Dear friends and colleagues, and apologies for cross-posting,

I am most pleased to announce the following workshop that will be held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in mid-June. For any further details, please contact me at eviatar.shulman@mail.huji.ac.il. The workshop is made possible through the generous support of the Glorisun Global Network in Buddhist Studies.

Best wishes,

Eviatar Shulman 

Thick Dharma, Abhidharma

A workshop at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June 12–14, 2023.

Monday, June 12, Room 5318 Humanities building

10:00 – 13:15, 14:45-18:00   Rupert Gethin, University of Bristol –

"Mapping the Buddha’s Mind: Some Points of Interest"

19:00    Dinner for participants

Tuesday, June 13, Mandel building 521

10:00 – 13:00    Janet Gytaso, University of Harvard –

“Guided Reading on the Darśana- and Bhāvanā- mārga in the Abhidharmakośa: Different Timings of kleśa”

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14:30 – 16:00    Sonam Kachru, Yale University –

"A Theory of Mind, and Some Thoughts about Theories"

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16:25 – 17:20    Aleix Ruiz-Falqués, Shan State Buddhist University and HUJI –

"How Nāgasena Shaped the Third Council: The Parallel Lives of Moggaliputta and Nāgasena and their Implications in the Conceptualization of the Abhidhamma as a Dogmatic Corpus"

17:20 – 18:15    Eviatar Shulman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem –

"Is the Aṅguttara-Nikāya an Abhidharma Text?"

Wednesday, June 14, Rabin Building 2001

9:45 – 11:15     Mingyan Gao, Waseda University and the University of Hong Kong –

"Mokṣabhāgīya in Abhidharma and Yogācāra"   

11:45 – 13:30    Pyi Phyo Kyaw, Shan State Buddhist University and the University of Oxford –

"Navigating in Ocean of Methods: the Paṭṭhāna in Burmese Buddhism"

15:00 – 16:00    Giuliano Giustarini, Mahidol University –

"Aggregates, Sense-Bases, and Elements in the Vibhaṅga-mūlaṭīkā"

16:00 – 17:00    Daniel Stuart, University of South Carolina –

"We Are All Ābhidharmikas: Troubling A Genre Distinction in Buddhist Intellectual History"

17:20 – 18:00    Concluding discussion

June 15 and June 18, follow-up workshop – Dan Stuart, University of South Carolina –

"Close Readings in the Sad-dharma-smṛty-upasthāna-sūtra"

Room 5318 in the Humanities, 10:00–13:00, 15:00–18:00.