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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nFriday, April 17, 2026 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
  \n 3001 \n L.R. WIlson Hall \n McMaster University, Hamilton ON \n\nSpea
 kers \nPetra Kieffer-Pülz (Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur Mainz
 ) \n\nDescription: \nThe Balapiṭiya dispute in 19th-century Sri Lanka is a
  dispute about the legal validity of the monastic boundary (sīmā) in Balap
 iṭiya, which was a  ‘water-splashing boundary’ (udakukkhepa sīmā). The di
 spute began in 1851 and lasted at least till 1885. In addition to the two 
 monk groups in  Sri Lanka, which were members of the Amarapuranikāya, va
 rious high-ranking monks of the Burmese Sangha were involved in this dispu
 te since the Sinhalese monks had sent delegations to Burma to solve the le
 gal dispute. After an overview of the main stages in this dispute, I will
  go into  more detail on two publications in Pāli printed in 1880 and 1885
  by representatives of the non-confusionists and the confusionists, namel
 y the  Sīmālakkhaṇādīpanī and the Sīmānayadappana.Petra Kieffer-Pülz is an
  independent scholar in the field of Indology and Buddhist Studies with an
  MA and a PhD in  Indology from the University of Göttingen, Germany. Her
  primary research interest is the cultural history and literature of  the 
 Buddhism of South and Southeast Asia with a special focus on Pali literatu
 re and Buddhist monastic traditions (Vinaya). Her authored and co-translat
 ed works include Die Sīmā (1992), Sīmāvicāraṇa (2011), Verlorene Gaṇṭhip
 adas (2013), Overcoming Doubts (Kaṅkhāvitaraṇī) (2018), and A Manual of 
 the Adornment of the Monastic Boundary (2021).For questions and the readin
 g group materials, please contact Christoph Emmrich at christoph.emmrich@
 utoronto.ca.Zoom Passcode 989442Associated reading group, April 16:  “Ñey
 yadhamma’s Formal Letter to the Non-Confusionists in Sri Lanka (1860)”Full
  2025-26 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FOR YEHAN NUMATA PROGRAM IN BUDDHIST STUDIES 
 \nMcMaster University, Hamilton ON \n\nCategories \n Lecture \n\nAudience
 s \n U of T CommunityGraduate StudentsUndergraduate Students
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LOCATION:McMaster University, Hamilton ON
SUMMARY:Lecture: 'The Balapiṭiya Dispute in 19th-century-Sri Lanka'
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.religion.utoronto.ca/events/numata-lec-20260417
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