Dear friends and colleagues,

I am pleased to announce the upcoming online lecture series “Studies in Buddhist Monastic Cultures,” organized by the Vihāra Project in collaboration with the department for South Asian Studies and Indology of the Martin-Luther University Halle Wittenberg.

 

To participate, please register for free under the following links:

 

March 16: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvf-itpjIiHNFo44whGNTXBLLuK9rw6Roe

 

March 23: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUvd-ygqTgjG91dBlJLr8ExJZDx3H9qNzVM

 

Please see the attached flyer for details, including abstracts of the individual presentations.

 

With best wishes,

 

Philipp Maas

 

March 16, 2022 (Wed.) 09:00–12:00 (CET) / 17:00–20:00 (JST)

 

09:00–09:10

Opening Address, TAIKEN KYUMA, Mie University, Faculty of Humanities, Law and Economics

Opening Address, SATOSHI OGURA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Institute of Languages

09:10–10:10

New Perspectives on Late Indian Buddhism, and Our Methods for Understanding It, from a Nālandā Inscription by a Lineage from Somapura Mahāvihāra

CHARLYN EDWARDS

10:10–10:25

Questions and Answers, Discussant: ANNETTE SCHMIEDCHEN

10:25–10:45

Break

10:45–11:45

Spatial and Somatic Aspects of Early Buddhist and Non-Buddhist Meditations

PHILIPP MAAS

11:45–12:00

Questions and Answers, Discussant: Jowita Kramer

Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvf-itpjIiHNFo44whGNTXBLLuK9rw6Roe

 

 

March 23, 2022 (Wed.) 09:00–12:00 (CET) / 17:00–20:00 (JST)

 

9:00–09:10

Introduction, TAIKEN KYUMA, Mie University, Faculty of Humanities, Law and Economics

Welcome Address, OTTFRIED FRAISSE, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Oriental Institute, Seminar for Jewish Studies

09:10–10:10

Evidence of Buddhism in 15th-Century Eastern India: Dated Colophons of Sanskrit Manuscripts in Old Bengali Script

SHIN’ICHIRŌ HORI

10:10–10:25

Questions and Answers, Discussant: TAIKEN KYUMA

10:25–10:45

Break

10:45–11:45

Buddhist Monasteries to the South of the Tianshan Mountains in the 5th-8th Centuries CE

CHAO-JUNG CHING, Kyoto University

11:45–12:00

Questions and Answers, Discussant: YUKIYO KASAI

Closing Address, PHILIPP MAAS

Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUvd-ygqTgjG91dBlJLr8ExJZDx3H9qNzVM

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PD Dr. Philipp A. Maas
Locum Professor of Indology
Institute for South Asian Studies and Indology
Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
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https://spp1448.academia.edu/PhilippMaas