11th Jaina Studies Workshop At SOAS - Jaina Scriptures And Philosophy - March 12-13, 2009 - Programme

11th Jaina Studies Workshop At SOAS - Jaina Scriptures And Philosophy

March 12-13, 2009

Thursday 12.3.2009, 18.00-19.30, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square

• THE 9th ANNUAL JAINA LECTURE
  (followed by a reception)
  

Bansidhar Bhatt
(University of Münster)

Is Pārśva the Twenty-Third Jina a Legendary Figure?
A Critical Survey of Early Jaina Sources

Friday 13.3.2009, 9.00-18.30, SOAS, Russell Square, Brunei Gallery
Lecture Theatre

• CONFERENCE
  
  9.0 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