[Buddha-l] John Makransky

Piya Tan dharmafarer at gmail.com
Sun Feb 22 19:09:25 MST 2009


Joanna,

Here is the programme (after that fact):

http://www.iseas.edu.sg/iframes/16-18feb09a.pdf.

I only attended the first day, that is the panel related to my work and
interest. Too bad my scheduled classes prevented me from attending the whole
conference, which I would love to.

However, I managed to catch up some old academia friends. John Whalen-Bridge
(a remarkably bubbly guy) is working on the idea of a "Buddhist Studies
Reading Group" using a practitioner-centred approach. But the NUS academics
are so diverse and dispersed, most of whom are not keen on a practitioner
approach.

The Conference was too broad-ranged for me, although the individual topics
would interest the specialists. Perhaps in future, the ISEAS would organized
more focussed or thematic Buddhist conferences.

It was however good exposure for the younger generations of scholars, and
there is a good diverse range of them.

Metta,

Piya Tan


On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:49 AM, jkirk <jkirk at spro.net> wrote:

>
> So Piya,
>
> Did you hear any of them speak? What was passing for making it a
> conference?
> What wsa on their program?
>
> Thanks, Joanna
> ================================
>
>
>
> John Makransky was in Singapore last week at the international
> Buddhism conference ("Buddhism Across Asia") by the Institute of
> SE Asian Studies.
>
> So were Victor H Mair, Jan Nattier, Peter Skilling and a galaxy
> of others scholars.
>
> I was a guest of the ISEAS which now has a special Buddhist
> Library from S$1 M donation by a local Buddhist centre.
>
> Piya Tan
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