Video and Q&A – Keynote Lecture: Prof. Jay L. Garfield, “Buddhism and Nonviolence in the Contemporary World”
About this Event Presented on September 30, 2022 by Professor Jay L. Garfield, this keynote is part of the academic workshop, Buddhist Ethics 3.0: In Memory of Michael Jerryson (1974-2021). To know more about this event, go to the Keynote page: Buddhism and Nonviolence in the Contemporary World. This event was made possible by by […]
Public Lecture: Mikael Adolphson on Violence, Warfare, and Buddhism in Japanese Society
Prof. Mikael Adolphson from University of Alberta will deliver a talk entitled “Violence, Warfare and Buddhism in Japanese Society” Date: January 15 (Thursday) Time: 4:00-5:30 pm. Venue: Room 120, C.K. Choi Building, University of British Columbia, 251 – 1855 West Mall This talk is sponsored by the UBC Tzu-chi Buddhist Studies Forum and the Centre for Japanese Research. […]
Public Lecture: Brian Victoria on Zen Terrorism in 1930s Japan
UBC’s Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program, funded by The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation, is pleased to welcome Professor Brian Victoria, for a talk on “Zen Terrorism: Meditation as a Terrorist Weapon in 1930s Japan” on June 9, 2014 at the Asian Centre, UBC, Point Grey campus.
Report: Michael Zimmermann on Buddhism and Society
On April 26 and 27, 2010, Professor Michael Zimmermann presented two well-received lectures at UBC’s Asian Centre and C.K. Choi Building, “Is Violence Avoidable? On War and Peace in Indian Buddhism” and “Engaged Buddhism: Social Entanglement with Spiritual Gain?” Zimmermann challenged his audience with the perennial issue of violence and religion, offering a periodization of […]
Photos from Zimmermann’s Lectures
Professor Michael Zimmerman gave two lectures at UBC: April 26, 2010 – “Is Violence Avoidable? On War and Peace in Indian Buddhism.” Original post for the event HERE April 27, 2010 – “Engaged Buddhism: Social Entanglement with Spiritual Gain?” Original post for the event HERE
Public Lectures: Michael Zimmermann on Indian Buddhist Views of State Violence and the Possibility of Social Engagement
Professor Michael Zimmermann will be giving two lectures (April 26 and 27, 2010). “Is Violence Avoidable? On War and Peace in Indian Buddhism.” “Engaged Buddhism: Social Entanglement with Spiritual Gain?”
Ian Harries on Khmer Buddhist Monks, Denied Religious Freedom in Vietnam
By Ian Harris, Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation Visiting Professor in Buddhism and Contemporary Society, reposted from Asia Pacific Report 32.2 (2008): 1, 7. The Mekong delta area, known in Cambodia as Kampuchea Krom, has been populated by Khmer speakers for around one and a half millennia. Not surprisingly, the Vietnamese annexation of the […]