Over 500 Cornellians have crossed the globe with the Fulbright U.S. Student Program since the 1940s. You could be the next!

The program, administered by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, supports college graduates conducting research or teaching English in more than 150 countries. The Einaudi Center's Fulbright advisor helps you get started early to submit a successful application.

Learn more about student information sessions from the Einaudi Center on minors, funding opportunities, Fulbright, summer language programs, and much more.

Over 500 Cornellians have crossed the globe with the Fulbright U.S. Student Program since the 1940s. You could be the next!

The program, administered by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, supports college graduates conducting research or teaching English in more than 150 countries. The Einaudi Center's Fulbright advisor helps you get started early to submit a successful application.

Learn more about student information sessions from the Einaudi Center on minors, funding opportunities, Fulbright, summer language programs, and much more.

Learn more about Fulbright opportunities for graduate students that fund your international research or teaching from a Fulbright advisor at Cornell.

Fulbright at Cornell is administered by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. The Einaudi Center's Fulbright advisor works with you to create and submit a competitive application for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program or the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad program.

Learn more about student information sessions from the Einaudi Center on minors, funding opportunities, Fulbright, summer language programs, and much more.

Stop by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies' Minors Open House to learn about adding an international minor to your degree.

The Einaudi Center offers minors in migration studies, international relations, European studies, and Latin American and Caribbean studies. The Department of Asian Studies will join us to share information about minors in East Asian studies, South Asian studies, Southeast Asian studies, Sanskrit studies, and global Asia studies.

Snacks will be provided!

Learn more about student information sessions from the Einaudi Center on minors, funding opportunities, Fulbright, summer language programs, and much more.

Talk by Liyu Hua (Asian Studies, Cornell University)

This talk will address Pali language ideology in Buddhaghosa’s commentaries around 500 CE and the traces of its inheritance from Patañjali’s Mahābhāṣya. The often-quoted discussion of the Pali language as “the natural language” (Pali sabhāvanirutti) in the Path of Purification (Visuddhimagga) and the Dispeller of Delusion (Sammohavinodanī) presents an ideal speaker of a language who speaks a grammatically correct language without external intervention. Patañjali first referred to the model speakers of Sanskrit as people who speak from their own nature (Sanskrit svabhāvena). The concept of the natural language postulates a nonarbitrary or eternal relationship between word form (sadda/śabda) and meaning or objects (attha/artha). Thus, Pali language ideology in Buddhaghosa’s works resembles Sanskrit language ideology, which can be traced back to the tradition of Patañjali’s Mahābhāṣya. The formation of Pali language ideology not seen in other Buddhist schools is probably a result of the textual conservatism in the Mahāvihāra of fifth-century Lanka. It explains why the Theravada tradition shows less linguistic flexibility than other Buddhist schools in the early first millennium CE.

Liyu Hua is a Ph.D. candidate in Asian Literature, Religion, and Culture Program at Cornell University. Working on the history of Buddhism, he is interested in the interaction between various Indian religious traditions and premodern forms of knowledge. His dissertation project focuses on the Buddhist commentaries in various Indic languages and how commentaries shaped interpretative frameworks in the early first millennium CE.