09/07/2025 14:00
- 16:15
HALL: Dean's Hall of the Faculty of Catholic Theology
Proponent:
Vale M.
Chair:
Schneider M.
Speaker:
Cattoi T.,
Klarer D.,
Langouët G.,
Vale M.
With the rapid expansion both of comparative studies and of Tibetan Buddhist studies, Tibetan Buddhist traditions are more and more present as core interlocutors in comparative theology and philosophy, interreligious theology and philosophy, and global theology and philosophy. This panel showcases comparative theological, philosophical, and contemplative engagements with Tibetan traditions of thought and practice. Each paper demonstrates a different predominant mode of comparative engagement, and each indicates the way conversation with Tibetan Buddhist traditions engenders specific insight in its domain of inquiry. Tibetan traditions are here brought into conversation with Eastern Christian Hesychasm and its contemplative training, early Christian allegorical exegesis, and the wider theological-philosophical question of "theism" across traditions.