CFP: The Pure Land in Buddhist Cultures (UBC, 2013)
CALL FOR PAPERS The Pure Land in Buddhist Cultures: History, Image, Praxis, Thought University of British Columbia | Friday, May 31 to Sunday, June 2, 2013 Abstracts due: February 1, 2013 Papers due: May 23, 2013 Conference website: http://pureland2013.wordpress.com Pure Land Buddhist traditions have been some of the largest and most influential in Buddhist history, and remain so to […]
Photos from Three Lectures on Korean Buddhism
About this Event The UBC Buddhism and Contemporary Society held a series of three lectures and a roundtable discussion. These lectures and the roundtable were held at the C. K. Choi Building. Original post for the three events HERE September 27, 2012 New Visions for Engaged Buddhism: The Jungto Society and the Indra’s Net Community […]
Three Lectures on Korean Buddhism
UBC’s Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program will present three evening lectures on Korean Buddhism this September: Lectures are free and open to the public. To account for numbers, please RSVP here.
Film: Tezuka Osamu’s “Buddha” to Premiere in Vancouver
Tezuka Osamu’s Buddha: The Great Departure Canadian Premiere, in Japanese with English subtitles *One Night Only* Where: Pacific Cinemateque, 1131 Howe St., Vancouver When: Tuesday, September 11 7:30 pm Tickets: $8 at www.moa.ubc.ca/eventtickets Check out the premiere’s Facebook Event. For a PDF poster, click here. Presented by the UBC Museum of Anthropology, Canadian Society for Asian Arts, and UBC Buddhism and […]
Photos from “Icons of Impermanence: Contemporary Buddhist Art” Conference
About this Event Original post for the event HERE Icons of Impermanence: Contemporary Buddhist Art, the conference organized by UBC’s Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program, was held last July 6 to 8, 2012, at the CK Choi Building and the Museum of Anthropology. This conference was held in conjunction with the Visions of Enlightenment exhibition (also […]
Keynote Address: Cynthea Bogel
Professor Cynthea J. Bogel, Kyushu University, will present a keynote address for the conference, “Icons of Impermanence: Contemporary Buddhist Art”: “New Roads to Nirvana: Visual Buddhism, Modern Eyes” Date: Friday, July 6, 2012 Time: 7:30pm – 9:00pm (Doors open at 7:00pm) Place: Museum of Anthropology, 6393 North West Marine Drive RSVP is required: Please click here. http://goo.gl/jHrM6 […]
Conference Panel: New Interactions with Japan Buddhist Images and Ideas
Saturday, July 7, 2012, 10:30am – 11:45am “Pilgrimage to Two Local Temples in Kyushu” Sherry Fowler (University of Kansas). By the sixteenth century many temples in Japan with a central icon of Kannon (Avalokiteśvara) were organized into different thirty-three stop pilgrimage routes covering thousands of kilometers. Over the centuries because of the success of the old […]
Conference Panel: Western Appearances
Saturday, July 7, 2012, 1:30pm – 2:45pm “Legend of the Colfax Buddha Heads: Landscape, Race, and the Visual Cultures of Buddhist Modernism” Gregory Levine (University of California at Berkeley). In 2005, the artist Casey O’Connor surreptitiously seeded hundreds of porcelain objects cast
Conference Panel: Contemporary Artists and their Buddhist Inspirations
Saturday, July 7, 2012, 9:00am – 10:15am “Changing Perspectives: Politics, Identity and Buddhism in Contemporary Sri Lankan Art” Sabine Grosser (University of Paderborn). Politics, identity and Buddhism – contemporary Sri Lankan artists are facing a complex globalized
Conference Panel: Reframing Art in Contemporary South Asian and Himalayan Context
Friday, July 6, 2012, 2:30pm – 3:45pm “Bulletproof Stupa: Framing the Buddhist Heritage of Andhra Pradesh” Catherine Becker (University of Illinois at Chicago). Buddhist art from ancient South Asia was often crafted to adorn stupas, earthen and brick relic mounds dedicated to the Buddha and eminent monks. Without the frame of a stupa or other reliquary, […]