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