Dear Colleagues,

 

Apologies for cross-posting.

 

A gentle reminder: The deadline for submissions for this year's annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion in San Diego is Monday, March 3, 2014, 5:00 pm EST. That is only a week away. The Program Administration Proposal, Evaluation, Review, and Submission (PAPERS) System, the AAR's online proposal submission system, is open for your proposal! The AAR Meeting will be held November 22-25, 2014.

 

Please don't wait until the 11th hour to submit your proposals. The Yogācāra Buddhism Group invites proposals on the following:

Call for Papers:

 

In light of the success and excitement that our text-discussion format has received in recent years, the following candidates for the upcoming AAR were proposed:

 

• The “Tattvārtha” chapter of the Bodhisattvabhūmi

• A chapter of the Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra, e.g., Paramārthasamudgata

• A short text or significant passage from any text related to Yogācāra

 

Panel and Paper topics:

 

• Tantric Appropriations of Yogācāra (for a possible cosponsored session with the Tantric Studies Group)

• The body in Yogācāra (can include medicine)

• Intersubjectivity

• Yogācāra and cognitive science

• Yogācāra and phenomenology

• Modern Yogācāra revivals

 

Additional topics welcome.

 

View the full Call for Papers in a browsable PDF.

Look at the Calls for specific Program Units.

General Questions about the Call for Papers? Read the General Call Instructions.

Questions about the PAPERS system? Read the PAPERS Instruction Manual.

 

Ready to submit your proposal? Go to the My Proposals page to get started! 

 

best wishes,

Dan Lusthaus

John Powers

Co-chairs