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Buddhist Texts and Commentaries in Traditional and Contemporary Contexts Conference Schedule for the UCBT PERSONNEL 30 May – 04 June 2012 Papers accepted into this panel should be related to the historical and contemporary roles of Buddhist scriptures, commentaries, and treatises, the relationships between these texts, and their respective roles in the formation and interpretation of Buddhist canons. Papers are also invited on the issues involved in making these texts available to contemporary cultures by way of translation, interpretation, and, especially, electronic resources, which reflects the project of the International Association of Buddhist Universities for the Union Catalog of Buddhist Texts that is dedicated to creating an online catalog that links all the major electronic projects devoted to the canons of Buddhism, e.g., Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan, and Mongolian Panel Leader: David Phillip Stanley, PhD: Convener of the UCBT Project For iPhone/iPad user: If you can't see all of this short bio's text, please use your two fingers to scroll inside this text area. SHORT BIOGRAPHY    Pravin Bhalesain To be annnounce Pravin Bhalesain Title: "Imparting Pali Language Studies in Mainstream School System: A Case Study of Maharashtra State School System in India" For iPhone/iPad user: If you can't see all of this short bio's text, please use your two fingers to scroll inside this text area. SHORT BIOGRAPHY    Bruno Lainé Name : Bruno Lainé Email Address : brunogml@gmail.com Current Position : Researcher at the University of Vienna Education : Tibetan and Buddhist studies at the University of Vienna Buddhist Projects/Experiences : - rKTS – Resources for Kanjur and Tanjur studies (www.istb.univie.ac.at/kanjur): web resources to support research on texts from the Tibetan Kanjur or Tanjur. - From 2004: fieldworks in the Indian Himalaya in order to discover canonical manuscript collections. - Buddhist Mongolian Language (www.istb.univie.ac.at/mongol/dico): Mongolian – French – English dictionary of the Buddhist Mongolian Language with Tibetan and Sanskrit equivalents. Bruno Lainé Title: The sources for the Phugbrag manuscript Kanjur: On a mDo mangs volume from Hundar (Nubra Valley, India) For iPhone/iPad user: If you can't see all of this short bio's text, please use your two fingers to scroll inside this text area. SHORT BIOGRAPHY    Burnee Dorjsuren Name: BURNEE DORJSUREN Email Address: buren_d2002@yahoo.com Current Position: Professor at the School of Mongolian Language and Culture, National University of Mongolia Education: Graduated from National University of Mongolia for Bachelor degree in 1981. Completed M.A. in Review of the Mongolian trsanslations of Damamükonämasütra in 1981. Completed Ph.D. in Linguistic Study of the Mongolian Translations of Damamükonämasütra, 1997. Buddhist Projects/Experiences: -Boloriin Toli /Crystal mirror/, History of Buddhism by Tugan /Thwagun grub mtha'/, translation from old Mongolian script into Cyrillic with foreword and commentary, 2006. -Ulgeriin Dalai / Damamükonämasütra/, translation from old Mongolian script into Cyrillic, with foreword and commentary, 1996, 2003, 2010. Conferences: - Damamükonämasütra in Mongolia, Taipei, 2008. 2. Mongolian Buddhist Women. Past and future. Ulaanbaatar, 2008. 3. On Tradition of Translating Buddhist Philosophical Terms, Ulaanbaatar, 2010. Burnee Dorjsuren Title: On Some Features of Ulaanbaatar's Mongolian Handwritten Kanjur For iPhone/iPad user: If you can't see all of this short bio's text, please use your two fingers to scroll inside this text area. SHORT BIOGRAPHY    Dr. Jiang Wu Name : Jiang Wu Email Address : jiangwu@email.arizona.edu Current Position : Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, the University of Arizona Education : Ph. D, Harvard University, 2002 Buddhist Projects/Experiences: Jiang Wu's research interests include seventeenth-century Chinese Buddhism, especially Chan/Zen Buddhism, the role of Buddhist canons in the formation of East Asian Buddhist culture, and the historical exchanges between Chinese Buddhism and Japanese Buddhism. Other interests include Confucianism, Chinese intellectual history and social history, and the application of electronic cultural atlas tools in the study of Chinese culture and religion. He has published articles in Asia Major, Journal of East Asian History, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, and Monumenta Serica on a variety of topics. His first book Enlightenment in Dispute: The Reinvention of Chan Buddhism in Seventeenth-century China has been published by Oxford University Press in 2008. Right now, he is co-editing a book on the Chinese Buddhist canon. Meanwhile, he is conducting research on the formation of the Jiaxing canon in late imperial China and writing a biography of Yinyuan Longqi. Dr. Jiang Wu Title: Imagining Tripitaka: Legends about the Buddhist Canon in Chinese Sources For iPhone/iPad user: If you can't see all of this short bio's text, please use your two fingers to scroll inside this text area. SHORT BIOGRAPHY    Aming Tu Name : Aming Tu Email Address : aming@ddbc.edu.tw Current Position : Prof. of Buddhist Informatics, Dharma Drum Buddhist College, Taiwan. Buddhist Projects/Experiences : Aming Tu is currently the chair of Archive and Database Section of TELDAP, National Science Council (NSC). He is also the director of "Tripitaka Catalogs" and "Buddhist Lexicographical Resources" projects of NSC, Taiwan. Since 1994 Aming has been involved in the constructing of the Buddhist Electronic database, has contributed many Buddhist digital resources since then. He is the Vice Director of Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association (CBETA) now. Aming Tu Title: The Union Tripitaka Catalogs Database – Using the Chinese Buddhist Catalogs Project as an Example For iPhone/iPad user: If you can't see all of this short bio's text, please use your two fingers to scroll inside this text area. SHORT BIOGRAPHY    Christian Wittern Tobe announce Christian Wittern Title: Considerations for the technical infrastructure of the Union Catalog of Buddhist Texts