Those in the greater Toronto area this Friday and Saturday (Sept. 20th-21st) are cordially invited to attend an exciting workshop/conference at the University of Toronto titled: "The
Mokṣopāya, the Yogavāsiṣṭha, and the Afterlives of a Pan-Indian Text." See the schedule below for location and presenter information.
Best wishes,
Jonathan Peterson
Department for the Study of Religion
Centre for South Asian Studies
University of Toronto
The Mokṣopāya, the Yogavāsiṣṭha and the Afterlives of a Pan-Indian Text
Workshop at the University of Toronto, Department for the Study of Religion
Venue: Jackman Humanities Building, Room 317
Co-organized by Srilata Raman (University of Toronto) and Jürgen Hanneder (University of Marburg)
20, September 2019
Session One:
The Mokṣopāya and the Yogavāsiṣṭha
9.30-10: Jürgen Hanneder:
A Brief Introduction to the Mokṣopāya Project
10-11: Walter Slaje: Vasiṣṭha the Void. Inquiries into the Authorship of the
Mokṣopāya
11-11.15: Coffee
11.15-12.15: Stanislav Jager:
The Commentator Bhākarakaṇṭha
12.15-1.15: Jürgen Hanneder:
Versions, Redactions, or Recensions of the Mokṣopāya
1.15-2.15: Lunch
2.15-3: Tamara Cohen:
Different Editions and Translations of the Arjunopākhyāna
Session Two:
The Persian Yogavāsiṣṭha
3-3.45: Ayelet Kotler:
Shifts in Style and Norms of Translation. On Translating and Re-Translating the Yogavāsiṣṭha into Persian
3.45-4: Coffee
4-4.45: Shankar Nair:
The Yogavāsiṣṭha in Persian: Three Translations in Philosophical Context
4.45-5.30: Luther Obrock:
The Citation of Mokṣopāya/Yogavāsiṣṭha as Theology: A Case from Fayzi’s Sharique al-Ma ‘rifat and an Anonymous Śāradā Manuscript from the University of Toronto
21, September 2019
Session Three: The Ñāṉavāciṭṭam
9.30-10.15: Srilata Raman:
A Publishing History of the Ñāṉavāciṭṭam
10.15-11: Eric Steinschneider:
The Ñāṉavāciṭṭam and the Making of Tamil Advaita Vedānta: Notes on the Reception of the Text
11-11.15: Coffee
11.15-1:
Discussion of the Parameters of the Project and the Way Forward