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
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
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
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
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Publication:
Perry Schmidt-Leukel (Ed.),
Buddhism, Christianity and the Questions of Creation. Karmic or Divine?, Ashgate, 2006.
Fotos look here.