| Lecture# |
Date |
Speake Guest |
Topic |
| 1 |
Nov 21 (Fri) |
Wang Bangwei |
Searching for the Dharma in the West: the Buddhist
Pilgrims on the Silk Road |
| 2 |
Nov 25 (Tue) |
J. Hartmann |
Between Rome and China: the Formation of Silk
Road Buddhism |
| 3 |
Nov 26 (Wed) |
J. Hartmann |
Texts Travel East: Indian Buddhist Literature
on the Silk Road |
| 4 |
Dec 11 (Thur) |
Lee Chack-Fan |
Buddhist History of Central Asia |
| 5 |
Dec 15 (Mon) |
Max Deeg |
Why is the Buddha Riding on an Elephant? The
Role of G_ndh_r_ in the Process of the Transmission of the
Dharma to the East |
| 6 |
Dec 18 (Thur) |
Max Deeg |
Buddhist Founding Myths in Central Asia: The
Case of Khotan |
| 7 |
Jan 5 (Mon) |
S. Teiser |
Mediation and Memorialization: a Chinese/ Uighur
Cave in Ninth Century Kucha |
| 8 |
Jan 7 (Wed) |
S. Teiser |
Samsara and Paradise: Cave 19 at Yulin of Anxi
in the Tenth Century |
| 9 |
Jan 14 (Wed) |
C. Willemen |
Buddhist Scholasticism and the Spreading of
Buddhism: the Early Abhidharma on the Silk Road |
| 10 |
Jan 15 (Thu) |
C. Willemen |
Buddhist Iconometry of the 14-18th Centuries:
From Kashmir to Beijing |
Prof. Dr. Wang Bangwei is now teaching as a Visiting Professor
at the Centre of Buddhist Studies of Hong Kong University. He
is from the Academy of Oriental Studies, Peking University, Beijing.
His research and teaching fields include Sanskrit language, Sanskrit
Buddhist text and literature, history of Indian Buddhism and history
of Sino-Indian cultural relations. The ancient Buddhist pilgrims
and their accounts are among his specialties.
Prof. Dr. Jens-Uwe Hartmann is now teaching at the Institute
of Indian and Iranian Studies, University of Munich, Germany.
His fields include Sanskrit, Tibetan, Sanskrit Buddhist text studies,
particularly those from Turfan and other parts on the Silk Road.
Since 1980s he has joined the well-known Turfanfunden Research
Project at Geottingen, Germany. Since 1998 He has been again actively
involved in an international Project on the Buddhist Manuscripts
of the Schoyen Collection. These Manuscripts, being among the
oldest ones, were discovered in Afghanistan in about 1996. Tibetan
literature history is also his interest.
Prof. Dr. Lee Chack-Fan is the Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University
of Hong Kong and the Dean of Hong Kong Buddhist College.
Prof. Dr. Max Deeg is now teaching in the Religious Studies Program,
the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the University of Vienna,
Austria. His fields include Sanskrit classics, religions in ancient
India, Sino-Indian Buddhist relations and Chinese Buddhist accounts
of India and central Asia. He is going to publish a book on the
early fifth century Chinese Buddhist pilgrim monk Faxian in Germany.
Prof. Stephen F. Teiser is now holding the Chair of D.T. Suzuki
Professorship in Buddhist Studies at the Religion Department of
Princeton University, USA. His specialty is in Buddhism and other
believes in medieval China, particularly those in Dunhuang area.
His books, The Ghost Festival in Medieval China and The Scripture
on the Ten Kings, received very good comments both from academic
world and general readers.
Prof. Charles Willemen is from East Asian Department of Ghent
University, Belgium. He is an Elected Member of the Royal Academy
of Belgium. Since 1970s he has published a number of academic
works on Buddhism, including books on Buddhist scholasticism,
the Abhidharma. He is now teaching as a visiting professor at
the Department of Religious Studies of Calgary University, Canada.
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