A26
Buddhism Section
Saturday, 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Anne M. Blackburn, Cornell University, Presiding
Theme: Contributions to the Study of Buddhism
Michael Como, College of William and Mary, "Medicine, Immortality and Yoshino"
David Drewes, University of Virginia, "Caitya Comparisons in Indian Buddhist Texts: A Reevaluation of the Evidence for a Cult of the Book in Indian Mahayana"
Christian K. Wedemeyer, University of Chicago, "Beef, Dog, and Other Mythologies: Metalanguage in Mahayoga Tantra Ritual"
Justin McDaniel, Ohio University, "Negotiating with the Pali: Lao Buddhist Homiletics and the Kammavaca Nissaya"
Kyoko Tokuno, University of Washington, "Unraveling the Paradox of "Canonical Apocrypha" in Chinese Buddhism"
Business Meeting: (starting at approximately 3 p.m.)
Peter N. Gregory, Smith College, and Anne M. Blackburn, Cornell University, Presiding
A90
Buddhism Section
Sunday, 9:00 am-11:30 am
Robert M. Gimello, Harvard University, Presiding
Theme: Polycentric Buddhism in Peripheral Regions of South and Central Asia
Jason Neelis, University of Florida, "Buddhist vs. Brahmanical Perspectives on Gandhara: Sacred Center or Peripheral Frontier?"
Mariko Namba Walter, Harvard University, "Turfan: The Crossroad of Tokharian and Chinese Buddhism?"
Jacob Dalton, University of London, "Mahayoga in Post-Tibetan Occupation Dunhuang"
Vesna Acimovic Wallace, University of California, Santa Barbara, "The Literary Creation of Buddhist Identity and the Expression of Mongolian Ethnicity"
Responding:
Daniel Boucher, Cornell University
A115
Buddhism Section
Sunday, 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Richard K. Payne, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding
Theme: Language, Text, and Image in the Transmission of Buddhism
Sarah Horton, Macalester College, "Living Buddha Images in Japan: Statues and the Transmission of Buddhism in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries"
Hudaya Kandahjaya, Graduate Theological Union, "Architectural Prototype of Borobudur"
George A. Keyworth, University of Colorado, Boulder, "Dissent and the Dharma: Tales of Transmission from behind Bars and Banishment"
Karil Kucera, Saint Olaf College, "Universal Appeal: Transmitting the Dharma through Text and Image at Baodingshan"
D. Neil Schmid, North Carolina State University, "Popular Lectures: Liturgical Origins of Art and Text at Dunhuang"
Responding:
Bruce C. Williams, University of California, Berkeley
A178
Buddhism Section
Monday, 9:00 am-11:30 am
David Germano, University of Virginia, Presiding
Theme: An Appraisal of Ronald Davidson's Indian Esoteric Buddhism in the Context of the Social History of Medieval Esoteric Movements
Panelists:
Ryuichi Abe, Columbia University
Edward Davis, University of Hawaii
Phyllis Granoff, McMaster University
Jeffrey Stephen Lidke, University of Virginia
Robert Sharf, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Michael D. Swartz, Ohio State University
Hugh B. Urban, Ohio State University
Responding:
Ronald M. Davidson, Fairfield University
A207
Buddhism Section and Chinese Religions Group
Monday, 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Peter N. Gregory, Smith College, Presiding
Theme: The Transformation of Buddhism in Contemporary Taiwan
Scott Hurley, Luther College, "The Development of Religious Ideology in Mid-Twentieth-Century China: Master Yinshun's Interpretation of Buddhist Doctrine and Its Relationship to the 'Humanistic Buddhism' Movement"
Chien-yu Julia Huang, National Tsing Hua University, "The Buddhist Compassion Relief Movement in Taiwan and Its Mission of Education"
Stuart Chandler, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, "Foguangshan and Buddhist-Style Democracy"
Linda Learman, Boston University, Academia Sinica, Taipei, "A Buddhist Wedding Ceremony in Taiwan"
Responding:
Chun-Fang Yu, Rutgers University
A233
Buddhism Section
Monday, 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Martin Adam, McGill University, Presiding
Theme: It's Merit That Matters: Variation in the Practices and Aims of Merit Transfer
Barbra Clayton, Mount Allison University, "The Virtue of Cultivating Merit: Santideva and the Significance of Merit Transfer"
Alan Cole, Lewis and Clark College, "Reading for the Merit: Value and Seduction in Early Mahayana Sutras"
James Egge, Eastern Michigan University, "Three Practices of Merit Transfer in Early Buddhism"
John Clifford Holt, Bowdoin College, "Gone but Not Departed: The Dead among the Living in Contemporary Buddhist Sri Lanka"
Responding:
John S. Strong, Bates College
A260
Buddhism Section
Tuesday, 9:00 am-11:30 am
John S. Strong, Bates College, Presiding
Theme: Buddhist Responses to Orientalist Modernities in South and Southeast Asia
Anne M. Blackburn, Cornell University, "Desirable Knowledge: Buddhist Education in Late Nineteenth-Century Colombo"
Thomas Borchert, University of Chicago, "Whose Orient? Sipsongpanna Buddhism in Chinese and Thai Academic Discourse"
Jacob N. Kinnard, College of William and Mary, "Locative Orientalism and the Construction of One Buddhism"
David L. McMahan, Franklin and Marshall College, "Anagarika Dharmapala and the Discourse of Scientific Buddhism"
Juliane Schober, Arizona State University, "Missionizing the Dhamma: Burmese Buddhism Engages the Modern World"
Responding:
Donald K. Swearer, Swarthmore College