Tuesday, 22 July 2008

Distinguished Lectures at Dongguk University




Our stay in Seoul has been very productive. Within the last three weeks, in addition to our regular study programme, we had three special lectures by three distinguished international scholars. The Electronic Buddhist Texts & Culture Content / International Association for Buddhist Thought and Culture, BK21 Buddhist Studies in a Global Age sponsored the special lecture series.
(i) Professor Jens Braavig of Department of Cultural Studies and Oriental Languages of University of Oslo presented a paper on "Instruction to the Manuscripts of the Schoyen Collection" on 3 July 2008 and (ii) Professor Torkel Brekke of the same Department discussed a paper on "The Political Use of Buddhist Relics in Modern South Asia" on 2 July and (iii) Dr Peter Skilling of Ecole Française D'Extreme-Orient presented a paper on "The Life of the Buddha at Phanigiri in Andhra Pradesh" on 18 July.

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