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1 Buddhist Meeting ( ) Prof. Dr. Johaness Bronkhorst, University of Lausanne, Switzerland ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) Mr. Peter Skilling, Curator for Fragile Palm Leaves Project, Bangkok, Thailand Two Buddhas on a Single Throne: Prabhūtaratna or Candanabimba? ( ) ( ) Prof. Dr. Lambert Schmithausen, Institut für Kultur und Geschichte Indiens und Tibets der Universität, Universität Hamburg Śūnyatā Detachment and Caring for Others: Two Poles of Buddhist Spirituality ( ) Dr. Lore Sander, i.r. Museum für Indische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin The Donor Dhanyasena on a Sino-Tibetan Blockprint from the Museum of Indian Art, Berlin Buddhist Meeting - 1 -

2 ( ) ( ) ( ) Dr. Wang Bangwei, Academy of Oriental Studies, Peking University Yījing s Travel and the Mūlasarvāstivādin Vinaya Tradition in India ( ) -- Dr. Daniel Boucher, Associate Professor, University of Cornell, Ithaca, NY The Transmission of Barbarian Manuscripts to Chine: Another Source for Identifying Early Kharoṣṭhī Texts ( ) Dr. Lore Sander, i.r. Museum für Indische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin The Importance of the Schøyen Collection for the Development of the Brāhmī Script in the Greater Gandhāra ( ) Prof. Dr. Charles Willemen, Ghent University, Belgium The Spread of the Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma ( ) Prof. Dr. Charles Muller, Tōyō Gakuen University Two Hindrances of the Yogācāra transformated by the Awakening of Faith, Weonhyo and the Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment ( ) Prof. Dr. Jens Braarvig, Department of Cultural Studies, University of Oslo The Thesaurus Litteraturae Buddhicae - a new attempt on Buddhist lexicography ( ) Buddhist Meeting - 2 -

3 Dr. Imre Hamar, Associate Professor, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary Buddhist Studies in Hungary: Past and Present ( ) Prof. Dr. Jens-Uwe Hartmann, Institut für Indologie und Iranistik, Universität München The Structure and the Contents of the Dīrgha-āgama of the (Mūla-)Sarvāstivādin Remarks on the Sanskrit Manuscript Recently Discovered in Pakistan ( ) Dr. Michael Hahn, Professor of Indology and Tibetology at the Philipps-University of Marburg What cannot be fathomed by one who is not a tathāgata? On the art of composing monolingual and bilingual riddles in Sanskrit ( ) Dr. Jan Nattier, Associate Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN "A New Look at the Translations of Zhi Qian ( )" ( ) A -- Prof. Dr. Jean-Noël A. Robert, Section des Sciences Religieuses, École Pratique des Hautes Études ( ) (bhagavat) Dr. Max Deeg, Professor of Religious Stuides, University of Vienna The World Honored One Bhagavat: A Case of Sino-Buddhist Mistranslation? ( ) Dr. Paul Harrison, Univerisity of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Getting a clearer picture of the Western Paradise: the Larger Sukhāvatīvyūhasūtra in birch-bark, paper and stone ( ) Dr. Linda Penkaw, Assoc. Professor, University of Pittsburgh On Hermeneutics and Polemics On Guess Who s Coming to Dinner In the Jin ganbei Buddhist Meeting - 3 -

4 ( ) Prof. Dr. Jens-Uwe Hartmann, Institut für Indologie und Iranistik, Universität München The present state of research on the various versions of the Long Collection (Dīrghāgama/Dīghanikāya) ( ) (?-713) Dr. CHEn Jinhua, Assoc. Professor, Canada Research Chair in East Asia Religions, University of British Columbia Lost page in the History of Tang Politics and Buddhism: With Special References to the Indian 'Evil Monk' Huifan (?-713) ( ) = ORC Prof. Dr. Kenneth G. Zysk, Department of Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen Medicine and Buddhism ( ) = ORC A ( ) ( Assist. Prof., Dr. Jonathan A. Silk, Department of Asian Languages & Cultures, UCLA Relics of Mistranslation?: Indic śarīra and Chinese shèlì in the Mahåparinirvāṇa-sūtra and Saddharmapuṇḍarīka ( ) = ORC Prof. Dr. Oskar von Hinüber, Freiburg University Daily Life in Buddhist Monasteries in Ancient India ( ) = ORC Prof. Dr. John R. McRae, Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University Buddhism, Sinicization and Imperial State Formation in East Asia ( ) = ORC Prof. Dr. Malcolm David Eckel, Department of Religion, Boston University Bhavya and His Buddhist Opponents ( ) = ORC Dr. Peter Zieme, Leader of the research group "Turfan Studies" at the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Buddhist Meeting - 4 -

5 Sciences and Humanities The uigur versions of the Lotus Sutra with special reference to the metamorphoses of Avalokiteśvara ( ) = ORC Prof. Dr. Victor H. Mair, Pennsylvania University Buddho-Taoist Interactions in Early Medieval China ( ) ORC Prof. Dr. Guangchang FANG, Shanghai Normal University ( ) ORC - Dr. Margarita I. Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya, The St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences The Central Asian Manuscript Collection of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences ( ) = ORC Dr. Monika Zin, University of München The Problem of the Textual Affiliations of the Narrative Reliefs from Amaravati ( ) = ORC Prof. Dr. DUAN Qing, University of Peking New Discovered Khotanese Texts ( ) = ORC Prof. Dr. Johannes Bronkhorst, Section de langues et civilisations orientales, Université de Lausanne Buddhist relics: their background and religious and cultural context ( ) = ORC Dr. KUO Liying, Directeur d études à l École Française d Extrême-Orient Chinese Translations of the Sūtra of the Dhāraṇī of the Victory of Buddha s Sinciput and its Cult ( ) = ORC Buddhist Meeting - 5 -

6 Dr. Suzan Whitfield, The British Library IDP: The Silk Road Online ( ) = 15 ORC Dr. Lore Sander, Ex-curator, Indian Museum, Berlin Remarks on the South Turkestan Brāhmī and its Variants ( ) = 16 ORC Dr. Richard Salomon, University of Washington Buddhism Then and Now: What we are learning from Gandharan manuscripts ( ) = 17 ORC I - Dr. Margarita I. Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya, The St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences The St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences Berezovsky and his expedition to Kucha ( ) = 18 ORC Prof. emer. Dr. Oskar von Hinüber, Freiburg University Who were the first Buddhist nuns? A contribution to the earliest history of Buddhism ( ) = 19 ORC Prof. RHI Juhyung, Seoul National University The Fate of a Bowl: Representations of the Buddha s Bowl and Indian Buddhism ( ) = 20 ORC Dr. Peter Skilling, l'école française d'extrême-orient, Bangkok Phanigiri, Andhra Pradesh: a newly excavated stūpa complex ( ) = 21 ORC Buddhist Meeting - 6 -

7 Mr. YE Shaoyong, Peking University A Preliminary Survey of Sanskrit Manuscripts of the Mādhyamika Texts Preserved in the Tibet Autonomous ( ) = 22 ORC Prof. Jonathan A. Silk, Leiden University Chinese Apocrypha and the Formation of Mahāyāna Sūtras ( ) ( ) Prof. Robert Ford Campany, Department of religion, University of Southern California Dr. Sylvie Hureau, Department of Religious Studies, École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris The Meanings of Buddhist Zhai in Early Medieval China ( ) Dr. Ingo Strauch, DFG, Die Bajaur Collection: Identifikation und Edition buddhistischer Kharoṣṭhī- Handschriften Gandhāran Buddhism and early Mahāyāna: new evidence from the Bajaur Collection of Kharoṣṭhī manuscripts ( ) Dr. Peter Skilling, l'école française d'extrême-orient, Bangkok Problems with Milinda-pañhā: Questions raised by the Siamese Recension ( ) Dr. Michael David Radich, Victoria University of Wellington Embodiments of the Buddha in Sarvâstivāda Doctrine: With Special Reference to the *Mahāvibhāṣā ( ) Buddhist Meeting - 7 -

8 Prof. Dr. Harry Falk, Free University of Berlin Buddhism in contact with other religions in the era of the early Kushanas ( ) ( ) ( ) Dr. Haiyen Hu-von Hinüber, Freiburg University Faxian s [ ] Perception of India Some New Interpretation of the Fuguo Ji ( ) Dr. Luo Hong, Assistant, China Tibetology Research Center The Recensions of Guṇaprabha s Vinayasūtra ( ) Kanganahalli ( ) Prof. emer. Dr. Oskar von Hinüber, Freiburg University Bronzes of the Ancient Buddhist Kingdom of Gilgit and Royal Patronage in Early North Western India and Pakistan ( ) Prof. emer. Dr. Oskar von Hinüber, Freiburg University Buddhist Schools as Represented in Inscriptions and Images in Ancient India ( ) Prof. Dr. Eli Franco, Institute for Indology, University of Leibzig Once Again on the Desires of the Buddha Buddhist Meeting - 8 -

9 ( ) ( ) ( ) Dr. Safarali H. Shomakhmadov, Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of Russian Academy of Sciences The History of Buddhology in Russia ( ) Dr. Lore SANDER, ex-curator, Museum of Indian Art, Berlin Tokharian Royals in Kizil Caves Prof. emer. Dr. Harry FALK, Free University of Berlin Wine in the Buddhist Monasteries of Gandhāra ( ) Prof. emer. Dr. Oskar von Hinüber, Freiburg University Scribes, Leaves and Manuscripts: The Pāli Manuscript Tradition in South and South East Asia ( ) Prof. emer. Dr. Peter ZIEME, Free University of Berlin Old Uigur Buddhism. Generalities and Peculiarities ( ) ( ) Prof. emer. Dr. Oskar von Hinüber, Freiburg University The Inscriptions at Kanaganahalli: A Preliminary Assessment Buddhist Meeting - 9 -

10 ( ) Mr. Isao KURITA, Eurasian Art Inc., Tokyo Indian traditions and Greek and Roman elements in Gandharan art Fragmentary thoughts based on the excavated articles ( ) Dr. Sun Yinggang, Fudan University Vinaya, Evendential Miracles and Daily Life: Diet in Buddhist Monasteris of Sui-Tang Chang'an City ( ) Prof. RHI Juhyung, Seoul National University Iconography Matters?: Reading Buddha Images in Pre-Esoteric Buddhist Art ( ) Prof. M. Nasim Khan, Peshawar University Excavation at the Buddhist Site of Aziuz Dheri (Gandhāra) and its Impact on the History of the Region ( ) Ye Shaoyong, Associate Professor, Peking University Svabhāva in Nāgārjuna s context Buddhist Meeting

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