University of Toronto/McMaster University
YEHAN NUMATA BUDDHIST STUDIES PROGRAM 2018-19
Ryan Richard Overby (Skidmore College)
Reading Group: “The Prototantric Preacher”
November 1, 2018, 3-5pm, University of Toronto, Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317
Lecture: “Embodying Buddha’s, Quelling Demons: Theorizing Presence in Buddhist Studies”
November 2, 2018, 4-6pm, McMaster University, University Hall 122
Ruth Gamble (Latrobe University)
Reading Group: “Landscapes” from Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism: the Third Karmapa and the Invention of a Tradition
December 6, 2018, 3-5pm, University of Toronto, Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317
Lecture: An Invitation from the Guardians of the Earth: the Relationship between Reincarnation, Sacred Geography and Nature on the Tibetan Plateau
December 7, 2018, 4-6pm, McMaster University, University Hall 122
Susan Andrews (Mount Allison University)
Reading Group: “Women at Northern Dynasties Mount Wutai”
January 31, 2019, 3-5pm, University of Toronto, Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 319
Lecture: “More than Donors and Pilgrims: the Economics of Lay Religious Life at Early Mount Wutai”
February 1, 2019, McMaster University, University Hall 122
Anupama Rao (Columbia University)
Lecture: Ambedkar, Buddha, and Marx… Again
February 8, 2019, 4-6pm, University of Toronto, Munk School of Global Affairs, N208, 315 Bloor St. W.
Reading Group: B.R. Ambedkar’s “Buddha or Karl Marx”
February 7, 2019, 4-6pm, McMaster University, University Hall 122
Helmut Tauscher (University of Vienna)
Lecture: Kanjur Collections from Tibet’s Southern and Western Borderlands
March 28, 2019, 3-5pm, University of Toronto, Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317
Reading Group: “The Early Mustang Kanjur and Its Descendents” and “Chinese Whispers”
March 29, 2019, 4-6pm, McMaster University, University Hall 122
Felicity Aulino (University of Massachusetts)
Lecture: Providing for Others: Care and Karmic Politics in Northern Thailand
April 5, 2019, 3-5pm, University of Toronto, Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317
Reading Group: “Cultures of Belief: Ghosts, the Christian God, and an Abhidhammic Theory of Mind in Northern Thailand”
April 4, 2019, 4-6pm, McMaster University, University Hall 122
The venues specified are the Jackman Humanities Building (JHB) at the University of Toronto St. George Campus (UTSG), Toronto, ON, and University Hall at McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
For questions please contact Christoph Emmrich at christoph.emmrich@utoronto.ca.
