From November 13 to 15, 2023
Colloquium SEECHAC in collaboration with THE FACULTY OF ORIENTAL STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW and THE FACULTY OF JOURNALISM, INFORMATIONAND BOOK STUDIES
PROGRAMME
Monday 13.11.2023
8:30 am
Registration and Welcome
9:00–9:45 Keynote lecture
Marek Mejor: Śakra, the King of Gods Asks the Buddha… Sa’i mdo (Bhūmi-sūtra), a Rare Sutra Found in the Manuscript Kanjurs from Ladakh, Co-translated by Rin chen bzang po
9:45–10:30 Keynote lecture
Hildegard Diemberger: Separating the Living from the Dead: Funerary Rituals and the ‘Un-doing’ of Kinship
10:30–10:45
Coffee break
10:45–11:15
Ingeborg Baldauf: Threat and Lure: What Central Asian Muslim Turkic Literary Texts Tell Us about the Hereafter
11:15–11:45
Chiara Gasparini: The Way of the Hu 胡: Tuyuhun-Tibetan Afterlife in the Making
11:45–12:15
Fang Wang: Between the Heaven and the Earth: Mural Depictions of Two Episodes from the Buddha’s Life in Turfan
12:15–12:45
Ebru Zeren: Manichaean and Buddhist Heavens in Uyghur Eschatology
12:45–13:15
Yukiyo Kasai: Afterlife in Uyghur Buddhism
13:15–14:30
Lunch
14:30–15:00
Katarzyna Marciniak: Some Remarks on the Description of Hells in Selected Buddhist Sanskrit and Pali Texts
15:00–15:30
Marialaura di Mattia: Showing the Path of the Dead. A Journey in the Afterlife
15:30–16:00
Karolina Kłoszewska: The Goddess Is Born: Death as the Beginning of Life in Tamil Tradition
16:00–16:15
Coffee break
16:15–16:45
Joanna Białek: Celestial Semantics or Where Heaven Was Born: A Lexicological Inquiry into the Conceptual World of Tibetans in the Tibetan Empire
16:45–17:15
Gerald Kozicz: Imagery as Visual Metaphors of Horror: Depictions of Suffering Used to Highlight the Effectiveness of the Dharma
17:15–17:45
Pascale Dollfus: Focus on Hell: The Buddhist Wheel of Rebirth in Western and Eastern Himalayas
17:45–18:15
Agnieszka Helman-Ważny: Long Life Ritual Manuscripts from the Drangsong Collection in Upper Mustang
18:30
Concert
19:00
Dinner
Tuesday 14.11.2023
9:30–10:00
Charles Ramble: Halfway Houses for the Wandering Dead in Tibet and the Himalayas
10:00–10:30
Petra Maurer: How to Calculate One’s Rebirth Realms
10:30–11:00
Diana Lange: Death is not the End: The Role of Cosmographic Maps in Representing the Afterlife in Tibet
11:00–11:15
Coffee break
11:15–11:45
Berthe Jansen: Yama, the Judge of the Underworld: Justice and Law in the Tibetan Buddhist Afterlife
11:45–12:15
Brigitte Steinmann: Classical and Baroque Hells in Hindu and Buddhist Mythologies in Nepal: Social Space as a Metaphorical Model of the Underworld
12:15–12:45
David Andolfatto and Rajan Khatiwoda: Hell on Earth. A Reassessment of Torture Scenes from Newari Struts
12:45–14:30
Lunch
14:30–15:00
Cristiana Turini: The Belief System of the Hӓ zhi pi in the Naxi Funeral Ritual Framework
15:00–15:30
Ewa Paśnik: The Afterlife of the Transcendent. Representations of the Daoist Paradises in Chinese Religious and Fictional Literature
15:30–16:00
Tianshu Zhu: Ox-head, Horse-face and the Little-ghost: Images of the Hell-keepers (nārakas) in Buddhist Art
16:00–16:15
Coffee break
16:15–16:45
Rita Kuzder: A Text on Post-death and Overcoming Sins
16:45–17:15
Zsuzsa Majer: Separating the Hands (of the Living and the Dead): Data From Present-Day Mongolian Buddhist Practice on a Text for the Protection of the Bereaved
17:15–17:45
Agata Bareja-Starzyńska: Words and Images: Notes on Mongolian Buddhist Cosmological: Terminology and Depictions
17:45–18:15
Closing Remarks
18:30
Dinner