Dear colleagues,
Here is a new list of upcoming Buddhist studies events. Please be mindful of the different time zones and ways of signing up.
Guttorm Gundersen
PhD Candidate, EALC, Harvard University
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Conversation with Ian Reader and John Shultz
On their new book, Pilgrims Until We Die: Unending Pilgrimage in Shikoku (Oxford University Press, 2021).
February 18, 9–10:30am JST.
"Translating Sanskrit Buddhist Philosophy for the Philosophy Curriculum" A symposium focused on a new translation of Vasubandhu’s Twenty Verses and Exposition
Friday, February 18, 2022
https://csr.princeton.edu/events/2022/translating-buddhist-philosophy
Lecture by Parimal Patil, Harvard University, with response by Trina Janiec Jones, Wofford College
Philosophy, Philosophers, and Buddhist Scholastic Texts (Śāstra)
Friday, February 18, 7:00-8:45 pm EST, online
https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TJ3a5aa7S02nEUE5G13PGQ
Saicho and Kenkairon workshop (in Japanese)
Feb 19
Yan Yiqiao 延易橋 (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)
“Elite Religiosity, Salvationist Tradition, and Social Networks of Wartime Chengdu Local Charities, 1937-1945”
Time Feb 19, 2022 02:00 PM in London
Keng Ching (Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar, 2021-2022; Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, National Taiwan University)
Towards a New Interpretation of Dignāga's Mental Perception (mānasa-pratyakṣa): Clues from the Notion of Simultaneous Mental Consciousness
Monday February 21, 4.00-5.30pm
Registration: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpd-6spj8vHdObWWfR9ZFdtdrEr0xVgnKH
Natalie Gummer, Beloit College,
‘The Dharmabhāṇaka's Body and the Ontologization of Authority.’
Monday 21st February
Dr. Jules Zhao (Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, HKU)
Death, Ritual, and Redemption: A Study of Ghost Opera from a Socio-religious Perspective
February 22, 2022, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm (HK time)
https://www.hkihss.hku.hk/en/events/seminar-by-dr-jules-zhao-20220222/
Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad, Jasmine Syedullah, Lama Justin von Bujdoss, Weishin Huang, Gregory Smith
Dharma And Justice Dialogues: Abolition
February 22, 2022 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Mark Blum, Professor, UC Berkeley
[Aspects of Japanese Studies] Doctrinally True but Historically Untrue?: Deconstructing Mahāyāna in 18th and 19th Century Japan
February 23 | 4 p.m. PST | Online - Zoom Webinar
https://berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LWB9eQikThSYfVE5GtkTvA%20
Prof Robert Sharf (EALC, University of California), Dr David Fiordalis (DRS, Linfield University), Dr Adrián Muñoz (CEAA, El Colegio de México) and Roberto E. García (El Colegio de México)
La sonrisa del Buda: estudios sobre budismo. Ensayos en homenaje a Luis O. Gómez [Buddha's Smile: Essays in Homage to Luis O. Gómez]
Wednesday 23rd February 2022 (5 pm PST / 7 pm CST / 8 pm EST).
https://colmex-mx.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZbydPQxbTCC_rJEfgKpp6w
On The Earliest Chinese Buddhist Statuary
Feb 24th and 25th
https://www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/15466
Prof. André Laliberté (University of Ottawa)
Buddhist philanthropy and the development of welfare regimes in Chinese societies
Date: 25 February 2022 5:30 PM
Prof. André Laliberté (University of Ottawa)
The concepts of welfare regimes and secularity in Chinese societies (Seminar)
Date: 26 February 2022 10:00 AM – 1:00PM https://www.soas.ac.uk/buddhiststudies/events/holectureseries/26feb2022-the-concepts-of-welfare-regimes-and-secularity-in-chinese-societies.html
Venerable Prof. Dr. K.L. Dhammajoti (Renmin University of China, Buddha-Dharma Centre of Hong Kong)
‘Akliṣṭājñāna, vāsanā and perfect Buddhahood’
10am UK time / 6pm Hong Kong time • Monday 28 February 2022
Dr. Yu-Chen Li
Journeys to the South: Chan Buddhist Records from the Chinese Diaspora
Feb 28, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM PST
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim on Reorienting Histories of Medicine: Encounters Along the Silk Roads (Bloomsbury 2021)
Monday, February 28, 2022
Juhn Y. Ahn:
"King Sejong the Great and the Cultural History of Weather, Religion and Wealth in Early Joseon Korea"
Thursday March 3rd 2022, 4:30 - 6:00PM
Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Precarity: Living and Dying in Himalayan Buddhist Cultures
Friday, March 4, 2022 | 7:00pm |
https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5crcO2vpz0rEtEC_y8ffkQF0eDZBCJGqoX1
Norihisa Baba (University of Tokyo, Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar, 2021-2022)
Sanskrit vs Pāli: Buddhaghosa’s Linguistic Turn and its Impacts on Mainland Southeast Asia
March 7, 5.00-6.30pm
https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIsde2rqjMrE9wjqUdnPG8V8ZRYfQ-pz_A_
Drs. Amy Paris Langenberg & Ann Gleig –
Grassroots Responses to Sexual Violation in American Buddhist Communities
Mar 07, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM PST
Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Gender in Himalayan Buddhism: Glacial Shifts in Attitudes and Institutions
Mon, March 7, 2022, 9:00 PM – 10:30 PM EST
Mark Allon and Ian Mccrabb
Digital Gandharan Texts – The Digital Framework for the Research and Publication of Gandhari Manuscripts and Inscriptions.
09:00 GMT on Tuesday 8th March 2022
https://www.carc.ox.ac.uk/gandharaConnections/events
Bo Wang, Annaclaudia Martini, Trine Brox, Irene Stengs
(In)visibility of Sacred Waste: Asian Perspectives
11 March 2022 15:00 to 17:00, CET
https://www.ace.lu.se/calendar/invisibility-sacred-waste-asian-perspectives
Pierce Salguero on A Global History of Buddhism and Medicine (Columbia U Press, 2021)
Monday, March 14, 2022, Toronto
Professor Bunei Takada, Ryukoku University, Faculty of Letters: Shin Buddhist Studies
Ōjōyōshū- A Collection on the Essentials Concerning Birth and Shinran Shōnins 「往生要集』と親鸞聖人」
March 14 - March 18
https://www.shin-ibs.edu/event/2022-ryukoku-lecture-dr-bunei-takada/
Dr. Naomi Appleton, University of Edinburgh
Narrative Buddhology: Explorations of Indian Buddhist Literature
March 19, 2022, Saturday
London 3pm; New York 10am; San Francisco 7am; Beijing 11pm
https://khyentsefoundation.org/the-goodman-lectures/
Vidya Dehejia
Visual Narratives at Early Buddhist Sites
2pm BST on Friday 20th May 2022
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/gandharaconnectionsdehejia
Gandharan Art In Its Buddhist Context: International Workshop.
Monday 21st to Wednesday 23rd March 2022
Dekila Chungyalpa, Director of the Loka Initiative, Center for Healthy Minds and Healthy Minds Innovations, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Buddhism & Posthumanism Conversation Series 2021–2022
March 24, 2022
https://buddhiststudies.utoronto.ca/events/posthumanism-series/
When the Eternal Meets the Imperishable: Plastics and Religion in Contemporary Asia
30 March
https://ucph-ku.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5YkduigpjgrH92ipdujKZGlLDVXhwXIb4Iu
Charles Hallisey
Expanding the Ways We Read the Expanding Biographies of the Buddha
Thursday March 31st 2022, 5:00 - 8:00PM
https://buddhiststudies.stanford.edu/events/expanding-ways-we-read-expanding-biographies-buddha
David Gardiner
Kūkai: Japanese Buddhism's first Vajrayāna visionary
Thu, March 31, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM EDT
Robert Borgen - Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, Davis
From Buddhist Temple to Shinto Shrine: A History of Dazaifu Anrakuji/Tenmangū
Thursday, April 21, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
https://ceas.yale.edu/events/buddhist-temple-shinto-shrine-history-dazaifu-anrakujitenmangu
Ven. Prof. K.L. Dhammajoti, Buddha Dharma Centre of Hong Kong
April 30, 2022, Saturday
Time: TBC
Topic: TBC
https://khyentsefoundation.org/the-goodman-lectures/
Prof. Megan Bryson (University of Tennessee)
Dali’s Daggers: Buddhist Material Culture on the Southern Silk Road
Date: 6 May 2022 5:30 PM
Prof. Megan Bryson (University of Tennessee)
Inviting the Gods to Yunnan: Dali-kingdom Ritual Texts
Date: 7 May 2022 10:00 AM
Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa (Occidental College)
“Treasures that Transcend Space and Time: Causes and Connections in the Migration of the Lineage of Dorje Dechen Lingpa in Sichuan and Beyond”
May 21, 2022 02:00 PM in London
Robert Mayer, University of Oxford,
‘Entrustment (gtad pa) in Indian Mahāyāna and Tibetan gter ma’
Monday 23rd May
Gilbert Chen 陳哲 (Towson University)
“Migration, Rebuilding and Monastic Landlordism in Mid- and Late Qing Chongqing”
Jun 18, 2022 02:00 PM in London
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