UBC Yoga Club Movie Night and Icebreaker
UBC Yoga Club presents its Icebreaker and Movie Night featuring: “Doing Time Doing Vipassana” Date: Monday, 17 October 2011 Time: 8:00 – 9:30 PM Place: Norm Theater in SUB, 6138 Student Union Boulevard Cost: By Donation Winner of the Golden Spire Award at the 1998 San Francisco International Film Festival, this extraordinary documentary takes viewers […]
Public Lecture: Sonja Arntzen on Telling it Slant
Sonja Arntzen, Professor Emerita, University of Toronto, will present a lecture: “Telling it Slant”: Dreams and Religious Meaning in the Sarashina Diary (Kameyama Lecture, Department of Asian Studies) 5:00 pm, Friday, September 30, at UBC’s Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall, Room 604 Altogether eleven dreams are recorded in Sarashina Diary (c. 1060 by Sugawara Takasue no […]
Seminar: Jim Placzek on the Ordination of Women in Theravada Buddhism
The Centre for Southeast Asian Research at the Institute of Asian Research presents a seminar by Dr. Jim Placzek: “Ordination of Women in Theravada Buddhism” Date: Friday, 30 Sep 2011; 4.30 – 6.00 PM Place: Room 120, C.K. Choi Building, UBC Point Grey Campus, 1855 West Mall This seminar is free. In this seminar Dr. Placzek […]
New Buddhism-Related Courses in Art History: ARTH 353 and ARTH 455
This year, professor Katherine Hacker (faculty page) will be offering two undergraduate courses in Art History that will discuss Himalayan Buddhism in both its premodern and contemporary forms. Prof. Hacker welcomes graduate students to her classes as well, and will tailor course work accordingly. ARTH 353: Nepal and Tibet: Art, Ritual, and Performance (Term 1) […]
UBC Tzu-chi Buddhist Forum holds Conference on Lay Buddhism
“Lay Buddhism: An Old Issue Viewed in New Perspectives” March 24-26, 2011 The Eighth International Symposium Sponsored by UBC Tzu-chi Buddhist Forum (to be held in the Auditorium, Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall, UBC, Vancouver) Speakers include: Christoph Anderl (University of Oslo); Benjamin Brose (University of Michigan); Jinhua Chen (UBC); Paul Copp (University of Chicago); […]
Public Lecture: Jim Placzek on the Bhikkuni Ordination Issue
Fully Ordained Nuns in Theravada Buddhism Originally posted at Asia Pacific Memo by Jim Placzek – placzek66 [at] gmail.com There are no fully ordained nuns, or Bhikkhunis, in Theravada Buddhism. Last year, after 35 years in the West, the Theravadin Thai Forest Tradition found that the ordination of nuns had become a flashpoint. The Western […]
Tsering Shakya on the Karmapa Controversy
Karmapa Controversy – Raid on a Tibetan Monastery in India Originally posted at Asia Pacific Memo by Tsering Shakya – tsering.shakya [at] ubc.ca There is media frenzy in India following a police raid on the temple residence of Ugyen Thinley Dorje where $1.6 million in different foreign currencies – some in Chinese yuan – was […]
MAPPS Stream: Media Representations of Asia: Culture, Religion, Nation (Media)
The Master of Arts–Asia Pacific Policy Studies (MAPPS) program, is developing a new stream: “Media Representations of Asia: Culture, Religion, Nation” or “Media,” for short. Here is a draft description that will be posted to the MAPPS program site when it is finalized. The stream module will deal with contemporary media representations of Buddhism and […]
Report: Mark Unno on Shin Buddhism and Interreligious Dialogue
On September 23, 2010, at the I.K. Barber Learning Centre, UBC, Professor Mark Unno spoke before an audience of 60 interested individuals on: “Shin Buddhism in Interreligious Dialogue: A World of Teaching and Learning” In his talk, Professor Unno asked: “What is the potential of Shin Buddhism for dialogue with other religious groups in a […]
Kameyama Lecture: Eun-su Cho on 19th Century Korean Buddhism
UBC Kameyama Lecture Series on Buddhist Studies Proudly Presents Professor Eun-su Cho of Seoul National University for the following talk: Late 19th Century Korean Buddhism – A Missing Link Date: Thursday, October 28 , 2010 Time: 4:00 – 5:30 PM Location: Asian Center 604 Typical narratives of Korean history at the turn of the twentieth century list […]