invitation

[Peter Flugel]

JAINA DOCTRINES AND DIALOGUES (6th JAINA STUDIES WORKSHOP AT SOAS)

Tuesday 16.3.2004, School of Oriental and African Studies, Brunei Gallery 
Lecture Theatre 18.00-19.30	

The 4th Annual Lecture On Jainism

Nalini Balbir (Paris)

                "Thoughts on the meaning and the role of the Svet�mbara 
                Canon in the history of Jainism"


Wednesday 17.3.2004, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell 
Square, Room 116

9.45-10.00      Tea and Coffee

10.00-10.40     Erik Seldeslachts (Gent) 
                "Understanding Jaina geography"
10.40-11.20     Julia Hegewald (Oxford)
                "Meru, Samavasarana and Simhasana: The Recurrence of 	
        Three-Tiered Structures in Jaina Cosmology, Mythology and 	
        Ritual"
11.20-12.00     Hawon Ku Kim (University of Minnesota)
                "Formation of Identity: The Nineteenth-Century Jain 	
                Pilgrimage Site of Satrunjaya, Gujarat"
12.00-12.40     Peter Fluegel (SOAS)
                "The Lonkagaccha Re-Revisited"

12.40-13.40     Lunch

13.40-14.20     Frank Van Den Bossche (Gent)
                "Refutations of theism in Jainism and the West"
14.20-15.00     Eva DeClerq (Gent)
                "Doctrinal elements in Svayambhudeva's Paumacariu, 
                with reference to his own sect"
15.00-15.40     Christopher Chapple (Los Angeles)
                "Classical Yoga and Jainism: A Comparison of Patanjali and 
                Haribhadra"
15.40-16.20     Sin Fujinaga (Miyakonojo Miyazaki, Japan)
                "On Samudghata"

16.20-16.40     Tea and Coffee

16.40-17.20     Shalini Sinha (SOAS) 
                "The Philosophy of the Self in Kundakunda"
17.20-18.00     Devendra Kumar Jain (Mumbai)
                "The Date of Kundakunda"
18.00-18.40     Jean-Pierre Osier (Paris)
                "Importance of faith in the last moments on account of 	
        Asadhara's Sagaradharmamrta VIII"

All Welcome!
  
Contact: Department for the Study of Religions, Faculty of Arts and 
Humanities, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H OXG, 7898 
4028, rw35 at soas.ac.uk