The Fifth United Nations Day of Vesak Celebration 2008
May 13-17, 2008
Hanoi, Vietnam

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Listings for plenary and technology panels

Plenary

Keynote Address: Buddhism and the New Technology: An Overview Lewis Lancaster, University of California, Berkeley

Panel One: Virtual Reality and Technology

Virtual Heritage in Time, Space and Place Maurizio Forte, University of California, Merced Remote Sensing Technology and Angkor Wat Damian Evans, University of Sydney Imag(n)ing Shuilu'an: A Multimedia Archival Repository Harlan Wallach, Northwestern University “Visualizing Buddhism in Time and Place” Jeanette Zerneke, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Panel Two: Institutional Support and Information Technology

Documentation of Buddhist Centres in Tamil Nadu D. Dayalan, Archaeological Survey of India, Agra “International Organizations and Cultural Heritage” Claudia Liuzza, Ename Center, Belgium “Appearance of a Corpus of Buddhist Scriptures and Appearance of a World of Buddhism: A History of Buddhism from the Perspective of the Development of the Medium” Masahiro Shimoda, Tokyo University, Japan

Panel Three: Digital Buddhist Texts

A 21s Century Tripitaka: The Development of the Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Min Bahadur Shakya, Nagarjuna Institute of Exact Methods. CBETA - Past Results and Future Expectations Huimin Bhiksu, Aming Tu, Dharma Drum Buddhist College “A New Way Looking into Digital Buddhist Canons” Howie Lan, University of California, Berkeley “A Program to Translate the Chinese Taisho Issaikyo into English and other Western Languages” Tran Tien Khanh, Wisdom Light Foundation

Panel Four: Cultural Atlases of Buddhism

Atlas of Taiwanese Religion Cheer Dean, Yuan Heng Graduate School of Buddhism, Taiwan “Digital Buddhist Text, its achievement and challenge” Soonil Hwang Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea “Cultural Buddhist Sites of Vietnam” Hau Le Cong Vietnam Buddhist University Project Team The International Dunhuang Project: Reconstructing, Disseminating, and Enabling Scholarship on the World's Earliest Buddhist Library Dr Susan Whitfield, The International Dunhuang Project (IDP), The British Library