Guest Lecture: Dr. Stephanie Balkwill on Women and Buddhist Text Production
DATE Thursday, January 30, 2020 TIME 2:30 – 4:00 PM LOCATION UBC | Asian Centre Room 604 | 1871 West Mall Did women produce Buddhist texts in Medieval China? And does it Matter if they did? The Tianzhu Global Network in Buddhist Studies, with administrative support from FROGBEAR, proudly presents a lecture by Dr. Stephanie […]
Language Learning: Nepali and Tibetan Community-Engaged Language courses
Save the Date: Nepali and Tibetan Community-Engaged Language courses will be offered May 11-22, 2020. Sign up to our mailing list (here) to receive further details! To learn about student experiences in Nepali and Tibetan community-engaged language courses at UBC, please view the videos below! Summer 2019: Nepali Language Course Video Summer 2018: Tibetan Language Course […]
Clerical Privileges and the Jurisdiction of the Buddhist Clergy: Do They Exist?
DATE Friday, November 15, 2019 TIME 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM LOCATION UBC | C.K. Choi Room 120 | 1855 West Mall About this event The demarcation and maintenance of jurisdictional boundaries between religious institutions and lay society have been at the center of the conflict between religion and the state since the formation of […]
Exhibition Opening & Reception: Golden Letters Arrayed Like Stars and Planets: The Tibetan Culture of Language and Letters
DATE Tuesday October 15, 2019 TIME 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM LOCATION UBC | Liu Institute for Global Issues Lobby Gallery | 6476 NW Marine Drive About this event Tibetans regard every syllable of their language as sacred, imbued with the power to liberate beings from suffering. The sheer reverence with which Tibetans hold their […]
Applications Open for the 2019 – 2020 Competition Year of The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) invites applications in the 2019-2020 competition year of The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies. Click here to apply About the Program In cooperation with the Foundation, ACLS offers an integrated set of fellowship and grant competitions supporting work that will expand the understanding […]
Buddhism & Technology: Historical Background and Contemporary Challenges
DATE September 20 – 22, 2019 LOCATION UBC | St. John’s College 2111 Lower Mall | Vancouver, BC DAY 1 – Friday, Sept 20 Tzu Chi Foundation Canada (8850 Osler) 3:00PM to 8:00PM DAY 2 – Saturday, Sept 21 St. John’s College (211 Lower Mall) 8:00AM to 8:30PM DAY 3 – Sunday, Sept 22 St. […]
University of Toronto: New Online Certificate in Buddhist Studies Program
The Institute of Buddhist Studies announces a new educational program — a Certificate in Buddhist Studies. This low-residency graduate program may be completed on-site in Berkeley or fully online. The program is intended to introduce students both to the history and breadth of the Buddhist tradition as well as the academic study of Buddhism. Ideal […]
Mingyur Rinpoche: In Love With the World; Dying Everyday
An Evening with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Author of In Love with the World DATE Friday, June 21 2019 TIME 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM LOCATION UBC | Frederic Wood Theatre 6354 Crescent Rd Dying Every Day: Meditation, Transformation, and the Bardos DATE Saturday, June 22 2019 TIME 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM LOCATION UBC | Frederic […]
Lecture: Rongdao Lai on Education Modernization in Chinese Buddhism
Monastic education is one of the most important projects in the modernization of Chinese Buddhism. This talk begins by exploring several paradigm shifts associated with Buddhist educational modernization that began in the 1920s, a period of fervent growth and significant changes. I argue that the reimagining of a national Buddhist community and reinterpretation of orthodoxy produced a distinctly Buddhist citizenship discourse, which became the basis for Buddhist engagement with the nation-state in terms of property rights, political participation, and wartime activism. These changes proved to be essential in inspiring and shaping the discourse and conceptualization of education within the tradition. The second part of the talk offers some observations and reflections on the current state of Buddhist education in mainland China and Taiwan.