Workshop Mahāyāna in Europe

Workshop

Mahāyāna in Europe: Japanese Buddhists and Their Contribution to Academic Knowledge on Buddhism in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Heidelberg University, 2–3 November 2017
Venue: Center for East Asian Studies, Akademiestr. 4–8, Room 102

PROGRAM

Thursday, 2 November 2017, 14:00–17:30
The Academization of Buddhism in Meiji Japan

14:00–15:00
Micah Auerback, Seminaries of the Jōdo Shinshū in Early Meiji Japan

(coffee break)

15:15–16:15
Orion Klautau, Guiding a Great Vehicle: The Mahāyāna and Buddhist Studies in
Meiji Japan

(coffee break)

16:30–17:30
Mick Deneckere, Ishikawa Shuntai’s Introduction of the Concept of “science de religion”

Friday, 3 November 2017, 10:00–12:15, 14:00–16:30
The Spread of Knowledge about (Japanese) Buddhism in Europe

10:00–11:00
John Harding, The Reception of Japanese Buddhism in North America before 1900

(coffee break)

11:15–12:15
Roland Lardinois, Sylvain Lévi and the Configuration of Indo-Chinese Studies in
France ca. 1900

(lunch break)

14:00–15:00
Martin Baumann, The Reception of Theravada Buddhism in Europe in the Long
Nineteenth Century

(coffee break)

15:15–16:30
Concluding Discussion, to be kicked off by an input by Hans Martin Krämer on The
‘Spiritualization’ of Religion Around 1900 and Japanese Buddhism