JAINA SCRIPTURES AND PHILOSOPHY (11th JAINA STUDIES WORKSHOP AT SOAS, 12-13 MARCH 2009)

[Peter Flugel]

JAINA SCRIPTURES AND PHILOSOPHY

(11th JAINA STUDIES WORKSHOP AT SOAS, 12-13 MARCH 2009)
  *Thursday 12.3.2009, 18.00-19.30, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre*
*Schoolof Orientaland African Studies, Russell Square
*



THE 9th ANNUAL JAINA LECTURE

(followed by a reception)



Bansidhar Bhatt

(University of Münster)



Is Pārśva the Twenty-Third Jina a Legendary Figure?

A Critical Survey of Early Jaina Sources




*Friday 13.3.2009, 9.00-18.30, SOAS, Russell Square, Brunei Gallery Lecture
Theatre*



CONFERENCE



9.0              Tea and Coffee



9.15     Welcome


9.30     Prem Suman Jain (Śravaṇabeḷagoḷa)
One Rare Manuscript of the Prakrit Text Bhagavatī Ārādhanā



10.00   Sin Fujinaga (Miyakonojo, Miyazaki)

Śvetâmbara Āgamas in the Digambara Scriptures



10.30   Jayendra Soni (University of Marburg)

Aspects of Philosophy in the Ṣaṭkhaṇḍâgama



11.00   Tea and Coffee



11.30   Piotr Balcerowicz (University of Warsaw)

Do Attempts to Formalise *Syād-vāda* Make Sense?


12.00   Anne Clavel (University of Lyon)
Sensuous Cognition - *Pratyakṣa* or *Parokṣa*? Jinabhadra's Reading of the
Nandīsūtra


12.30   Olle Qvarnström (University of Lund)
Jaina Critique of Sāṃkhya Philosophy



13.00   Lunch, Brunei Gallery Suite


14.00   Nalini Balbir (University of Paris)
Layman's Atonements: The Sâvayapacchitta and the Shrâddhajîtakalpa


14.30   Paul Dundas (University of Edinburgh)
Pokkhali's Visit to the Fasting Hall: The Ramifications of a Canonical
Episode


15.00   Kenji Watanabe (Tokyo)
A   Bee and Mendicant: Two Different Versions in  the Extant Jaina Āgamas



16.00   Tea and Coffee



16.30   Johannes Bronkhorst (University of Lausanne)

What Happened to Mahāvīra's Body?**


17.00   Herman Tieken (Leiden University)
The Composition of the Uttarajjhāyā


17.30   Peter Flügel (SOAS)
Reflections on the Origins of the Jaina Doctrine of Karman



18.00   Final Remarks


All Welcome!

Contact: Centre of Jaina Studies,
Department for the Study of Religions,
Faculty of Arts and Humanities,
SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square,
London WC1H OXG,
Phone: 7898 4028, E-mail: js64 at soas.ac.uk

Co-organised and co-sponsored by the Centre of Jaina Studies at SOAS (
http://www.soas.ac.uk/jainastudies),
Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Lund (
www.sasnet.lu.se/indrellund.html), and the
Victoria and Albert Museum in London (www.vam.ac.uk).




-- 
Dr Peter Flügel
Department of the Study of Religions
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
School of Oriental and African Studies
University of London
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H OXG
Tel.: (+44-20) 7898 4776
E-mail: pf8 at soas.ac.uk