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Title	Description	People	Date	Captions
Dharmabhāṇakas, Siddhas, Avatārakasiddhas, and gTer stons	This lecture offers a new look at the origins of Gter ma literature in an intertextual framework.	Robert Mayer	8 June, 2022
Early Explanations for the Appearance of Mahāyāna sūtras	A presentation looking at how early Mahayana sutras explain where they came from.	David Drewes	8 June, 2022
Revelation and Rediscovery: Early Medieval Indian Origin Myths of the Tantras	David Gray talks about revelatory or "treasure" texts from Indian and Tibetan perspectives in a comparative framework.	David Gray	6 May, 2022
Perfected Beings in Human Form: The Siddha Tradition in Śaiva Tantra	John Nemec's talk on the origin of siddha and its polysemic application in Sanskrit textual sources.	John Nemec	6 May, 2022
Thomas Newhall, ‘Partially in Accord with the Greater Vehicle: Reading the Four-Part Vinaya as a Mahāyāna text in Daoxuan's Commentaries’	Reading Mahāyāna Scriptures Conference, Sept 25-26, 2021	Thomas Newhall	30 March, 2022
Dr. Stephanie Balkwill, ‘Reading the Sūtra of the Unsullied Worthy Girl’	Reading Mahāyāna Scriptures Conference, Sept 25-26, 2021	Stephanie Balkwill	30 March, 2022
Dr. Reed Criddle, ‘Collective oral tradition in the musical recitation of the Medicine Buddha Sūtra’	Reading Mahāyāna Scriptures Conference, Sept 25-26, 2021	Reed Criddle	30 March, 2022
Dr. Rafal K. Stepien, ‘On Numen in Antinomianism, or Reading Religion in Irreligion’	Reading Mahāyāna Scriptures Conference, Sept 25-26, 2021	Rafal K. Stepien	30 March, 2022
Nic Newton, ‘Description, Visualisation, and Concatenation in the Larger Sukhāvatīvyūhasūtra’	Reading Mahāyāna Scriptures Conference, Sept 25-26, 2021	Nic Newton	30 March, 2022
Dr. Mikael Bauer, ‘Tracing the exoteric-esoteric in pre-modern Japanese Dharma Assemblies’	Reading Mahāyāna Scriptures Conference, Sept 25-26, 2021	Mikael Bauer	30 March, 2022
Dr. Gregory Adam Scott, ‘Reading Mahāyāna Scriptures in Modern China: The Role of Scriptural Presses, Distributors, and Buddhist Bookstores’	Reading Mahāyāna Scriptures Conference, Sept 25-26, 2021	Gregory Adam Scott	30 March, 2022
Dr. David Drewes, ‘How Many Mahāyānas Were There?’	Reading Mahāyāna Scriptures Conference, Sept 25-26, 2021	David Drewes	30 March, 2022