The influence of Eastern religion on selected British authors

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During this year,1) I gave a paper entitled‘Durrell's Hidden Buddhist heterotopias’at the“Mysticisms, Heresies, and Heterotopias in the Works of Lawrence Durrell”: On Miracle Ground XXI, the bi-annual conference of the International Lawrence Durrell Society, originally scheduled for Toulouse, France in 2020, held on-line on June 9th-11th, 2022.2) During a research trip to the UK in September 2022, I carried out research on Ted Hughes in the British Library, London and attended the 9th International Ted Hughes Society Conference,‘Conversation with the World’at the University of Huddersfield from the 7th-9th September.3) On the 20th October 2022, I gave a paper on Lawrence Durrell and Buddhism entitled“Mount Vulture and the Road to Angkor Wat”at the ICAS 10th International Conference on Asian Studies conference in Indonesia, held at the Hotel and Residences Riverview, Kuta, Bali from 20th-21st October, 2022.4) I chaired a session given by Maria Peacock at the 22nd on“The Kafka Factor in Iris Murdoch’s Fiction”at the online Iris Murdoch Society of Japan, 6th November 2022.