Buddhism and Place-Making in Sri Lanka

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

Event Type

Academics, Arts & Humanities, World & Culture

Departments

College of Liberal Arts

Target Audience

Students, Faculty

Website

https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/southa...

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