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Friday 21 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term) , continued from previous page

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
16:30 - 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)

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
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
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)

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