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[2009]
December 11
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Jean-Noël Robert
Title: Jû nyoze ni kansuru shakkyôka ni tsuite (in Japanese)

October 9
Lecturer: Dr. Peter Skilling
Title: Sakyamuni sets out on the path:
Four non-classical Pali Jatakas from Siam

January 13
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Jonathan A. Silk
Title: What Can Students of Indian Buddhist Literature Learn from Biblical Text Criticism?

[2008]
November 25
Lecturer: Dr. des. Orna Almogi
Title: The bsTan-'gyur and Its Patrons and Editors:
The History of the Transmission of the 'Treatises in Translation' Based on Historical Sources

October 21
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Oskar von Hinüber
Title: Cremated like a King - Venerated like a God
The Funeral of the Buddha within the Ancient Indian Cultural Context

September 26
Lecturer: Dr. Dorji Wangchuk
Title: Appearances and Perceptions:
Tibetan Madhyamaka Exponents on Madhyamakavatara 6.69-71

January 21
Lecturer: Mr. Li Jining
Title: Guanyu jinnian faxiande Yuanguanzang

[2007]
December 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Charles Willemen
Title: Kumarajiva and Abhidharma

November 13
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Bernard Faure
Title: Theoretical Approaches to Buddhist Mythology

July 2
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Hari Shankar Prasad
Title: The Centrality of Ethics in Buddhism

[2006]
November 27
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Johannes Bronkhorst
Title: The background and religious and cultural context of early Buddhism

October 10
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Lambert Schmithausen
Title: Aspects of Spiritual Practice in Early Yogacara

March 28
Lecturer: Dr. phil. des. Martin Delhey
Title: Craving and Suicide in Buddhism
- Remarks on vibhavatrsna -

February 7
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Fang Guangchang
Title: Lingyin ji ni okeru Sôdai baiyô kyô no hakken to kanbun bunken kara no kôsatsu

[2005]
July 12
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Michael Witzel
Title: Between the Mauryan and Gupta empires:
Brahmanical reactions to foreign and Buddhist influences

June 20
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Jan Nattier
Title: Re-thinking the Bodhisattva Path:
The "Ten Stages" According to the Smaller Buddhavatamsaka

[2004]
December 7
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Lore Sander
Title: Two recensions of the Atanatiyasutra in Sanskrit,
preliminary remarks

November 16
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Max Deeg
Title: Buddhist Founding Myths in Central Asia:
The Case of Khotan

October 29
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Jonathan Silk
Title: Reconsidering Relics: Revising a thesis on Indic shariira and Chinese sheli

September 7
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Oskar von Hinüber
Title: Daily Life in Buddhist Monasteries in Ancient India

April 27
Lecturer: Dr. Sylvie Hureau
Title: Predication and translation of sutras on posadha days in China,
adaptation of an Indian ceremony

April 13
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Albrecht Wezler
Title: Interior monologue as a literary device

February 10
Lecturer: Prof. Peter Skilling
Title: Cutting across Categories: Relics in Pali Texts, the Bhadrakalpika-sutra, and the Saddharmapundarika-sutra

January 27
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Ashok Aklujkar
Title: A different sociolinguistics for Brahmins, Buddhists and Jains

[2003]
December 9
Lecturer: Dr. Lore Sander
Title: Terminological Problems in Paleography

October 14
Lecturer: Dr. Mudagamuwe Maithrimurthi
Title: Classification of Nirvana as dharma/dhamma and its implications: Nirvana is not-self

September 22
Lecturer: Dr. Margarita I. Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya
Title: A Buddhist manuscript from Bairam-Ali (Merv oasis, Turkmenistan)

June 17
Lecturer: Dr. Michael Zimmermann
Title: Beneficent Partners or Unholy Allies?
Compassion and Violence in Indian Buddhism

May 20
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Juhyung Rhi
Title: Images, Relics, and Jewels:
the Gandharan Assimilation of Images in the Buddhist Relic Cult - or Vice Versa

April 15
Lecturer: Dr. Margaret Cone
Title: Writing A Dictionary of Pali

March 18
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Michael Witzel
Title: The Central Asian and Hindukush Background of Vedic Religion

March 11
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Boris Oguibénine
Title: How to describe Buddhist (Hybrid) Sanskrit:
A Contemporary Approach

February 18
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Max Deeg
Title: The "Stupa of Laying Down the Bows"
- A Pre-Buddhist Religious Monument and a Pan-Indian Legend -

January 28
Lecturer: Dr. Lucia Dolce
Title: Appropriating the esoteric landscape of mediaeval Japan:
Nichiren and the Lotus tradition

[2002]
November 19
Lecturer: Dr. Nicoletta Celli
Title: The Life of the Buddha on Chinese Medieval Steles:
Problems of Iconography and Origins of the Images

November 5
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Frédéric Girard
Title: Myôe no yume, Dôgen no yume (in Japanese)

March 11
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Giovanni Verardi
Title: Italian Archaeology in To-day Asia: Afghanistan, Nepal, China
- Ashoka Pillar in Gotihawa (Nepal) and its Surroundings -

February 5
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Jens-Uwe Hartmann
Title: New Buddhist Manuscripts from Afghanistan
- the "Dead Sea Scrolls of Buddhism"? -

January 29
Lecturer: Mrs. Harriet Hunter
Title: Faquan's transmission: the iconographical source of the Rishukyô jûhachie mandara

[2001]
October 30
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Ernst Steinkellner
Title: Once More on Circles

April 10
Lecturer: Dr. Harunaga Isaacson
Title: "Showing the continuity between the sutras and the tantras": Themes and Techniques in Ratnakarasanti's Tantra-commentaries

[2000]
December 6
Lecturer: Dr. Christoph Cüppers
Title: How to govern a Buddhist state? Some remarks on the regent Sangs-rgyas rgya-mtsho's guidelines for government officials

November 21
Lecturer: Mr. Peter Skilling
Title: The Place of South-East Asia in Buddhist Studies

July 19
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Marek Mejor
Title: Some Observations on the Date of the Yuktidipika

February 1
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Cristina Scherrer-Schaub
Title: Tibetan Manuscripts around the First Millenium. A New Chapter in the Buddhist Text-Transmission

January 12
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Richard F. Gombrich
Title: Recent research into the earliest Buddhism

[1999]
November 9
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Mislav Jezic
Title: Indology in Croatia - Past and Present: Vicissitudes of a Discipline

June 29
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Asko Parpola
Title: The religious background of the Savitri legend

June 1
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Rahul Peter Das
Title: The Role of the Woman during Conception according to Ancient Indian Medical Literature

April 13
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Lambert Schmithausen
Title: Kusala: Good or skilful or what? Reconsidering the meaning of kusala/kusala in Buddhist texts

February 19
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Albrecht Wezler
Title: Should the adopted son be a close relative? - on the interpretation of the Vasistha Dharma Sutra 15.6 and 7 -

[1998]
November 20
Lecturer: Dr. Max Deeg
Title: The "Sangha of Devadatta" - a vexed problem of Buddhist history and of the Histories of Buddhism

July 1
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Richard Salomon
Title: The British Library Kharosthi Manuscripts: A New Source for the Study of Gandharan Buddhism

[1997]
November 19
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Johannes Bronkhorst
Title: Teleology in Indian Thought

October 1
Lecturer: Dr. Eli Franco
Title: Inferring the Future, Producing the Past: Prajnakaragupta's extraordinary interpretation of pratityasamutpada

[1996]
December 17
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Richard John Bowring
Title: "Ichihayaki Miyabi": Poems and Adventures in the Tales of Ise

December 3
Lecturer: Dr. Mark William Allon
Title: The stylistic features of (early) Buddhist texts and their importance in the study of the formation, history and function of the literature

November 19
Lecturer: Dr. Gérard Colas
Title: Forms and functions of two ascetic devices in Vaisnava Vaikhanasa medieval temple rites

October 15
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Kenneth Roy Norman
Title: Buddhism and Asoka

September 25
Lecturer: Dr. Mahinda Deegalle
Title: Reconsidering Buddhist Preaching: Bana Tradition in Sri Lanka

May 20
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Johannes Bronkhorst
Title: "Words and things" - An episode in the history of Indian philosophy -


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