Publication highlights (2012): A Pure Mind in a Clean Body: Bodily Care in the Buddhist Monasteries of Ancient India and China (10/16/2012) - Buddhist monasteries, in both Ancient India and China, have played a crucial social role, for religious as well as for lay people. They rightfully attract the attention of many scholars, discussing historical backgrounds, institutional networks, or influential masters. Still, some… Read more2012 PTBS Lecture Series (1/5/2012) - 2012 Programme 06.03.2012: Bart Dessein (UGent, Centre for Buddhist Studies) Tijd, Tijdelijkheid en het Bestaan van de Dingen. 13.03.2012: Tom De Rauw (UGent, Centre for Buddhist Studies) Boeddhistische politiek - politiek boeddhisme. 20.03.2012: Carlos Roos (UGent, Centre for Cinema and Media… Read more
2011 PTBS Lecture Series (1/7/2011) - 2011 Programme 22.02.2011: Ann Heirman (Universiteit Gent) Lichaamszorg in de boeddhistische kloostergemeenschap 01.03.2011: Edel Maex (Boeddhistische Unie van België) Mindfulness, een boeddhistische hype? 15.03.2011: Carola Roloff (Hamburg University) Potential for Enlightenment and Ordination of Women in Buddhism 22.03.2011: Bart Dessein… Read more
2010 PTBS Lecture Series (1/10/2010) - 2010 Programme 23.02.2010 Christoph Anderl (Oslo University) Text and Iconography - Strategies in the Adaptation of Buddhism in East Asia 02.03.2010 Ann Heirman (CBS, Universiteit Gent) Actie en reactie: welke plaats veroverde de vrouw in het monastieke leven? 09.03.2010 Kawanami Hiroko (Lancaster… Read more
2009 PTBS Lecture Series (1/5/2009) - 2009 Programme 10.02.2009 Bart Dessein (Universiteit Gent) "Waarom ik niet besta": het concept ‘zelf' in boeddhisme 17.02.2009 Tobias Wissler (Universiteit Gent) Beyond exegesis: Temple inscriptions and the economics of Chinese religion 03.03.2009 Ann Heirman (Universiteit Gent) Boeddhistische kloosterregels: de loopbaan… Read more
Publication highlights (2007): The Spread of Buddhism (8/31/2007) - In no region of the world Buddhism can be seen as a unified doctrinal system. It rather consists of a multitude of different ideas, practices and behaviours. Geographical, social, political, economic, philosophical, religious, and also linguistic factors all played their… Read more
Publication highlights (2002): The Discipline in Four Parts: Rules for Nuns According to the Dharmaguptakavinaya (10/18/2002) - The purpose of this work is, on the one hand, to give an annotated English translation of the Chinese version of the bhiksunivibhanga of the Dharmaguptakavinaya, and on the other hand to study the life and the career of Buddhist… Read more
Publication highlights (1998): Samyuktabhidharma hrdaya – Heart of Scholasticism with Miscellaneous Additions (9/22/1998) - The present work provides the first complete annotated translation into English of the Chinese version of Dharmatrata's fourth century is the of a series of expository treatises that summarised the Sarvastivada philosophy as it was prevailing in Bacteria and Gandhara… Read more