Samye Ling, 2003, Scotland

BUDDHISM, CHRISTIANITY AND CREATION

Friday 16.5. – Monday 19.5.2003
in Samye Ling, Schottland,
the oldest tibetian Monastery in the West.

PROGRAMME
BUDDHISM, CHRISTIANITY AND
THE DOCTRINE OF CREATION

5th CONFERENCE OF THE “EUROPEAN NETWORK OF BUDDHIST-CHRISTIAN STUDIES”

SCOTLAND, SAMYE LING MONASTERY, 16th-19th May 2003

PROGRAM

Friday, 16.05.

16.00-18.00    Registration
18.00-19.00    Supper
19.30-21.30    Meeting with Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche, Abbot of Samye Ling
Introduction to the conference theme (Prof. Dr. Perry Schmidt-Leukel, University of Glasgow/Scotland)
Introduction of participants

Saturday, 17.05.

07.00-08.00    Breakfast
08.00-09.00    Meditation
09.00-10.30    Hindu doctrines of creation and their Buddhist critiques (Prof. Dr. Ernst
Steinkellner, University of Vienna/Austria)
10.30-11.00    Break
11.00-12.30    Contemporary Buddhist critique of creation- and creator-doctrines (Prof. Dr. Jose Cabezon, University of California, Santa Barbara/USA)
12.30.13.30    Lunch
14.30-16.00     Buddhist forms of belief in creation (Prof. Dr. Eva Neumaier, University of Alberta/Canada)
16.00-16.30    Break
16.30-18.00     Students’ presentations
18.00-19.00    Supper
19.30-21.30     Students’ presentations

Sunday, 18.05.

07.00-08.00    Breakfast
08.00-09.00    Meditation
09.00-10.30     Christian views of creation (Prof. Dr. John Keenan, Middlebury College/USA)
10.30-11.00    Break
11.00-12.30     Creation and the problem of evil (Prof. Dr. Armin Kreiner, University of Mainz/Germany)
12.30-13.30    Lunch
14.30-16.00     Creation, process thought and Buddhist-Christian dialogue (Prof. Dr. Aasulv Lande, University of Lund/Sweden)
16.00-16.30    Break
16.30-18.00     Buddhists, Christians and ecology (Prof Dr John May, University of Dublin)
18.00-19.00     Supper
19.30-20.30    Panell discussion with all speakers
20.30-21.30     Plans for the next conference

Monday, 19.05.

07.00-08.00    Breakfast

Departure


Publication:

Perry Schmidt-Leukel (Ed.),

Buddhism, Christianity and the Questions of Creation. Karmic or Divine?, Ashgate, 2006.

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