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Participants and Papers (a provisional list)

Section 9 - Buddhist Studies
Conveners: Akira Saito, Helmut Krasser, Kazunobu Matsuda

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Sung-Doo AhnThe classifications of defilements (kleśa)in Indian Buddhist texts
Ritsu AkahaneOn the relative truth of Mādhyamika
Virendra Kumar AlankarFolklore in Milindapañho
Piotr BalcerowiczOmniscience of the Jina and the truth of Jainism
Oleg Bendz and Stella SandahlThe Buddhalakṣaṇa: some medical considerations
Bansidhar BhattA Primitive khecarī-technic in the Buddha's first meditative practice
Jane E. BraarvigProto-Mahāyāna and the Kathāvatthu
Sang-Yeob ChaThe significance of the Chinese translation of Kamalaśīla's Bhāvanākrama
Jin-Kyoung ChoiThe Yoga system in Aśvaghoṣa's Saundarananda
Kyung-Ah ChoiThe problem of personal identity in the Abhidharmakośabhāṣya
Max Deeg & Tibor PorcióReading A Dhāraṇī - Problems concerning the Indian sitātapatrā in the light of Amoghavajra's transcription and the Tibetan translation from Dunhuang
Lata Mahesh DeokarSome observations on Buddhism and lexicography
Mahesh Ashok DeokarSome probable Sanskrit sources of Pāli Grammarians
Vincent EltschingerTowards a genealogy of the Buddhist epistemologists' apologetics
Paul HarrisonVerses by Śāntideva in the Śikṣāsamuccaya: A new English translation and study
Jens-Uwe HartmannOn the textual transmission of Mahāyānasūtras as exemplified by the Ratnaketuparivarta
Toshio HoriuchiMahāyāna and Vaipulya: Focusing on the proof of the authenticity of the Mahāyāna
Hisataka IshidaInterpretation of the abstract noun in the Buddhist epistemological tradition
Kei KataokaTransmission of scripture: Exegetical Problems for Kumārila and Dharmakīrti
Ching KengA re-examination of Vasubandhu's use of the term ''prabhāvita'' in his Mahāyānasaṃgraha-bhāṣya
Seong-Cheol KimOn the verse quotated in MSU VIII.21.2
Ulrich Timme KraghMaterials for the study of the female tantric master Lakṣmīṃkarā
Jowita KramerCharacterizations of mind in Indian and Tibetan literature: Concepts of manas, kliṣṭtamanas, and ālayavijñāna in the Yogācāra tradition
Helmut KrasserDharmakīrthi on the unreliability of scripture
Tsugunari KuboSaṃdhābhāṣya depicted in the Lotus Sutra
Karen C. LangPravṛtti and nivṛtti in Candrakīrti's commentary on Āryadeva's Catuḥśataka VIII.8-12
Horst LasicDignāga on sambandha (working title)
Elsa LegittimoManuscript Fragments in the Schøyen collection: King Bimbisāra's conversion
Hiroshi MaruiExamination of the meaning of 'prāmāṇya' with special reference to its use for the Veda or 'verbal testimony' (śabda) in the Codanāsūtrādhikaraṇa of the Ślokavārttika and some Nyāya texts
Junko Matsumura & Lita PeipinaThe Vyāghrī-Jātaka story known in Sri Lanka and its relation to the Northern Buddhist versions
Patrick McAllisterDid Ratnakīrti think Dharmakīrti was an affirmationist of a negationist?
Sara L. McClintockKamalaśīla on scripture and reason: The limits and extent of 'practical rationality' in the Tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā
Esho MikogamiBuddhist criticism on the existence of universal (sāmānya) depending on the relation between what is to be indicated (vyaṅgya) and the indicator (vyañjaka) held by Vaiśeṣika
Kaie MochizukiŚāntideva and Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna
Seitetsu MoriyamaŚāntarakṣita's adoption and criticism of the theory of self-cognizing cognition (svasaṃvedana), established by Śākyabuddhi
Shinya MoriyamaOn the relationship between scripturally based inference (āgamāśritānumāna) and the fallacious thesis being contradicted by scripture (āgamavirodha)
Susanne MrozikThe Śikṣāsamuccaya's discourse on bodies
Shinkan MurakamiBuddhist self (ātman, attan) compared with other Indian religio-philosophical systems
Ayako NakamuraEstablishing the Sanskrit text of the first chapter of Sthiramati's Madhyāntavibhāgaṭīkā
Ensho NasuA genealogy of the concept of ''neither identical nor different'': From Abhidharma to Vijñānavāda
Hiroshi NemotoThree kinds of vyavaccheda (rnam gcod) in Tibetan bsdus grwa literature
Chang-Hwan ParkA source-critical analysis of the Sautrāntika refutation of non-manifest action (avijñapti) in the AKBh 4-4
Ulrike RoeslerPsychology and the beauty of logical symmetries: Once again on the ''three kinds of individuals'' in Buddhism
Akira SaitoAn inquiry into the relationship between Śikṣāsamuccaya and Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra?
Masamichi SakaiDharmakīrti's interpretation of the causelessness of destruction
Cristina Scherrer-SchaubGleanings from the Suvarṇa[pra]bhāsottamasūtra
Jonathan A. SilkImitation Hybrid Sanskrit in the verses in the Kāśyapaparivarta?
Peter SkillingInvoking the Buddha: The power of Buddhavacana in sūtra and dhāraṇī
Ingo StrauchAkṣobhya's Buddha Land in an Mahāyāna sūtra on Gāndhārī
Raffaele TorellaPrasiddhi and Pratibhā
S. N. UpadhyayaBuddhist sites in India: Political and economic issues
Jospeh WalserSūtra vs. śāstra: a sociological perspective
Toru YagiA note on adhiṣṭhāna
Yukio YamanakaOn a Sanskrit version of the Vessantara-jātaka from Nepal
Chizuko YoshimizuThe logical value of the thesis (pratijñā) in Candrakīrti's Madhyamaka thought