Workshop Mahāyāna in Europe
organisiert von Prof. Dr. Martin Krämer, Heidelberg University, 2–3 November 2017
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