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April 21, 3PM - 6PM and April 22, 10AM - 4PM
Location: Meyerson Conference Room (WCH 4.118)
This symposium focuses on Sri Lanka in order to consider implications of Buddhist place-making. What is revealed about processes and even agents when we attend closely to changes in various types of evidence? Papers presented by scholars from various disciplines consider what may be gleaned about desires of self-fashioning or the promotion of the Buddhist identity of Sri Lanka, past and present.
Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Morning session chair, Oliver Freiberger, UT Austin
10:00-10:45 a.m., Anne Blackburn, Cornell University
Footprint Relics and the Changing Geographies of Laṅkā
10:45-11:30 a.m., Stephen C. Berkwitz, Missouri State University
Re-Placing the Bodhi Tree in the Sinhala Bōdhivaṁśaya
11:30-12:15 p.m., Phillip Friedrich, University of Pennsylvania
Arboreal Lineages: The Bodhi Tree and Modes of Elite Belonging in Late Medieval Sri Lanka”
12:15-1:15 p.m., Lunch
Afternoon session chair, Don Davis, UT Austin
1:15-2:00 p.m, Kellie Powell, University of California, Berkeley
Understanding Sri Lankan Tantric-Mahāyāna Through Rituals and Ruins: A Study of the Mañjuśrībhāśitavāstuvidyāśāstra and Sri Lanka’s Pabbata Vihāras
2:00- 2:45 p.m. Sven Bretfeld, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
The Promotion of Theravāda in Lanko-centric Cosmographies
2:45-3:00 p.m., Tea Break
3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Conclusions: Charles Hallisey, Harvard University
Sponsored by: South Asia Institute, Department of Religious Studies, Asian Studies, History, and Art & Art History
Saturday, April 22, 2017 at 10:00am to 4:00pm
Will C. Hogg Building (WCH), 4.118 (Meyerson Conference Room)
120 INNER CAMPUS DR, Austin, Texas 78712
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