The UK Association for Buddhist Studies will have its conference this year Tuesday and Wednesday, July 6th and 7th at the University of Leeds.
“Historiography, adaptation and contemporary practice” – at the Michael Sadler Building, University of Leeds.
Speakers
- Prof. Steven Collins (Chicago): “No-self, gender, and madness”
- Dr Joanna Cook (Cambridge): “Remaking Thai Buddhism through international pilgrimage”
- Prof. Duncan McCargo (Leeds): “Buddhism, legitimacy and violence in southern Thailand”
- Dr Catherine Newell (SOAS): “The new Buddhist missionaries: the global ambitions of Thailand’s Dhammakaya temples”
- Dr James Taylor (Adelaide): “Mobility and resistance; modern monastic questers”
- Dr James Benn (McMaster): “A Chinese apocryphal sutra in its eighth-century context”
- Prof. Ann Heirman (Ghent): “Speech is silver, silence is golden? Speech and silence in the Buddhist sagha”
- Dr John Kieschnick (Bristol): “The adjudication of sources in traditional Chinese Buddhist historiography”
- Dr Francesca Tarocco (Manchester): “Buddhist images in modern China”
Film showing
- Dr Patrice Ladwig (Max Planck Institute): “The last friend of the corpse: funerals, morticians and crematoria in Chiang Mai”
Postgraduate presentations
- Jane Caple (Leeds): “Contemporary revival and development of Tibetan Buddhist monasticism in eastern Qinghai (Amdo)”
- Berthe Jansen (Oxford): “Buddhist and non-Buddhist themes contained in Tibetan wedding recitations”
- Lewis Doney (SOAS): “The daṇḍa-swinging Dharmarāja: early Tibetan appropriations of Indian Buddhist narratives”
- Frederick Chen (Oxford): “A pagan god transformed into a Buddhist god or a Buddhist god transformed into a Chinese god?”