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Heaven and Hell and What Lies Between: Representing the Afterlife from Central Asia to the Himalayas

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 : 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