A flowering of words: the development of early Chinese Buddhist exegetical literature from the 2nd to the 4th centuries CE
The Authorship and Provenance of the Chapters of the Suvarṇaprabhāsa Ascribed to Paramārtha, and Implications for the History of Buddhist Texts
Trance, or Mind-training? The Influence of 19th Century Debates about Religious Experience on the Western interpretation of Buddhist Visionary Meditation Practices
Keith Cantú – Yogic embodiment in Bengali Islamic esoteric texts and songs While previous research has focused almost entirely on intersections between Sufism and yoga in the medieval period, this talk shows how theories of yogic embodiment in at least two Middle Bengali compositions, the Yoga Kalandar and Ādya Paricaẏ, are connected to the ideas of embodiment in songs presently circulating among Bāul Fakiri and Fakirāni artists and sadhus in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India.