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