Conference Panel: Going Forth From Canada: Practicing Abroad
Saturday, October 16, 2010, 2:30pm – 3:30pm “Separate Communities in Thailand’s International Meditation Centers.” Brooke Schedneck (Arizona State University). Paul Numrich and Wendy Cadge have written about the phenomenon of parallel congregations in American Buddhist temples, where native-born American practitioners were involved in the same temple
Conference Panel: Beyond the Temple: Exchange in Digital, Artistic, and Literary Worlds
Saturday, October 15, 2010, 9:00am – 10:30am “Correspondence Schools: Zen Buddhist Ecologies in Contemporary Canadian Art.” Melissa Curley (University of Iowa). Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Canadian artists working in what is broadly characterized as the alternative tradition in contemporary art made important contributions to transnational networks of artistic production and exchange. Vancouver was a […]
Conference Panel: Going Forth To Canada: Negotiating Authenticity at Home I and II
Saturday, October 15, 2010, Part I: 10:00am – 11:30am “Sri Lankan Buddhists’ Transmission Strategies and the Culturally Negotiated Buddhist Tradition in Toronto.” D. Mitra Bhikkhu (Wilfrid Laurier University). Drawing on two years of field research with Sri Lankan Buddhists in Toronto, this paper examines how and what they transmit to their children. Their transmitting strategies […]
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.
Conference on the Mongolian Buddhist Revival
A one-day focus on contemporary Mongolian religiosity co-sponsored by the Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program, and The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation at the Contemporary Mongolia conference. Organized by Julian Dierkes and Tsering Shakya. Conference main page and abstract page.