2012 Chulalongkorn-EFEO International Conference on Buddhist Studies

2012 Chulalongkorn-EFEO International Conference on Buddhist Studies
Imagination, Narrative, and Localization

6-7 January 2012
Room 304, Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Building
Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University

Day 1: Friday, 6 January 2012

7.30 - 8.30 Registration
9.00 - 9.15 Opening ceremony presided over by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn
9.15 - 10.00 Keynote speech (I)
Representing the opponents: brahmanas and others in the Jatakas Kumkum Roy
10.00 - 10.45 Keynote speech (II)
Mapping Burma and Northern Thailand in 1795 - Francis Buchanan- Hamilton?s critical accounts of native maps
Jacques Leider
10.45 - 11.15 Tea and coffee
 

Section I - Chair: Hwang Soonil

11.15 - 11.45 The notion of 'force majeure' in the Three Seals Law Code and the Cambodian Legal Codes of 1891 Olivier de Bernon
11.45 - 12.15 Display and installation: uses of the Buddha's word in Early Southeast Asia
Peter Skilling
12.15 - 13.30 Lunch
 

Section II - Chair: Justin McDaniel

13.30 - 14.00 Early Buddhism in Laos: insights from archaeology Michel Lorrillard
14.00 - 14.30 Anant Laulertvorakul
14.30 - 15.00 Manuscriptology and literature: reflecting on northern Thai Buddhist chronicles François Lagirarde
15.00 - 15.30 Tea and coffee
 

Section III - Chair: Ulrich Timme Kragh

15.30 - 16.00 Hermits and the question of Hinduism in Thailand Justin McDaniel
16.00 - 16.30 Rethinking Thai Buddhist missions Ven. Anil Sugandha Dhammasakiyo
16.30 - 17.00 Discussion

Day 2: Saturday, 7 January 2012

Section IV - Chair: François Lagirarde

9.00 - 9.30 Buddhist vocabulary and doctrines in medieval Shinto texts: the case of the fourteenth chapter of the Reikiki Iyanaga Nobumi
9.30 - 10.00 A comparative Study of the Pali and Sanskrit versions of the Ratnasutra Chanwit Tudkeao
10.00 - 10.30 Seven Buddhist female authors from Uddiyana, Northwestern Pakistan, in the ninth to eleventh centuries Ulrich Timme Kragh
10.30 - 11.00 Tea and coffee
 

Section V - Chair: Arthid Sheravanichkul

11.00 - 11.30 Saving animals and winning a war: the war between the devas and the asuras in the Kulvakajtaka Hwang Soonil
11.30 - 12.00 Jatakas value-added Thai amulets Sukanya Sujachaya
12.00 - 12.30 Monks, miracles and sacredness: the construction of Thai Phra Kechi Achan images through sets of miraculous events in their life histories Saipan Puriwanchana
 

12.30 - 14.00 Lunch

Section VI - Chair: Potprecha Cholvijarn

14.00 - 14.30 The story of Buddhapalita: an Indian monk in Wutaishan Liying Kuo
14.30 - 15.00 Xuanzang and the Dhyana schools Frédéric Girard
15.00 - 15.30 The way to paradise: the Chinese legends of the Buddhapada at Saraburi Arthid Sheravanichkul
15.30 - 16.00 Tea and coffee

Section VII - Chair: Chanwit Tudkeao

16.00 - 16.30 An analysis of and Ayutthaya meditation method: the diagrams of Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha qualities Potprecha Cholvijarn
16.30 - 17.00 Narratives of the four assemblies in Wat Pho inscriptions Warangkhana Srikamnerd
17.00 - 17.30 Discussion
17.30 Closing ceremony