Notices by Birgit Kellner (birgitkellner@zirk.us), page 2

I learned a lot from this paper as a preprint, now it's finally out: Davey Tomlinson, Limiting the Scope of the Neither-One-Nor-Many Argument: The Nirākāravādin's Defense of Consciousness and Pleasure. Enjoy! https://www.academia.edu/79605618/Limiting_the_Scope_of_the_Neither_One_Nor_Many_Argument_The_Nir%C4%81k%C4%81rav%C4%81dins_Defense_of_Consciousness_and_Pleasure #BuddhistPhilosophy

Jens-Uwe Hartmann will tell you all you can currently know about a vexed Buddhological problem: Aśvaghoṣa's spurious (or not?) Sūtrālaṃkāra. June 19th, starting 5pm CEST at the IKGA in Vienna or online (in German), details and link:

https://www.oeaw.ac.at/ikga/veranstaltungen/event-detail/neues-zu-einer-alten-buddhologischen-streitfrage

Markus Bingenheimer talks on machine translation of Buddhist texts in Vienna. https://www.oeaw.ac.at/ikga/veranstaltungen/event-detail/advanced-computational-methods-for-studying-buddhist-texts

Volume dedicated to Seishi Karashima (https://iriab.soka.ac.jp/content/pdf/bppb/Vol.%20XV.%20Noriyuki%20Kudo,%20%C5%9A%C4%81ntamati%E1%B8%A5%E2%80%93Manuscripts%20for%20Life%20(2023)%20ISBN%20978-4-904234-21-1.pdf), and new issue of ARIRIAB (https://iriab.soka.ac.jp/content/pdf/aririab/Vol.%20XXVI%20(2023).pdf), or, as we Buddhologists say: hot stuff!

Spread the word! Second Vienna Summer School on the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia: Classical Sanskrit Texts on Epistemology (3–8 July 2023), jointly organized by the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. #IndianPhilosophy #SanskritStudies

Details and information on registration:

https://www.oeaw.ac.at/ikga/veranstaltungen/event-detail/vienna-summer-school-on-the-cultural-and-intellectual-history-of-asia

The third issue of the open access journal "Prajñākaragupta Studies" is out, published by a research group on P. in Japan. This journal makes a continuous effort to improve our understanding of a significant 8th century Indian Buddhist epistemologist who left us one single work (of massive proportions) that is challenging on so many levels.

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/prajnakaragupta/list/-char/en

Excellent, more wonderful work from the Ledderose laboratory in Heidelberg!
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This two volume work deals with the greatest of all stone inscriptions in #China: the #DiamondSutra, with its many colophons, embeds it in the local history, investigates its religious function, and traces its scholarly engagement until the present day. https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/isbn_9783447119481.ahtml
https://twitter.com/harrassowitz_v/status/1641008344495185921

Gute Nachrichten!
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News zur #Medienförderung: Berichterstattung über Wissenschaft und Forschung wird erstmals als allgemeine Fördervoraussetzung genannt.??https://orf.at/stories/3310777/ @th_koenig @ViennaLehmann @oeaw @univienna @_svenhartwig @debora_knob
https://twitter.com/elke_ziegler/status/1641431793252589568

@jayarava I think that a number of tools for language and textual analysis are available (or being developed) that allow us to address questions we wouldn't have been able to address otherwise. People like Oliver Hellwig or Nathan Hill wo have longer experience developing and working with computational methods also have published papers with new insights. But it depends on what kind of knowledge precisely you expect them to produce (and what, frankly, you believe "we" already know).

"Advanced computational methods for studying Buddhist texts", hybrid symposium in Vienna, 27-28 April 2023 (co-hosted by Univ. Vienna and OEAW, with support of ERC TibSchol at OEAW). Organized by Rachael Griffiths, Patrick McAllister and Markus Viehbeck.

https://www.oeaw.ac.at/ikga/veranstaltungen/event-detail/advanced-computational-methods-for-studying-buddhist-texts

Bei manchen Vertreter*innen der interkulturellen Philosophie habe ich den Eindruck, ihnen wäre nicht bewusst, was in z.B. asienbezogenen Fächern wie Indologie oder Buddhismusstudien über Philosophiegeschichte Asiens geforscht wird -- und auch nicht, dass es einen anglophonen Diskurs (zwischen USA, UK und Europa v.a.) über globale Philosophie gibt -- der sich freilich nicht aus einem dezidiert "interkulturellen" Ansatz speist?

(Anlassfall: https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000144860814/dekolonialisierung-des-denkens)

Saddened to learn of Patrick French's passing, even more so as I only got to meet him virtually (while he was Dean at Ahmedabad University) and had been hoping to eventually meet him in person.

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/patrick-french-1966-2023-a-charming-man-who-never-bowed-to-authority-8502124/

Fresh from the press: Liu Zhen / Johannes Schneider: "Buddhist Hymns : A New Collection", including for the first time edited the Sanskrit texts of Jambhalastotra, Deśanāstava and Viśeṣastava. Details and open access download: https://verlag.oeaw.ac.at/en/product/buddhist-hymns/99200895

Honoured to be on the board of directors of the new FWF-funded Cluster of Excellence "EurAsian Transformations -- Resources of the Past and Challenges of Diversity", one of the two humanities clusters that were approved. Thanks to all involved!

https://www.fwf.ac.at/de/news-presse/news/nachricht/nid/20230313-2850

When you talk to analytic epistemologists about Dharmakīrti and they say "wow, I had no idea these kinds of problems were dealt with in India already by the 7th century" -- that's a little progress towards a more balanced picture of a global history of philosophy, I guess.

6-year position in Tibetan Studies ("Assistent") at the University of Vienna, starting August 2023. Details: https://univis.univie.ac.at/ausschreibungstellensuche/flow/bew_ausschreibung-flow;jsessionid=16D288F119A1A96EB10EC0ED58165729?_flowExecutionKey=_c7FE28B37-7451-92AF-244F-7F23E5D01CBC_kAD495D84-AE20-4ADB-19C5-5ACA04761DA7&tid=93285.28&_language=en Spread the word! #TibetanStudies #AcademicJobs

"Seeing and Understanding the World Differently", Ringvorlesung at University of Zurich. Details: https://www.uzh.ch/cmsssl/en/outreach/events/rv/2023fs/uzh-i-world.html. I have the honour of participating live in a panel discussion on March 9th, discussing rationality and reasons with the philosopher Anne Meylan (moderator: Raji Steineck); my input will draw on themes from Indian Buddhist philosophy.

They changed the headline of the story, #bookhistory nerds, but kept the argument. It’s a world full of used books, and we need to answer the basic question: how to do with books in a material world? Personally, I do like the "cult of book ownership" phrase.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/23/reading-is-precious-but-the-cult-of-book-ownership-can-be-smug-and-middle-class

#histodons

Fresh from the press on my desk: it looks small (but, hey, 558 pages), but it's a huge accomplishment. And very handy for travel! #IndianPhilosophy

Just out: "Transmission and Tradition :
Quotations, Paraphrases and Allusions in Texts on Indian Philosophy", edited by E. Prets. Papers by Steinkellner, Lasic, Prets, Moriyama, Muroya, Watanabe, Kataoka, Shida, Ogawa, Ferstl. https://verlag.oeaw.ac.at/en/product/transmission-and-tradition/99200920 #IndianPhilosophy