Written by CAN Members would like to share condolence and sadness with the Family and Friends of SAM-BORIN who passed away on May 12, 2012 at Virginia, USA.
Let Celebrate the Day of Women on 8 March 2012 together
Congratulation Women Day! Let’s go together!
Monychenda
Call for paper: Religious Studies in Cambodia: Understand the Old and Trace the New
Religious Studies in Cambodia: Understand the Old and Trace the New
Conference
Siem Reap, 9th – 10th June 2012
Call for paper
We are pleased to announce that following previous successful conferences on Epigraphy & Databases (2010) and Archaeometallurgy (2011), the Siem Reap Conference on Special Topics in Khmer Studies organised jointly by the APSARA, école française d’Extrême-Orient, Center for Khmer Studies and University of Sydney, will be dedicated, in 2012, to the History of Religions.
The epigraphical, architectural and iconographical material available to understand premodern Cambodia’s society and history all attest to the centrality of religion. Despite this importance, however, very few studies have been dedicated exclusively to the topic of religion.
Indeed, the complexity held by this topic has many sources. The process once referred to as Indianization involved the transmission of the already composite system of Indian religions (?aivism, Vai??avism and Buddhism) into a barely known local system of beliefs. Recent discoveries from Buddhist studies –whether on discrepancies among texts and religious practices or on unveiled tantric texts and the wider recognition of tantric Buddhist aesthetic forms– add further layers to this complexity.
The aim of this conference is to take an interdisciplinary approach to the study of religion in order to render the richness of pre-modern Southeast Asian religions, and in particular, Khmer religion. By comparing pre-modern Southeast Asian civilisations, what can be understood of the common or characteristic choices of Indian religious features they each made? Consequently, what can be concluded about the local systems of beliefs followed at the time? How do contemporary religious systems reflect the strata of the Indian borrowings and reveal their own essence throughout their own evolutions?
The conference will bring together international specialists, colleagues and students from all the disciplines, who share a common interest in Cambodian and Southeast Asian religions, from prehistory to the modern period.
We invite submissions for topics on all aspects of religions in Cambodia, including History, Archaeology, Art History, Religious Studies, Anthropology, etc. Comparative papers on pre-modern Southeast Asian religions are also encouraged. By the collation of recent scholarship in multiple fields and the presentation of the lastest theoretical works in Religious Studies, this conference will improve our understanding of Southeast Asian religions.
Colleagues who wish to participate in the Conference, to be held in Siem Reap on the 9th and 10th of June 2012, should submit the title of their paper and an abstract (around 150 words) by the 15th of February 2012.
The organising committee
Julia Estève, Damian Evans, Khoun Khun-Neay, Im Sokrithy, Dominique Soutif and Michael Sullivan.
For any questions regarding the Conference, please contact:
Julia Estève
école française d’Extrême-Orient; Phum Beng Don Pa, Khum Sla Kram, Siem Reap; PO Box 93300, Siem Reap;
Cambodia Phone: (+855) 89 709 810; Fax: (+855) 63 964 226;
Email: esteve.julia@yahoo.fr
Damian Evans
The University of Sydney; Robert Christie Research Centre, 195 Phum Treng, Khum Sla Kram, Siem Reap;
Cambodia Phone: (+855) 63 760 416; Fax: (+855) 63 760 416;
Email: damian.evans@sydney.edu.au
Khoun Khun-Neay
APSARA Authority, Siem Reap; Deputy Director General.
Email: kaqc2004@yahoo.com
IM Sokrithy
APSARA Authority, Siem Reap & Faculty of Archaeology, Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh.
Email: imsokrithy@hotmail.com
Dominique SOUTIF
école française d’Extrême-Orient; Phum Beng Don Pa, Khum Sla Kram, Siem Reap; PO Box 93300, Siem Reap;
Cambodia Phone: (+855) 92 993 502;
Email: dominique.soutif@gmail.com
Michael Sullivan
Center for Khmer Studies; Wat Damnak, Siem Reap; PO Box 9380, Siem Reap;
Cambodia Phone: (+855) 063 964 385; Fax: (+855) 063 963 035;
Email: msullivan@khmerstudies.org
Scholarship available to study for MSc at RUA
Scholarship available to study for MSc at RUA Announcement
Dear all,
Please help to forward the announcement to your colleagues who may want to study for MSc in Natural Resources Management at RUA.
Thank you very much in advance.
Regards,
Lor Lytour
Vice-dean of Graduate School
Royal University of Agriculture
Chamkar Daung, Dangkor District,
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
P.O. Box 2696
Tel: (855) 011973672
E-mail: lor_lytour@yahoo.com
Vice-dean of Graduate School
Royal University of Agriculture
Chamkar Daung, Dangkor District,
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
P.O. Box 2696
Tel: (855) 011973672
E-mail: lor_lytour@yahoo.com
The Site of Koh Ker and the reign of Jayavarman IV, Histoiry, Art and Archaeology
Lecture_Koh Ker_RUFA_4-Feb-2012
Lecture
“The Site of Koh Ker and the reign of Jayavarman IV, Histoiry, Art and Archaeology”
Presented by: Dr. CHEN CHANRATANA
-Founder of Kerdomnel Khmer Group?
-Prof. of Archaeology, History of Khmer Art and Art of S.E Asia, and Social Research
(Faculty of Archaeology, Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh, Cambodia)
-PhD. of Archaeology, History of Khmer Art and Art of S.E Asia
University of Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris 3
Date: Saturday, 4th Feb. 2012
Time : 2h30p.m
Place : Faculty of Archaeology, Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
(North of the Royal Palace)
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New Year Gifts Collection for Rubbish Dump Children at Siem Reap
Dear Members;
In order to celebrate the New Year 2012, the Cambodian Academic Network (CAN) wish to contribute some gifts to the poor children surviving by the rubbish dump in Siem Reap. Please join us, if you wish to bring some hope and smile to those children. Every cent and your participation are priceless for them. For more information, please contact Sophan Seng <info@sophanseng.info> or Chanroeun Pa <chanroeunkh@gmail.com>.
Children are important citizens in a society. There are many children groups in Cambodia are considered desperate and vulnerable such as rubbish dump children, street children, children of the prisoners, orphan children, disable children, neglected children and poor family children living in remote areas etc.
Beside of focusing on contribution of academic resources, desperate and vulnerable children are also a concern of CAN.
This time, CAN would like to share some gifts with children at the rubbish dump in Siem Reap recently broadcasted by ABC on photos taken by Omar Havana and we also celebrate the New Year 2012 together. Your participation and contribution are priceless for them.
Sincerely,
Online Seminar through Skype for the Philosophy Day
Dear All,
I hope you are doing well. It is my great pleasure to inform you that the Cambodian Centre for Applied Philosophy and Ethics (CAMCAPE) will organize an Online Seminar through Skype on the 27th November 2011, in order to celebrate the World Philosophy Day 2011. On behalf of the team, I would like to invite you to join this seminar and share your thoughts on the topic. Here is the detail of the program:
Topic: ‘The Roles of Philosophy in Promoting the Culture of Peace and Sustainable Development in Cambodia’
Date: Sunday 27 November 2011
Time: 9:00 a.m – 11:00 a.m (Cambodian Time zone)
Key Speakers:
- Dr. Supote Prasertsri
- Dr. Thel Thong
- Mr. Sophan Seng, Ph.D. Candidate
- Mr. Chanroeun Pa, Ph.D. Candidate
Skype ID: Khmerosophy
The seminar will be conducted in Khmer. In order to participate in this seminar, you need to add ‘Khmerosophy’ into your Skype list. For more information, please contact us via <chanroeunkh@gmail> or http://camcape.org/?p=391.
Kind regards,
Chanroeun Pa
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Cambodian Centre for Applied Philosophy and Ethics
P.O Box 2058, Phnom Penh 3, Cambodia
Email: chanroeunkh@gmail.com
Web: www.camcape.org
CAN would like to mourn for the passing away of Mr. Keo Kinal
Mr. Keo Kinal, 1976-2011
Dear Bong Michel,
Kerdomnel Khmer Group just lost an important supervisor of archaeology and history of khmer art, Prof. Keo Kinal (son of Prof. Pich Keo, professor of khmer art history) on Nov. 12th, 2011. I send this mail to you for helping me to spread the information to whom which may concerned. Please read his biography as above or click to the link of Kerdomnel Khmer website:
May his soul rest in peace.
Best regards,
Ratana
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CHEN Chanratana
Founder of KDNK Group
Together We Can Protect…!
www.kerdomnelkhmer.wordpress.com
Keo Kinal (by Daniel Robinson in Cambodia, Lonely Planet, p. 284)
Apsara danced and seven-headed nagas stood guard when the archaeologist Keo Kinal was born, inside the Angkor Conservation compound in Siem Reap. The year was 1973 and his father, the eminent archaeologist Pich Keo, was in charge of Angkor Conservation and its huge collection of Angkorian statuary, the last director before darkness descended.
Summary of Lecture by Ven. Luon Sovath on the Roles of Buddhism in Developing Human Resource in Cambodia
Courtesy of www.luonsovath.blogspot.com
==>Saturday, 5 November 2011 on Engaged Buddhism: The Roles of Buddhism in Human Resource Development in Cambodia: Past, Present and Future by Ven. Luon Sovath, www.luonsovath.blogspot.com
In short, Buddhism is the religion of Sekha or education. Three Sekha has been exponentially repeated by the Buddha: Sila Sekha or the education of morals, Samadhi Sekha or the education of meditation, and the Panna Sekha or the education of wisdom. These 3 Sekhas is illustrated quite interesting in the Eightfold Path such as Sila Sekha is inclusive in right speech, right action and right livelihood; Samadhi Sekha is inclusive in right effort, right concentration and right meditation; Panna Sekha is inclusive in right thought and right view.
Dhamma delivery approaches of Lord Buddha stresses on three levels: Athi Kalyani or preliminary discourse (Sila), Machhe Kalyani or secondary discourse (Samadhi), and Pariyosana Kalyani or highest discourse (Panna). These three levels of discourse is comprehensive in the Viniya Pitaka, Sutta Pitaka and Abhidhamma Pitaka. Or at the Sutta level, these 3 approaches are Morals/Ethics, Meditation and Wisdom.
For Cambodia, human resource development is one of the factors among natural capital, financial capital and social capital.
In the past, French tried to pressure on Khmer Buddhist Sangha to serve the protectorate’s missions. But when there were perpetual struggles from the Buddhist Sangha, French protectorates agreed to open a Buddhist Institute (BI) to provide space for Cambodian Buddhist monks to learn and create an education at a systemic structure. Suzan Karpeles was the first director of the BI. Scholars have noted that BI is the substantial place for developing nationalism and movement in late decades in liberating and protecting Cambodian nation.
Somdech Chuon Nath is the key leader in reforming Cambodian Buddhism and building productive national central nationalism. His work in translating Tipitaka into simple Khmer language is a great move in modernizing Cambodia.
At the moment, the 60,000 Buddhist monks residing in over 4000 monasteries are the important agents for human resource development in Cambodia. But the lack of giving enough aids to those agents in approaching human resource missionary. If those Buddhist monks are not properly equipped with talent and knowledge, Cambodian Buddhism would be just symbol or a tool for politicians to utilize it, and the future of human resource development in Cambodia will be irrelevant.
According to the lecture organized on November 5, 2011 (10am of Cambodia Time Zone), Ven. Luon Sovath outlined important facts of Buddhism in developing human resource in Cambodia following:
- Since the Angkorean era, Buddhism and Hinduism have played important roles in developing human resource in Cambodia. The startling structure of temples and inscriptions are the evidence of building human resource for the development of this nation.
- Buddha is the awaken one. His teaching has been used in modern day such as human rights, democracy, human freedom and equality. People desire for peace, freedom and basic rights which this desiring is fundamentally deriving from Buddha’s teachings.
Lecture Series on Engaged Buddhism in Cambodia: “The Roles of Buddhism in Human Resources Development in Cambodia: Past, Present and the Future”
Dear Dhamma Friends and Can Network;
I am honored to announce that our second Lecture Series on Skype is following:
(Time and date is basing in Cambodia)
When: Saturday, November 5, 2011
Time: 10:00am – 11:30am (prompt)
Topic: “The Roles of Buddhism in Human Resources Development in Cambodia: Past, Present and the Future”
Speaker: The Venerable Dr. Hok Savann
Medium: skype id: cancambodia
Brief schedule:
- Speaker introduction
- Lecture session (30mn.)
- Q & A
Rules:
Skype is different from Paltalk because admin cannot control the coming voice, so participants must make sure that he/she is positioning in a quiet place. If there is a disturbing voice came across, the admin will give a warning, and if the annoying voice is still happening, the admin keeps the rights to dismiss that participant. But you can ask to be re-invited if you think your place is not annoying other participants in the room any more.
- No interrupting while lecture is on the process or others are speaking.
- Questions and discussions must be relevant to the topic.
- The whole session will be recorded for further research and public learning.
More information about the speaker and his background:
- http://www.hoksavann.org
Plea:
We are working on a pilot project on Engaged Buddhism in Cambodia, so your contributions to access to any sources of papers, books and organizations on Engaged Buddhism in Cambodia are very welcome!
Note: please help distribute this Lecture Series to your network as much as you can.