Academic Program
The aim of this congress is to create an open environment for scholarly exchange in the form of publicizing new findings, promoting collaborations, and incubating future directions in the field of Buddhist Studies. In line with past Congresses, the proceedings in Leipzig will feature two types of sessions: panels and paper sections.
Each conference day will consist of one morning session (9 am–12:30 pm) and one afternoon session (2–6 pm), with several panels and sections convening concurrently.
Each presentation, either in a panel or in a section, should not exceed 20 minutes in length and will be immediately followed by a 10-minute discussion. A coffee and tea break is also planned for each session, generally after the first three papers. The organizers and I will strive to ensure that presentations in each session begin and end in unison so that participants can move between multiple panels and sections of their choice.
To enhance the diversity of Congress contributors and facilitate maximum participation, attendees are limited to acting in only one official capacity at the Congress: this limit extends to presenting a paper, convening a panel, or acting as designated discussant.
(1) Panel: A panel is devoted to papers focusing on a specific topic, organized by a convenor. All panels will be limited to half a day, except for special cases. Convenors will contact the selected contributors directly.
Submission of panel proposals for the XXth Congress has closed, and we extend our sincere gratitude to all contributors. Below are the accepted panels:
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Title |
Convenor(s) |
Contact Email(s) |
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Around Kālacakra: New Sources and New Perspectives |
Francesco Sferra Serena Saccone |
serenasaccone@gmail.com |
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Artistic Connections in Premodern Buddhist Asia |
Kalyani Madhura Ramachadran Clara Ma |
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Breathing – Body, Mind, Word |
Stephan Licha Marta Savido |
licha@uchicago.edu martasanvido@gmail.com |
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Buddhism and Law |
Christian Lammerts |
dcl96@rutgers.edu |
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Buddhist Philosophy between India and China: From Madhyamaka to Sanlun and Beyond |
Rafal Stepien |
Rafal.Stepien@oeaw.ac.at |
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Buddhist Responses to Nature, Ecology, and the Climate Crisis |
Dagmar Schwerk |
dagmar.schwerk@uni-leipzig.de |
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“BuddhistRoad” and Beyond |
Yukiyo Kasai Carmen Meinert |
yukiyo.kasai@rub.de |
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Candrakīrti’s Madhyamaka |
Jan Westerhoff |
jan.westerhoff@theology.ox.ac.uk |
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Constructing, Deconstructing, and Reconstructing Buddhist Authority(ies) |
James Benn Huajie Fan Tiantian Cai |
bennjam@mcmaster.ca hf5ff@virginia.edu tcai34@wisc.edu |
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Could there be a Buddhist Illusionism? |
Mark Siderits |
msideri@ilstu.edu |
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Dharma in Motion: Intersecting Pathways of Buddhism and Film |
Gloria Chien |
chien@gonzaga.edu |
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Elite Buddhist Monastics in Contemporary China: Life Stories and Institutional Framework |
Zhe Ji Carsten Krause |
zhe.ji@inalco.fr carsten.krause@uni-hamburg.de |
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Emotional States and Buddhist History, Literature, and Practice |
Natasha Mikles |
n.mikles@txstate.edu |
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Exegesis, Commentary, and Scholasticism in Chinese Buddhism: The First 600 Years |
Fedde De Vries |
fedde_devries@berkeley.edu |
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From the Early Yogācāra to its Later Tradition in India |
Jowita Kramer Keiki Nakayama |
jowita.kramer@uni-leipzig.de nakayamakeiki396@gmail.com |
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Gandhāra Corpora |
Charles DiSimone |
Charles.DiSimone@UGent.be |
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Guardians of the Path: The Multidimensional Role of Protection of Buddhism |
Xingyi Wang |
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Idioms of Newar Buddhist Storytelling |
Christoph Emmrich |
christoph.emmrich@utoronto.ca |
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Indigenous Buddhist Culture of the Tocharians of Kucha |
Monika Zin |
m.zin@t-online.de |
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Kālacakra Studies |
Klaus-Dieter Mathes |
kdmathes@hku.hk |
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Light on the “Dark Mountain”: Buddhism in First-Millennium Kanheri |
Pia Brancaccio Akira Shimada Vincent Tournier |
pb69@drexel.edu shimadaa@newpaltz.edu vincent.tournier@lmu.de |
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Looking into the Future: Influential Buddhist Women in Living Buddhist Traditions |
Amandine Péronnet |
peronnet.amandine@gmail.com |
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Machine Translation, Large Language Models, and Buddhist Studies |
Marcus Bingenheimer |
m.bingenheimer@gmail.com |
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Mystics and/or Scholars? Knowledge Transfer in Tibetan Meditation Traditions |
Jim Rheingans Drölma Chökyi |
jim.rheingans@univie.ac.at |
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Negation and Truth in Buddhist Philosophy |
Sangyop Lee |
sangyoplee@snu.ac.kr |
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New Studies in Vinaya Manuscripts |
Jens Wilhelm Borgland Fumi Yao |
jwborgland@gmail.com |
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Newar Buddhist Visual and Material Culture |
Miroj Shakya |
mirojs@UWEST.EDU |
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On Sakya Paṇḍita’s Treasury of Epistemology (tshad ma’i rigs gter) |
Douglas Duckworth |
duckworth@temple.edu |
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Pali Literature in the Second Millennium: South Asia |
Ujjwal Kumar |
ujjwal1980@gmail.com |
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Pali Literature in the Second Millennium: Southeast Asia |
Tony Scott |
anthony.scott@utoronto.ca |
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Prajñākaragupta’s Philosophy and Its Influence: Perception, Causation, and Non-duality |
Eli Franco Shinya Moriyama Davey Tomlinson |
franco@uni-leipzig.de smoriyam@shinshu-u.ac.jp david.tomlinson@villanova.edu |
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Premodern Globalisation and Intra-Religious Communication across the Buddhist World |
Sven Bretfeld Lewis Doney |
sven.bretfeld@ntnu.no doney.lewis@gmail.com |
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Rare Texts and Popular Religion: Buddhism as Collected by Van Manen |
Berthe Jansen |
b.k.jansen@hum.leidenuniv.nl |
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Reading, Writing, and Rewriting Buddhist Genders |
Jue Liang MK Long Bruno Shirley |
jxl3138@case.edu mk.long@dartmouth.edu bruno.shirley@hcts.uni-heidelberg.de |
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Reformulating Buddhism: Conceptual Debates and Strategy Creation of Buddhist Groups in the Sinophone Sphere |
Philip Clart Richard Ellguth Shi-Yu Su |
shi-yu.su@uni-leipzig.de |
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Southeast Asian Buddhist Epigraphy: New Directions |
Anne M. Blackburn Trent Walker |
amb242@cornell.edu ttwalker@umich.edu |
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Stories Beyond Borders |
Naomi Appleton Yael Shiri |
Naomi.Appleton@ed.ac.uk |
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Studying the Bka’ ‘gyur and Bstan ‘gyur: Advancing the Understanding of Buddhist Ritual, Doctrine, and Textual Tradition |
Adam C. Krug |
adam.krug@84000.co |
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Surveying the Field of Tibetan Pilgrimage |
Kate Hartmann Michael Ium |
Catherine.Hartmann@uwyo.edu michael.ium@utoronto.ca |
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Tangut Buddhist Studies: Conceptualizing a Field |
Zhouyang Ma |
Zhouyang.Ma@oeaw.ac.at |
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Tantric Ethics and Buddhist Monasticism |
Taiken Kyuma |
kyuma.human@mie-u.ac.jp |
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Temples as Platform of Contemporary Buddhist Art |
Pattaratorn Chirapravati |
patchira@csus.edu mlpattaratorn.c@ntu.edu.sg |
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The INTELLEXUS Project: Mapping the Indic and Tibetic Buddhist Text Corpora |
Orna Almogi Shai Fine Harunaga Isaacson Dorji Wangchuk |
orna.almogi@googlemail.com |
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The Notion of Reliance in Sanskrit and Tibetan Textual Sources |
Diane Denis |
diane.denis@ryi.org |
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Towards a Buddhist Sacred Geography of the Himalayas |
Parjanya Sen Kikee Doma Bhutia
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kikee.doma.bhutia@ut.ee |
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Tracing the Early Contours of Japanese Buddhist Philosophy |
Matthew McMullen |
mcmullen@nanzan-u.ac.jp |
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Transmission in the Archive: The Place of the Local in Buddhism’s Global Past |
Amanda Goodman Meghan Howard Masang |
amanda.goodman@utoronto.ca meghan.howard@yale.edu |
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Wrathful Deities: Transcultural Vectors of Tantric Buddhism |
Aleksandra Wenta Amanda Brown |
abrown7@fsu.edu |
(2) Section: Sections are to be compiled from individual submissions. Those who wish to present a paper in one of the listed sections should submit a paper abstract, as directed below.
The themes for the sections are outlined as follows.
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Abhidharma Studies |
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Buddhism and Gender |
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Buddhism and Its Relation to Other Religions |
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Buddhism and Ritual Practices |
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Buddhism and Society |
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Buddhism in the Contemporary World |
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Buddhism in the Himalaya(s) |
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Buddhist Art and Architecture |
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Buddhist Ethics |
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Buddhist Hermeneutics, Scholasticism, and Commentarial Techniques |
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Buddhist Literature |
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Buddhist Music |
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Buddhist Psychology |
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Buddhist Studies and Digital Humanities |
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Early Buddhism |
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East Asian Buddhism |
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Epistemology and Logic in Buddhism |
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Global Buddhism |
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Mahāyāna Buddhism |
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Manuscripts, Codicology, and Epigraphy |
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Meditation Theories and Practices |
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South Asian Buddhism |
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Southeast Asian Buddhism |
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Tantric Buddhism |
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Tibetan Buddhism |
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Vinaya Studies |
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Yogācāra Buddhism |