Sixth National Conference on Buddhist Studies

The Sixth National Conference on Buddhist Studies will be held on December 4-9. The Conference is organised by the Dept. of Pali and Buddhist Studies, Sri Jayewardanapura University in association with the Buddhist Times Trust and Buddhist Activities Fund.

Research papers relating to Buddhism would be welcome from a variety of disciplines such as Buddhist Philosophy, Buddhist Civilisation, History, Psychology, Sociology, Buddhist Scriptural Languages and Literature and other related disciplines in Humanities and Social Science.

The papers can be presented in either English or Sinhala. Abstracts of papers should not exceed 300 words and must include Title, Author(s), Affiliation, Address, Tel/Fax, E-mail address (if available).

Abstracts should be sent by e-mail [email protected] with a copy to [email protected] as attachment in Word, or by fax to Fax No: 2803196 or by post to the Dept. of Pali and Buddhist Studies Sri Jayewardanapura University, Nugegoda.

A committee of Buddhist scholars will be selecting the papers, and acceptance will be notified.

Joint Co-ordinators:

Ven Dr. Magammana Pannananda Thero ([email protected] 0779303407) and Ven Panahaduwe Yasassi Thero ([email protected] 0714879654.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: November 1, Notification of acceptance: November 10 and Submission of full papers: December 1.