samye ling 2003



BUDDHISM, CHRISTIANITY AND CREATION

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

Samye Ling in pictures.

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