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"Our conference will focus on non-English language categories with an eye to whether our received assumptions, colour and distort our understanding of them" Aamir Kaderbhai

Welcoming our first speaker today: Prof Diwakar Acharya! Discussing - ‘What the Buddha negated? How and why?’ with questions from Shree Nahatathen

"Rūpa is impermanent. It consists of suffering. It is anattā - In a spiritual way, we have to dissociate ourselves from these material things - This is not mine, I do not belong to it, I am not it" Prof Diwakar Acharya

“Language corrupts, when we interpret things they are diluted, corrupted” “Talking about the nature of ‘the [ultimate/higher] truth as it is’ is not possible as it is beyond language, and even if possible to describe" Prof Diwakar Acharya

(Shree Nahatathen) How was Anātman interpreted differently throughout the Buddhist tradition? (Prof Diwakar Acharya) It became more meditative and contemplative in a philosophical and spiritual way.

A wonderful passage referred to by our fourth speaker, Wintor L. Scott:

Why act if the doer and the enjoyer are not the same? One analogy W. Scott puts forth on behalf of the Buddhist is that of the parent bringing up their child... Similarly, "the cognitions of the agent act for the sake of the cognition of the enjoyer, without any self-interests"

How does the Buddhist explain the transmigration of one life to another? And if there is no self passing from one world to the next - where is karma stored? Eng Jin Ooi gives offers a profound insight, with reference to dialogues preserved only in the Siamese recensions...

Day 2: welcoming our first speaker! Dr Amrita Nanda, discussing: ‘Doctrine of Non-self and Rebirth in Early Buddhism’

Karma allows us to situate ourselves in time, not dwelling on the past, and explaining the chaos of those actions which appear incomprehensible; Karma allows us to view an event within a larger framework, such that it can be made sense of and understood. Dr Mikel Burley

"Rebirth is a way to think that we are more than ourselves" Dr Avram Alpert Thank you for your wonderful insight into Rebirth, Modernity, and Contemporary Literature

"Buddhism puts transformation at the heart of ethics, and dispelling illusion at the foundation of this transformative process - it is in this sense an epistemological ethic, one of knowing..." Dr Amber Carpenter

“The lack of essence is the essence of Eastern culture” Dr Jingjing Li, discussing: ‘The Problem of Essence in Buddhist Phenomenology

Day 3: our first speaker, Dr Karen O’Brien-Kop "Memory constitutes the enduring complex in the material world and this is a false self - the true self, purusa, has no memory and no content."

So you want to study liminal philosophies: Q&A with graduate students Time: 22nd of April, 6:15-8:15pm Location: Radcliffe Humanities Building, Seminar Room This event is co-hosted by Philiminality Oxford and oxford public philosophy.

Happening today!

Join us TODAY to hear our graduate panel share their experiences and advice.

2024 John Locke Lectures: Seeing in Sanskrit Professor Jonardon Ganeri (University of Toronto)  The first lecture will take place TODAY (5pm), at The HB Allen Centre, 25 Banbury Road, Oxford. More information👇 onap.web.ox.ac.uk/event/2024-joh…

Join us on Monday for our first Work-in-Progress Seminar! ⏰ Monday May 20, 4-6pm 📍Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities More information, including abstracts, is available here: philiminalityoxford.wordpress.com/current-events/

Happening TODAY 4pm!