Guest Lecture: Dr. Stephanie Balkwill on Women and Buddhist Text Production
DATE Thursday, January 30, 2020 TIME 2:30 - 4:00 PM [...]
Dr. Suraj Yengde: Annual Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Memorial Lecture Series & Ambedkar Chetna Awards Night
DATE Thursday October 10, 2019 TIME 5:00 to 6:30 [...]
Workshop: Buddhism and Social Change
DATE Monday September 30, 2019 TIME 9 AM to [...]
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.
Annual Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Memorial Lecture – Decoding Babasaheb Dr. Ambedkar: Ideas and Praxis
DATE Thursday, November 2, 2017 TIME 5:00 to 6:30 [...]
Buddhist Women: Practitioners and Teachers Past and Present
In this workshop we will hear about the [...]