Plenary Session two

held at Auditorium SSS-I, at JNU on Sunday, March 7, 2010. The theme of the session was - Traditions of Thinking: Asian Philosophical Identity. The session was chaired by Prof Srinivasa Rao, Bangalore, India. The speakers and their respective topics are as follows:

1. Marietta Stepanyants, Moscow: Asian Values to a Multi-polar World
2. Chirapat Prapandavidya, Thailand, Phana, the Gnomic Poetry of the North-eastern Thai: Its Philosophical Implication of Buddhism and Brahminism
3. Asanga Tilakaratne, Srilanka: In what sense Buddhist philosophy is philosophy?
4. Arvind Sharma, Canada : The Asian Concept of Religion and Its Implication for Religious Freedom in the Modern World