AABS 2009 Conference
Date: 10th-11th December 2009
Venue: University of Sydney (The Refectory, Main Quadrangle)
Topic: Buddhist Studies Australasian Contributions
Brochure: Conference Brochure
Schedule: Conference Schedule
Registration and payment
Payment should be made in cash or by personal cheque on attendance.
- General - $50 for both days ($25 for 1 day)
- Students and unwaged - $30 for both days ($15 for 1 day)
- Sangha - free of charge
Morning tea and lunch will be provided for both days. Dinner at neighborhood restaurants will be organized on both evenings.
Panels:
- Buddhism in Australia
- Buddhism in Practice
- Buddhist Philosophy
- Text and function
- Transmission of Buddhism
Presenters
Presenter |
Institution |
Panel |
Topic |
Attach. |
Mark Allon |
USYD |
Transmission of Buddhism |
“Mahāyāna in Gandhāra” |
Abstract |
Paul Brownell |
ANU (PhD candidate) |
Buddhist Philosophy |
“Defining and Understanding Hermeneutics in the Yogacara Text dbus dang mtha’ rnam par ‘byed pa kyi ‘grel ba (The Commentary on Differentiating the Middle from the Extremes).” |
Abstract |
Chris Clark |
USYD (PhD candidate) |
Text and function |
“ Buddhaghosa as depicted in the Buddhaghosuppatti.” |
Abstract |
Edward Crangle |
USYD |
Buddhist Philosophy 2 |
Buddhism and the Construction of the Enemy |
Abstract |
Glenys Eddy |
USYD |
Buddhism in the West |
Methodology and Meditative Experience: Evaluating My
Experience of the Hindrances as an Interpretive Tool for Vipassana
Field Research |
Abstract |
Peter Friedlander |
Singapore |
Buddhism in Practice |
“Mindfulness’ in Medieval Indian Mysticism” |
Abstract |
Ruth Gamble |
ANU (PhD candidate) |
Buddhism in Practice |
:Dancing with the Censor: Dondrup Gyal on Buddhism" |
Abstract |
Meredith Hughes |
ANU (PG student) |
Buddhism in the West |
“Concepts and Practices of Disruption and Interrogation in Contemporary Art and Indo Tibetan Buddhism, A Practice Based Enquiry.” |
Abstract |
Peter Jilks |
ANU (PhD candidate) |
Buddhist Philosophy |
"A Development in the Notion of Irreversibility (avaivartika) on the Bodhisattva Path" |
Abstract |
John Jorgensen |
Griffith University |
Transmission of Buddhism |
"'Colloquial' Chinese and the Problem of the Accurate Transmission of Chan Buddhism into Korea , J apan and Vietnam ." |
Abstract |
Andrew McGarrity |
USYD |
Buddhist Philosophy |
“The Logic of Omniscience: A Madhyamaka Buddhist Argument for Realising the Emptiness of All Things” |
Abstract |
Drasko Mitrikeski |
USYD |
Text and function |
“Dharmadhatustotra: Nagarjuna’s revolutionalry corrective to his doctrine of emptiness.” |
Abstract |
Peter Oldmeadow |
USYD |
Buddhist Philosophy 2 |
Approaching the problem of dualism in Buddhism through Martin Heidegger |
Abstract |
Douglas Osto |
Massey University |
Buddhist Philosophy 2 |
"No-self in Classical Samkhya-Yoga and Early Buddhism" |
Abstract |
Trevor Robertson |
USYD |
Buddhism in Australia |
“Trends and Development in Theravāda Buddhism in Australia ” |
Abstract |
Geoffrey Samuels |
Cardiff University |
Keynote |
Buddhism and a Sustainable World: Some Reflections |
Abstract |
Clarke Scott |
UTas |
Buddhism in Practice |
“Madhyamaka Constructionism: Establishing the Unreal.” |
Abstract |
Ian Sinclair |
|
Buddhist Philosophy 2 |
To Make or Not make Mandalas: Buddhist Controversies on the Value of Rituals |
Abstract |
Adrian Snodgrass |
UWS |
Keynote |
Multiple Arms, Multiple Eyes, Multiple Heads, Multiple Rationalities |
Abstract |
Judith Snodgrass |
UWS |
Transmission of Buddhism |
The Young East: Buddhism, Colonialism, and Asian Modernity in
the Japanese Empire |
Abstract |
Brendon Stewart |
UWS |
Buddhism in the West |
'Where is self in the age of the clone?' |
Abstract |
James Stewart |
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On the Very Idea of the Good in Pāli Buddhism |
Abstract |
Bhante Sujato |
|
Buddhism in Australia |
“Text formation of the earliest Buddhist literature, with special reference to the Bhikkhuni Vinaya” |
Abstract |
Gesar Temur |
ANU (PhD candidate) |
Buddhism in Australia |
“ The Dispersion of the Buddha’s Teachings to the West: The Attraction of Westerners, at Buddha House in Adelaide , to the Buddha’s Teachings” |
Abstract |
Chang Tzu |
USYD (PhD candidate) |
Text and function |
The Evolution of the Story of Sadaprarudita in the Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra |
Abstract |
Malcolm Voyce |
Macquarie University |
Buddhism in Practice |
Foucault, Buddhism and the rules of Buddhist monks |
Abstract |
