Monday, 21 May 2007

9.20 – 9.30 Dr Maxim Fomin (Coleraine)
Welcome

Chair: Professor Robert Welch
9.30 – 10.00 Professor Séamus Mac Mathúna (Coleraine)
The sacred topology of the early Irish Otherworld

Chair: Dr Maxim Fomin
10.00 – 10.30 Professor Victoria Vertogradova (Moscow)
The role of masons in the ideology of the topoi according to epigraphic Sanskrit and Pali texts

10.30 – 11.00
Tea/Coffee break

Chair: Professor Kapil Kapoor
11.00 – 11.30 Dr Rajnish K. Mishra (New Delhi)
Evolving sacredness – Saranath as a sacred city

11.30 – 12.00 Dr Santosh K. Shukla,
Hierarchy of sacredness - the concept of Ksehtra

Chair: Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha
12.00 – 12.30 Dr Grigory Bondarenko (Coleraine)
The significance of sacred pentads in early Irish
and Indian sources

12.30 – 2.00
Lunch

Chair: Professor Gregory Toner
2.00 – 2.30 Mr Charles Doherty (Dublin)
The royal sites of Emain Macha and Tara

Chair: Professor Ailbhe Ó Corráin
2.30 – 3.00 Mr Dar Zhutayev (Moscow)
The sacred topology of the Buddhist Universe

3.00 – 3.30
Tea/Coffee break

Chair: Professor Victoria Vertogradova
3.30 – 4.00 Dr Natalya Alexandrova (Moscow)
Ideas of geographic space in the texts of Chinese Buddhist pilgrims
4.00 – 4.30 Dr Maxim Fomin (Coleraine)
Stories of religious conversion in Pali and medieval Irish literature

4.30 – 5.00
Round table discussion (with tea/coffee)

Chair: Professor Séamus Mac Mathúna

Dr Maxim Fomin (Coleraine)
‘Sacred Topology’ project: its background and prospects.

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