Tantra and Daoism
A Multidisciplinary Conference on the Globalization of Religion and Its Experience
Boston University, April 2002
There is a limited amount of space for additional scholars who are interested in participating in the discussion. To register, please email Livia Kohn at lkohn@bu.edu.
Those who are registered for the conference can download the papers in Adobe PDF format by clicking on the relevant link and supplying the password.
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Friday |
April 19 |
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1-1:30 |
Welcome |
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Public Lectures, 1:30-3:30 |
Tantra and Daoism |
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"Hermeneutics, Paradigms, and the Transformation of Reality: Reflections on the Scholarship on Tantra and Daoism" |
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"Dharani and Deity: The Place of the Occult in Chinese Buddhism" |
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| 3:30-4 | Break |
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First Panel, 4-5:30 |
Historical Interactions |
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"Born to be Wild: Siddhas, Outcastes, S´abaras, and Tribal Esoterism"PDF file |
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On Esoteric Buddhism in China |
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The Interaction of Tantra and Daoism according to David White. |
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Saturday |
April 20 |
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Second Panel 9-10:15< |
The Dzogchen School |
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Chair and Discussant |
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Creative Buddhas and Pure Lands in Renaissance Tibet |
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A Sino-Tibetan Tradition in China at the Monastery of the Celestial Eye |
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10:15-10:45 |
Break |
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Third Panel, 10:45-1:00 |
The Body and Sexual Practices |
| Liu
Xun (USC) |
Chair and Discussant |
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The Orthodox Tantrika: Appearance and Secrecy in Hindu Shakta Tantra |
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The Thirdness of Ma-Ning: A Category to Breach Categories |
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Michael Winn (Healing Tao University) |
Sexual Cultivation in Modern Daoist and Tantric Practice |
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1:00-2 |
Lunch |
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Public Lectures, 2-4 |
Tantric and Daoist Art |
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Tantric Themes in Early Tibetan Art |
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What is Daoist Art? |
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| 4-4:30 |
Break |
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Fourth Panel, 4:30-6 |
Art |
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Chair and Discussant |
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| James Robson (Stanford) |
Talismans and Talismanic Script in Chinese Tantric Buddhism |
| Giving Shape to the Shapeless: Gilded Bronze Daoist Votive Statues from the Sui-Tang Period | |
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Sunday |
April 21 |
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Fifth Panel 9-10:30 |
Ritual |
| John Lagerwey (EFEO, Paris) |
Chair and Discussant |
| Richard K. Payne (IBS) |
Homa of the Northern Dipper |
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Fang yankou and
pudu: Translation, Metaphor and Religious Identity |
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| Frederick Smith (Iowa) |
Possession, Prognostication, and the Dissemination of Popular Ritual in India and China |
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10:30-11 |
Break |
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Sixth Panel, 11-12:30 |
Contemporary Practice in The U.S. |
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Livia Kohn (Boston University) |
Chair and Discussant |
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John Makransky (BC) |
Competing Paradigms in the Current Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in the West |
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Liu Ming (Orthodox Daoism of America) |
"The Use of Intermediaries in Daoist and Tantric Buddhist Ritual" |
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Louis Komjathy (BU) |
"Daoism in the U.S." PDF file |
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12:30-1 |
Concluding Discussion |
| 1:00-2:00 | Lunch |