Program on 10 August 2010 (International Conference – Buddhist Narrative in Asia and Beyond)

NARRATIVE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA (1)
     Room: Queen’s Park 1
     Chair: Sunait Chutintaranond

 

09:00-10:15

 

The ‘Journeys to Jetavana’: Poetic and Idéologic Elaborations of the Remembrance of Jetavana in Southeast Asia, and Namely in Cambodia
     Olivier de Bernon
     – EFEO

 

Narratives as Ritual Histories: The Case of the Northern-Thai Buddhist Chronicles
     François Lagirarde
     – EFEO

 

Life and Biography of King Alaungmintaya of Burma (1752-60): Religious Dimensions of a Political Metamorphosis
     Jacques Leider
     – EFEO

 

10:15-10:35

 

Break

 

NARRATIVE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA (2)
     Room: Queen’s Park 1
     Chair: Himanshu Prabha Ray

 

10:35-12:15

 

Tamnan Phrachao Liap Loke (The Legend of the Lord Buddha's Travelling around the World): Lan Na Monastic Wisdom
     Prakong Nimmannahaeminda
     – The Royal Institute, Thailand

 

Buddhist Narrative in Vietnamese History and Literature
     Most Ven. Le Manh That
     – Vietnam Buddhist University

 

Some notes on Thai exegesis of Vessantarajātaka
     Claudio Cicuzza
     – Mahidol University

 

A Forest of Images, a Forest of Stories: Overlapping Narratives and Intertwined Ideologies at one Monastery in Bangkok
     Justin McDaniel
     – University of Pennsylvania

12:15-13:15

 

Lunch

 

NARRATIVE & REPRESENTATION (1)
     Room: Queen’s Park 1
     Chair: Prakong Nimmannahaeminda

 

13:15-15:00

 

Two Popular Buddhist Images in Thailand
     Toshiya Unebe
     – Nagoya University

 

Iconographic Development of the Miracle of Śrāvastī at the Ajaṇṭā Caves
     Yasuko Fukuyama
     – Chubu University

 

In Search of Maitreya: Early Images of Dvaravati Buddha at Si Thep
     M.L. Pattaratorn Chirapravati
     – California State University

 

Pala Prajnaparamita Palm-leaf Manuscript Painting: Defining the Narrative
     John Guy 
     – Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

15:00-15:20

 

Break

 

 

NARRATIVE & REPRESENTATION (2)
     Room: Queen’s Park 1
     Chair: Suppakorn Disatapundhu

 

15:20-17:00

 

Representation of Buddha’s Parinirvāņa at Kizil Caves, Kucha
     Chongfeng Li
     – Peking University

 

Formation of Andhran Buddhist Narrative: A Preliminary Survey
     Akira Shimada
     – State University of New York at New Paltz

 

Māndhātar, the Universal Monarch, and the Meaning of the Cakravartin Topos in Early Buddhism
     Monika Zin
     – der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet