23.09.2021 Meinert, Carmen: A New Look at Chinese Chan and Tibetan Dzogchen, at the workshop of the BMBF project Dzogchen Contemplation and Non-doing: Solitude, Absorption and Letting-be as Structural Principles of Contemplative Religious Practice, organised by Dylan Esler, online conference, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 22-24 September 2021
23.09.2021 Sørensen, Henrik: On the Concept of Effortlessness and Non-activity in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Practice, at the workshop of the BMBF project Dzogchen Contemplation and Non-doing: Solitude, Absorption and Letting-be as Structural Principles of Contemplative Religious Practice, organised by Dylan Esler, online conference, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 22-24 September 2021
14.07.2021 Meinert, Carmen: People, Places, Texts, and Topics: Another Look at Chan Buddhism in Eastern Central Asia, at the final conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part III: Impacts of Non-Buddhist Influences and Doctrines, organised by Lewis Doney, online conference, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 12-14 July 2021
14.07.2021 Kasai, Yukiyo: A Trace of Esoteric Buddhism in Old Uyghur Buddhist Texts: A Case Study with the Old Uyghur Translation for the Buddhist Term wuti toude 五體投地, at the final conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part III: Impacts of Non-Buddhist Influences and Doctrines, organised by Lewis Doney, online conference, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 12-14 July 2021
13.07.2021 Doney, Lewis: Non-Buddhist and Non-Bon in Early Tibetan Religious Literatur, at the final conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part III: Impacts of Non-Buddhist Influences and Doctrines, organised by Lewis Doney, online conference, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 12-14 July 2021
12.07.2021 Sørensen, Henrik: On the Presence and Influence of Daoism in the Buddhist Material from Dunhuang, at the final conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part III: Impacts of Non-Buddhist Influences and Doctrines, organised by Lewis Doney, online conference, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 12-14 July 2021
10.05.2021 Kasai, Yukiyo. Geschichte und Religion der Uiguren nach dem Untergang des Kaganats, online guest lecture at the lecture series Xinjiang und die Uiguren in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
23.03.2021 Doney, Lewis: Incantations and Empire: A Study of Some Tibetan Dhāraṇī Texts from Dunhuang, online guest lecture at the Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies, University of Ghent
26.02.2021 Meinert, Carmen: Sacred Space and Time: Perspectives from Tantric Buddhist Materials from the Tangut Empire (11th to 13th C.), Khyentse Lecture 2021, University of California, Berkely - webcast version here
11.12.2020 Kasai, Yukiyo: The Continuity and the Change of Uyghur Rulers' Legitimation-Through the Migration from the Steppe into the Oasis, online lecture at the conference The Ecology of Mobility in the Eurasian Steppes at the Tang Center for Silk Road Studies, University of California, Berkely
12.11.2020 Meinert, Carmen: Traveling on the BuddhistRoad: Aspects of a Research Programme to Explore the Spread of Buddhism in Eastern Central Asia, online guest lecture at Dunhuang and Silk Road seminars, organised by Prof. Dr. Imre Galambos, Cambridge University
02.07.2020 Sørensen, Henrik: Dunhuang as Sacred Space: On the History and Formation of a Major Religious Site in the Eastern Central Asia, online guest lecture at Area Ruhr-Studying Transnational Institution Building and Transnational Identities in East Asia, Bochum
27.11.2019 Hou, Houran: War and Magic: The Mahākāla Cult in the Tangut and Yuan Dynasties, at the Lunchforum at the Faculty of East Asian Studies, Ruhr Universität Bochum
20.11.2019 Kasai, Yukiyo: Neueste Abenteuer auf der Seidenstraße: Ein spannender Forschungsbericht des Buddhist-Road Teams, at the Bluesquare, Ruhr Universität Bochum
08.11.2019 Hou, Haoran: Seeking the Lost Teaching Lineage of Mahākāla in Tibetan Art, at the conference of the Tibetan Plateau and the Silk Road: Artistic Exchanges Between Tibet, Khotan and Dunhuang, 9th-13th Centuries, organised by Zhejiang University, CEIB, SOAS, China Insitute, Dunhuang Academic and Center For The Art of East Asia, Hangzhou, 08-10 November 2019
06.11.2019 Hou, Haoran: A New Look at the Manuscripts of Fierce Rites of Mahākāla Recovered from Khara-Khoto, at a public lecture on Buddhism in the Tangut Kingdom, organised by Weirong Shen, Tsinghua University, Beijing
18.09.2019 Yukiyo, Kasai: Bodhisattva Cult in Turfan and Dunhuang Focused on the Avalokiteśvara Cult, at the mid-project conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part II: Practices and Rituals, Visual and Material Transfer, organised by Henrik H. Sørensen, Ruhr University Bochum, 16-18 September 2019
18.09.2019 Sørensen, Henrik H.: Visualising Oneself as the Cosmos: An Esoteric Buddhist Mediation Text from Dunhuang, at the mid-project conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part II: Practices and Rituals, Visual and Material Transfer, organised by Henrik H. Sørensen, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 16-18 September 2019
17.09.2019 Hou, Houran: Worship of the Great Black One: Tantric Fierce Rites of Mahākāla in the Tangut Empire (1038–1227), at the mid-project conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part II: Practices and Rituals, Visual and Material Transfer, organised by Henrik H. Sørensen, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 16-18 September 2019
26.08.2019 Meinert, Carmen: Time and Space and Tantric Buddhist Meditation Practice, at an International & Intensive Program on Buddhism at Oxford; —Segment 2, organised by UBC SSHRC partnership project of Buddhism and East Asian Religions and the Glorisun Global Network of Buddhist Studies, Oxford, 23-28 August 2019
25.08.2019 Meinert, Carmen: Reading 2 (Karakhoto Manuscript, vol. 6, Q 249, Q 327 Jingang haimu xiuxiyi 金剛亥母修習儀 Ritual of the Yogic Practice of Vajravārāhī), at an International & Intensive Program on Buddhism at Oxford; —Segment 2, organised by UBC SSHRC partnership project of Buddhism and East Asian Religions and the Glorisun Global Network of Buddhist Studies, Oxford, 23-28 August 2019
25.08.2019 Meinert, Carmen: Tantric Buddhist Meditation Practice and the Senses, at an International & Intensive Program on Buddhism at Oxford; —Segment 2, organised by UBC SSHRC partnership project of Buddhism and East Asian Religions and the Glorisun Global Network of Buddhist Studies, Oxford, 23-28 August 2019
24.08.2019 Meinert, Carmen: Reading 1 (Chinese Karakhoto Manuscript, vol. 5, A 19 Jingang haimu chanding 金剛亥母禪定 Meditation on Vajravārāhī), at an International & Intensive Program on Buddhism at Oxford; —Segment 2, organised by UBC SSHRC partnership project of Buddhism and East Asian Religions and the Glorisun Global Network of Buddhist Studies, Oxford, 23-28 August 2019
24.08.2019 Meinert, Carmen: The Tangut Empire and Patronage of Tantric Buddhism in the 11th to 13th Centuries, at an International & Intensive Program on Buddhism at Oxford; —Segment 2, organised by UBC SSHRC partnership project of Buddhism and East Asian Religions and the Glorisun Global Network of Buddhist Studies, Oxford, 23-28 August 2019
23.08.2019 Meinert, Carmen: Semantic Context: Meaning, Doxographies, and Transmissions of Tantric Buddhism, at an International & Intensive Program on Buddhism at Oxford; —Segment 2, organised by UBC SSHRC partnership project of Buddhism and East Asian Religions and the Glorisun Global Network of Buddhist Studies, Oxford, 23-28 August 2019
23.08.2019 Meinert, Carmen: Historical Context: Shifting Political Dominions in Eastern Central Asia Between the 8th and 13th Centuries and its Impact for the Spread of Tantric Buddhism Eastward, at an International & Intensive Program on Buddhism at Oxford; —Segment 2, organised by UBC SSHRC partnership project of Buddhism and East Asian Religions and the Glorisun Global Network of Buddhist Studies, Oxford, 23-28 August 2019
16.06.2019 Kasai, Yukiyo: The Exchanges between the Iranian and Turkish Tradition seen in the Old Uyghur Texts, at the conference Cultural and Religious Exchanges in the Iranian Plateau, Shiraz University, Iran, 15-17 June 2019
15.06.2019 Meinert, Carmen: Transformation Processes along the Silk Road in Medieval Central Asia, 6th to 14th Centuries, at the conference Cultural and Religious Exchanges in the Iranian Plateau, Shiraz University, Iran, 15-17 June 2019
06.06.2019 Forte, Erika: The Clay Votive Plaques from Domoko Tuplukdong (Khotan). Transmission of Visual Themes and Religious Practice between India and Central Asia, at the International Conference L'lnde et l'Asie centrale au 1er millénaire, Paris, 05-06 June 2019
18.04.2019 Sørensen, Henrik H.: A Tantric Buddhist Ritual in Dunhuang: The Case of the Twenty-eight Vajra Precepts, at the Dunhuang Studies Conference, Cambridge, 17-18 April 2019
07.02.2019 Kasai, Yukiyo: Buddhist Manuscript Culture and Uyghur Buddhists, lecture held at the Seminar Dunhuang and the Silk Road, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
04.11.2018 Kasai, Yukiyo: Old Uyghur Abhidharma Texts in Two Different Traditions, at the conference Buddhist Manuscripts as Mediums of Transcultural Interactions, Heidelberg, 02-05 November 2018
12.10.2018 Kasai, Yukiyo: Old Uyghur Buddhist Colophons and their Characteristics in Central Asian Traditions, at the conference The Syntax of South, Southeast and Central Asian Colophons: A First Step Towards a Comparative and Historical Study of Manuscripts in the Poṭhi Format, Hamburg, 11-13 October 2018
31.08.2018 Sørensen, Henrik H.: Donations and the Production of Buddhist Scriptures in Dunhuang During the 10th Century, at the international conference Production and Preservation of Buddhist Manuscripts in Central and East Asia, Cambridge, 30-31 August 2018
26.08.2018 Kasai, Yukiyo: The Translation Tradition in Old Uyghur—Similarities and Differences in Manichaean and Buddhist Texts, at the International Conference for the Texts and Literature of Minority Languages in China, Chengdu, 24-26 August 2018
05.07.2018 Forte, Erika: The Eight Great Protectors Reunited? Patterns on Patronage and Legitimisation in Khotan, at the 24th Conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art (EASAA), Naples, 2-6 July 2018
04.07.2018 Solonin, Kirill: Hua beichan gang ge—wenben de liuchuan yu fanyi 華北禪網絡——⽂本的流傳與翻譯 [Formation of the Sinitic Buddhism in Xixia—A Network Approach], at the 4th International Conference of Xinyang at Mount Wutai Identity and Networks in Buddhism and the East Asian Religions (身份認同及群體建構：佛教與⼈類命運共同體研究第四屆五臺山信仰國際學術研討會), organised by The Wutai International Institute of Buddhism and East Asian Cultures, Research Center for Buddhist Texts and Arts (RCBTA) at Peking University, The King’s College at University of London, Institute for Ethics and Religions Studies (IERS) at Tsinghua University, UBC Buddhist Studies Forum, Great Sage Monastery of Bamboo Grove ⼤聖⽵林寺, Mount Wutai, PR China, 3-5 July 2018
27.06.2018 Sørensen, Henrik H.: On the Role of Chinese Buddhism as a Facilitator for Other Religions in Central and East Asia, at the KHK workshop Formative Exchanges in Western and Central Asia: Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, and Buddhism in Contact, organised by Eduard Iricinschi, Carmen Meinert, and Kianoosh Rezania, CERES, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 27-28 June 2018
27.06.2018 Kasai, Yukiyo: Manichaeism to Buddhism—Similarities and Differences Seen in Old Uyghur Texts, at the KHK workshop Formative Exchanges in Western and Central Asia: Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, and Buddhism in Contact, organised by Eduard Iricinschi, Carmen Meinert, and Kianoosh Rezania, CERES, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 27-28 June 2018
21.-28.06.2018 Solonin, Kirill: Tutor at the reading seminar Deciphering Khara-Khoto Buddhist Manuscripts: Seminars on Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Philology, organised by Tsinghua University, Renmin University of China, Baohua Monastery, Kunming, 18-30 June 2018
28.05.2018 Solonin, Kirill: Contextualising Tangut Buddhist Texts, at the Bonner Sinologisches Kolloquium, Institut für Orient- und Asienwissenschaften, Bonn
25.05.2018 Solonin, Kirill: Tangut Imperial Patronage and Buddhist Translations in the Tangut Empire, at the start-up conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part I: Sacred Space, Pilgrimage, Patronage, Legitimation Strategies, organised by Carmen Meinert and Henrik H. Sørensen, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 23-25 May 2018
25.05.2018 Forte, Erika: Images of Patronage in Khotan, at the start-up conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part I: Sacred Space, Pilgrimage, Patronage, Legitimation Strategies, organised by Carmen Meinert and Henrik H. Sørensen, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 23-25 May 2018
25.05.2018 Sørensen, Henrik: H. Patronage and Esoteric Buddhism in Dunhuang During the 10th Century, at the start-up conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part I: Sacred Space, Pilgrimage, Patronage, Legitimation Strategies, organised by Carmen Meinert and Henrik H. Sørensen, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 23-25 May 2018
24.05.2018 Meinert, Carmen: Creation of Tantric Sacred Spaces in Eastern Central Asia at the start-up conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part I: Sacred Space, Pilgrimage, Patronage, Legitimation Strategies, organised by Carmen Meinert and Henrik H. Sørensen, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 23-25 May 2018
24.05.2018 Kasai, Yukiyo: Uyghur Royal Patronage and the Buddhist Legitimation, at the start-up conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part I: Sacred Space, Pilgrimage, Patronage, Legitimation Strategies, organised by Carmen Meinert and Henrik H. Sørensen, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 23-25 May 2018
24.05.2018 Meinert, Carmen: Introduction to the BuddhistRoad Project, at the start-up conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part I: Sacred Space, Pilgrimage, Patronage, Legitimation Strategies, organised by Carmen Meinert and Henrik H. Sørensen, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 23-25 May 2018
14.05.2018 Solonin, Kirill: Tangut Rule and Identity in North-Western China from the 11th to the 13th Century, Konfuzius-Institut, Leipzig
18.04.2018 Solonin, Kirill: A Fresh Look into the Constitutive Sources of Tangut Buddhism, Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
06.04.2018 Meinert, Carmen: The Relationship between Multi-culturalism and the Spread of Buddhism, at the Colloque International Past and Present Buddhist Transfers in Asia: A Conceptual Analysis, organised by Fabienne Jagou (EFEO/ENS), Ester Bianchi (University of Perugia), and Carmen Meinert (CERES, RUB), IAO – ENS, Lyon
30.03.2018 Solonin, Kirill: Hongzhou Chan in the Tangut Texts, at the international conference Creating the World of Chan, Tucson, 26 March – 02 April 2018
01.03.2018 Meinert, Carmen: Tantrischer Buddhismus aus der Perspektive von Cakrasaṃvara und Vajravārāhī, Zürich, at the workshop Kunst sehen – Religion verstehen, organised by the CERES and Museum Rietberg, Museum Rietberg, Zürich, 01-02 March 2018
24.01.2018 Kasai, Yukiyo: Old Uyghur Buddhist Texts and Donors, in the lecture series of the Khyentse Center for Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship, Hamburg
07.12.2017 Meinert, Carmen: Spread and Reception of Chinese Chan Buddhism in Central Asia and Tibet, in the lecture series of the Société Francaise d'Études du Monde Tibétain (SFEMT), EFEO, Paris
06.12.2017 Meinert, Carmen: Tibetan-Tangut Buddhist Encounters through the Patronage of Tangut Rulers, Conférences du CEIB et de l'EFEO, INALCO, Paris
07.11.2017 Kasai, Yukiyo: Old Uyghur Divination Literature and Its Relationship with Chinese Tradition, in the lecture series at the IKGF, Erlangen
19.09.2017 Kasai, Yukiyo: Die altuigurischen buddhistischen Texte mit Brāhmī-Elementen, 33. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Jena, 18-22 September 2017
18.09.2017 Meinert, Carmen: The KHK ‘Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe’ and the ERC Founded Project ‘BuddhistRoad,’ in the panel The Study of Religions in the EU Research Funding System, organised by Einar Thomassen, EASR Annual Conference 2017, Leuven, 18-21 September 2017
23.08.2017 Kasai, Yukiyo: The Old Uyghur Abhidharma Texts Containing Brāhmī Elements, in the panel Zones of Contract: Facets of Buddhist Interactions in Eastern Central Asia during the 9th-14th Centuries, organised by Carmen Meinert, XVIII Conference of the IABS, Toronto, 20-25 August 2017
23.08.2017 Sørensen, Henrik H.: A Padmapāni Dhāraṇī-Amulet from Dunhuang, in the panel Zones of Contract: Facets of Buddhist Interactions in Eastern Central Asia during the 9th-14th Centuries, organised by Carmen Meinert, XVIII Conference of the IABS, Toronto, 20-25 August 2017
23.08.2017 Meinert, Carmen: Buddhist Localisations in Pre-modern Eastern Central Asia within a Transcultural Buddhist Network, in the panel Zones of Contract: Facets of Buddhist Interactions in Eastern Central Asia during the 9th-14th Centuries, organised by Carmen Meinert, XVIII Conference of the IABS, Toronto, 20-25 August 2017
外部参会人员报告
14.07.2021 Howard, Meghan (Berkeley): Textual Formats Bridging the Gap: The Transmission of the Pratītyasamutpādahṛdaya in Dunhuang, at the final project conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part III: Impacts of Non-Buddhist Influences and Doctrines, organised by Lewis Doney, online conference, 12-14 July 2021
14.07.2021 Hou, Haoran (Beijing): Exploring the Limits of Transgression: The Eight Serious Downfalls in the Tangut Version, at the final conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part III: Impacts of Non-Buddhist Influences and Doctrines, organised by Lewis Doney, online conference, 12-14 July 2021
13.07.2021 Berounský, Daniel (Prague): Non-Buddhist Ritual Traditions of Tibet: The Case of Nyen and Sadak Spirits, at the final conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part III: Impacts of Non-Buddhist Influences and Doctrines, organised by Lewis Doney, online conference, 12-14 July 2021
13.07.2021 Loukota, Diego (Winnipeg): Witch Women and Amorous Monkeys: Non-Buddhist Substrata in Khotanese Buddhism, at the final conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part III: Impacts of Non-Buddhist Influences and Doctrines, organised by Lewis Doney, online conference, 12-14 July 2021
13.07.2021 Yoeli-Tlalim, Ronit (London): Towards Reconstructing a Medieval Library of Eurasian Medical Knowledge: Two Accidental (?) Case-Studies, at the final conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part III: Impacts of Non-Buddhist Influences and Doctrines, organised by Lewis Doney, online conference, 12-14 July 2021
12.07.2021 Wilkens, Jens (Göttingen): The Impact of Manichaeism and Native Religion on Uyghur Buddhism, at the final conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part III: Impacts of Non-Buddhist Influences and Doctrines, organised by Lewis Doney, online conference, 12-14 July 2021
12.07.2021 Deeg, Max (Cardiff): The Christian Communities in Tang China: Between Adaptation and Self-Identity, at the final conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part III: Impacts of Non-Buddhist Influences and Doctrines, organised by Lewis Doney, online conference, 12-14 July 2021
12.07.2021 Biran, Michal (Jerusalem): Islamic Expansion to Central Asia and Muslim-Buddhist Encounters, at the final conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part III: Impacts of Non-Buddhist Influences and Doctrines, organised by Lewis Doney, online conference, 12-14 July 2021
18.09.2019 Wilkens, Jens (Göttingen):Practice and Rituals in Uyghur Buddhist Texts, at the mid-project conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part II: Practices and Rituals, Visual and Material Transfer, organised by Henrik H. Sørensen, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 16-18 September 2019
18.09.2019 Dalton, Jacob P. (Berkeley): Samaya from Yoga to Mahāyoga: Evidence from Dunhuang, at the mid-project conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part II: Practices and Rituals, Visual and Material Transfer, organised by Henrik H. Sørensen, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 16-18 September 2019
18.09.2019 Goodman, Amanda (Toronto): Vajragarbha Bodhisattvas's Three-Syllable Contemplation: A Chinese guanxing Text from Late Medieval Dunhuang, at the mid-project conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—-Part II: Practices and Rituals, Visual and Material Transfer, organised by Henrik H. Sørensen, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 16-18 September 2019
17.09.2019 Wang, Michelle C. (Washington D.C.) : Seeking the Pure Land in Tangut Art, at the mid-project conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part II: Practices and Rituals, Visual and Material Transfer, organised by Henrik H. Sørensen, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 16-18 September 2019
17.09.2019 Russell-Smith, Lilla (Berlin) : The 'Sogdian Deities' Twenty Years on: A Reconsiderationof a Sketch from Dunhuang in the Light of New Research and Newly Discovered Buddhist and Manichaean Paintings, at the mid-project conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part II: Practices and Rituals, Visual and Material Transfer, organised by Henrik H. Sørensen, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 16-18 September 2019
17.09.2019 Lo Muzio, Ciro (Rome) : Buddhist Painting in the South of the Tarim Basin: A Chronological Connundum, at the mid-project conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part II: Practices and Rituals, Visual and Material Transfer, organised by Henrik H. Sørensen, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 16-18 September 2019
17.09.2019 Forte, Erika (Vienna): Khotanese 'Themes' in Dunhuang: Visual and Ideological Transfer in the 9th-11th Centuries, at the mid-project conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part II: Practices and Rituals, Visual and Material Transfer, organised by Henrik H. Sørensen, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 16-18 September 2019
17.09.2019 Konczak-Nagel, Ines (Leipzig): The Practice of Paiting Series of Large-size Buddha Figures in the Buddhist Caves of Kucha, at the mid-project conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part II: Practices and Rituals, Visual and Material Transfer, organised by Henrik H. Sørensen, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 16-18 September 2019
16.09.2019 Keyworth, George A. (Saskatchewan): Did the Silk Road(s) Extend from Dunhuang, Mount Wutai, and Chang'an to Kyoto, Japan? A Reassessment based on Material Culture from the Temple Gate Tendai Tradition of Miidera, at the mid-project conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part II: Practices and Rituals, Visual and Material Transfer, organised by Henrik H. Sørensen, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 16-18 September 2019
25.05.2018 Vermeersch, Sem (Seoul): Who is Legitimating Whom? On Justifying Buddhism’s Place in the Body Politic, at the start-up conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part I: Sacred Space, Pilgrimage, Patronage, Legitimation Strategies, organised by Carmen Meinert and Henrik H. Sørensen, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 23-25 May 2018
25.05.2018 Shen, Weirong (Beijing): The Patron-Preceptor Relationship (yon mchod) in the 12th and 13th Centuries: Tibetan History Reinterpreted, at the start-up conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part I: Sacred Space, Pilgrimage, Patronage, Legitimation Strategies, organised by Carmen Meinert and Henrik H. Sørensen, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 23-25 May 2018
24.05.2018 Wilkens, Jens (Göttingen): Sacred Space in Uyghur Buddhism, at the start-up conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part I: Sacred Space, Pilgrimage, Patronage, Legitimation Strategies, organised by Carmen Meinert and Henrik H. Sørensen, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 23-25 May 2018
24.05.2018 Raschmann, Simone-Christiane (Berlin): Old Uyghur Pilgrims: A Glimpse Behind their Records, at the start-up conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part I: Sacred Space, Pilgrimage, Patronage, Legitimation Strategies, organised by Carmen Meinert and Henrik H. Sørensen, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 23-25 May 2018
24.05.2018 Widorn, Verena (Vienna): From Rin chen bzang po tor God tshang pa—Rethinking Religious Patronage in the Indian Himalayas between the 10th and 13th Centuries, at the start-up conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part I: Sacred Space, Pilgrimage, Patronage, Legitimation Strategies, organised by Carmen Meinert and Henrik H. Sørensen, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 23-25 May 2018
24.05.2018 McCoy, Michelle (Berlin): Xuanzang and the Three-Eyed Fish: Yulin Cave 3 Reconsidered, at the start-up conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part I: Sacred Space, Pilgrimage, Patronage, Legitimation Strategies, organised by Carmen Meinert and Henrik H. Sørensen, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 23-25 May 2018
23.05.2018 Kapstein, Matthew (Paris/Chicago): Revisiting an Imperial Interstice: A Reading of Anxi Yulin Cave 25, Bochum, at the start-up conference of the ERC project BuddhistRoad Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part I: Sacred Space, Pilgrimage, Patronage, Legitimation Strategies, organised by Carmen Meinert and Henrik H. Sørensen, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 23-25 May 2018
