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LECTURES ON EAST ASIAN BUDDHISM AND ZEN

Oslo University, August 25th - 27th 2008

In connection with the conference on Zen Buddhism in Rosendal the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS) will arrange a series of lectures on East Asian Buddhism with special focus on Zen Buddhism. The lectures will be held by residential scholars and international scholars attending the conference. This is a tentative list of lectures.Note that topics / time can be subject to change. The place for the lectures will be announced soon. Each lecture will last for ca. one hour plus ca. 20 min. of discussion time.
Abstracts of the lectures will eventually be uploaded.
This page will be regularly updated - please check often!

All lectures are open to the public and aim at a general audience. We ask participants from outside the Univ. of Oslo to kindly send an e-mail to zenconference@yahoo.com and indicate which of the lectures you are planning to attend (indicated by the letter preceding the lecture title). This will help us to determine the appropriate room-size and other organizational questions.
Please direct inquiries to Christoph Anderl.
Students of REL1030 please contact Hanna Havnevik.

Monday, 25th 2008
(location: Rådssalen, 12th floor administration building)

A 09:30 Jens Braarvig (IKOS): The Foundation of Indian Mahāyāna Buddhism

B 11:00 Christoph Anderl (IKOS): Introduction of Buddhism to China - Material and Religious Culture along the Silk Road

C 13:00 Hanna Havnevik (IKOS): An Introduction to Tibetan and Mongolian Buddhism

D 14:30 Mark Teeuwen (IKOS): An Introduction to Japanese Buddhism

E 16:00 Halvor Eifring (IKOS): Traditions of Meditation in Buddhism

Tuesday, 26th 2008
(location: Room 205, Forskingsparken)

F 09:30 Jörg Plassen (Ruhr Univ. Bochum): Korea's Mahāyāna Philosophy

G 11:00 Vladimir Tikhonov (IKOS): Buddhism and Society in Modern Korea

H 14:00 Mario Poceski (Florida Univ.): Monastic and Lay Practices in Classical Chan (Zen) Buddhism

I 15:30 Jongmyung Kim (Graduate School of Korean Studies): Printing Culture in the Context of Zen - The Zen Thought of Chikchi and its Significance in East Asian Buddhism

19:00 Hyon Gak Sunim (Seoul International Zen Center): Lecture on Contemporary Korean Son/Zen Practice (for this lecture / location please contact this address)

Wednesday, 27th 2008
(location: Georg Sverdrups hus (Univ. library building), undervisningsrom 2; possibly Pharmacy building, auditorium 1)

J 09:00 Bart Dessein (Univ. of Gent): Abhidharma Literature in China - Origin and Development of Sarvastivada Abhidharma Literature

K 10:30 Christian Wittern (Kyoto Univ.): Text and Tradition in Chinese Buddhism

N 13:30 Hans-Rudolf Kantor (Huafan Univ.): Concepts of Time in Chinese Tiantai and Huayan Buddhism

L 15:00 William Bodiford (UCLA): Zen in Rural Areas in Late Medieval Japan

M 16:30 Robert Buswell (UCLA): The Zen Monastic Experience