Conference Panel: Developments in Canadian Buddhism
Friday October 15, 2010, 4:00pm – 5:30pm “The Early Development of Shin Buddhism in Canada.” Michihiro Ama (University of Alaska Anchorage). During the beginning of the twentieth century, Shin Buddhism, Jôdo Shinshû Nishi Honganji denomination, became the major form of ethnic Buddhism in North America. Buddhist Mission of North America (BMNA), whose operation began in […]
Conference Panel: Canadian Buddhist Outreach: Hospitals and Prisons
Friday October 15, 2010, 2:30pm – 3:30pm “Buddhism in Canada’s Health Care: Broadening the Spectrum of Human Experience at End of Life.” Anne Bruce (University of Victoria). Buddhism has been and continues to be a religion that is concerned about dying, death and the dead. Buddha declared that among all the realizations, the realization of […]
Conference Schedule: Buddhism in Canada
“Buddhism in Canada: Global Causes, Local Conditions” The University of British Columbia, October 15-17, 2010, funded by The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and the Numata Foundation. Registration, refreshments, meals, and all conference panels will be held at the C.K. Choi Building in the […]
Call for Papers: Buddhism in Canada
Conference: “Buddhism in Canada: Global Causes, Local Conditions” (October 15-17, 2010). Buddhism has grown dramatically in Canada, especially during the last forty years, but we need to understand better the global causes and the local conditions behind this change in the religious landscape of Canada.