Morning Session Chair: Naphtali Meshel, HUJI 9:30-12:00 | Charlie Hallisey, Harvard: "Behind Every Great Text Is a . . . ?" A Guided Reading of Buddhaghosa on Saṃyutta Nikāya I.13 and Visuddhimagga I. 12:15 Opening remarks: Prof. Michael Segal, Dean of the Faculty of the Humanities, HUJI Jane Jiang, the Khyentse Foundation Dr. Eviatar Shulman 12:30 – 13:30 | Mark Allon, University of Sydney: The Composition and Transmission of Early Buddhist Texts with Specific reference to Sutta/Sūtras Afternoon session Chair: Yael Bentor (HUJI) 15:00-15:45 | Richard Salomon, Washington University Cutting and Pasting the Buddhist Way: Some thoughts on the Combination and Constitution of Buddhist Texts 15:45 – 16:30 | Juan Wu, Tsinghua University: The Cīvaravastu of the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya and Its Counterparts in Other Indian Buddhist Monastic Law Codes: A Comparative Survey 17:00 – 18:00 | Eviatar Shulman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: The Play of Formulas in the Early ”Discourses” The Idea of Text in Buddhism A workshop at HUJI, December 10-12,2019 December 10 ,Tuesday Mandel building, room 530
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Morning Session Chair: Naphtali Meshel, HUJI
9:30-12:00 | Charlie Hallisey, Harvard: "Behind Every Great Text Is a . . . ?" A Guided Reading of Buddhaghosa on Saṃyutta Nikāya I.13 and
Visuddhimagga I.
12:15 Opening remarks: Prof. Michael Segal, Dean of the Faculty of the Humanities, HUJI
Jane Jiang, the Khyentse Foundation Dr. Eviatar Shulman
12:30 – 13:30 | Mark Allon, University of Sydney: The Composition and Transmission of Early Buddhist Texts with Specific reference to Sutta/Sūtras
Afternoon session Chair: Yael Bentor (HUJI)
15:00-15:45 | Richard Salomon, Washington University Cutting and Pasting the Buddhist Way: Some thoughts on the Combination and Constitution of Buddhist Texts
15:45 – 16:30 | Juan Wu, Tsinghua University: The Cīvaravastu of the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya and Its Counterparts in Other Indian Buddhist Monastic Law
Codes: A Comparative Survey
17:00 – 18:00 | Eviatar Shulman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: The Play of Formulas in the Early ”Discourses”
The Idea of Text in Buddhism A workshop at HUJI, December 10-12,2019
December 10 ,Tuesday Mandel building, room 530
December 11 ,Wednesday Mandel building, room 530
Morning Session Chair: David Shulman, HUJI
9:30 – 12:00 | Paul Harrison, Stanford:
Moving Targets: Reading and Reflecting on Three Passages from the Vajracchedikā
12:20 – 13:05 | Natalie Gummer, Beloit College: Buddhavacana as Ritual-Poetic Power Substance
13:05 – 13:50 | Richard Nance, Indiana University: The Limits of Provenance: Reconsidering Buddhavacana
15:30 – 16:15 | Janet Gyatso, Harvard University: High-Density Suggestion: Texts that Contact Us
16:15 – 17:00 | Jan-Ulrich Sobisch, Bochum: Mobility and Plasticity of Divination Texts
17:15 – 18:00 | Christine Mollier, CRNS Paris:
Buddhist and Daoist Scriptural Production in Medieval China: Doubles and Counterfeits
December 12 ,Thursday Rabin building, room 2001
Morning Session Chair: Natalie Gummer, Beloit College
9:30 – 11:00 | Matthew Kapstein, University of Chicago: Just what is the Yogācārabhūmiśāstra?
11:20 – 12:05 | Roy Tzohar, Tel-Aviv University: On the Language, Authority, and the Role of Commentaries: Sthiramati's Use of Etymology as a case study
12:05 – 12:50 | David Fiordalis, Linfield College: Seeking Buddhist Narrative: Discourse, Genre, Text
13:00 – 13:45 | Shenghai Li, Fudan University: Buddhist Texts as Scripture: Aspects of Āgama’s Conceptual Range and Application
Afternoon session Chair: Charles Hallisey, Harvard
15:15 – 16:00 | Yagi Morris, University of Wisconsin: Between a Buddha and a Rock: Text as a Device of Transformation
16:00 – 16:45 | Jonathan Silk, University of Leiden: Determining Texts and Contexts
