Open lecture by Prof. Birgit Kellner “On the Place of Philosophy in the Study of Indian Buddhism”

• Speaker: Prof. Birgit Kellner (Director of the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia, Austrian Academy of Sciences; President of the International Association of Buddhist Studies)
• Commentator: Prof. Notomi Noburu (University of Tokyo)

Date: 13:30–16:00, Saturday, April 25, 2026

Venue: Conference Room 1, Building 33, Toyama Campus, Waseda University.

Language: English

Hosted by JSPS KAKENHI JP25K03575 “A Fundamental Study on the Ethical Issues of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from the Perspective of Buddhist Doctrine”; JSPS KAKENHI JP25K03579 “An extensive study of Dharmakirti’s Vādanyāya”; JSPS KAKENHI JP23K21877 “Philosophy and Religion in Late Indian Buddhist Epistemology”; Department of Asian Philosophy, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University; Association of Asian Philosophy, Waseda University; Indian Philosophy and Buddhist Studies Section, Japanese Association for Comparative Philosophy