The 1988 Kyoto Prize Workshops

Some Problems in Vedic Studies

Paul Thieme

/　　Indologist

Arts and Philosophy

Thought and Ethics

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1988

11 /12 Sat

13:30 - 17:00

Place： Kyoto International Conference Center

Address：Takaragaike, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-0001 Japan

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Program

13:30

Opening Remarks	Muneo Tokunaga
Greetings	Kazuo Inamori, President, Inamori Foundation
Greetings	Shunpei Ueyama, Chairman, Kyoto Prize Committee in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences; Director-General, Kyoto National Museum
Introduction of Achievement	Masaaki Hattori

13:50

Lecture	Paul Thieme Laureate in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences “On the Khilakãnda of the Satapathabrãhmana”

15:00

Intermission

15:40

Chairperson	Masaaki Hattori
Lecture	Ryutaro Tsuchida Associate Professor, Faculty of Letters, the University of Tokyo “On the custom of the Vedic opavasa and the origin of the Buddhist uposatha”

16:15

Chairperson	Masaaki Hattori
Lecture	Yasuke Ikari Associate Professor, the Research Institute for Humanistic Studies, Kyoto University “Some Aspects of the Idea of Rebirth in Vedic Literarure”

16:50

Closing Remarks	Minoru Hara

17:00

Closing

Laureates

Paul Thieme

Indologist

Through his rigorous approach to philosophical studies, he added immensely to our knowledge of Vedic and other classical Indian literature and provided a solid foundation to the study of the history of Indian thought. He has also trained many outstanding scholars and made a profound contribution to the academic world.

＊This category then was Category of Creative Arts and Moral Sciences.

＊This field then was Field of Philosophy, History of Ideas (Ancient Indian and Greek).

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date: November 12, 1988 13:00-17:00
place: Kyoto International Conference Center
Chairperson: Masaaki Hattori : Member, Kyoto Prize Screening Committee in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences; Professor, Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University