Conference Programme - HKU Centre of Buddhist Studies

Day 1: 27 November 2021 (Sat)

Time	Presentation Topic	Speaker
13:15 - 13:30	Registration
13:30 - 13:45	Opening and Welcoming
13:45 - 14:30	Intellectual Understanding versus Wisdom (paññā/prajñā) in Buddhist Education	Ven. K. L. Dhammajoti
14:30 - 15:00	Educating the Confucians about Filial Piety: Qisong’s Treatise on Filial Piety	Guang Xing
15:00 - 15:30	Attaining the acceptance of truth (kṣānti) through the three kinds of knowledge and its modern-day application	Ven. Sik Hin Hung, Bonnie W. Y. Wu, and Ven. Sumana
15:30 - 15:45	Break
15:45 - 16:15	Notes on the Translation and Transmission of Wisdom from the Earliest Canonical Collections of Tibetan Buddhism.	Georgios T. Halkias
16:15 - 16:45	From Tradition to Innovation: Wisdom-oriented Education in Buddhist Theory and Practice	Ernest C. H. Ng
16:45 - 17:15	Conjoining Scientific Knowledge and Dhamma Knowledge for Creating an Authentic Person	G. A. Somaratne
17:15 -17:30	Break
17:30 - 18:00	On ‘foshuo 佛説’ in the Title of Some Chinese Buddhist Sutras	Chengzhong Pu
18:00 - 18:30	The Buddhist texts translation in Dharmarakṣa’s team	Chung-hui Tsui

Time	Presentation Topic	Speaker
09:15 - 10:00	Buddhism and Engaged Citizenship	Jin Y. Park
10:00- 10:45	Retrieving the Dharma Wheel: Searching for Meaning in the Sino-East Asian Buddhist Canon	Albert Welter
10:45 - 11:00	Break
11:00 - 11:45	Opening the Canon: New Challenges to Buddhist Studies in Humanities Education	Wu Jiang
11:45 - 12:15	Shaping the Order of Ritualized Community in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Monasticism	Huaiyu Chen
12:15 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 14:30	Knowledge tied to or freed from identity? Epistemic reflections through the prism of the early Buddhist teachings (#available on Zoom ONLY.)	Ven. Bhikkhuni Dhammadinna
14:30 - 15:00	Knowledge and Wisdom from an early Buddhist Perspective	Asanga Tilakaratne
15:00 - 15:30	Vasubandhu on the Role of the Teacher and the Features of Wisdom-Oriented Education	Oren Hanner

# Please note that the presentation by Ven. Dhammadinna will be available on Zoom ONLY.