Centre for Jaina Studies at School of Oriental & African Studies , University of London will hold its Annual Lecture 11th in series, on Thursday 12th March 2009 at 6.00pm. The Studies Workshop will be held the following day, Friday 13th March 2009 from 9am to 6pm.
Venue : Brunei Gallery Room: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
Annual Lecture:
Lecture by: Bansidhar Bhatt (University of Münster, Germany)
Subject : “Is Pārśva the Twenty-Third Jina a Legendary Figure?
A Critical Survey of Early Jaina Sources”
Topic for the Studies Workshop: Jaina Scriptures and Philosophy
Research on the Jaina Āgamas, once the main domain of Jainology and Prakrit Studies, has become rare nowadays, while studies of Jaina philosophy and religion based on sources in Sanskrit, Middle and New-Indo-Aryan languages are increasing. The conference seeks to reconnect research on canonical and non-canonical sources and their uses. Contributions are invited on Jaina scriptures and philosophy.
Program:
- 9.00 Tea and Coffee
- 9.15 Welcome
- 9.30 Prem Suman Jain (Śravaṇabeḷagoḷa) : One Rare Manuscript of the Prakrit Text Bhagavatī Ārādhanā
- 10.00 Sin Fujinaga (Miyakonojo, Miyazaki) : Śvetâmbara Āgamas in the Digambara Scriptures
- 10.30 Jayendra Soni (University of Marburg) : Aspects of Philosophy in the Ṣaṭkhaṇḍâgama
- 11.00 Tea and Coffee
- 11.30 Piotr Balcerowicz (University of Warsaw) : Do Attempts to Formalise Syād-vāda Make Sense?
- 12.00 Anne Clavel (University of Lyon) : Sensuous Cognition – Pratyakṣa or Parokṣa? Jinabhadra’s Reading of the Nandīsūtra
- 12.30 Olle Qvarnström (University of Lund) : Jaina Critique of Sāṃkhya Philosophy
- 13.00 Lunch, Brunei Gallery Suite
- 14.00 Nalini Balbir (University of Paris) : Layman’s Atonements: The Sâvayapacchitta and the Shrâddhajîtakalpa
- 14.30 Paul Dundas (University of Edinburgh) : Pokkhali’s Visit to the Fasting Hall: The Ramifications of a Canonical Episode
- 15.00 Kenji Watanabe (Tokyo) : A Bee and Mendicant: Two Different Versions in the Extant Jaina Āgamas
- 16.00 Tea and Coffee
- 16.30 Johannes Bronkhorst (University of Lausanne): What Happened to Mahāvīra’s Body?
- 17.00 Herman Tieken (Leiden University) :The Composition of the Uttarajjhāyā
- 17.30 Peter Flügel (SOAS) : Reflections on the Origins of the Jaina Doctrine of Karman
- 18.00 Final Remarks
The Lecture & the Study Workshop have been co-organised and co-sponsored by :
- The Centre of Jaina Studies at SOAS (http://www.soas.ac.uk/jainastudies),
- The Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Lund (www.sasnet.lu.se/indrellund.html),
- The Victoria and Albert Museum in London (www.vam.ac.uk).
Voluntary Contributions Invited to support the program
Everybody is welcome to attend the program. Please register in good time to allow for catering facilities
Register at:
Centre of Jaina Studies,
Department for the Study of Religions,
Faculty of Arts and Humanities,
SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square,
London WC1H OXG,
Phone: 7898 4028, E-mail: js64@soas.ac.uk
Contacts : jainastudies@soas.ac.uk & olle.qvarnstrom@teol.lu.se