Photos of Workshop – Biodegradable Blessings: Prayer Flags and Ephemeral Materiality in Indigenous Himalayas
Original post for the event HERE About this Event Date: April 17, 2023 Dr. Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia (University of Southern California) lead this interdisciplinary workshop connecting three different methods: firstly, the study of material religion; secondly, scholarly conversations around Buddhist communities and climate change; and thirdly, doing community-based collaborative projects in Buddhist studies. The workshop […]
Workshop – Biodegradable Blessings: Prayer Flags and Ephemeral Materiality in Indigenous Himalayas
This lecture is sponsored by the RHNHFF BCS Program, UBC Himalaya Program, Department of Asian Studies, and UBC CIS Institute. Date Mon, Apr 17, 2023 Time 12:30 – 2:30 PM PST Location Asian Studies Auditorium Registration Closed This event is hybrid. However you choose to attend, please use the Registration button to register. In person […]
Green Monday – From Mindful Eating to Mindful Ecosystem — July 24
Link to David Yeung’s interview with Tricycle Magazine
Public Lecture: David Loy on Buddhism and the Ecological Challenge
The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhism and Contemporary Society is delighted to welcome David Loy, who will present a lecture entitled, “Buddhism and the Ecological Challenge” Friday, May 15, 2015 | 6:30 to 8:00 pm UBC | Asian Centre | Auditorium | 1871 West Mall Buddhism, like many forms of “spirituality,” tends to be divorced from […]
Report: Simon Wickham-Smith’s Lecture on Spiritual Ecology in Contemporary Mongolian Literature
Around 20 people attended the exhaustive lecture by Simon Wickham-Smith on the Spiritual Ecology in Contemporary Mongolia, which was held in Conference Room 210 at the C.K. Choi Building in the UBC Point Grey Campus on the evening of January 26, 2012. In his lecture, Wickham-Smith spoke about the evocative works of seminal Mongolian poets writing in the 1980s […]
Photos from Simon Wickham-Smith’s Lecture on Contemporary Mongolian Literature
January 26, 2012 – “Spiritual Ecology in Contemporary Mongolian Literature” by Simon Wickham-Smith in the C. K. Choi Building. Original post for the event HERE The report can be found here HERE
Public Lecture: Simon Wickham-Smith on Spiritual Ecology in Contemporary Mongolian Literature
UBC’s Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program presents a lecture by Simon Wickham-Smith. “Spiritual Ecology in Contemporary Mongolian Literature” Date: Thursday, 26 January 2012 Time: 5:00 – 7:00 PM Place: Room 120, C.K. Choi Building, 1855 West Mall Lectures are free and open to the public. Seating will be on a first-come first-serve basis. Doors will […]
APM: Japanese Buddhism After the Earthquake
Japanese Buddhism After the Earthquake: Memorials, Spiritual Comfort, and Emergency Response Originally posted on March 31, 2011, at Asia Pacific Memo (#69) byJessica L. Main – jessica.main [at] ubc.ca On the 7th day after the earthquake, at precisely 2:46 p.m., sirens rang out along Japan’s northeastern coast. Millions paused, placing their palms together and bowing […]
Conference Panel: Beyond the Temple: Exchange in Digital, Artistic, and Literary Worlds
Saturday, October 15, 2010, 9:00am – 10:30am “Correspondence Schools: Zen Buddhist Ecologies in Contemporary Canadian Art.” Melissa Curley (University of Iowa). Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Canadian artists working in what is broadly characterized as the alternative tradition in contemporary art made important contributions to transnational networks of artistic production and exchange. Vancouver was a […]