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