AAR> Indian and Chinese Religions Compared Unit (#SBLAAR2020)
A2-100
Indian and Chinese Religions Compared Unit and Yogācāra Studies Unit
Theme: Debating Consciousness from Abhidharma to Contemporary Philosophy Wednesday, December 2, 9:00 AM-10:30 AM
Jingjing Li, Leiden University, Presiding
- Eyal Aviv, George Washington University, Cognitive Parallelism and Sequentialism in the Buddhist Scholastic Tradition
- Ching Keng, National Chengchi University, From “One Type of Consciousness at One Moment” to “Multiple Types of Consciousness at One Moment”
- Ernest Brewster, Iona College, Reflections in the Mirror: Transformations in the Theories of Sensory Perception and Cognition in Three Chinese Renderings of the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra
- Jiyun Kim, Dongguk Universit, Is the Source of Cognition the Eighth or the Ninth Consciousness?: An Interpretation on the Amala-vijñāna in East Asian Buddhism
A2-207
Indian and Chinese Religions Compared Unit
Theme: Narrative Crossing: From Literary to Visual Arts Wednesday, December 2, 1:45 PM-3:15 PM
Gudrun Bühnemann, University of Wisconsin, Presiding
- Albert Welter, University of Arizona, An Indian Buddhist Imaginaire in Hangzhou China and the Transformation of East Asian Buddhism
- Dessislava Vendova, Columbia University, Bodily Characteristics and Four Distinct Types of Identities in the Buddha’s Last Life
- Yi Ding, Stanford University, From Blood Sacrifice to Bloodless Sacrifice: The Buddhist Rhetoric of Ritual Supersession and Its Reception in Medieval China
Business Meeting: Dan Lusthaus, Harvard University, and Karen O’Brien-Kop, University of Roehampton, Presiding
A3-205
Buddhist Philosophy Unit and Hindu Philosophy Unit and Indian and Chinese Religions Compared Unit and Yogācāra Studies Unit
Theme: Roundtable on Roy Tzohar's *A Yogācāra Buddhist Theory of Metaphor* (Oxford University Press, 2018)
Thursday, December 3, 1:45 PM-3:15 PM
Tao Jiang, Rutgers University, Presiding
Panelists:
- Jonathan Gold, Princeton University
- Laurie Louise Patton, Middlebury College
- Joy Brennan, Kenyon College
- Richard Nance, Indiana University
- Catherine Prueitt, University of British Columbia
- Parimal G. Patil, Harvard University
Responding: Roy Tzohar, Tel-Aviv University
A7-108
Indian and Chinese Religions Compared Unit
Theme: Why Humanities Should Go Global Monday, December 7, 11:00 AM-1:00 PM
Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Lancaster University, Presiding
- Nell Hawley, Harvard University, Crisis and the Call to Interpretation: The Sanskrit Mahābhārata in the First Millennium
- Jane Mikkelson, University of Virginia, Crossings: Lyric Meditation and Comparative Religion Early Modern India
- Thomas Mazanec, University of California, Santa Barbara, The Practice of Religious Poetry: Buddhist Poet-Monks of Late Tang China
- Rafal Stepien, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, ‘Why Are My Humanities So Black-and-White?’ Buddhist Lessons in Undisciplining Religion, Literature, and Philosophy
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