Section: Dunhuang

Time: SESSION IV: Wednesday June 25, 2:00 pm – 5:30 pm Room: White Hall 207
Ching Keng
Attributing the Dunhuang Fragment Taish? No. 2805 to Paramārtha’s Disciple � An Experiment Using the Digitized Chinese Canon
Cathy Cantwell and Robert Mayer
The Dunhuang Thabs kyi zhags pa padma ‘phreng manuscript (IOL Tib J 321): A source for understanding the transmission of Mahāyoga in Tibet
Liying Kuo
From Text to Images: Representations of the Buddhoṣṇīṣavijayā dhāraṇīsūtra at Dunhuang

Carmen Meinert
Violent Rites: in a Skull Cup of Non-conceptuality(As Examplified in the Tibetan Dunhuang and Chinese Canonical Version of the Guhysamaajatantra(Tantra of the Secret Assembly)

Section: Buddhist Art

Time: SESSION III: Wednesday June 25, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Room: White Hall 205

A Representation of the Body in a Japanese Image Of the Ten Worlds of Buddhism
Mohammad Gharipour
Building as a Temporary Object; A Study on the Concept of Evanescence in the Production of Architecture in Japan between 1950’s and1980’s

Panel: Analyzing and Advancing Buddhist Philosophy I: The Two Truths in India and Tibet

Conver: Jan Westerhoff and Jay Garfield

Time: SESSION III: Wednesday June 25, 9:00 am – 10:00 Room: White Hall 111

Tom Tillemans How far can a Madhyamika Buddhist reform customary truth?

Dan Lusthaus The Use and Significance of Two-Truth Theory in Yogācāra Thought

James Blumenthal Dynamic Dimensions to Śāntarakita’s Presentation of the Two Truths

2008.06.24 pm2-5 Panel: Rebirth of Buddhist Scholasticisms in Twentieth-Century China

Time: SESSION II: Tuesday June 24, 2:00 pm – 5:30 pm Room: White Hall 110
Chen-Kuo Lin
A Lost Battle with the West: The Revival of Buddhist Logic and Epistemology in Modern China

Marcus Bingenheimer
Between Tradition and Modernity: Yinshun’s History of Buddhist Doctrine
Erik Hammerstrom
The Cachet of Kexue: Buddhist Intellectuals and Modern Astronomy in 20th Century China

Eyal Aviv
Redefining the terms of Chinese Buddhism: Ouyang Jingwu’s Theory of Buddhism’s twofold paradigm
Jason Clower
The Unlikely Buddhologist Mou Zhongsan: What a Confucian Apologist Wanted with Tiantai Learning

2008.06.24 am09-12 Chinese Buddhist meditation practices and Chan

Panel Convenors: John McRae and Eric Goodell
Room: White Hall 205
Ching-wei Wang
The Practice of Mahāyāna Si Nianchu in the Sixth Century China
John McRae
Early Chan meditation: Between Tiantai Samadhi practice and Chan Encounter Dialogue
Yi-hsun Huang
The Use of Old Cases as Chan Practice in the Records of Master Xuedou at Dongting

Eric Goodell
The Role of Chan in the Life of Taixu
Huimin Bhiksu
An Inquiry of Master Xuyun’s Experiences of Long-dwelling in Samādhi

Invocation prayers in Pali, Convocation IABS 2008 Emory U

Venerable Monks of the Wat Buddha Bucha Center

Emory Unplug it


Are you doing your part?
Help us reduce energy use by 25%

2008.06.23 pm02-3:40 Convocation, Glenn Church


Message from His Holiness Dalai Lama
Read by Dr. Robert A. Paul (left 1),
Dean of Emory College.

Brief Remarks on Buddhist Studies and the Global Citizen
Dr. Lisa A. Tedesco
Dean of the Graduate School

Hoary Past and hazy Memories: Teaching the History of Early Buddhist Texts
Spoken by Prof. Oskar von Hinuber (right 1), president, IABS.

Dr Sara McClintock said : about 450 persons attend and 325 presentations.

2008.06.21-(23-29) IABS, Emory Univerity

Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia is proud to sponsor the XVth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, June 23-28, 2008. This academic conference, held once every three to four years, is the premier international forum for scholars of Buddhism to present their findings.

2008.06.21-(23-29) IABS, Emory University

Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia is proud to sponsor the XVth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, June 23-28, 2008. This academic conference, held once every three to four years, is the premier international forum for scholars of Buddhism to present their findings.