The XIIth Conference of the IABS has come and gone. Sincere thanks to all of the 250 some odd participants.
To those who didn't make it: that's the way it goes---see you in Bangkok for the next one.
- Tom J.F. Tillemans, Ex-president of the Organizing Committee

Friday August 27, 1999

14:00 - 17:30
Room 122

Panel : Buddhism and Pure Land

Convener : Dr. Jerome Ducor
(Dept of Oriental Languages and Cultures, Lausanne Univ.)

Panel Programme

Mark Blum (Bukkyo University, Kyoto) : Kôsai and the Ichinengi Controversy: Mysticism and Antinomianism in Kamakura Pure Land
Luis O. Gomez Rodríguez (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) : Jinrei : The Buddhist Apologete as Scholar
Christoph Kleine (Philipps-Universität, Marburg) : Reflections upon the impact of Hônen's nenbutsu doctrine on non-scholastic literature of the Kamakura Japan
Robert F. Rhodes (Ôtani University, Kyoto) : Yôkan's Interpretation of Nembutsu Practice
Shi Zhiru (University of Arizona, Tucson) : Dizang (Ksitigarbha) Belief and Pure Land Developments : A Missing Piece in the History of Medieval Chinese Buddhism

Aaron Powell (Lancaster University, UK) : Representations of the Pure Land in the 'Three Periods of Mindfulness (Sanshi Xinian)' ceremony CANCELLED (06/25/1999)

Related papers in other Sections/Panels :
Wednesday August 25, 14:00-17:00, Room 126 : Section Mahâyânasûtras
Friday August 27, 09:00-12:00, Room 121 : Panel Early Mahâyâna and Mahâyânasûtras (1)
- Gomez, Luis O. : Two Ratnakûta texts on the purified buddha-field
- Harrison, Paul : On the Autorship of the Oldest Chinese Translation of the Larger Sukhâvatîvyûha
- Nattier, Jan : Arhats in the Pure Land : A New Look at the Place of the Srâvaka Vehicle in Early Mahâyâna Texts

Conference Programme available for download :
PDF version
PostScript version, PostScript for 2-up double-side printing: Recto, Verso
Conference's papers' abstracts available for download :
PDF version (ca. 850 KB)
Gzipped PostScript version (ca. 860KB), Gzipped PostScript version for 2-up printing (ca. 860 KB)
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