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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20240817T083000
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SUMMARY:Buddhist Philosophy between India and China: From Madhyamaka to Sanlun
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DESCRIPTION:<p>As part of a Starting Grant funded by the European Research Council devoted to the study of Chinese Buddhist philosophy\, a workshop on &lsquo\;Buddhist Philosophy between India and China: From Madhyamaka to Sanlun&rsquo\; is scheduled to be held at the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia (IKGA)\, part of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW)\, in Vienna on 17-18 August 2024.</p>\n<p>The research project of which this workshop forms parts is titled&nbsp\;<em>The Ethics of Empty Beliefs: Chinese Buddhist Philosophy in the &lsquo\;Period of Disunity&rsquo\;</em>&nbsp\;(ChinBuddhPhil). Centrally concerned with the Sanlun&nbsp\;三論&nbsp\;school most closely associated with Sengzhao&nbsp\;僧肇&nbsp\;and Jizang&nbsp\;吉藏\, the project intends to study Sanlun&rsquo\;s contributions to Chinese Buddhist philosophy in historical and systematic manner\, with an especial focus on the ethics of belief. In so doing\, the project hopes to transform the conventional understanding of philosophically valuable traditions by demonstrating that Chinese Buddhist philosophers merit consideration not only as historical artifacts but as genuinely interesting and insightful contributors to live philosophical problems. It likewise aims to&nbsp\;redress the preponderant exclusion of Chinese perspectives from philosophically oriented scholarship in&nbsp\;Buddhist studies\, and to do so in a manner that bridges it with philologically oriented Buddhology.</p>\n<p>This workshop will be devoted to Sanlun in conversation with its Indian antecedents. More particularly\, the aim is to study the transmission of religious and/or/cum philosophical ideas and arguments between Buddhist South Asia and the Chinese world in the early centuries of the common era\, specifically in a bid to unearth and evaluate Chinese Sanlun&rsquo\;s distinctive contributions to and elaborations on Indian Madhyamaka.</p>\n<p><strong>Schedule</strong></p>\n<p><u>Saturday 17 August 2024</u></p>\n<p>08.30-09.00. Coffee</p>\n<p>09.00-09.20. Welcome and Introduction. Rafal K. Stepien</p>\n<p>09.20-10.00. 'Nāgārjuna&rsquo\;s&nbsp\;<em>Twelve Gates Treatise</em>&nbsp\;(十二門論)? A Contribution to Chinese Madhyamaka/Sanlun Buddhist Philosophy'. Rafal K. Stepien</p>\n<p>10.00-10.40. 'Trapped in Language: Shared Metaphors for Reevaluating the Role of Speech Acts (<em>karmavacana</em>) in Madhyamaka'. Maria Electra Pacini</p>\n<p>10.40-11.00. Coffee Break</p>\n<p>11.00-11.40. '<em>Zhong lun</em>&nbsp\;and&nbsp\;<em>Dazhidu lun</em>&nbsp\;in China: Interpretation of\, and Interpreting with\, the&nbsp\;<em>Madhyamakakārikā</em>s\, on Agentless Ethical Action'. Matthew Orsborn</p>\n<p>11.40-12.20. 'The Nature of the Sengzhao Trick: A Key Term in the&nbsp\;<em>Zhaolun</em>&nbsp\;and a Sinitic Response to Madhyamaka'. Rafal Felbur</p>\n<p>12.30-14.30. Lunch (speakers only)</p>\n<p>14.30-15.10. 'Resolving a Madhyamaka Puzzle'. Chien-hsing Ho</p>\n<p>15.10-15.50. 'Double Negation: How Sēngzh&agrave\;o Applies the Zhuāngzǐ to Resolve Riddles of Purity in Classical Mādhyamaka Thought'. James Garrison</p>\n<p>15.50-16.30. 'Jizang on the Mutual Identity between the Two Truths: A Critical Reassessment of the Semantic Non-Dualist Reading of the Two Truths Doctrine as it Pertains to Sinitic Madhyamaka Buddhism'. Ernest B. Brewster</p>\n<p><u>Sunday 18 August 2024</u></p>\n<p>08.30-09.00. Coffee</p>\n<p>09.00-09.40. 'Comparative Background for the Study of the Two Truths in Post-Nāgārjunian Madhyamaka Exegesis'. Jackson Macor</p>\n<p>09.40-10.20. 'Sanlun Master Jizang&rsquo\;s Nonduality of Speech and Silence'. Hans-Rudolf Kantor</p>\n<p>10.20-10.40. Coffee Break</p>\n<p>10.40-11.20. '<em>Guan</em>: Jizang&rsquo\;s Entering of the Middle Way'. John Zhao</p>\n<p>11.20-12.00. 'Is Emptiness Non-empty? A Study of Jizang&rsquo\;s Conceptions of Emptiness and Buddha-nature'. Jenny Hung</p>\n<p>12.00-12.10. Concluding Remarks. Rafal K. Stepien</p>\n<p>12.10-19.00. Break</p>\n<p>19.00-21.00. Workshop Reception &amp\; Dinner (speakers only)</p>\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Website</strong></p>\n<p>For further information regarding the workshop\, please see:</p>\n<p>https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/ikga/events/event-detail/buddhist-philosophy-between-india-and-china</p>\n<p>For further information regarding the project overall\, please see:</p>\n<p>https://www.oeaw.ac.at/projects/chinbuddhphil</p>\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Registration</strong></p>\n<p>To register for on-site participation\, please write to&nbsp\;rafal.stepien(at)oeaw.ac.at&nbsp\;before Friday\, August 9\, 2024.</p>
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