This lecture is sponsored by the UBC Himalaya Program, and co-sponsored by School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, Institute of Asian Research, Department of Asian Studies, and RHNHFF BCS Program.
SOAS Centre of Buddhist Studies is delighted to announce that the next Buddhist Forum event, sponsored by Khyentse foundation, will be held on 24 and 25 February.
Our speaker will be Dr Christoph Emmrich from University of Toronto. His public lecture, titled “Further, the Blessed One Said. The Lalitavistara, Niṣṭhānanda Bajrācārya, and the Emergence of Modern Newar Buddhism” will be held on Friday 24 February 2023 in Brunei Gallery, room B104, at 17:30-19:00.
The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies at the University of Toronto
The Toronto Newar Summer School
June 5-16, 2023
Mon-Fri, 10 am-12:00 pm, 1:00-3:00 pm, 4:00-6:00 pm EST, in person and online,
This two-week Summer Institute will provide an overview of the distinctive rituals and the associated ritual arts of the two major world religions of South and Southeast Asia. To balance the usual college course emphasis on doctrine defining religious traditions, this Institute will focus on the distinctive forms of praxis that express and act upon each faith’s central beliefs.
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce the availability of my new book, Creating the Universe: Depictions of the Cosmos in Himalayan Buddhism, published by the University of Washington Press.
http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/HUNCRE.html
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Winner, 2018 Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities
The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies at the University of Toronto presents:
The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at the College of the Holy Cross Exhibition, November 1-December 15:
“The Newar Craftsmen of Kathmandu Valley: Objects of Devotion from Nepal”
