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Saturday 22 June 2024

09:00 - Preliminary Exploration of Texts and Annotations in Various Languages of The Sarasvatī-parivarta from The Suvarṇaprabhāsottama-sūtra《金光明經·大辯才天女品》諸語種文本及其注疏初探
 Ming Chen (Peking University)
Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
09:30 - Hešeri Rushan and the Tuṣita (Doushuai 兜率) Heaven School 赫舍里如山與“兜率宗”
Jidong Chen (Aoyama Gakuin University)
Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
10:00 - The Specific Usages, Characteristics, and Sources of "All" in Early Chinese Translations of Buddhist Scriptures 早期汉译佛经“一切”的特殊用法、性质及其来源
Yichen Meng
Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
11:00 - Two newly researched cycles of mosaics in San Marco, Venice
Prof. Elena Ene Draghici-Vasilescu (University of Oxford)
11:00 - Death and Rebirth in the Third-Century State of Wu 吳: transmigration described in the Liudu ji jing 六度集經 (T152)
Janine Nichol (Independent scholar)
Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
11:30 - The Influence of Indic Linguistics on the Formation and Interpretation of the Chinese Buddhist Lexicon
Paolo Visigalli (Shanghai Normal University)
Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
12:00 - Translation and Commentary at the Dawn of Chinese Buddhism: New Light from An Shigao’s Yin chi ru jing and its Commentary
Eric Greene (Yale University)
Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
13:30 - A Five Dynasties Manuscript in relation to Tang Buddhist culture: A Study of S.3728 from the British Library
Nelson Landry (University of Hamburg)
Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
14:00 - Daoist Gods Explaining Buddhist Texts: Buddhist Exegesis through Spirit-Writing in Qing China
Qijun Zheng (École Pratique des Hautes Études - Université PSL)
Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
14:30 - Jifa 吉法 – Variations of Maṅgala in Chinese Buddhist Writing
Zhao You (Peking University)
Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
14:30 - A conversation with Jane Jie Sun, CEO of Trip.com Group
Jane Jie Sun (Trip.com)
15:30 - A Gāndhārī exegetical text corresponding to part of the *Āryavasumitrabodhisattvasaṃgītiśāstra
Francesco Barchi (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities)
Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
16:00 - Buddhist Homiletics as Social Commentary
Péter-Dániel Szántó (ELTE Budapest)
Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
16:30 - The special dead and the living virtuosi: religious ideals in the Deccan in the Middle Period of Indian Buddhism
Vincent Tournier (École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO))
Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
17:45 - The Scripture in Forty-two Sections (Sishier zhang jing 四十二章經, T784): Reconsidering an Enigmatic Text
This keynote lecture is represented by Paul Harrison. It is only for in-person audience and it is now FULL.
Jan Nattier (University of California at Berkeley)
Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond

Monday 24 June 2024

05:00 - The Path to a New Humanitarian World Order: Upholding Human Dignity and Climate Integrity
HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal (Nelson Mandela Fellow, OCIS)
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events
09:00 - Day 1: International Conference - Global Gender: Pasts, Presents, Futures - Gender Pasts
Various Speakers
3-Day International Conference - Global Gender: Pasts, Presents, Futures
09:30 - Colloquium 2024: Children and politics
Various Speakers
Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
10:00 - SYMPOSIUM ‘Women Collectors of Natural History in Nineteenth-Century Britain’
Various Speakers
Maison Française d'Oxford Events
10:30 - Practical AI in teaching and learning workshop
Various Speakers

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