Oslo Buddhist Studies Forum, Spring 2013

Dear friends and colleagues,

You are cordially invited to attend the next lecture in Oslo Buddhist
Studies Forum:

Astrid Hovden (PhD fellow, IKOS) will give the talk

"Paying the monk tax: Reflections on recruitment and monastic economy
in Himalayan village monasteries"

Time and place: Apr 23, 2013 04:15 PM - 06:00 PM, PAM, seminarrom 14

The further lectures in the Oslo Buddhist Studies Forum this Spring
term are:

May 6, 2013 04:15 PM - 06:00 PM, PAM seminarrom 6

Professor Dr. Birgit Kellner (Heidelberg University) is Cluster
Professor "Buddhist Studies" and Deputy Speaker, Research Area D
"Historicities and Heritage", Cluster "Asia and Europe" at Heidelberg
University, gives the talk

"The Lion's Roar and the Mango in the Thornbush – Perceptions and
Constructions of Scholarly Debate in Buddhism"

And on May 28, 04:15 PM - 06:00 PM, PAM seminarrom 10

Professor Gregory Schopen (Brown University)

will give the talk

"Portraits of Nuns and the Uses and Abuses of Male Hagiography in a
Buddhist Monastic Code"

We look forward to welcoming you all to this exciting Spring program -
all are welcome!