Speakers/Performers: Padmanabh S. Jaini, UC Berkeley; Gregory Schopen, Professor, UCLA; Robert Buswell, Professor, UCLA

Professor Jaini will examine the doctrinal implications of the grounds for "absolution" granted by the arahants in an act of warfare by a Buddhist king, apparently for the glory of the Dhamma.

Padmanabh S. Jaini is Professor emeritus of Buddhist Studies and co-founder of the Group in Buddhist Studies. Before joining UC Berkeley in 1972, he taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London and at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author of numerous monographs and articles on both Buddhism and Jainism. In the field of Buddhist Studies he is particularly well known for his work on Abhidharma and for his critical editions of the Abhidharmadipa (a Vaibhasika treatise), the Saratama (a commentary on the Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita), and a collection of apocryphal Jatakas, the Pannasa-Jataka, that appeared in four volumes (text and translation). His collected essays have appeared in two volumes, and, recently, he has been honored by a Festschrift (2003) with contributions on early Buddhism and Jainism.

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