Fw: H-ASIA: CONF From Irish hobo to Burmese Buddhist: celebrating the centenary of U Dhammaloka's trial for sedition, Cork, Feb. 19, 2011

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centenary of U Dhammaloka's trial for sedition, Cork, Feb. 19, 2011

> H-ASIA
> January 21, 2011
>
> Conference "From Irish hobo to Burmese Buddhist: celebrating the centenary
> of U Dhammaloka's trial for sedition", University College
> Cork, Cork, Ireland, February 19, 2011
>
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>
> From Irish hobo to Burmese Buddhist: celebrating the centenary of U
> Dhammaloka's trial for sedition
>
> Location: Ireland
> Seminar Date: 2011-02-19 (in 29 days)
> Date Submitted: 2011-01-17
> Announcement ID: 182178
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> Please see below for details of an international seminar in Cork (Ireland)
> on U Dhammaloka, one of the earliest western Buddhist monks. The event
> (launching a special issue of Contemporary Buddhism) includes Thomas
> Tweed, Elizabeth Harris, Brian Bocking, Alicia Turner and Laurence Cox
> discussing the life and significance of this remarkable figure - Irish
> hobo in America, Burmese monk, anti-missionary campaigner and
> international Buddhist organiser.
>
> 'Dhammaloka Day', Saturday 19 February, 2.30-6pm,
> Boole Lecture Theatre, UCC, Cork:
> All welcome, admission free
>
> Full details of "Dhammaloka Day" are now available on the UCC website at
> http://www.ucc.ie/en/studyofreligions/dhammaloka-day/ with links to the
> draft programme, on-line registration (please register if you're hoping to
> come) and a short video introduction by Prof. Brian Bocking on youtube at
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mUil5bVPsI
>
> 'Dhammaloka Day' celebrates the centenary of "The Irish Buddhist's" 1911
> trial for sedition in colonial Burma. It is also the Irish launch of the
> special issue of the journal Contemporary Buddhism (Vol. 11, no.2, 2010)
> on the remarkable and unjustly forgotten figure of U Dhammaloka, a
> Dublin-born vagrant worker who crossed the world to become one of the
> first western Buddhist monks in Asia.
>
> Autodidact, atheist, temperance campaigner and Buddhist revivalist,
> Dhammaloka was supported in Japan by Letitia Jephson of Mallow, denounced
> in Singapore by journalist Edward Alexander Morphy of Killarney and tried
> for sedition in Burma by Justice Daniel H. R. Twomey of Carrigtwohill.
>
> Famous throughout South-East Asia in his time, Dhammaloka travelled
> extensively between 1900-1914 in colonial Burma, Siam, Singapore, Malaya,
> Japan, China, Ceylon, India and Nepal and other places.
>
> This unique event features an international line-up of scholars of
> Buddhism including Prof. Thomas Tweed from Austin, Texas (author of The
> American Encounter with Buddhism), Dr Alicia Turner from Toronto (editor
> of the Journal of Burma Studies), Dr Elizabeth Harris from Liverpool
> (author of Theravada Buddhism and the British Encounter), Dr Laurence Cox
> from Maynooth (co-editor of Ireland's new religious movements) and Prof.
> Brian Bocking from Cork (chair of Ireland's first department of the study
> of religions).
>
> The provisional programme for the day is:
>
>
> 2 pm: Arrival, Tea and coffee
>
> 2.30: Welcome: Introducing Dhammaloka (Brian Bocking, Study of Religions
> Dept., UCC)
>
> 2.45: Dhammaloka, "The Irish Pongyi" in colonial Burma (Alicia Turner,
> Religious Studies, York University Toronto)
>
> 3.15: Dhammaloka - atheist, activist, Irish Buddhist (Laurence Cox,
> Sociology, NUI Maynooth)
>
> 3.45: Response: Ananda Metteyya and U Dhammaloka (Elizabeth Harris,
> Theology and Religious Studies, Liverpool Hope)
>
> 4.00 tea / coffee break -
>
> 4.30: Dhammaloka's Irish connections: Letitia Jephson, Edward Morphy,
> Daniel Twomey (Brian Bocking)
>
> 5.00: Dhammaloka in context: globalising Buddhism at the turn of the 20th
> century (Thomas Tweed, Religious Studies, North Texas University)
>
> 5.30: Discussion
>
> 6.00: Close
>
>
> 021 490 2773
>
> Email: dhammaloka@ucc.ie
> Visit the website at http://www.ucc.ie/en/studyofreligions/dhammaloka-day
>
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