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Friday 21 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

09:00 - Balliol Welcoming Panel
Elena Lombardi (Balliol College), John-Paul Ghobrial (Balliol College), Nicola Trott (Balliol College), Diego Zancani (Balliol College), Christine Borgman (UCLA), Joanna Weinberg (Exeter College)
Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
09:15 - Antimicrobial immunity and intestinal inflammation
In-person only
Prof Holm Uhlig (WIMM, HIU)
MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
11:00 - Conditioned Arising in Buddhism and Biology: Lessons from the Commentaries of Won Hyo, and Stefano Zacchetti’s work on the Da Zhidu Lun
Professor Denis Noble (University of Oxford)
Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
11:30 - Translating Medicine Across Cultures: The Divergent Strategies of An Shigao and Dharmarakṣa in Introducing Indian Medical Concepts to China
Lu Lu (Zhejiang University)
Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
12:00 - A Commentarial Fork in the Road: A Parting of Ways in the Indian and Chinese Versions of the Ratnagotravibhāga
Christopher V. Jones (University of Vienna)
Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
13:30 - “Best of Sages” or “Seventh of Sages”: Isi-sattama in Pāli Atthakathā
Qingniao Li (University of Oxford)
Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
13:50 - A commentary as Buddhavacana: The composition of the Vinayavibhaṅga and its interplay with the Sūtra-Piṭaka
Ven. Wanyu Zhang (Farong) (University of Oxford)
Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
14:00 - The musicality of mental time travel
Prof Nicola Clayton (University of Cambridge), Mark Baldwin (University of Cambridge)
Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
14:10 - In Praise of the Eminent Monk: Remarks on the Life and Works of Dharmarakṣa 竺法護 through the Study of Colophons
Yunyao Zhai (Harvard University)
Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
14:30 - Traces and Fragments of Early Prajñāpāramitā Exegesis in Anonymous Quotations in the Da zhidu lun (*Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa)
Ven. Tuan Huynh (University of Oxford)
Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
15:00 - Enhancer cooperativity can compensate for loss of activity over large genomic distances
Dr Christa Buecker (Max Perutz Labs)
15:30 - Inviting the Perfection of Wisdom to Tibet: Translation, Circulation, and the Role of Inventories
Ulrike Roesler (University of Oxford)
Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
16:00 - Atiśa’s Commentary on the “Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines”
Marek Mejor (University of Warsaw)
Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
16:15 - The Return of the Mermaid: Revitilizing the Lerma Wetlands in the highlands of Central Mexico with the guidance of the Mother of the Waters
Mindahi Bastida and Geraldine Encina
Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series
16:30 - Not so adamantine after all: the influence of commentary on the textual development of the Vajracchedikā
Paul Harrison (Stanford University)
Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
18:15 - Stefano Zacchetti’s Last (Posthumous) Monograph, its Significance, and Its Place in his Scholarship
This talk is part of the evening programme on Stefano Zacchetti’s Writings: Talks and Book Launch
Michael Radich (Heidelberg University)
Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
18:45 - The Unpublished Scholarly Legacy of Stefano Zacchetti: a Few Remarks
This talk is part of the evening programme on Stefano Zacchetti’s Writings: Talks and Book Launch
Jonathan Silk (Leiden University)
Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
19:15 - The translators of Stefano’s Dazhidulun Monograph into Chinese
This talk is part of the evening programme on Stefano Zacchetti’s Writings: Talks and Book Launch
Chen Jinhua (University of British Columbia), Zhao You (Peking University)
Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond

Saturday 22 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

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