PALI TEXT SOCIETY

Dr Charles Hallisey (Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer in Buddhist Literatures, Harvard Divinity School) will deliver the

15th I. B. HORNER MEMORIAL LECTURE

“Pali and World Literature”

Friday, 20 September 2013, 5.30 p.m.

Room B111 (Brunei Gallery)
School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H OXG

Charles Hallisey has taught at the University of Wisconsin, Loyola University in Chicago, and at Harvard University. His research centres on Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, Pali language and literature, Buddhist ethics, and literature in Buddhist culture. He is currently working on a book project entitled “Flowers on the Tree of Poetry: The Moral Economy of Literature in Buddhist Sri Lanka”.

All are welcome

Best wishes,

Rupert Gethin
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Rupert Gethin
Professor of Buddhist Studies

University of Bristol
Department of Religion and Theology
3 Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1TB, UK

http://www.bris.ac.uk/thrs/

Telephone: 0117 928 8169
Fax: 0117 331 7933
Email: Rupert.Gethin@bristol.ac.uk