January 7 - 8, 2016
Nirvana Sutra Workshop Schedule
Thursday, January 7 2016
9:30-9:45AM
9:45-10:00AM
10:00-10:30AM
10:30-10:45AM
10:45-11:30AM
11:30-12:00PM
12:15-1:15PM
1:15-2:00PM
2:00-2:40PM
2:40-3:15PM
3:15-3:30PM
3:30-4:15PM
4:15-5:00PM
Mark Blum, UC Berkeley
Masahiro Shimoda, U. of Tokyo
Robert Grochowski, Shinnyo-en
Break
Takayasu Suzuki, Yamaguchi Pref. U.
Paul Harrison, Stanford
Lunch Break
Hiromi Habata, U. of Munich
Chris Jones, Oxford University
Shimoda, Harrison, Suzuki, Habata
Break
Hiroshi Kanno, Soka U.
Teruma Nishimoto, Musashino U.
Welcome Remarks, book proposal
Welcome Remarks, introductory comments on the workshop; introduce Robert Grochowski
Shinsō Itō Talk
“The Influence of the MMPNS in India”
Reads “The Mahāparinirvāṇa-mahāsūtra as ‘Our First’ Source for Tathāgatagarbha, and Implications for the Inception of the Doctrine” by Michael Radich
“The Conflict with the opponent traced in the Mahāparinirvāṇa-mahāsūtra: sautrāntika and icchantika.”
“The Tathāgatagarbha as 'True Self' in the *MMPNS, and its place in the wider Mahāyāna”
Panel discussion on contextualizing the *MMPNS within Indian Buddhism
“Some Perspectives on the Mahāyana Mahāpari-nirvāṇa Sūtra in China during the Northern/ Southern and Sui Dynasties: Focusing on the System of Doctrinal Classifications”
“Sanjie-jiao: A Heresy Created by the Nirvana
Sutra”
Friday, January 8, 2016
9:30-10:15AM
10:15-10:45AM
10:45-11:00AM
11:00-11:45AM
11:45-12:30PM
12:45-1:45PM
1:45-2:30PM
2:30-3:00PM
3:15-3:15PM
3:15-4:00PM
Masahiro Shimoda, U. of Tokyo
Paul Groner, U. of Virginia
Break
Jacqueline I. Stone, Princeton
Mark Blum, UC Berkeley
Lunch Break
Nishimoto, Kanno, Groner, Stone, Blum, Wendi Adamek (U. of Calgary)
Kiyonori Nagasaki, IIDH
Break
Shimoda and Blum
“Wŏnhyo’s commentary on the Nirvana-sutra (Tae yŏlban-gyŏng chong’yo)”
“The Precepts and Their Interpretation in the Nirvana-sutra”
“Curing the Incurable: Nichiren’s Use of the Nirvana Sutra”
“Does Tathāgatagarbha Define Other-Power? The Impact of the Nirvana Sutra upon the Formation of Pure Land Buddhism”
Discussion on contextualizing the *MMPNS within East Asian Buddhism
“The SAT Database and the Future of Digital Humanities”
Discussion of book proposal: Readings of the
Nirvana Sutra
*MMPNS=Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra