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”
Rabin building 3001
14:30 – 16:00 Sonam Kachru, Yale University –
"A Theory of Mind, and Some Thoughts about Theories"
Rabin building 2001
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.