IABS congress August 2014

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IABS congress August 2014

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The abstracts look very interesting, especially to me Robert Sharfs on Hosso/Yogacara and phenomenology, considering Lusthaus wrote a big big book on that topic. Sharf was ordained in the Hosso sect and did his early work at Kofukuji so I'm looking foward to reading his critique.
http://iabs2014.univie.ac.at/academic-p ... -yogacara/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Here is a list of panels:
http://iabs2014.univie.ac.at/academic-p ... of-panels/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

and here it is by sections
http://iabs2014.univie.ac.at/academic-p ... -sections/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

so much, so interesting, wish I were going!
gassho
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and here is a link where you can download a number of Sharf's articles:
http://buddhiststudies.berkeley.edu/peo ... ml#Journal" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Namu Kanzeon Bosatsu
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Re: IABS congress August 2014

Post by DiamondSutra »

Great post! And your right even the abstracts make for interesting reading.
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