The Society for Buddhist Studies workshop series provides graduate students and faculty with an opportunity to present works-in-progress. Please join us for a talk by Lawrence J. McCrea, "Dharmakīrti's and his Commentators on the Existence or Non-existence of Mind-independent Objects." Light refreshments will be available.

Larry McCrea received his Ph.D. in South Asian Languages & Civilizations in 1998 from the University of Chicago, and his BA in 1989 from Cornell University in the Cornell College Scholar Program. His most recent book project "The Teleology of Poetics in Medieval Kashmir", Harvard Oriental Series (Spring 2009), deals with the conceptual revolution in Sanskrit poetic theory brought about by the work of the ninth century Kashmiri Anandavardhana. He argues that the most crucial innovation Anandavardhana introduced in the field of poetics was his application to literary analysis of a teleological approach to text interpretation imported from the discipline of scriptural hermeneutics (Mīmāṃsā).

Funded by the GPSA and open to all interested. For accessibility or accomodations please contact Bruno at bms297 [at] cornell [dot] edu.