Symposium

Ancient Buddhist Meditation:

Historical, Philosophical and Comparative Perspectives

6 November 2019

Faculty of Philosophy, room ALPHA

Oude Boteringestraat 52, 9717 GL

Groningen

Programme

9:30-10:15 – Marieke van Vugt (Groningen):

Bridging philosophy and meditation: analytical meditation in Tibetan monasteries

10:15-11:00 – Tatjana Kochetkova (O.P. Jindal Global University, India):

Vipassana and Neurofeedback EEG alertness training: a comparative phenomenological approach

Coffee break

11:15-12:00 – Gunter Bombaerts (Eindhoven):

Towards a Satipaṭṭhāna economy?

12:00-12:45 – Cristina Pecchia (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna):

Indian Buddhist Epistemologists on the Consequences of Meditation Practices

Lunch break

14:15 -15:00 – Robin Brons (Oxford):

Ethics without Essence. Why Meditation can better Pragmatism

15:00-15:45 – Markus Schlosser (University College Dublin):

Pure Consciousness and Meditation in Buddhism

Tea Break

16.00-18.00 Keynote Speaker:

Rupert Gethin (Bristol):

How Buddhists stop thinking and get away with it: on the significance of  ‘the attainment of cessation’ (nirodha-samāpatti) in early Buddhist literature

Discussants: Stephen Harris (Leiden) and Andrea Sangiacomo (Groningen)

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Attendance is free and all are welcome, especially students.

No financial assistance can be provided to support travel expenses and accommodation.

Please register here.

For information please contact: a.sangiacomo@rug.nl – for updates, please visit the website.