Lecture: “Carrying a Basket of Gold,” A Historical Reflection on Buddhist Concepts and Ethics in Bhutan with Dagmar Schwerk
DATE Monday, March 18th, 2019 TIME 5:30 to 7:00 PM LOCATION UBC | C.K. Choi Building Room 120 | 1855 West Mall The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhism and Contemporary Society is delighted to welcome Dagmar Schwerk, Khyentse Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Asian Studies, who will give a lecture entitled: Carrying […]
Event: The Basic Knowledge and Practice of Buddhism, with Venerable Professor Tsung Tzu Shih
DATE Tuesday October 16, 2018 TIME 2:00 to 4:00 pm LOCATION UBC | Asian Centre Auditorium | 1871 West Mall Dakinava Buddhist Educational and Cultural Society (DBECS) has invited Master Ven. Tsung Tzu to give talks on topics related to the foundations of Buddhism. Please join us! Topics of discussion will include: 1. The […]
Video: Robert Thurman, “Buddhism as a Civilization Matrix and the Current Global Crisis”
Professor Robert Thurman, an expert on Tibetan Buddhism, and author of several books on Tibet, Buddhism, art, politics, and culture presented a lecture entitled Buddhism as a Civilization Matrix and the Current Global Crisis at UBC’s Chan Centre (April 27, 2008): Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Part 4: Part 5: Part 6: Part 7: […]
Buddhism and Youth, Nov 4, 2017
Date Saturday, November 4, 2017 Location UBC | St. John’s College Social Lounge | 2111 Lower Mall Buddhism and Youth: A Symposium University of British Columbia • November 4, 2017 There are Buddhist monastic rules, stories, and teachings that directly address those of lesser years and the issues that are thought to be unique to […]
Lecture: Dr. Ben Wood on Procedures for Locating Incarnations (tulkus) in Tibetan Historical Literature
DATE October 16, 2017 TIME 5:00 to 7:00 PM LOCATION UBC | C.K. Choi Building Room 120 | 1855 West Mall Searching for the Right Buddha: Procedures for Locating Incarnations (tulkus) in Tibetan Historical Literature About the Event UBC Himalaya Program is hosting a talk which will consider the topic of incarnate lamas (tulkus)—births of the […]
Seduction and Spellcraft in an Apocryphal Buddhist Scripture
UBC Buddhist Studies Forum and SSHRC proudly present a lecture by Prof. James Benn (McMaster University) Date and time: February 26, 2016, 4:00-5:30pm Venue: Asian Library, Room 506, 1871 West Mall, BC, V6T1Z2 The important Chinese Buddhist apocryphon “Scripture of the Heroic March” (Lengyan jing) famously begins with the nearly successful seduction of the Buddha’s cousin […]
Public Lecture: Phillip Bloom on Visualizing Ritual in the Song Dynasty
Join us at the Frederic Lasserre building on January 21 for Dr. Bloom’s talk!
A Reflection on DDVC’s Second Academic Workshop, by Lisa Su
A Workshop co-sponsored by DDVC and UBC A congregation of Buddhist scholars gathered at the Dharma Drum Vancouver Center on Saturday, October 4th, in the late hours of the afternoon. They come from all over the world to attend the conference on Paper, Print and Cyberspace: The Perspective of a Global Network for the […]
New Sound Recording Available
A sound recording of C. Pierce Salguero’s keynote address given at this past summer’s conference, Buddhism and Wellbeing, is now available! Click here to listen to Dr. Salguero’s talk. Stay tuned for information on next year’s conference, and please sign up for our mailing list to receive notifications of upcoming events! On May 29, 2015, The Robert […]
Keynote Address: Pierce Salguero on the Global History of Buddhism & Medicine
The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhism and Contemporary Society is pleased to welcome C. Pierce Salguero (Assistant Professor Penn State University / Abington College) as this year’s keynote speaker. He will present a lecture entitled, “Toward a Global History of Buddhism & Medicine” Friday, May 29, 2015 | 7:00 to 8:30 pm UBC | Asian […]