Teaching

The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Society endowment funds the teaching of several courses at UBC. To see all posts related to these courses:

There are several courses offered at UBC that cover Buddhism as well as other Asian religions, including their contemporary forms. Here is a list of relevant courses that cover Buddhism. To investigate new courses and which courses are offered in a given year, please check the UBC calendar.

Undergraduate

• ASIA 250     Introduction to Buddhism
• ASIA 371     Foundations of Chinese Thought
• ASIA 377     History of Korean Thought
• ASIA 378     Philosophical Wisdom of Early India
• ASIA 382     Buddhism in China
• ASIA 383     Common Religious Traditions in China
• ASIA 387     Japanese Religions
• ASIA 388     Buddhist, Brahamanical and Jain Philosophers in Interaction
• ASIA 398     Classical Hindu, Buddhist and Jain Myths in Translation
• ASIA 450     Special Topics in Buddhist Studies
• ASIA 485     Inventing Asian Religions in the West/East Encounter

Graduate

• ASIA 510     Monastic Hagio-Biographical Writings in Medieval East Asia
• ASIA 511     Buddhist and Taoist texts in Chinese
• ASIA 525     Topics in the Social History of Japanese Religions
• IAR 515B     Buddhism and Contemporary Society
• IAR 515P     Religion and Public Policy