We are pleased to share below the schedule for the 8th International Indology Graduate Research, organized by Charles DiSimone, Andrea Schlosser and Jinkyoung Choi, which will be held at LMU Munich, Oct 29-30, 2016. There is a particularly strong emphasis on Buddhist Studies for this year's IIGRS as can be from the many talks on various buddological matters including our keynote lecture by Prof. Dr. Jonathan Silk of Leiden University titled: 'Einmal ist keinmal: “Thus I have heard,” many times more than once'. 

The event is free and open to the public but we request that those interested in attending register by writing us at: IIGRSuk@googlemail.com

The schedule, along with other pertinent information also appears on our website: https://iigrs.wordpress.com/

International Indology Graduate Research Symposium 8

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

October 29–30, 2016

 

Saturday, October 29


9:15 am

Welcome

 

 

9:30 am

Session 1

Sanne Mersch, Leiden University

From cosmogonic yajñavarāha to demon slaying naravarāha – Viṣṇu as a boar in the Skandapurāṇa

 

10:00 am

 

Agniezka Rostalska, Ghent University

Reliable speaker (āpta) according to Bhāsarvajña

 

10:30 am

Tea Break

 

 

11:00 am

Session 2

Seongho Choi, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

From “nāmamātram paśyati” to “nāmamātraṃ na paśyati–  the change of the philosophical exposition within Indian Yogācāra philosophy

 

11:30 am

 

Chih-ying Wu, National Chengchi University

Prasaṅga Argumentation in Vasubandhu’s Ātmavādapratiṣedha

 

12:00 pm

Lunch

 

 


1:30 pm

Session 3

 

 

 

Szilvia Szanyi, Eötvös Loránd University

The positive and negative aspects of using dream as a metaphor in Yogācāra philosophy

 

2:00 pm

 

Hsun-Mei Chen, National Taiwan University

The Role of Principle of Non-Contradiction as in Madhyamakālaṃkāra

 

2:30 pm

Tea Break

 

 

3:00 pm

Session 4

Channa Li, Leiden University

Challenging the Buddha’s Authority:

Śāriputra’s Different Roles in the Sūtra of the Wise and Foolish

 

3:30 pm

 

Hao Sun, Hamburg University

Towards a comparison of the Sanskrit, one Tibetan and two Chinese translations of Śrīmālādevī Siṃhanāda Sūtra on Buddha-nature doctrine

 

4:00 pm

Tea Break

 

 

4:15–5:15 pm

Keynote

Prof. Dr. Jonathan Silk, Leiden University

Einmal ist keinmal: “Thus I have heard,” many times more than once

 

6:00 pm

Dinner

 

 


Sunday, October 30

 

10:30 am

Session 5

Simon Cubelic, Heidelberg University

The Colonial Restoration of Dharmaśāstra:
Sarvoru Śarman’s Vivādasārārṇava and British Legal Discourse in late 18th Century Eastern India

 

11:00 am

 

Avni Chag, SOAS, University of London

On the different recensions of the Śikṣāpatrī of the Svāminārāyaṇa Sampradāya

 

11:30 am

Tea break

 

 

12:00 pm

Session 6

Aruna Gamage, SOAS, University of London

The Kāludāyi-Theragāthā as Transmitted in the Pāli Commentaries

 

12:30 pm

 

Indaka Weerasekera, University of Bristol

“While I was alone in seclusion, a thought arose in my mind”: Reflections of the term paṭisallāna in Pāli Buddhist texts

 

1:00 pm

Lunch

 


2:30 pm

Session 7

Fumi Yao, McMaster University

The Newly Identified Sanskrit Manuscript of the Bhaiṣajyavastu

 

3:00 pm

 

Wen Zhao, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

The Shift of the Meaning of Buddhānusmṛti:

From Recalling Ten Epithets to Visualization of Buddha

 

3:30 pm

Tea Break

 

 

4:00 pm

Session 8

Lewis Doney, British Museum

Emulating Aśoka: Buddhist Kingship in Early Tibetan Historiography

 

4:30 pm

 

Vitus Angermeier, University of Vienna

Competing Systems? The Seasons in Classical Ayurveda

 

5:00 pm

Concluding Remarks and Group Picture

 

6:00 pm

Dinner

 

 


Best wishes,
Charles DiSimone, Andrea Schlosser, and Jinkyoung Choi

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Charles DiSimone
Promotionsprogramm Buddhismus-Studien
Institut für Indologie und Tibetologie
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München