Conference Panel: Going Forth To Canada: Negotiating Authenticity at Home I and II
Saturday, October 15, 2010, Part I: 10:00am – 11:30am “Sri Lankan Buddhists’ Transmission Strategies and the Culturally Negotiated Buddhist Tradition in Toronto.” D. Mitra Bhikkhu (Wilfrid Laurier University). Drawing on two years of field research with Sri Lankan Buddhists in Toronto, this paper examines how and what they transmit to their children. Their transmitting strategies […]
Conference Panel: Developments in Canadian Buddhism
Friday October 15, 2010, 4:00pm – 5:30pm “The Early Development of Shin Buddhism in Canada.” Michihiro Ama (University of Alaska Anchorage). During the beginning of the twentieth century, Shin Buddhism, Jôdo Shinshû Nishi Honganji denomination, became the major form of ethnic Buddhism in North America. Buddhist Mission of North America (BMNA), whose operation began in […]
Conference Panel: Canadian Buddhist Outreach: Hospitals and Prisons
Friday October 15, 2010, 2:30pm – 3:30pm “Buddhism in Canada’s Health Care: Broadening the Spectrum of Human Experience at End of Life.” Anne Bruce (University of Victoria). Buddhism has been and continues to be a religion that is concerned about dying, death and the dead. Buddha declared that among all the realizations, the realization of […]
Conference Schedule: Buddhism in Canada
“Buddhism in Canada: Global Causes, Local Conditions” The University of British Columbia, October 15-17, 2010, funded by The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and the Numata Foundation. Registration, refreshments, meals, and all conference panels will be held at the C.K. Choi Building in the […]
Report: John McRae Rethinks the Early History of Chan Buddhism
Professor John McRae, a well-known scholar of Chinese Chan Buddhism, presented a lecture on early Chan history entitled, “Rethinking Bodhidharma and the Beginnings of Chinese Chan/Zen Buddhism,” at the Asian Centre on February 4, 2010. The lecture drew around 50 students and faculty. Professor McRae kept all on their toes, combining careful text analysis with […]
Conference on the Mongolian Buddhist Revival
A one-day focus on contemporary Mongolian religiosity co-sponsored by the Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program, and The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation at the Contemporary Mongolia conference. Organized by Julian Dierkes and Tsering Shakya. Conference main page and abstract page.