vienna): A Glimpse into Mi
bskyod rdo rje’s "Commentary on the Direct Introduction to theThree Kāyas"10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Higgins, David (University of Vienna): Rong zom pa and Mi bskyod
rdo rje on the Unity of the Two Truths from a Nonfoundationalist(Apratiṣṭhāna) Madhyamaka Standpoint

11:30 – 12:00

Gentry, James (Kathmandu University): Historiographical
Skepticism in Seventeenth-Century Tibet: Sog bzlog pa Blo grosrgyal mtshan’s Text-critical Biography of Master Padmasambhava

12:00 – 12:30

Kantor, Hans (Huafan University): “Root and Traces” (benji 本迹)in the Exegetical Traditions of Chinese Madhyamaka Thought

134Section 14
Mahāyāna Sūtras (II)Thurs., Aug. 24th, 9:00 – 12:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1130, First Foor
Chair: Drewes, David
9:00 – 9:30

Boucher, Daniel (Cornell University): Are Mahāyāna Sūtras
Forgeries?

9:30 – 10:00

Drewes, David (University of Manitoba): How Mahayanists Became
Bodhisattvas

10:00 – 10:30

Zhao, Wen (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität): The Composition of
the Sadāprarudita Story in the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā
Based on the Pratyutpanna Saṃmukhāvasthita Samādhi Sūtra:The Basic Structure and the Metaphors

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Nishi, Yasutomo (Chuo Academic Research Institute): Researchon krīḍāpanaka- / krīḍanaka in the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka

12:00 – 12:30

Bogacz, Szymon (Jagiellonian University): The Relation Between
the Conventional and the Ultimate in Early Mahāyāna Sutras andin Nāgārjuna’s Madhyamaka

135

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Panel 01
A New Study of Ratnākaraśānti’s Prajñāpāramitopadeśa
Fri., Aug. 25th, 9:00 – 12:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1230, First Floor
Conveners: Katsura, Shoryu; Luo, Hong
9:00 – 9:30

Katsura, Shoryu (Hiroshima University): The Four Yoga Stages of
the Prajñāpāramitopadeśa

9:30 – 10:00

Shiga, Kiyokuni (Kyoto Sangyo University): On Some Common
Scriptural Sources Cited by Ratnākaraśānti and Kamalaśīla

10:00 – 10:30

Nishiyama, Ryo (Ryukoku University): Mādhyamikas in the
Prajñāpāramitopadeśa

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Hayashima, Satoshi (Ryukoku University): The Theory of Three
Natures in the Prajñāpāramitopadeśa

11:30 – 12:00

Kataoka, Kei (Kyushu University): Ratnākaraśānti on Prakāśa

12:00 – 12:30

Luo, Hong (China Tibetology Research Center): Ratnākaraśānti’s
Sketch of Self-awareness in the Prajñāpāramitopadeśa

139

Panel 16
Dhāraṇī Literature and Textual Cultures
Fri., Aug. 25th, 9:00 – 12:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1210, First Floor
Convener: Davidson, Ronald M.
9:00 – 9:30

Harrison, Paul (Stanford University): Remarks on the Sanskrit textof the Viśeṣavatī Dhāraṇī in the Schøyen Collection

9:30 – 10:00

Hidas, Gergely (The British Museum): Weather Control andAgriculture: The Vajratuṇḍasamayakalparāja

10:00 – 10:30

Holz, Kathrin (University of Lausanne): The Bhadrakarātrī-sūtra: A
Buddhist Apotropaic Text from Central Asia

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Overbey, Ryan Richard (Wesleyan University): Envisioning theBuddhist abecedary in the Amoghapāśakalparāja

11:30 – 12:00

Davidson, Ronald M. (Fairfield University): Dhāraṇīs and theSanctification of Painting

12:00 – 12:30

Discussion140Panel 20
Images and Practices of Buddhist Kingship across Asia
Fri., Aug. 25th, 9:00 – 12:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1160, First Floor
Conveners: Berkwitz, Stephen C.; Dotson, Brandon
9:00 – 9:30

Zimmermann, Michael (Universität Hamburg): On Buddhas, Kings
and Bodhisattvas: Spiritual and Worldly Rule in Indian Mahāyāna
Buddhism

9:30 – 10:00

Berkwitz, Stephen C. (Missouri State University): What is a
Bodhisattva King? Sri Lankan Perspectives on Buddhist Kingship

10:00 – 10:30

Pranke, Patrick (University of Louisville): The King Who Would Be
Buddha: King Bodawpaya’s Critique of Burmese Buddhist Origins
and His Quest for the True Teachings

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Bryson, Megan (University of Tennessee): Humane Kings on the
Border: The Renwang jing in Dali Buddhism

11:30 – 12:00

Dotson, Brandon (Georgetown University): Debasing the God:
Buddhism and Kingship in the Tibetan Empire

12:00 – 12:30

Sango, Asuka (Carleton College): The Emperor Dreamed ofGolden Light Lectures in Heian Japan (794–1185)

141

Panel 27
New Trajectories in the Study of Buddhism and Law
Fri., Aug. 25th, 9:00 – 12:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1200, First Floor
Conveners: Lammerts, D.C.; Schonthal, Ben
9:00 – 9:30

French, Rebecca (University of Buffalo): Why “Buddhism and Law”
Now?

10:00 – 10:30

Lammerts, D.C. (Rutgers University): Ordeals in Buddhist Law

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Kieffer-Pülz, Petra (Academy of Sciences and Literature,
Mainz): Local Disputes and Transnational Legal Decisions: The
Globalization of Legal Decision-Making Regarding Local Disputesof Buddhist Communities

11:30 – 12:00

Jansen, Berthe (Universiteit Leiden): Between Buddhism and Law:
Tibetan Monastic Authors (?) and Their Legal Texts

12:00 – 12:30

Thomas, Jolyon (University of Pennsylvania): Public Good andPrivate Morality in Buddhist Contributions to the 2006 Revision of
the Japanese Fundamental Law on Education

142

Panel 33
The Avadānaśataka: The Uses of Narrative
Fri., Aug. 25th, 9:00 – 12:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1130, First Floor
Conveners: Appleton, Naomi; Muldoon-Hules, Karen
9:00 – 9:30

Fifield, Justin (Harvard University): Bonds
Relationships and Group Solidarity in thethe Avadānaśataka

of Affection:
Narratives of

9:30 – 10:00

Muldoon-Hules, Karen (UCLA/UCLA Extension): Darśan (seeing)
and the Role of Faith (prasāda) in the Avadānaśataka

10:00 – 10:30

Appleton,
Naomi(Universityofthe Pratyekabuddhas of the Avadānaśataka

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Rotman, Andy (Smith College): Hungry Ghostbusters: Lessons on
Ethics in the Avadānaśataka

11:30 – 12:00

Fiordalis, David (Linfield College): How Avadānas Work, or theWork of the Avadāna: Reflections on Stories from the Last Two
Decades of the Avadānaśataka

12:00 – 12:30

Discussion

Edinburgh): On

143

Section 05
Buddhist Art and Architecture (III)Fri., Aug. 25th, 9:00 – 10:30
Bahen Centre, Room 2145, Second Floor
Chair: Dewan, Deepali
9:00 – 9:30

Karetzky, Patricia (Bard College): The Bronze Buddhist Sculpturesof Nagapattinam

9:30 – 10:00

Li, Charles (University of Cambridge): The Mystery of the Monkey's
Head: Architecture, Grief, and the Lexicographer's Imaginary

10:00 – 10:30

Schmidt,
Carolyn
(The
Ohio
State
University): The Triśūla or Nandyāvarta Motif in South Asian
Buddhist Art and Culture: New Insights into the History of Its
Origins, Transmission, Values and Names

144

Section 06
Buddhist Hermeneutics, Scholasticism, andCommentarial Techniques (II)Fri., Aug. 25th, 9:00 – 15:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1220, First Floor
Chair: Tatelman, Joel
9:00 – 9:30

Keerthi
GoigodaGamage,Aruna(UniversityofLondon): Is Nibbāna Different from Arahantship? A Study of theDoctrinal Controversy between Mahāvihārins and Vitaṇḍavādins
Reflected in the Pāli Commentaries

9:30 – 10:00

Kramer, Jowita (University of Munich): Sthiramati as aCommentator of Mahāyāna Sūtras: A Comparative Investigation of
the Akṣayamatinirdeśaṭīkā and the Kāśyapaparivartaṭīkā

10:00 – 10:30

Ueno, Makio (Otani University): Word by Word: Commentarial
Techniques in Vasubandhu's Vyākhyāyukti

10:30 – 11:00

Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Blum, Mark (University of California, Berkeley): The Formation of
Nianfo in Chinese Buddhism

11:30 – 12:00

Lee, Sangyop (Stanford University): Lushan Huiyuan and theSoteriology of the Soul in Early Chinese Buddhism

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch

Chair: Richardson, Sarah
14:00 – 14:30

Apple, James (University of Calgary): Atiśa and Ratnākaraśānti as
Philosophical Opponents with attention to Yuktiṣaṣṭikā, verse 34.

14:30 – 15:00

Kawamura, Yūto (Kyoto University): A Fresh Approach toAṣṭādhyāyī 2.4.4: adhvaryukratur anapuṁsakam Presented by the
Buddhist Grammarian Śaraṇadeva.

15:00 – 15:30

Beckwith, Christopher I. (Indiana University): How Did the Chinese
Actually First Hear and Transcribe Buddhist Terms? The Two
Kinds of Late Old Chinese Transcriptions and Their Significance145Section 09
Contemporary Buddhism
Fri., Aug. 25th, 9:00 – 12:00
Bahen Centre, Room 1240, First Floor
Chair: Letizia, Chiara
9:00 – 9:30

Meister, Kelly (University of Chicago): Righteous and Nefarious
Uses of Buddhist Power within a Material Nodal Network at Wat
Phra Mahāthātworamahāwihān (Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand)

9:30 – 10:00

Kawamoto, Kanae (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science):
Love Incessantly Flows: Mae Naak, A New Asian Opera Heroine
Born out of a Thai Buddhist Narrative

11:00 – 11:30

Tea and Coffee

11:30 – 12:00

Thévoz, Samuel (The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Programin Buddhist Studies): The Making of a Modern Buddha: Global
Buddhism and Theater

146

Panel 04
Brahmin Buddhists
Fri., Aug. 25th, 14:00 – 17:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1130, First Floor
Convener: Walser, Joseph
14:00 – 14:30

Bausch, Lauren (Dharma Realm Buddhist University): The Kāṇva
Brāhmaṇas and Buddhists in Kosala

14:30 – 15:00

Bronkhorst, Johannes (University of Lausanne): Were Buddhist
Brahmins Buddhists or Brahmins?

15:00 – 15:30

Chudal, Alaka Atreya (University of Vienna): Brahmin Buddhists inNorthern South Asia

15:30 – 16:00

Tea and Coffee

16:00 – 16:30

McGovern, Nathan (Franklin and Marshall College): Buddhist
Brahmans: Taking Early Buddhist Claims to Brahmanhood
Seriously

16:30 – 17:00

Walser, Joseph (Tufts University): Buddhism and Brahmanism:
Who made the distinction (and who refused)?

17:00 – 17:30

Nichols, Michael (Saint Jospeh’s College): Discussion

147

Panel 06
Buddhism from the Margins: Using Manuscript Sources
to Re-examine the Rituals and Routines of Medieval and
Early Modern Buddhist Communities in Japan, Korea, andChina
Fri., Aug. 25th, 14:00 – 17:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1200, First Floor
Convener: Keyworth, George A.
14:00 – 14:30

Goodman, Amanda (University of Toronto): Recycled and Read:
Reflections on the Personal Uses of Ritual Handbooks in Late
Medieval Dunhuang

14:30 – 15:00

Keyworth, George A. (University of Saskatchewan): Recovering
Medieval Shintō-Buddhist Rituals at Matsuo Shrine through EighthCentury Manuscripts from Bonshakuji, Fushimi, and Mt. Hiei

15:00 – 15:30

Lin, Pei-ying (Fu Jen Catholic University): The Tendai Undertakingof Travelogues to Ninth-Century China

15:30 – 16:00

Tea and Coffee

16:00 – 16:30

Lowe, Bryan (Vanderbilt University): A Sermon on Verso, A
Preacher in the Provinces: Re-centering the Study of Heian
Buddhism

16:30 – 17:00

McBride II, Richard D. (Brigham Young University): How Did
Buddhists Venerate the Avataṃsaka-sūtra in Late Premodern
Korea? Insights from Two Manuscript Rituals Texts

17:00 – 17:30

Zhai, Minhao (Princeton University): Faces of Power: A
Reexamination of the Foshuo qiqianfo shenfu jing 佛說七千佛神符
經Robson, James (Harvard University): Discussion148

Panel 15
Deeds of a Buddha
Fri., Aug. 25th, 14:00 – 17:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1160, First Floor
Conveners: Tournier, Vincent; Luczanits, Christian; Sernesi, Marta
14:00 – 14:30

Tournier, Vincent (SOAS, University of London): What a BuddhaMust Do: Spread and Scope of the Notion of buddhakārya in Indian
Buddhist Narratives of the Middle Period

14:30 – 15:00

Luczanits, Christian (SOAS, University of London): Variations on a
Theme: The Buddha’s Deeds in the āyaka Reliefs at Kanaganahalli

15:00 – 15:30

Ciurtin, Eugen (Institute for the History of Religions, RomanianAcademy): The Deed of an Earthquake: The Seismic Web of a
Buddha and the Cāpāla Shrine Narrative Cycle

15:30 – 16:00

Tea and Coffee

16:00 – 16:30

Schmid, Neil (University of Vienna): The Corporeality of Buddha’s
Deeds: Visual Depictions from Mogao and Yulin

16:30 – 17:00

Almogi, Orna (Universität Hamburg): Tibetan Scholars on the
Mahāyāna Concept of buddhakārya/buddhakriyā against the
Backdrop of Madhyamaka Philosophy in 12th–15th Century Tibet

17:00 – 17:30

Discussion

149Panel 43
Yogācāra Across Asia: India, Tibet, and East Asia
Fri., Aug. 25th, 14:00 – 17:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1210, First Floor
Conveners: Yao, Zhihua; Bayer, Achim
14:00 – 14:30

Franco, Eli (Leipzig University): On the Arising of Philosophical
Theories From Spiritual Practice

14:30 – 15:00

Woo,
Jeson
(Dongguk
Dharmaphāla’s Caturbhāga Theory

15:00 – 15:30

Yao, Zhihua (The Chinese University of Hong Kong): Selfemptiness Versus Other-emptiness: A Madhyamaka-Yogācāra
Debate15:30 – 16:00

Tea and Coffee

16:00 – 16:30

Park, Jin Y. (American University): Yogācāra, Chan, and theParadox of the Mind

16:30 – 17:00

Bayer, Achim (Kanazawa Seiryo University): Cittamātra and
Dependent Origination: As Treated in the Abhidharmasamuccaya,
Candrakīriti’s Madhyamaka-avatāra andtheVenerable
Seongcheol’s Sermon of a Hundred Days

17:00 – 17:30

Keng, Ching (National Chengchi University, Taiwan): Wŏnch’ŭk asa Traditionalist Yogâcāra Thinker

150

University):OnSection 11
Epistemology and Logic in Buddhism (III)Fri., Aug. 25th, 14:00 – 15:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1240, First Floor
Chair: Liu, Cuilan
14:00 – 14:30

Matsuoka, Hiroko (Universität Leipzig): Vinītadeva, Dharmottara,
Kamalaśīla and Yamāri on the Initial Statement (ādivākya) ofa śāstra14:30 – 15:00

MacKenzie, Matthew (Colorado State University): Dual-Aspect
Reflexivism in Śāntarakṣita’s Philosophy of Mind

15:00 – 15:30

Prets, Ernst (Austrian Academy of Sciences): Śāntarakṣita and the
Naiyāyikas. On the References to “Fragments” of the So-called“Lost Naiyāyikas” in the Vādanyāyaṭīkā and the Tattvasaṅgraha.

151

Section 18
Vinaya Studies
Fri., Aug. 25th, 14:00 – 16:30
Bahen Centre, Room 1230, First Floor
Chair: Clarke, Shayne
14:00 – 14:30

Dewey, William (University of California, Santa Barbara): The
Tibetan Ganden Tripas and the Vinaya

14:30 – 15:00

Johnson, Anna (University of Michigan): Highland, Lowland, andKashmiri: Historical Narrative and Identity Formation of Tibet’s
Three Vinaya Lineages

15:00 – 15:30

Hu-von Hinüber, Haiyan (Albert-Ludwig Universität Freiburg): What
to Do if the Vihārasvāmin is Put in Jail? A Story from theKṣudrakavastu of the Mūlasarvāstivāda-Vinaya

15:30 – 16:00

Tea and Coffee

16:00 – 16:30

Wu, Juan (Tsinghua University): Parallel Stories in the
Jaina Āvaśyakacūrṇi and the Buddhist Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya:
A Preliminary Investigation

152

Section 01
Abhidharma Studies (II)Fri., Aug. 25th, 16:00 – 17:00
Bahen Centre, Room 1240, First Floor
Chair: MacDonald, Anne
16:00 – 16:30

Kaji, Tetsuya (Otani University): On the Groupings of Kleśa in the
Sarvāstivāda School

16:30 – 17:00

Smith, Sean (University of Toronto): The Dynamics of theSubliminal Mind in Theravāda Buddhism: Two Readings of the
Bhavaṅga Citta

153

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Index
Panels and Sections •Speakers, Chairs, and Discussants •Presentations •

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Panels
Panel 01:

A New Study of Ratnākaraśānti’s Prajñāpāramitopadeśa 139

Panel 02:

Approaches to the Bodhicaryāvatāra 127

Panel 03:

Bell Inscriptions Across the Buddhist World 82

Panel 04:

Brahmin Buddhists 147

Panel 05:

Buddhism and the Information Network in Medieval East Asia 72

Panel 06:

Buddhism from the Margins: Using Manuscript Sources to Re-examine the
Rituals and Routines of Medieval and Early Modern Buddhist Communities
in Japan, Korea, and China 148

Panel 07:

Buddhism in the Sātavāhana Age 128

Panel 08:

Buddhist Conceptions of History 129

Panel 09:

Buddhist Cosmology and Astral Science 109

Panel 10:

Buddhist Studies and the Scientific Study of Meditation 130

Panel 11:

Buddhist Tourism in Asia: Sacred Sites within Global Networks 73

Panel 12:

Buddhist Ways of Reading 91

Panel 13:

Concepts and Techniques of Prognostication 74

Panel 14:

Conventional Reality, Conventional Truth 99

Panel 15:

Deeds of a Buddha 149

Panel 16:Dhāraṇī Literature and Textual Cultures 140

Panel 17:

Discipline, Agency, Inquiry: Vinaya Reception in Women’s Monastic
Communities Past and Present 83

Panel 18:

Does Candrakīrti Offer Any Epistemology (pramāṇa)? 131

Panel 19:

Early Buddhist Manuscripts from Gandhāra: New Discoveries and Research
92

Panel 20:

Images and Practices of Buddhist Kingship across Asia 141

Panel 21:

Insights into Gandhāran Buddhist Narratives through Art and Texts 132

157

Panel 22:

Literatures of Contemplation 110

Panel 23:

Monastic Espionage in East Asia in the Age of Isolationism, 14th to 19th
Century 84

Panel 24:

Monastic Espionage in East Asia: Modern Period 93

Panel 25:

New Approaches to Wŏnhyo and His Thought—A Panel in Commemorationof the 1400th Anniversary of His Birth 94

Panel 26:

New Research on Newar Buddhism 95

Panel 27:

New Trajectories in the Study of Buddhism and Law 142

Panel 28:

Recent Approaches in Vinaya Studies 111

Panel 29:

Recent Research on the Dīrghāgama 100

Panel 30:

Reconstructing the History of Late Indian Buddhism (Part III)— Relationshipbetween Tantric and Non-tantric Doctrines ―101

Panel 31:

Ritual, Doctrine, and Monasticism: Buddhist Practices in Dunhuang 96

Panel 32:

Stories Behind the Story: Revisiting the Buddha’s Hagiography 118

Panel 33:

The Avadānaśataka: The Uses of Narrative 143

Panel 34:

The Buddha’s Footprint in Asian Cultures 112

Panel 35:

The Manuscript Tradition of the Pali Texts in South and Southeast Asia 75

Panel 36:

The Roles of Iconic Imagery in South Asian Buddhist Architectural Contexts
76

Panel 37:

Transmission and Transformation of Buddhist Logic and Epistemology inEast Asia (I): Dignāga and Pre-Dignāga Logic 113

Panel 38:

Transmission and Transformation of Buddhist Logic and Epistemology inEast Asia (II): Dharmapāla, Bhāviveka, Xuanzang, and Their impact on East
Asian Buddhism 119

Panel 39:

Transparent, Translucent, or Opaque: Chinese Translations of Indic Texts as
Windows onto Indian Buddhism 102

Panel 40:

Travel, Transmission, and Affiliation: Lineage in the Buddhist Crossroads ofInner Asia 103

Panel 41:

Vinaya Commentaries 120

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Panel 42:

What Makes a Monastery a Great Monastery? 104

Panel 43:

Yogācāra Across Asia: India, Tibet, and East Asia 150

Panel 44:

Zones of Contact: Facets of Buddhist Interactions in Eastern Central Asia
During the 9th-14th Centuries 121

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Sections
Section 01:

Abhidharma Studies (I) 133

Section 01:

Abhidharma Studies (II) 153

Section 02:

Buddhism and Its Relation to Other Religions (I) 77

Section 02:

Buddhism and Its Relation to Other Religions (II) 77

Section 03:

Buddhism and Medicine 85

Section 04:

Buddhism and Society (I) 97

Section 04:

Buddhism and Society (II) 97

Section 05:

Buddhist Art and Architecture (I) 114

Section 05:

Buddhist Art and Architecture (II) 114

Section 05:

Buddhist Art and Architecture (III) 144

Section 06:

Buddhist Hermeneutics, Scholasticism, and Commentarial Techniques (I)134

Section 06:

Buddhist Hermeneutics, Scholasticism, and Commentarial Techniques (II)145

Section 07:

Buddhist Literature (I) 78

Section 07:

Buddhist Literature (II) 78

Section 08:

Buddhist Places 79

Section 09:

Contemporary Buddhism 146

Section 10:

Early Buddhism 86

Section 11:

Epistemology and Logic in Buddhism (I) 80

Section 11:

Epistemology and Logic in Buddhism (II) 98

Section 11:

Epistemology and Logic in Buddhism (III) 151

Section 12:

Information Technologies in Buddhist Studies 87

Section 13:

Mahāyāna Buddhism (I) 105

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Section 13:

Mahāyāna Buddhism (II) 116

Section 14:

Mahāyāna Sūtras (I) 122

Section 14:

Mahāyāna Sūtras (II) 135

Section 15:

Manuscripts, Codicology, and Epigraphy (I) 106

Section 15:

Manuscripts, Codicology, and Epigraphy (II) 123

Section 16:

Tantric Buddhism 117

Section 17:

Theravāda Buddhism 124

Section 18:

Vinaya Studies 152

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Conveners, Chairs, Discussants, Respondents, andSpeakersA

Benn, James 49, 54

Acri, Andrea 106

Bentor, Yael 110

Adamek, Wendi 54, 77

Berkwitz, Stephen C. 141

Ahn, Chris 53

Bingenheimer, Marcus 84

Ahn, Sungdoo 105

Blackburn, Anne M. 112

Aitken, Daniel 53

Blum, Mark 145

Allon, Mark 132

Bogacz, Szymon 135

Almogi, Orna 149

Boucher, Daniel 135

Amar, Abhishek S. 104

Brambilla, Filippo 134

Analayo, Bhikkhu 112

Brancaccio, Pia 104

Anderl, Christoph 114

Braun, Erik 130

Andrews, Susan 54, 79

Bretfeld, Sven 82

Aono, Michihiko 111

Bright, Jennifer 85

Apple, James 145

Bronkhorst, Johannes 147

Appleton, Naomi 143

Brose, Benjamin 93

Arnold, Dan 80, 99

Bruneau, Laurianne 114
Bruntz, Courtney 73

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Bryson, Megan 141

Baba, Norihisa 102

Buckelew, Kevin 116

Balkwill, Stephanie 129

Bühnemann, Gudrun 95

Barker, Joshua 37

Burdorf, Suzanne 82

Bauer, Mikael 72

Buswell, Jr., Robert E. 94

Baums, Stefan 92
Bausch, Lauren 147

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Bayer, Achim 150

Carlton, Kelly 72

Beckwith, Christopher I. 145

Carpenter, Amber 127

Behrendt, Kurt 76

Chakravarti, Ranabir 97

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Chen, Huaiyu 96

Deyell, John 56

Chen, Jinhua 72, 116

Dhammadinnā, Bhikkhunī 83

Chen, Ruixuan 106

Dhingra, Sonali 76

Chien, Gloria I-Ling 127

Ding, Yi 96

Ching, Chao‐jung 92

DiSimone, Charles 100

Chiu, Tzu-Lung 83

Ditrich, Tamara 79

Cho, Eun-su 94

Doctor, Thomas 131

Choi, Jinkyoung 100

Doell, Steffen 72

Chou, Weng-shing 114

Doney, Lewis 82

Chudal, Alaka Atreya 147

Dotson, Brandon 141

Ciurtin, Eugen 149

Draszczyk, Martina 134

Clark, Chris 79

Drewes, David 122, 135,

Clarke, Shayne 120, 152

Duckworth, Douglas 131

Coleman, Fletcher 96
Collett, Alice 128

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Coura, Gabriele 79

Edelglass, William 130

Cox, Collett 92, 133

Efurd, David 128

Crosby, Kate 110

Emmrich, Christoph 37, 54, 95

Crowe, Paul 54, 97

Emms, Christopher 120

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Daribazaron, Darima 78

Fifield, Justin 143

Davidson, Ronald M. 140

Filigenzi, Anna 104

Davis, Jake 130

Fiordalis, David 143

DeCaroli, Robert 76

Forman, Jed 80

Dewan, Deepali 42, 144

Forte, Erika 104

Delhey, Martin 123

Franco, Eli 150

Denis, Diane 116

French, Rebecca 142

Derris, Karen 91

Friedrich, Daniel 73

Dewey, William 152

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Hayashima, Satoshi 139

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He, Huanhuan 119

Garfield, Jay L. 131

He, Xi 118

Garrett, Frances 85

Heim, Maria 91

Geary, David 73

Heirman, Anne 83

Gentry, James 134

Hidas, Gergely 140

Gillon, Brendan S. 113

Higgins, David 134

Giuliano, Laura 132

von Hinüber, Oskar 75

Gold, Jonathan C. 127

Hirama, Naoko 115

Goodman, Amanda 148

Hiyama-Karino, Satomi 109

Goodman, Charles 127

Holz, Kathrin 140

Greene, Eric 110

Hori, Shin’ichiro 123

Gruszewska, Joanna 86

Huifeng 51

Guerra-Glarner, Monika 94

Hu-von Hinüber, Haiyan 152

Guggenmos, Esther-Maria 74

Hüsken, Ute 83

Gummer, Natalie 91

Hugon, Pascale 80

Gyatso, Janet 127

Huntington, Eric 109
Huntington, Susan 76

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Hackett, Paul 87

IHallisey, Charles 91

Inami, Masahiro 113

Hamar, Imre 93

Iwamura, Jane Naomi 51

Hammar, Urban 117
Handlin, Lilian 112

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Handy, Christopher 111

Jagou, Fabienne 93

Hanner, Oren 133

Jansen, Berthe 142

Harris, Stephen 127

Jenkins, Stephen 77

Harrison, Paul 140

Johnson, Anna 152

Hartmann, Jens-Uwe 100

Jones, Charles 116

Hayashi, Itsuki 80

Jones, Chris 77164Jue Qian 51

Kong, Man-Shik 86
Kosaka, Arihiro 105

K

Kotyk, Jeffrey 117

Kachru, Sonam 110

Kramer, Jowita 145

Kasamatsu, Sunao 75

Kuranishi, Kenichi 101

Kaji, Tetsuya 153

Kuo, Shou Jen 51

Kano, Kazuo 101

Kyuma, Taiken 101

Kanno, Hiroshi 105
Kantor, Hans 134

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Karetzky, Patricia 144

Lai, Rongdao 97

Kasai, Yukiyo 121

Lammerts, D. C. 142

Kataoka, Kei 139

Langenberg, Amy Paris 83

Katsura, Shoryu 139

LaRose, Joseph 111

Kawamoto, Kanae 146

Lasic, Horst 113

Kawamura, Yūto 145

Lau, Ngar-Sze 73

Kawanami, Hiroko 97

Lee, Kwi Jeong 96

Keerthi Goigoda Gamage, Aruna 145

Lee, Sangyop 145

Kellner, Birgit 80,

Lee, Sumi 94

Kemp, Casey 53

Lele, Amod 97

Keng, Ching 150

Lenz, Timothy 132

Keyworth, George A.78, 106, 148

Letizia, Chiara 146

Kieffer-Pülz, Petra 142

Levman, Bryan 78, 86

Kieschnick, John 129

Li, Channa 86

Kim, Jinah 112

Li, Charles 144

King, Matthew 103

Lin, Chen-kuo 119

Kirichenko, Alexey 106

Lin, Fan 114

Kishino, Ryoji 120

Lin, Nancy 114

Kobayashi, Hisayasu 119

Lin, Pei-ying 148

Kobbun, Pisit 97

Lin, Qian 133

Kodaññakitti, Venerable 75

Liu, Cuilan 96, 151

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Lo, King Chung 98

Menson, Victoria 53

Long, Darui 106

Miao Guang 51

Lowe, Bryan 148

Milligan, Matthew 123

Lu, Lianghao 97

Mills, Libbie 117

Lugli, Ligeia 87

Miyazaki, Izumi 101

Luczanits, Christian 149

Miyazaki, Tensho 106

Luo, Hong 139

Mochizuki, Kaie 78
Moriyama, Shinya 119

M

Moro, Shigeki 119

MacCormack, Ian James 129

Morrissey, Nicolas 76

MacDonald, Anne 37, 153

Mrozik, Susanne 83

MacKenzie, Matthew 151

Muldoon-Hules, Karen 143

Matsuda, Kazunobu 100

Muller, Charles 94

Maes, Claire 86

Muroya, Yasutaka 113

Mak, Bill M. 109
Marchman, Kendall 73
Marino, Joeseph 92
Martin, Dan 82
Mathes, Klaus-Dieter 134
Matsunami, Fuki 115
Matsuoka, Hiroko 151
Maurer, Petra 74
McBride II, Richard D. 148
McCrabb, Ian 87
McClintock, Sara 99
McGovern, Nathan 147
McMahan, David 130
Meinert, Carmen 121
Meister, Kelly 146
Melzer, Gudrun 100

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Nagasaki, Kiyonori 87
Nagasawa, Jake 117
Nam, Dongsin 106
Namgyal, Tsetan 79
Nance, Richard 91
Neelis, Jason 132
Nelson, Barbara 105
Nemoto, Hiroshi 116
Neri, Chiara 77
Newhall, Thomas 120
Ng, Zhiru 83
Nichols, Michael 147
Nietupski, Paul 120

Nishi, Yasutomo 135
Nishiyama, Ryo 139

R

Nishizawa, Fumihito 80

Radich, Michael 102

Nowakowski, David 80

Revire, Nicolas 124
Rhi, Juhyung 49, 76

ORichard, Frédéric 97

Odiseos, Nikko 53

Richardson, Sarah 41, 145

Ohnuma, Reiko 127

Robson, James 148

Okada, Masahiko 109

Rotman, Andy 143

Olah, Csaba 84
Ollett, Andrew 128

S

O'Neill, Alexander James 95

Saccone, Margherita Serena 81

Ono, Motoi 113

Sango, Asuka 141

Osto, Douglas 77

Sakai, Masamichi 80

Ouyang, Nan 79

Saito, Akira 105

Overbey, Ryan Richard 140

Salomon, Richard 37

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Saradum, Natpiya 115

Pagel, Ulrich 98

Sasaki, Shizuka 111

Park, Jin Y. 150

Sasson, Vanessa 118

Payne, Richard 117

Satinsky, Ruth 109

Polak, Grzegorz 86
Ponampon, Phra Kiattisak 78

Schaeffer, Kurtis 110

Pontillo, Tiziana 77

Schedneck, Brooke 73

Powers, John 131

Scheible, Kristin 118

Pranke, Patrick 141

Scherrer-Schaub, Cristina 104

Prets, Ernst 151

Scheuermann, Rolf 74

Prueitt, Catherine 99

Schicketanz, Erik 93
Schlosser, Andrea 92

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Schmid, Neil 149

Quintman, Andrew 110

Schmidt, Carolyn 144

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Schonthal, Ben 142

Stewart, James 124

Scott, Tony 37, 75

Stoltz, Jonathan 98

Seegers, Eva 114

Stone, Jacqueline 129

Sen, Tansen 93

Stortini, Paride 129

Seton, Gregory 101

Strauch, Ingo 92

Seymour, Kelsey 74

Strong, John S. 118

Sferra, Francesco 101

Sullivan, Brenton 103

Shakya, Miroj 95
Sharf, Robert 99

T

Sheel, Kamal 56

Tanemura, Ryugen 101

Shen, Chen 114

Tatelman, Joel 134, 145

Shi (Lee), Fazhao (Hsu-Feng) 116

Tathāloka, Therī 83

Shida, Taisei 80

Thakchoe, Sonam 131

Shiga, Kiyokuni 139

Thévoz, Samuel 146

Shimada, Akira 128

Thomas, Jolyon 142

Shimizu, Yohei 75

Thompson, Luke Noel 129

Shimoda, Masahiro 102

Toleno, Robban 133

Shiri, Yael 118

Tournier, Vincent 149

Shiu, Henry 105

Tsultem, Uranchimeg 103

Shulman, Eviatar 91

Turek, Maria 121

Siderits, Mark 80

Turner, Alicia 124

Sik, Hin-Tak 85

Tuzzeo, Daniel 114

Silk, Jonathan 102
Sirisawad, Natchapol 78

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Skilling, Peter 112

Ueno, Makio 145

Smith, Alexander 74

Ujeed, Sangseraima 103

Smith, Sean 153
Son, Jewongwan 77
Sørensen, Henrik H. 121
Stepien, Rafal 78

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Van Vleet, Stacey 103
Visvanathan, Meera 128

Vose, Kevin 98

Yamanaka, Yukio 75

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Yano, Michio 109

Wangchuk, Dorji 101

Yao, Fumi 100

Wallace, Vesna 103

Yao, Zhihua 150

Walser, Joseph 147

Yasui, Mitsuhiro 116

Walter, Mariko 123

Yi, Jongbok 131

Wallman, Jeff 52

Yi, Kyoowan 133

Watanabe, Toshikazu 113

Yiannopoulos, Alexander 101

Welter, Albert 77

Yonezawa, Yoshiyasu 120

Wenzel, Claudia 79
Westerhoff, Jan 98, 131Z

Wenta, Aleksandra 117

Zamorski, Jakub 98

Wiles, Royce 79

Zacchetti, Stefano 102

Willis, Michael 82

Zhai, Minhao 148

Wilson, Jeff 130

Zhanru 96

Winfield, Pamela 79

Zhao, Wen 135

Witkowski, Nicholas 102

Zhi Yue 50

Wong, Joseph 37

Zhu, Tianshu 132

Woo, Jeson 150

Zimmermann, Michael 141

Wu, Hongyu 78

Zin-Oczkowska, Monika 56, 128

Wu, Jiang 84
Wu, Juan 152

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Xiao, Yue 122
Xing, Guang 97

YYagi, Toru 78
Yamabe, Nobuyoshi 122

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Presentations
A
A Buddhist Place of Education: dPal spungs Monastery from the 18th to the Early 20th
Century 79
A Commentary on the Lotus Sutra Translated from Chinese into Tibetan 78
A Formation of the Lineage of Lordly Incarnations (Noyan Khutukthus) of the Gobi and Its
Affiliation with the Kagyu Tradition of Tibet 103
A Fresh Approach to Aṣṭādhyāyī 2.4.4: adhvaryukratur anapuṁsakam Presented by the
Buddhist Grammarian Śaraṇadeva 145
A Glimpse into Mi bskyod rdo rje’s "Commentary on the Direct Introduction to the Three
Kāyas" 134
A Kadampa’s Defense of the Guhyagarbha Tantra: On Chomden Rigpé Reldri’s (Bcomldan rig pa’i ral gri) An Ornamental Flower for the Proof of the Guhyagarbha (Gsang snying
sgrub pa rgyan gyi me tog) 117
A Mahavihara in the Living Rock: The Later Horizon of Kanheri Caves 104
A Note on the Saundarānanda 3.32d 78
A Padmapāni Dhāraṇī-Amulet from Dunhuang 121
A Philological Approach to Comparative Religious Studies: the Case of
yogakkhema/yogakṣema in Theravāda Buddhism and Brahmanism 77
A Reconsideration of Pre-Dignāga Buddhist Texts on Logic (the *Upāyahṛdaya, theDialectical Portion of the Spitzer Manuscript, the *Tarkaśāstra and the Vādavidhi) 113
A Sermon on Verso, A Preacher in the Provinces: Re-centering the Study of Heian
Buddhism 148
A Study of Qisong’s Xiaolun (Treatise on Filial Piety) 97
A Study on the Colophons of Donors of Rock-cut Buddhist Scriptures in Fangshan in the
Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) 106
A Survey of the Vinayasūtra: With Reference to the Mūlasarvāstivāda-vinaya 120
A Tibetan Buddhist Scientist: Gendun Chöphel in Contemporary Tibetan Medical Literature85Abhiṣeka as Saṃskāra: Initiation and Meditation in Ratnākaraśānti’s TantricCommentaries 101
Accounts of the Buddha’s Life in the Senior Kharoṣṭhī Manuscript Collection and TheirCounterparts in the Art of Gandhāra and Ancient India 132
Adapting the Middle Path to the Vajra Vehicle: An Enquiry into the Doctrinal Settings of the
Wheel of Time 101

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Adoptive Mother or Slave Owner? Adoption and Slavery in Buddhist Monasteries andNunneries in Dunhuang 96
Allegory and Logic in Dharmapāla’s Commentary on the Viṃśikā 119
An Abhidharmic View on the Relation between Agents and Actions Based on the
Abhidharmakośabhāṣya of Vasubandhu 133
Anyatīrthikaparivrājakas and Their Doctrines as Portrayed in the (Mūla-)Sarvāstivāda
Dīrghāgama 100
Approaching Buddha-Nature in a Mādhyamika Way – Wŏnhyo’s Commentary on the
Nirvāṇa Sūtra 94
Archaeology of Ladakh: New Data for the History of Buddhism in the Western Himalayas
114
Are Mahāyāna Sūtras Forgeries? 135
Are There Any Real Universals in the Epistemological Works of Phya pa Chos kyi seng ge(1109–1169)? On the Source of the Moderate Realist Perspective on Universals in the
Tibetan Tradition 80
Arts of Japanese Pure Land Buddhism: The Value of Hōnen Shōnin Gyōjōezu 115Atiśa and Ratnākaraśānti as Philosophical Opponents with Attention to Yuktiṣaṣṭikā, Verse
34 145
Awakening in the Present Body 110

B
Becoming Bodhisattva Citizens: Buddhist Citizenship Discourse in Republican China 97“Behind Every Great Man”: Engendering the Mahāpuruṣa 118
Behind the Stories: A Study of the Fo benxing jing 118
Between Buddhism and Law: Tibetan Monastic Authors (?) and Their Legal Texts 142
Beyond the vihāra and the stūpa: Locating Bodhisattva Steles from Odisha, Eighth toTenth Centuries CE 76
Body Movement and Sport Activities for Buddhist Nuns: A Normative Perspective from
India to China 83
Bonds of Affection: Relationships and Group Solidarity in the Narratives of the
Avadānaśataka 143
Brahmin Buddhists in Northern South Asia 147
Buddha Footprints in Lankan and Indian Ocean Networks 112
Buddha-Nature or Buddha Within?: Revisiting the Meaning of tathāgata-garbha 105

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Buddhism and Brahmanism: Who Made the Distinction (and Who Refused)? 147
Buddhism and the Bottom Line: The Nanshan Group and Buddhist Culture Parks 73
Buddhism and the ‘Secularized’ Tibetan Government in Exile 97
Buddhism as a Public Religion under the Sātavāhanas 128
Buddhism, Happiness, and the Science of Meditation 130
Buddhism in 15th-Century Eastern India: Sanskrit Manuscript Evidence and Tibetan
Sources 123
Buddhism Naturalized? 80
Buddhist Art and Politics: A Case Study of Paintings along the Mekong 97
Buddhist Bells and the Study of Religious Materiality: Some Theoretical Reflections 82
Buddhist Bells in the British Museum 82
Buddhist Brahmans: Taking Early Buddhist Claims to Brahmanhood Seriously 147
Buddhist Commentary, Discourses of Modernity, and the Political in Post/Colonial Burma:
The Milindapañha-aṭṭhakathā of Mingun Zetawun Sayadaw 75
Buddhist Localisations in Pre-modern Eastern Central Asia within a Transcultural Buddhist
Network 121
Buddhist Miracles and the Hagiography of the Buddha 118
Buddhist Places Evoking Prajñāpāramitā: Chinese Stone Sūtra Inscriptions of the Northern
Qi in Shandong 79
Buddhist Rule and Historical Thinking in Seventeenth-Century Tibet 129
Building Materials and Bodhi Mind at Eiheiji Temple, Japan 79
Burning, Blazing, Glowing: "The Great Conflagration Hell" and Other Problems in a
Gāndhārī Sūtra of the Senior Collection 92
Buryat Annotations on Lamrim 78

C
Can the Emptiness and the Existence Be Proved by the Trairūpya? 119
Can the ‘End of the World’ be Reached by Means of jhāna? A Reexamination of the Roleand Place of saññā in Early Buddhist jhāna Meditation 86
Can We Know Whether Śāntideva Was a Consequentialist? 127
Canonical Vinaya Quotations in the Work of Śākyaprabha 120
Celebrating the Buddha: Dedication of Images in Medieval Dunhuang 96

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Chag lo tsa ba III Rin chen rnam rgyal (15th century) on the History of Kālacakra in Tibet
117
Child Idols: Possession, Purity, and Prognoses in Accounts of Child Mediums in Medieval
Chinese Buddhism 74
Chinese Buddhist Literature, Literary Theory, and Philosophy of Language: A Study of Liu
Xie & Chan 78
Chinese Sutras in Tibetan: Tapping the Guidance of Contemporary Readers of Buddhist
Chinese 102
Chinese Translations and a Pali Commentary to Bridge a Gap between the “Northern” andthe “Southern” Traditions 102
Cittamātra and Dependent Origination: As Treated in the Abhidharmasamuccaya,
Candrakīriti’s Madhyamaka-avatāra and the Venerable Seongcheol’s Sermon of a
Hundred Days 150
The Re-making of the Bhikkhunīsaṃgha in Transcultural Contexts 83
Commentarial Entanglements: The Case of the University of Washington Scroll 92
Comparative Studies of the Quotations in Śamathadeva's Abhidharmakośopāyikā-ṭīkā
Parallel to the Mahāprātihāryasūtra in the Tibetan Translation of the Mūlasarvāstivādavinaya and the Prātihāryasūtra in the Divyāvadāna 78
Consecrating with Myths, Images, and Rituals: The Case of the Mogao Site 96
Constructing Burmese Meditation Communities in Mainland China through Buddhist
Tourism 73
Conventional Truth When There Is No Conventional Reality: Understanding Dharmakīrti
on Conventional vs. Ultimate Means of Trustworthy Awareness 99
Cosmology as a Framework for Expression in Text and Image 109
Corpus Methods for Buddhist Sanskrit Lexicography 87
Cows, Leather, Sandals and Monks: Materiality in the Carmavastu of the
Mūlasarvāstivādavinaya 111
Creating a Dharma Market: Advertisements in Buddhist Periodicals in Early 20th-Century
Shanghai 97

DDaoxuan’s Vinaya Commentaries: An Overview of Materials Available, the Current State of
Research, and Some Important Topics 120
Darśan (Seeing) and the Role of Faith (prasāda) in the Avadānaśataka 143
Debasing the God: Buddhism and Kingship in the Tibetan Empire 141173

Debate, Magic, and Massacre: The High Stakes and Ethical Dynamics of Battling
Slanderers of the Dharma in Indian Narrative and Ethical Theory 77
Defining Greatness: Monasteries of the Tarim Area Oases 104
Demandingness and Shaping the Self in the Bodhicaryāvatāra 127
Dhāraṇīs and the Sanctification of Painting 140
Dimensions of Non-duality and Liminality: Visual Images of Vimalakīrti in Medieval China(500 – 1200) 114
Diseases and Treatments in the Chapter on Medicine in the Vinaya Piṭakas 85
Disengaged Buddhism: The Rejection of Activism in Classical South Asia 97
Diagrams on Astrology and Divination 74
Disguised as Monks in Ming and Qing China: Glimpses and Anecdotal Evidence 84
Dreams, Omens and Prophecy in Chinese Buddhist Historiography 129
Dual Structure of Funeral Rites in the Southern Song Period 77
Dual-Aspect Reflexivism in Śāntarakṣita’s Philosophy of Mind 151

E
Early Buddhist Monasteries in South Asia: Archaeological Mapping as Cultural-historical
Enquiry 104
Early Buddhists and Their Jain Ascetic Other, an Examination 86
Embodiment in the Bodhicaryāvatāra 127
Envisioning the Buddhist Abecedary in the Amoghapāśakalparāja 140
Epistemic Presuppositions in the Scientific Study of Meditation 130
Experiments with E-text: On the Oral Commentary Embedded in the Tibetan Canon 87

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Faces of Power: A Reexamination of the Foshuo qiqianfo shenfu jing 佛說七千佛神符經
148
Formation of the Tibetan Kingdom of Nangchen as Zone of Contact 121G
Gāndhārī Manuscripts and Documents from Kuchean Buddhist Monasteries 92

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Gozan Monks and the Gathering of Domestic and International Intelligence in the 15-17th
Century Japan 84
Greek Buddhists Revisited: Early Religious Contacts in Greco-Bactria and Indo-Greek
Kingdoms According to Donor Inscriptions 123

H
Highland, Lowland, and Kashmiri: Historical Narrative and Identity Formation of Tibet’s
Three Vinaya Lineages 152
Historiographical Skepticism in Seventeenth-Century Tibet: Sog bzlog pa Blo gros rgyal
mtshan’s Text-critical Biography of Master Padmasambhava 134
Homing in on Candrakīrti: The Sanskrit Madhyamakāvatārabhāṣya 105
How ‘Conventional’ Is Conventional Truth? Thoughts on the Divergent Intuitions of
Candrakīrti and Śāntarakṣita 99
How Avadānas Work, or the Work of the Avadāna: Reflections on Stories from the Last
Two Decades of the Avadānaśataka 143
How Chan Masters Became “Great Men”: Masculinity and the Aesthetics of Heroism in
Middle-Period Chinese Buddhism 116
How Did Buddhists Venerate the Avataṃsaka-sūtra in Late Premodern Korea? Insightsfrom Two Manuscript Rituals Texts 148
How DId the Chinese Actually First Hear and Transcribe Buddhist terms? The Two Kinds
of Late Old Chinese Transcriptions and Their significance 145
How Dignāga Treats His Opponents - Observations from the Pramāṇasamuccaya,
Chapter Two 113
How Medical Technologies Travelled across Qing Imperial Cultures 103
How to Store Monks’ Food in Buddhist Monasteries: Methods of Food Preservation in the
Extant Vinayas 111
How Mahayanists Became Bodhisattvas 135
How to Make a Saint: Biographical Picture Scrolls in the Construction of Hōnen’s Identity
115
How to Read Dharmakīrti’s saṃvedana-inference 80
Humane Kings on the Border: The Renwang jing in Dali Buddhism 141
Hungry Ghostbusters: Lessons on Ethics in the Avadānaśataka 143

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Iconography of Sumeru in the Buddhist Art in Central Asia 109

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Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln (1879-1943): International Spy and First Westerner
Ordained as a Buddhist Monk in China 93
Illuminating Carefree Awareness: Tibetan Poetry Collections and the Landscape of Self
110
Images in the Showcase: The Architectural Placement of Images and Its Bearings on Their
Significance in Gandharan Monasteries 76“In Times Yet to Come”: The Cult of the Five Buddhas and Ten Bodhisattas in Mainland
Southeast Asia 124
Indian Monastic Residences in Historical Perspective 104
Instituting Right Religious Practice from Afar: The Celestial Sands of Alashaa, Inner
Mongolia and the Monastery of Pendé Gyatso Ling 103
Integrating Non-tantric and Tantric Doctrines Through Prajñāpāramitā at Vikramaśīla
During the mid-Eleventh Century 101
Interpreting the Awakening of Faith: Wŏnhyo (617-686) and Fazang’s (643-712) Distinct
Readings of the Tathāgatagarbha in the Awakening of Faith 94
Intraparatexts: The Agency of Texts in Newar Buddhism 95
Is Nibbāna Different from Arahantship? A Study of the Doctrinal Controversy between
Mahāvihārins and Vitaṇḍavādins Reflected in the Pāli Commentaries 145
Is svasaṃvedana Conventionally False? The Search for a Minimal Self 99
Is Tantric Meditation Like Imagining Oneself a Lion When Afraid of Dogs? The Issue of theSuperiority Claim of Vajrayāna 101

J’Jam dbyangs bzhad pa's Polemical Doxography 131
Japanese Buddhism and Military Intelligence in North China –The Case of the SinoJapanese Society for the Study of Esoteric Buddhism 93
Japanese Buddhist Optimism about the Future, as seen in the Rebuilding of Nara and theFabrication of New Myths 129
Jizang’s View of the Nirvāṇa Sūtra: Focusing on the Niepan jing youyi 105

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Kanaganahalli in the Satavahana Art and Buddhism 128
Karma bKa’ brgyud gZhan stong (“Empti[ness] of Other”) in the Works of the Third,
Seventh and Eighth Karma pa 134
Kṣāntipāramitā in the Works of Śāntideva 105

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Kuiji on the Four Kinds of Contradictory Reasons (viruddhahetu) 119

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Language Ideology of Pāli by the Mahāvihāra 102
Language Theory, Phonology, and Etymology in Buddhism 86
Large Tibetan Imperial Bells and Their Epigraphy 82
Lineage and Linkages of Buddhism in Indian Trans-Himalaya Region- A Case Study ofAffiliation between Stag na Lho Druk Monastery of Ladakh and Bhutan’s Drup pa Tradition
79
Lists of Things in Newar Buddhist Ritual 95
Literati Monks as Buddhist Junzi (“Confucian” Gentleman): Buddhist Administrators in the
Chinese Context 77
Liturgies for Creating Four Mandalas in Dunhuang Manuscripts 96
Local Disputes and Transnational Legal Decisions. The Globalization of Legal Decisionmaking Regarding Local Disputes of Buddhist Communities 142
Looking for the Notion of trilakṣana in the Dharmadharmatāvibhāga and kārikā 116
Love Incessantly Flows: Mae Naak, A New Asian Opera Heroine Born out of a Thai
Buddhist Narrative 146
Lushan Huiyuan and the Soteriology of the Soul in Early Chinese Buddhism 145

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Madhyamaka and Philosophy of Language 98
Madhyamaka Dynamics: Early Tibetan Attitudes to Knowledge and the Problem of
Emptiness 131
Mādhyamikas in the Prajñāpāramitopadeśa 139
Making and Unmaking Monastic, Scholastic, and Tantric Subjects in Late and PostImperial Inner Asia 103
Manuscripts from Gandhāra and Gāndhārī Texts: History and State of the Field 92
Mindful but not Religious: Meditation and Enchantment in the Work of Jon Kabat-Zinn 130
Missionary or Mole? Mizuno Baigyō’s Forty Years in China, 1904–1944 93
Monastic Espionage in Sui-Tang and Song dynasties 72
Monastic Spies, Secret Envoys, and Cross-Border Rendezvous: Buddhist Monk
Deokjang 德昌 and His Contemporaries in Three Kingdoms Korea 72

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Monk-spies? The Activities of Chinese Monks in South Asia in the Early Twentieth Century
93Mòpyar Gaing: a Case Study of a Heterodox Sect in Modern Myanmar 97

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Nature Imagery in Tibetan Contemplative Poetry 110
Negation of the Varna-Jati System: Gleanings from the Sardulakarnavadanam 97
New Computer-Assisted Techniques for Assessing Internal Evidence of Questions ofAscription in Chinese Buddhist Canonical Texts 102
No-Self in Sāṃkhya: A Comparative Look at Classical Sāṃkhya and Theravāda Buddhism
77

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Observations on the Terracotta Plaques from Nandhadīrghika-vihāra, Jagjivanpur, West
Bengal 76
Of Authoritativeness and Perception, the Sarvajñasiddhikārikā by Śubhagupta 81
On a fragment of Dignāga's Nyāyamukha 113
On Buddhas, Kings and Bodhisattvas: Spiritual and Worldly Rule in Indian Mahāyāna
Buddhism 141
On Dharmaphāla’s Caturbhāga Theory 150
On Some Common Scriptural Sources Cited by Ratnākaraśānti and Kamalaśīla 139
On the Arising of Philosophical Theories From Spiritual Practice 150
On the Concept of nyūna in Dignāga's Theory of Fallacy 113
On the Groupings of Kleśa in the Sarvāstivāda School 153
On the Jinālaṅkāra and Its ṭīkā 75
On the Nun-Friendly Vinaya Manuscript Traditions of Bhutan and Their Relationship to
Indian Vinaya Commentaries 120
On the Origin of Non-valid Cognitions (apramāṇa/tshad min gyi blo) 80
On the Pratyekabuddhas of the Avadānaśataka 143
On the Time-Gap Problem in the Buddhist Theory of Momentariness 80
Ordeals in Buddhist Law 142

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Ouyang Wuwei 歐陽無畏 (1913˗1991): a Han Monk Working for the Chinese Intelligence
Service in Tibet 93
Overhearing Śāntideva 110

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Parallel Stories in the Jaina Āvaśyakacūrṇi and the Buddhist Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya: A
Preliminary Investigation 152
Paramārtha’s Concept of *Amalavijñāna and Tathāgatagarbha 105
Performing Love: Tourism and Transnational Courting at the Place of Buddha's
Enlightenment 73
Politeness and Propriety in Buddhist Monastic Law: Applying Face Theory to Vinaya Texts
111
Possibilities of SAT Taishōzō Image DB through IIIF 87
Prāsaṅgika Mādhyamika’s Refutation of Self-awareness 98
Prasāṅgika, Pramāṇa and the Problem of Foundations 131
Pre-Dharmakīrti Interpretations of Dignāga’s Theory of pakṣābhāsa 113
Prognostic Structure and the Question of Efficacy 74
Promulgating the Law through History: What is Modern in Nanjō Bunyū’s A Short Historyof the Twelve Japanese Buddhist Sects? 129
Public Good and Private Morality in Buddhist Contributions to the 2006 Revision of theJapanese Fundamental Law on Education 142
Puṇṇā’s Verses (Therīgāthā 236-251) in the Light of Buddhist Criticism of Brahmins in
Early Buddhist Literature 86
Pus, Blood, and Falling Hairs: Polemical Debates on Valid Perception 80

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Ratnākaraśānti on prakāśa 139
Ratnākaraśānti’s Sketch of Self-awareness in the Prajñāpāramitopadeśa
Ratnarakṣita on the Practice of Meditation ― Its Validity and Fruit in Tantric Buddhism ―101
READ Workbench – A Collaborative Corpus Development Framework 87
Rebirth versus Epiphenomenalism: Buddhist Theory of Ontological Dependence andPersistence 80
Read the Bell: Tracing the Cultural and Social History of Monastic Bells throughInscriptions from Song (960 – 1276) China 82

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Reading as Yielding: Passages of Reception in Indian Buddhist Literature 91
Reading Buddhist Texts for Texture and Density 91
Reason and Knowledge on the Path 127
Reassessing the Iconography of the Request of Brahmā and Indra from Gandhāra 132
Recalling the Past Lives of a Qing Ruler: An Album of the Qianlong Emperor's Previous
Incarnations 114
Recovering Medieval Shintō-Buddhist Rituals at Matsuo Shrine through Eighth-Century
Manuscripts from Bonshakuji, Fushimi, and Mt. Hiei 148
Recreational Buddhists: Travel and the Construction of Contemporary Japanese Buddhist
Identities 73
Recycled and Read: Reflections on the Personal Uses of Ritual Handbooks in Late
Medieval Dunhuang 148
Regional Diversity and Doctrinal Standardization in the Transmission of Gandhāran
Narratives 132
Relations among Old Japanese Manuscripts of Buddhist Scriptures and WoodblockPrinted Buddhist Canons: With Reference to the Puchao Sanmei Jing 普超三昧経 106
Remarks on the Sanskrit text of the Viśeṣavatī Dhāraṇī in the Schøyen Collection 140
Report on the Pāli Manuscript Tradition and Transmission in Central Thailand 75
Research on krīḍāpanaka- / krīḍanaka in the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 135
Research on the Kuthodaw Pagoda Marble-stelae Recension of the Pāli Canon in
Mandalay, Myanmar 79
Rethinking Vinaya Practice in Urban Buddhist Architecture and Space: A Female Buddhist
Community in South Taiwan 83
Revisiting the Śākya clan as a Marker of Indian Monastic Self-representation in the
Buddha’s Hagiographies 118
Revenge Literature in Contemporary Sinhala Buddhism 124
Righteous and Nefarious Uses of Buddhist Power within a Material Nodal Network at Wat
Phra Mahāthātworamahāwihān (Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand) 146
Rong zom pa and Mi bskyod rdo rje on the Unity of the Two Truths from a
Nonfoundationalist (Apratiṣṭhāna) Madhyamaka Standpoint 134“Root and Traces” (benji 本迹) in the Exegetical Traditions of Chinese Madhyamaka
Thought 134
Royal and Non-royal Buddhist Patronage in the Early Deccan 128

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SŚāntarakṣita and the Naiyāyikas. On the References to “Fragments” of the So-called “LostNaiyāyikas” in the Vādanyāyaṭīkā and the Tattvasaṅgraha 151
Seeing Oneself from the Outside, and Its Moral Work 127
Selection of Burmese Pāli Manuscripts at the Dhammakaya Tipiṭaka Project 75
Self-emptiness versus Other-emptiness: A Madhyamaka-Yogācāra Debate 150
Sharing Time: The Importance of Community across Cosmic and Historic time in Pāli
Commentaries 91
Snakes and Gutters: Nāga Imagery as an Aspect of Water Control at Buddhist Sites in theWestern Deccan 76
Some Remarks on the Akutobhayā and the Zhong lun 116
Sources of Japanese Buddhist Astrology 117
Speech Acts of the Buddha 91
Sthiramati as a Commentator of Mahāyāna Sūtras: A Comparative Investigation of theAkṣayamatinirdeśaṭīkā and the Kāśyapaparivartaṭīkā 145
Studying Buddhist Beliefs and Practices through Vinaya Commentaries 120
Sword and Lotus: The Buddhist Life of a Woman Warrior in the Late Ming Dynasty (13681644) 78
Symbols of Power and Fortune in Early India 112

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Tankuang’s Commentary on the Dasheng Qixin Lun : Some Evidences of Wonhyo’s
influence 94
Telhara: What Does It Mean to be a ‘Mahāvihāra’ in the Early Medieval Magadha 104
Tendai Homa: Ritual Change and Ritual Invariance117
Text and Epigraph, King and Monk: Comparing and Contrasting Patronage in Early Indian
Buddhism 123
The Abhijñās and Preaching Dharma in the Bodhimārgadīpapañjikā 101
The Archery Competition of Siddhārtha in Gandhāran Art 132
The Bajaur Mahāyāna Sūtra in Relation to Other Buddhist Texts 92
The Bhadrakarātrī-sūtra: A Buddhist Apotropaic Text from Central Asia 140
The Biography of Lineages: the "thob yig gsal ba'i me long" of Khalkha Dza-ya Paṇḍita
(1642-1715) 103

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The Bronze Buddhist Sculptures of Nagapattinam 144
The Buddha and the Brahman: Deciphering Ascetic Imagery in Early Medieval China 96
The Buddha’s Death as a Literary Event 91
The Buddhapada and Early Buddhism 112
The Buddhist Transmission of Grahamātṛkādhāraṇī and Other Planetary Astral Texts 109
The Chronicle of Jōe: The Murder of a Young Fujiwara Monk in 7th Century Japan 72
The Composition of the Sadāprarudita Story in the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Basedon the Pratyutpanna Saṃmukhāvasthita Samādhi Sūtra: the Basic Structure and theMetaphors 135
The Corporeality of Buddha’s Deeds: Visual Depictions from Mogao and Yulin 149
The Cult of Hevajra in Southeast Asia, 10th-13th Century 106
The Deed of an Earthquake: the Seismic Web of a Buddha and the Cāpāla Shrine
Narrative Cycle 149
The Decoration and Iconographic Program of Selected Stūpas in Eastern Tibet after 1959
114
The Development of Māra Iconography in China: Continuities and Transformations 114
The Dynamics of the Subliminal Mind in Theravāda Buddhism: Two Readings of the
Bhavaṅga Citta 153
The Earliest Style of Buddhist Stūpas in Thailand: A Study of the Evolution of the Buddhist
Stūpas of the Dvāravatī Period 115
The Emergence of Buddhist Astronomy and Buddhist Science in Nineteenth Century
Japan 109
The Emergence of the Canonical Indian Syllogism as Revealed by Early Chinese Buddhist
Texts 113
The Emperor Dreamed of Golden Light Lectures in Heian Japan (794–1185) 141
The Formation of Nianfo in Chinese Buddhism 145
The Four Yoga Stages of the Prajñāpāramitopadeśa 139
The Idea of the ‘Perpetual Gift’: The akṣaya-nīvī in the Inscriptions of the Early Historic
Deccan 128
The Implications of Bu ston’s Doubts about the Authenticity of the Vinaya-samgraha 120
The Isomorphism of Time and Space in Buddhist Arguments for Momentariness 80
The Kāṇva Brāhmaṇas and Buddhists in Kosala 147
The King Who Would Be Buddha: King Bodawpaya’s Critique of Burmese Buddhist
Origins and His Quest for the True Teachings 141

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The Legal Status of the sikkhamānā & the Contemporary Re-establishment of the
Theravāda bhikkhunī Lineage 83
The Mahāgovindasūtra and Mahāgovinda’s Stories: with the Focus on a Version in the
Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya 100
The Making of a Modern Buddha: Global Buddhism and Theater 146
The Making of Tantric Orthodoxy in the Eleventh Century Indo-Tibetan World: Jñānākara’s
Mantrāvatāra 117
The Many Shades of Retranslation 102
The Mighty dGe lugs: Their Emergence and Domination in Khalkha Mongolia 103
The Mystery of the Monkey's Head: Architecture, Grief, and the Lexicographer's Imaginary
144“The New Science of Health and Happiness”: Investigating Buddhist and Non-Buddhist
Engagements with the Scientific Study of Mindfulness 130
The Nine Similes of Tathāgatagarbha in Tathāgatagarbha-sūtra and the Six Similes of
Buddhānusmṛti in Guanfo sanmei hai jing 122
The Non-Comparative Type of pratyabhijñā[na] Referred to by Śālikanātha 80
The Old Uyghur Abhidharma Texts Containing Brāhmī 121
The Origin of the Buddha Image and the Buddha Image Hall: Some Thoughts on the
Aniconic Theory 76
The Path of Preparation in the Jo nang Tradition. Tshogs gnyis rgya mtsho on the Views of
Nya dbon kun dga’ dpal and Tā ra nā tha 134
The Practice of Aśubha-bhāvanā in the Indian Buddhist Monastery: A Presentation of
New Evidence from Vinaya Traditions Preserved in Chinese 102
The Prātimokṣasūtra Fragments of the Bajaur Collection of Kharoṣṭhī Manuscripts 92
The Problem of No-mind and Buddhahood: Taktsang and Tsongkhapa on Candrakīrti’s
Epistemology 131
The Reading of śubhāśubhaviparyāsāḥ in the Twenty-third Chapter of the
Mūlamadhyamakakārikā with a Special Focus on Candrakīrti’s Interpretation 105
The Relation Between the Conventional and the Ultimate in Early Mahāyāna Sutras and in
Nāgārjuna’s Madhyamaka 135
The Relationship between the Dantaponasikkhāpada and Its Introductory Story 111
The Rise of Esoteric Buddhism and the 7th c. Rock-cut Sites of Dhamnar, Binnayaga andKolvi 76
The Rituals and Rules for the Household Patrons in Medieval Dunhuang: With Special
Reference to the Manuscript P. 2984v 96

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The Role of Medium in History-Writing and the Construction of Identity of the Hnget-pittaung Monastery, Burma 106
The Role of Wonhyo's "System of the Two Hindrances" (Ijang-ui) in East Asian Buddhist
Hindrances Discourse 94
The Sātavāhana-Kṣahārata War and Early Buddhist Patronage 128
The Scope and Unity of “Mistaken Cognition” in the Epistemology of Phya pa Chos kyi
seng ge 98
The Sixth Arhat and Multiple Buddhas: The Ambiguity of Arhatship and Buddhahood
Found in the Early Buddhist Texts 86
The Sound of Great Enlightenment: the Divine Bell of King Seongdeok of Silla and Its
Inscription 106
The Source and Structure of the Tridaṇḍi-sūtra 100
The State of Research on the Dīrghāgama Manuscript and Inquiries into the Śīlaskandhanipāta 100
The Theories of Buddhist Atomism- the Ultimate or the Conventional? 133
The Tendai Undertaking of Travelogues to Ninth-Century China 148
The Textual Community of the Mahāsāṅghika-lokottaravādin Bhikṣuṇī-vinaya 83
The Theory of Three Natures in the Prajñāpāramitopadeśa 139
The Tibetan Bell in Armenia and Its Inscription: An Account of a Quest to Account for it 82
The Tibetan Ganden Tripas and the Vinaya 152
The Tibetan uddāna in the Śarīrārthagāthā 116
The Tīrthika in Mahāyāna Buddhism 77
The Triśūla or Nandyāvarta Motif in South Asian Buddhist Art and Culture: New Insights
into the History of Its Origins, Transmission, Values and Names 144
The Value of Mindfulness 130
The ‘Vanaratna Codex’: A Unique Witness of Indian, Nepalese and Tibetan Buddhism 123
The Vision and Moral Formation of a Bodhisattva Practitioner 127
The Vows of Amitābha in the Larger Sukhāvatīvyūha and the Karuṇāpuṇḍarīka 122
The Way which Flavour of and Quantity of Food are Dealt with in Early Buddhism 86
The Wonderful World of Artificial Words in Pāli: An Editor’s Nightmare and a Linguists
Delight 75
The Worship of Mañjuśrī in Nepal 95

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Theories of Nourishment in Premodern Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedias and the Limits ofConsilience 133
Tibetan Scholars on the Mahāyāna Concept pf buddhakārya/buddhakriyā against the
Backdrop of Madhyamaka Philosophy in 12th–15th Century Tibet 149
Time, History, and the Lotus Sutra: Nichiren's Narrative of Dharma Transmission 129
To Localize a Bodhisattva in Late Imperial China: Kṣitigarbha, Moutain Jiuhua and Their
Associations in Precious Scrolls (baojuan 寶卷) 79
To Steal the Sun and Moon: Notes on Cosmological Representation and Relationships
Between Word and Image at Mogao 114
Traces of Experience: the Texts of Traditional Theravada Meditation (borān
kammaṭṭhāna/yogāvacara) 110
Truth or Consequences: Implicit Commitments and the Logic of Prāsaṅgika 131
Tsong kha pa on Dependent Origination and Emptiness 116
Two Truths, Dialetheism, and Chan 99

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Undercover dharma: Chan Masters in the Kamakura period 72
Untangling the Historical Relationship between the Concepts of Mount Meru in Early
Buddhist, Jaina, and Brahmanical literature 109
Uttamasikkha and His Discontents 112

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Variations on a Theme: The Buddha’s Deeds in the ayaka Reliefs at Kanaganahalli 149
Vinītadeva, Dharmottara, Kamalaśīla and Yamāri on the Initial Statement (ādivākya) of aśāstra 151

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Was There a Dispute between Dharmapāla and Bhāviveka?: East Asian Discussions on
Their Proofs of Śūnyatā 119
Yinyuan a Chinese Spy? Buddhism during the Ming-Qing Transition in Early Modern East
Asia 84
Weather Control and Agriculture: The Vajratuṇḍasamayakalparāja 140
Were Buddhist Brahmins Buddhists or Brahmins? 147

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What a Buddha Must Do: Spread and Scope of the Notion of buddhakārya in Indian
Buddhist Narratives of the Middle Period 149
What Can We Learn from Tibetan Buddhist Divinatory Manuals? 74
What Exactly are “Meditation Texts” and What Should We Do with Them? 110
What Happened to Buddhism in India? 37
What Is a Bodhisattva King? Sri Lankan Perspectives on Buddhist Kingship 141
What Is the Buddha’s Gandhāran Game? 132
What Is a Buddhist School? A Case Study of Harivarman and His Chengshi Lun 133
What is the Chinese Pure Land Tradition? 116
What Remained of Pramāṇa Theory in China? “Direct Perception” and “Inference” in theWorks of Early Modern Chinese Buddhists 98
What to Do if the Vihārasvāmin Is Put in Jail? A Story from the Kṣudrakavastu of the
Mūlasarvāstivāda-Vinaya 152
When Did Svatantra Gain Its Autonomy? An Investigation into the Indian Sources of a
Tibetan Claim 98
Which Daśottarasūtra? A Curious Fragment and Its Manifold Problems 100
Who Owns the Buddhist Past?: The Northern Wei Elite as Bearers of High Buddhist
Culture in Medieval China 129
Why "Buddhism and Law" Now? 142
Why Does the Mūlasarvāstivāda-vinaya Contain a Large Number of Tales? 111
Women under Sātavāhana Rule 128Wŏnch’ŭk as a Traditionalist Yogâcāra Thinker 150Wŏnhyo (617-686) as Commentator 94
Word by Word: Commentarial Techniques in Vasubandhu's Vyākhyāyukti 145

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Xuanzang’s Argument for vijñaptimātratā and Its Indian Sources 119

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Yasodhara's Story 118
Yi xin guan qi: Visualization Meditation in Early Chinese Buddhist Texts during the 5th
Century 78

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Yogācāra, Chan, and the Paradox of the Mind 150

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The Planning Committee:
President:
Anne MacDonald, Vienna, Austria

Convener:
Christoph Emmrich, Toronto ON, Canada

Members:
Wendi Adamek, Calgary AB, Canada
James Apple, Calgary AB, Canada
Dan Arnold, Chicago IL, USA
James Benn, Hamilton ON, Canada
Lara Braitstein, Montreal QC, Canada
Chen Shen, Toronto ON, Canada
Jinhua Chen, Vancouver BC, Canada
Shayne Clarke, Hamilton ON, Canada
Deepali Dewan, Toronto ON, Canada
David Drewes, Winnipeg MB, Canada
Frances Garrett, Toronto ON, Canada
Amanda Goodman, Toronto ON, Canada
Nam-Lin Hur, Vancouver BC, Canada
Chiara Letizia, Montreal QC, Canada
Jessica Main, Vancouver BC, Canada
Jason Neelis, Waterloo ON, Canada
Mark Rowe, Hamilton ON, Canada
Alicia Turner, Toronto ON, Canada
Jeff Wilson, Waterloo ON, Canada

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Advisory Board:
Collett Cox, Seattle, WA, USA
Birgit Kellner, Vienna, Austria
Ulrich Pagel, SOAS, University of London
Tom Tillemans, Lausanne, Switzerland

The Conference Office:Chief Academic Coordinator: Tony Scott
Data Management: Nicholas Field
Accounting: Duncan Hill
Accommodations, Travel, Excursions: Alexander James O’Neill
Catering: Smita Kothari, Havovi Bharda
Exhibitors: Tamara Cohen
On-site registration: Andrew Dicks
Volunteers coordination: Rachelle Saruya
Design and printing oversight: Bryan Levman
Website: Jeffrey Bermejo

IABS Board:
President: Richard Salomon, Seattle, USA
Vice-President: Juhyung Rhi, Seoul, Korea
Treasurer: Pascale Hugon, Vienna, Austria
General Secretary: Ulrich Pagel, SOAS, University of London
Regional Representatives (North America): Sara McClintock, Atlanta, USA
Regional Representatives (East Asia): Chizuko Yoshimizu, Tsukuba, Japan
Regional Representatives (South and South East Asia): Claudio Cicuzza, Bangkok,
ThailandRegional Representatives (Europe): Jens Braarvig, Oslo, Norway

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Directors at Large:
Mark Allon, Sydney, Australia
Daniel Boucher, Ithaca NY, USA
Shayne Clarke, Hamilton ON, Canada
Collett Cox, Seattle, USA
Bernard Faure, New York, USA
Jens-Uwe Hartmann, Munich, Germany
Birgit Kellner, Vienna, Austria
Justin McDaniel, Philadelphia, USA
Masahiro Shimoda, Tokyo, Japan
Jonathan Silk, Leiden, The Netherlands
Cristina Scherrer-Schaub, Lausanne, Switzerland

According to article V 1 (g) and (h) of the IABS Constitution, the previous president (Cristina
Scherrer-Schaub) will remain on the Board as a Director at Large for a four-year term.
The four regional representatives and the editor of JIABS (Ingo Strauch).

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