Here is a list (in no particular order, sorry) of Buddhist papers being presented at the 20th Quinquennial World Congress of the IAHR, being held at the University of Toronto, August 15-21, 2010. A Google search of the presenters’ names and paper titles should give you a lead as to how to get hold of any that are of particular interest.
Zara Ramsay, School of Oriental and African Studies
Religious and spiritual capital in Buddhist faith-based-development: evidence from India
Tim Graf, University of Heidelberg
The Transfer and Transformation of ‘Ritual Sitting’ (zazen) in Japan and the West
Levi McLaughlin, Wofford College
Soka Gakkai’s Image of East Asia and Its Activities in Korea and China
Joshua A. Irizarry, University of Michigan
Cultivating an ‘International Zen Garden’: Daihonzan Sōjiji in the 21st Century
Katja Rakow, University of Heidelberg
Transcending or Consuming the Self? The Western Hegemonic Discourse on the Self and Its Impact on Concepts and Ritual Practices in Buddhist Modernism
Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya, University of Delhi, India
Transnational networks of dharma and development: Engaged Buddhism in the era of globalization
Zhuo Xinping, Institute of World Religion, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Chinese Religions and their Social Background
Xiaoyun Zheng, Institute of World Religion, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
The Characteristics of the Propagation of Theravada Buddhism in China
Hongmei Wang, Peking University
Humanistic Buddhism (Renjian Fojiao: Searching for a Balance between Religiousness and Secularity
Takashi Irimoto, Hokkaido University
Ecological Implications of Tibetan Buddhism: Exorcising Rites in Village and Monastic Festivals
Takako Yamada, Kyoto University
Ladakhi Shamanism and the Continuity of Buddhist Tradition
Kumiko Tanaka, Fukuoka Institute of Technology
The Struggle between Nichiren Buddhist Ideology and the Reality of Everyday Life
Masahiro Shimoda, University of Tokyo
The History of Buddhism as Media Development: The Changing Possibilities of Religious Studies
Masako Kuroki, Kyotogakuen University
The Spiritual Quest of a Woman Priest in Tendai Buddhism
Céline Grünhagen, University of Bonn
Sex and Gender Trouble in Theravada Buddhism – The Complexity of Translation and Transmission
Renu Shukla and Kanya Gurukul, Lucknow University
Problem of Dating: A Study of Milindapañha
Pranabananda Jash, Visva-Bharati University
The Prajnaparamita-hrdaya-sutra: Historical Approaches
Bikash Mukherji, Visva-Bharati University
Social Diaspora of Buddhism in Eastern India
Hari Shankar Prasad, University of Delhi
How to Restructure the Religious Focus?: Explaining the Buddhist Method
Katja Triplett, University of Marburg
Medical Knowledge and Ritual Instruction for Healing the Physical Body Found in East Asian Buddhist Texts
Christoph Kleine, University of Leipzig
Buddhist Monks as Healers in Early and Medieval Japan
Alicia Turner, York University
The Irish Pongyi: The Confrontations and Challenges of U Dhammaloka in Burma
Brian Bocking, University College Cork
‘A Man of Work and Few Words’?: Dhammaloka Beyond Burma
Laurence Cox, National University of Ireland
The politics of Buddhist revival: U. Dhammaloka as social movement organizer
Thomas Tweed, University of Texas, Austin
U. Dhammaloka, ‘the Irish Buddhist’: A response
Kieko Obuse, University of Oxford
Japanese Muslim Views of Buddhism: Converts’ Dilemma
Sanchita Sharma, University Kanpur
The concept of karma: A comparative analysis
Kiyokazu Nakatomi, Chiba prefectural Togane Commercial High School
Meditation and Intuition
Makoto Ozaki, Sanyo Gakuen University
Bostrom’s Philosophy of Religion and Tendai Buddhist Thought
Jon Morris, Tohoku University
Pure Land Thought and the Legend of the Eternal Meditation of Kukai
Matthew King, University of Toronto
“Tibet” as an Ideological Category in Early-Modern Mongolian Buddhism
Janis Priede, University of Latvia
Buddhism in the Latvian Cultural Landscape in the Interwar Period (1918–1939)
Victor Sogen Hori, McGill University
Zen and the Language of the Unspeakable
Kenshin Kirihara, Tohoku University
The Quest for Mahayana: Kawaguchi Ekai and the Buddha’s “Golden Words”
Richard M. Jaffe, Duke University
Kawaguchi Ekai and the reform of Japanese Buddhism
Hidetsugu Takayama, Nishogakusha University
Murakami Sensh’s views on Education
Orion Klautau, Tohoku University
(Re)inventing “Japanese Buddhism”: Murakami Sensh and the writing of history
Lubos Belka, Masaryk University
Dandaron Mandala: Buryat Buddhism during the Soviet Era
Levi McLaughlin, Wofford College
The Enlightenment Meets Enlightenment: Conflations of Euro-American Romanticism with Japanese Buddhist Practices in Contemporary Nichiren-Based Organizations
Sophana Srichampa, Mahidol University
Thai-Vietnamese beliefs for their well-being
Do Thu Ha, Vietnam National University
Then: Religious performance of Thai ethnic group in Vietnam
Champathong Phochanthilath, Mahidol University
Long Sieng Khong: A ritual of Tai Nyo in Bolikhamxay, Laos
Rattana Chanthao, Khon Kaen University
Pi Mae Maay: Local belief for survival of Lao-Isaan people
Makoto Hayashi, Aichi-gakuin University
Shadows of Max Müller
Jun’ichi Isomae, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
Doubling Buddhism: Beneath the proper name
Galen Amstutz, Institute of Buddhist Studies (GTU)
Two Hybridities in Japanese Buddhism in the United States
Silvio Vita, Italian School of East Asian Studies
Paris as a cultural contact zone in the making of modern discourse on Buddhism
Sonehara Satoshi, Tohoku University
The Formation and Development of Dangisho Temples in the Tendai Sect
Koichi Matsumoto
The Transcription and Propagation of Esoteric Tendai Texts
Kaoru Oshima
Preaching Materials at Jobodai-in
Kazuo Makino
Tendai Dangisho Temples and the Late 13th Century Higashiyama Byakugo-in Area
Stefania Travagnin: University of Saskatchewan
All You Need is Shentong: Assessing Traditional “Supernormal” Practices in Chinese Buddhism
Scott Pacey, Australian National University
Shentong, Science and the Everyday: Supernormal Abilities in Modern Chinese Buddhism
Benjamin Penny, the Australian National University
Perfectability and the Paranormal in Contemporary China
Neelima Dahiya, M.D. University
Present Day Bio-Ethical Issues and Buddhism
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