Numata Center for Buddhist Studies
Symposium: Current Topics in Buddhist Studies
14 November 2018
Symposium: Current Topics in Buddhist Studies
November 14, 2018, 9.00 - 17.45 h
The Numata Center for Buddhist Studies together with the Center for Buddhist Studies at Fo Guang University Taiwan cordially invites you to the symposium “Current Topics in Buddhist Studies”.
During the one-day-symposium six lectures presenting and discussing contemporary researches in Buddhist Studies cover wide-ranging topics from Chinese Buddhism over Yogācāra-Vajrayāna, Chan Masters in Japan to Indian Mahāyāna Buddhism:
Yi-hsun Huang: “Chan Master Hanyue’s Attitude toward Sutra Teachings in the Ming”
Harunaga Isaacson: “Faith (śraddhā), Excessive Faith (atiśraddhā), and Liking (ruci): Some Aspects of the Eleventh-Century Yogācāra-Vajrayāna of Ratnākaraśānti and Jñānaśrīmitra”
Adrian Tseng: "Jizang's Concept of Buddha-nature with regard to insentient things"
Steffen Döll: “A Single Golden Dragon up My Sleeve. Chan Masters in Japan, 1246–1317”
Eric Goodell: “Translating a Translated Text: The Dharmaguptaka Vinaya”
Michael Zimmerman: “The Ruler as Deity, Bodhisattva or Buddha: Missing Evidence in Indian Mahāyāna Buddhism”
A final discussion will give the opportunity to summarize and contextualize the results of the symposium.
Organizer: Numata-Zentrum für Buddhismuskunde der Universität Hamburg, Center for Buddhist Studies at Fo Guang University Taiwan
Location: Universität Hamburg, Weißer Saal, Rothenbaumchaussee 45, Hamburg
The flyer including the schedule can be found here.