https://dharmadhamma.indiafoundation.in/call-for-papers/

Submission Deadlines:

Last Date for Submission of Abstract (300 Words): 30 June 2025

Announcement of Selected Abstracts for Paper Presentation: 15 July 2025

Last Date for Submission of Paper (3000 Words): 31 August 2025

The theme of the 9th International Dharma Dhamma Conference is “Karma, Reincarnation, Transmigration and The Avatar Doctrine”. India Foundation and Gujarat University invites innovative Research Papers for presentation on the following sub-themes:

• Karma in its various meanings across Dharmic traditions
• Karma in relation with scientific laws Evolution of the Avatara notion in the Indic traditions
• The concept of succession of Buddhas in the Mahayana doctrines
• The doctrine of Tirthankaras in the Jain tradition
• The definition of Arahants, Bodhisattwas and Dnyani Buddhas in Buddha Dharma
• Metempsychosis in the Pythagorean, Platonic and Neo-Platonic philosophical schools
• Modern research into the psychosomatic and neuro-psychological analogues of Karma in current research
• Experimental discoveries that tend to support the possibility of reincarnation
• The cyclical nature of birth, death, and rebirth
• Karma and Rebirth in Hinduism
• Karma and Rebirth in Buddhism
• Karma and Transmigration in Jainism
• Avatars and the Karmic Cycle
• Contemporary understandings and adaptations of karma, reincarnation, and transmigration in the modern world