Friday, 14th October 2011
13.15 Opening reception and lunch buffet
(for presenters and NFN-members)
Chair: Cristina Scherrer-Schaub (Professor, EPHE Paris)
14.30 Oskar von Hinüber (Professor emeritus, University of Freiburg)
Buddhist Schools in Indian Inscriptions: Old evidence in the light
of new material
15.05 Michael Willis (Curator South Asia, British Museum, London)
Tibetan, Chinese and Burmese Inscriptions at Bodh Gaya
15.40 Pasang Wangdu (Professor emeritus, Tibetan Academy of
Social Sciences, Lhasa)
The Bell at Dpa’ ris
16.15 Coffee break / snacks
Chair: Deborah Klimburg-Salter (Professor, University of Vienna)
16.45 Tsai, Sueyling 蔡穗玲 (Researcher, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
and Humanities)
Stone Sūtras in the Monastery of the Reclining Buddha 臥佛院,
Anyue 安岳 (Sichuan Province)
17.20 Kurt Tropper (Researcher, University of Vienna)
Tibetan Religious Inscriptions in Context
17.55 Yamabe, Nobuyoshi (Professor, Tokyo University of Agriculture)
Toyok Cave 20: Paintings and inscriptions
19.30 Dinner (for presenters; location to be announced)
Saturday, 15th October 2011
Chair: Oskar von Hinüber (Professor emeritus, University of Freiburg)
9.30 Richard Salomon (Professor, University of Washington)
Inscribed Gandhāran Reliquaries: Forms and functions
10.05 Ingo Strauch (Researcher, Free University of Berlin)
Buddhist Property Inscriptions from Gandhāra: A tentative
typology
10.40 Coffee break / snacks
Chair: Kurt Tropper (Researcher, University of Vienna)
11.00 Cristina Scherrer-Schaub (Professor, Ecole Pratique des Hautes
Etudes, Paris)
A Perusal of Inscriptive Edicts in the Indian and Tibetan World of
the Seventh to Ninth Centuries
11.35 Julia Estève (Researcher, Ecole française d’Extrême-orient)
& Gerdi Gerschheimer (Professor, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris)
Shared Secret Places of Cambodia (K. 1155 and K. 1141)
12.15 Lunch buffet
13.30 Guided Vienna city walk (Latin inscriptions)
Viktor Böhm (Lecturer, University of Vienna)
Chair: Helmut Tauscher (Professor, University of Vienna)
15.15 Philip Denwood (Professor emeritus, School of Oriental and African
Studies, University of London)
Inscriptions and History in Ladakh and Baltistan
15.50 Guntram Hazod (Researcher, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
The Stele at the Centre of the Lhasa maṇḍala: About the position
of the 9th century Sino-Tibetan treaty pillar of Lhasa in its
historical-geographical and narrative context
16.25 Coffee break / snacks
Chair: Ernst Steinkellner (Professor emeritus, University of Vienna)
16.45 Tsering Gyalpo (Professor, Tibetan Academy of Social Sciences, Lhasa)
Gu ge Kingdom Period Grotto Inscriptions in Mkhar rtse Valley
(Mnga’ ris, Western Tibet)
17.20 Nathan Hill & Charles Manson (Senior Lector, SOAS, London &
Tibetan subject consultant librarian, Bodleian Library, Oxford)
A Gter ma of Negatives: H. E. Richardson’s photographic negatives
of manuscript copies of Tibetan imperial inscriptions collected by
Rig ’dzin Tshe dbang Nor bu in the 18th century CE, recently found
in the Bodleian Library, Oxford
18.00 Closing speeches
19.30 Dinner at a Heurigen (for presenters and NFN-members)