The Center of Buddhist Studies (Centro di studi sul Buddhismo) at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” (UNIOR) will be launching its Spring Hybrid Lecture Series this month, with a diverse range of subjects covered by scholars from esteemed universities in Europe and India. The series is co-organized by UNIOR’s Center of Buddhist Studies and the Italian Buddhist Union. (Unione Buddhista Italiana)
The hybrid lecture series, held online as well as in person at the famous Palazzo Corigliano of UNIOR, is bringing together institutions beyond but affiliated with UNIOR, including: Universität Wien, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, École pratique des hautes études, Ceres-Ruhr Universität Bochum, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and Ashoka University. The list of speakers includes emerging academics as well as established scholars.
The lectures will be bilingual, in Italian and English. Subjects will cover an interdisciplinary range of academic inquiries, from textual exegesis, Buddhist philosophy, and critical-historical analysis focused on Indo-Tibetan Buddhism and Central Asia.
The series will run from late March to late May.
26 March
“Reincarnation as a form of succession in Tibetan societies”
Jim Rheingangs (Universität Wien)
05:00pm CET. Salone delle Conferenze, Palazzo Corigliano, Napoli
27 March
“Yogis and Scholars: The beginning of Abhidharma exegesis in the Kagyupa tradition”
Jim Rheingangs (Universität Wien)
11:00am CET. Salone delle Conferenze, Palazzo Corigliano, Napoli
15 April
“Mounds, Snakes and Arhats: Commemorating the dead in the Deccan”
Vincent Tournier (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
04:00pm CET. Antisala degli specchi, Palazzo Corigliano, Napoli
16 April
“Le istruzioni di Gampopa sulla natura della mente: Nuovi elementi storico-filologici”
Marta Sernesi (École pratique des hautes études, Université PSL)
12:00pm CET. Salone delle Conferenze, Palazzo Corigliano, Napoli
23 April
“Central Asian people in the making of Central Asian Buddhism”
Carmen Meinert (Ceres-Ruhr Universität Bochum)
03:00pm CET. Salone delle Conferenze, Palazzo Corigliano, Napoli
5 May
“Il Buddismo nell’era delle macchine: riflessioni futurologiche intorno all’impatto dell’ia sul sentiero verso l’illuminazione”
Francesco Tormen (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, UBI)
05:00pm CET. Salone delle Conferenze, Palazzo Corigliano, Napoli
6 May
“Modelli di trasformazione interiore: rilevanza e attualità delle pratiche contemplative del Tibet per comprendere la meditazione”
Chiara Mascarello (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, UBI)
03:00pm CET. Salone delle Conferenze, Palazzo Corigliano, Napoli
20–21 May
“Buddhist views on momentariness and perception”
Alex Watson (Ashoka University)
03:00pm (20 May); 10:00am (21 May) CET. Antisala degli Specchi, Palazzo Corigliano, Napoli
UNIOR is Italy’s premier higher educational institute for the study of not only Asia, but of the Buddhist tradition. Its main specialty, thanks to Prof. Chogyal Namkhai Norbu’s (1938–2018) establishment of Tibetan studies at the university, is mainly in Vajrayana Buddhism. However, in recent years it has expanded on this foundation of knowledge and built a reputation for quality studies and research into Buddhism in Central Asia and Inner Asian history.
Interested participants can register for the lecture series by emailing: [email protected].
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Centro di Studi sul Buddhismo (UNIOR)
Unione Buddhista Italiana
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