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Kate Crosby
University of Oxford
https://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/professor-kate-crosby
Events this person is hosting:
Monday 4 December 2023
14:00
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Mapping the City of the Gods: Bangkok, Ethnicity, and the Galactic Polity
Justin McDaniel
(University of Pennsylvania)
Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series
Monday 24 June 2024
17:00
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Meditation and Abhidhamma
For online audience: Zoom Meeting ID: 562 211 2020 Passcode: 111222
TBA
Events this person is organising:
Monday 4 December 2023
14:00
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Mapping the City of the Gods: Bangkok, Ethnicity, and the Galactic Polity
Justin McDaniel
(University of Pennsylvania)
Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series
Friday 21 June 2024
11:30
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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
13:30
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“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
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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
14:10
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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
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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
15:30
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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Zhao You
(Peking University)
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Lu Lu
(Zhejiang University)
Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
Saturday 22 June 2024
09:00
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
15:30
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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
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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
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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
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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
17:00
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Meditation and Abhidhamma
For online audience: Zoom Meeting ID: 562 211 2020 Passcode: 111222
TBA
