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 […]
Call for Papers: Icons of Impermanence: Contemporary Buddhist Art (July 6-8, 2012)
“Icons of Impermanence: Contemporary Buddhist Art” UBC’s Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program, funded by The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation, will hold a conference on contemporary Buddhist art July 6-8, 2012 at the University of British Columbia’s Point Grey campus. Part of event series for Summer 2012 that includes the “Visions of Enlightenment” exhibition […]
Call for Papers: Buddhism and the Political Process (UofT Scarborough)
The Department of Humanities, University of Toronto Scarborough is pleased to present, A Call for Papers for: The Tung Lin Kok Yuen 東蓮覺苑 Conference on Buddhism and the Political Process (April 13-15, 2012) The program committee welcomes proposals for papers from academics, professionals, graduate students and others. Proposals that include a max. 300 word abstract […]
Call for Papers: Buddhism in Canada
Conference: “Buddhism in Canada: Global Causes, Local Conditions” (October 15-17, 2010). Buddhism has grown dramatically in Canada, especially during the last forty years, but we need to understand better the global causes and the local conditions behind this change in the religious landscape of Canada.