Program Convenor: Taiken KYUMA (Mie University)

14:00-14:05 Opening Address: Taiken KYUMA

14:05-14:20 Introduction: Satoshi OGURA (Research Institute for Languages and

Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

14:20-15:20 Buddhism, Islam, and the Case of the Uygurs

Johan ELVERSKOG (Southern Methodist University)

15:20-15:40 Coffee Break

15:40-16:40 Hindu-Buddhist Interactions in the Connected Buddhist Worlds

of South and Southeast Asia in the Medieval Period

Andrea ACRI (École Pratique des Hautes Études,

Université de recherche Paris Sciences et Lettres)

16:40-17:00 Coffee Break

17:00-17:30 Overall Comments: Abhishek AMAR (Hamilton College)

17:30-18:00 Q & A Session

Mar. 8 (Sun) 14:00-18:00

Venue: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies,

Hongo Satellite, 5th floor

Sponsor: The Vihāra Project (JSPS KAKENHI Grant No. 18H03569, “Comprehensive Studies of Indian Buddhist Monasteries

from the Gupta Period Onward”) / Co-Sponsor: JSPS KAKENHI Grant No. 18H00723, “A Comprehensive Study on the

North-south Transportation System of the Pre-modern Central Eurasia”

Contact Address: Taiken KYUMA (Mie University, kyuma@human.mie-u.ac.jp)

Photographs by Prof. Hideo Sawada (Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)