[Blog] A Forest of Knowledge about the Texts and Images, a conference in celebration of Prof. Koichi Shinohara’s 80th birthday co-hosted by Yale University, the University of Zhejiang, and University of British Columbia, October 14-16, 2021

By Nelson Landry, University of Oxford The “Forest of Knowledge about the Texts and Images” conference took place on October 14-16, 2021, under the auspices of the Glorisun Charitable Foundation in collaboration with the FROGBEAR project at the University of British Columbia. The event was co-hosted by Yale University and the University of Zhejiang. It …

[Blog] Karma in Chinese Buddhist Historiography

By Nelson Landry Republished with permission. In 2019, the organizers of the UBC Tianzhu-Hurvitz Lecture Series invited Prof. Robert Buswell to speak at the University of British Columbia campus in Vancouver, Canada. This year, on October 9, the Lecture Series is in its second iteration, but like so many other academic conferences these days it …