Jens Wilhelm Borgland
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AbstractI propose to make available for the first time the Sanskrit text of the naihsargika section of Gunaprabha's auto-commentary on the Vinaya-sutra, the Vinayasutravrttyabhidhanasvavyakhyana through the study of a unique and hitherto unstudied Sanskrit manuscript. The project will make important contributions to the study of the development of Buddhist monastic law and Sanskrit-Tibetan lexicography. Presenting the first English translation of this section of the VSS, I will analyse how the core rules regarding the allowed property of Buddhist monks, as well as social relations between monks and nuns, were interpreted in 7th c. Indian Buddhist monastic law.
Independent Scholar
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A First Edition, Translation and Study of the Sanskrit Text of the Naihsargika Section of Gunaprabha's Vinayasutravrttyabhidhanasvavyakhyana – His Auto-Commentary on the Vinayasutra
the Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University
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Claire R. Maes
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AbstractThis project studies the dialogic influence of ascetic others, in particular the Jain other, on the early Buddhist monastic community’s identity development and boundary negotiation. Starting from the premise that ascetic others played a central role in the early Buddhist community’s development, this project investigates how and how much of their dialogic influence can still be traced in the Pali Vinaya, being the monastic code of the Theravada school. It examines the manner how this normative monastic text acknowledges, integrates, and deals with the Buddhist monk’s ascetic others. Conceiving identity negotiation as an intrinsically relational and dynamic process, this study further examines the way how the Pali Vinaya develops a ‘Buddhist’ identity rhetoric vis-à-vis its ascetic others, whether real or imagined.
Lecturer, Languages and Cultures, Universiteit Gent, Belgium
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Dialogues With(in) the Pali Vinaya. A Research into the Dynamics and Dialectics of the Pali Vinaya’s Ascetic Other, with a Special Focus on the Jain Ascetic Other
the Department of Asian Studies, University of Texas, Austin
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Vincent Breugem
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AbstractThis project focuses on a pioneering Zen movement known as Darumashū (School of Bodhidharma), founded by the monk Dainichibō Nōnin (fl. 1189). Though a central agent of early Zen in Japan, the Darumashū was later dismissed as heterodox by competing Buddhist groups, and consigned to the margins of the historical narrative. Using long-neglected sources and recently discovered documents the project uncovers the doctrinal and ritual dimensions of the Darumashū, and reinserts the movement into medieval Buddhist history and discourse.
Independent Scholar
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Darumashu: Japan's Forgotten Zen School
the Centre for Buddhist Studies, University of London
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