[Event] McMaster University: Tracing Mañjuśrī: How an Indian Bodhisattva became a Permanent Resident of China (September 19, 2017)

The Department of Religious Studies at McMaster University is pleased to present Dr. Paul Harrison the George Edwin Burnell Chair in Religious Studies at Stanford University as a Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor on Tuesday, September 19, 2017 at 7 p.m. Tracing Mañjuśrī: How an Indian Bodhisattva became a Permanent Resident of China Around the middle …

[Event] XVIIIth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies (IABS) (August 20-25, 2017)

Click here to access the electronic copy of the circular Dear Colleagues, Dear Friends: Preparations are well underway for the XVIIIth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies (IABS), which takes place at the University of Toronto, August 20th to the 25th, 2017. On behalf of the IABS, my university, and the conference’s Planning …

Tantra and Transparency, or Cultural Contradiction and Today’s Tibetan Buddhist Wizard by Ben Joffe

Click here to see the original post. This is the first of a series of articles that I will be posting this month as a guest-contributor for Savage Minds. In each post I will be sharing some preliminary and open-ended reflections relating to my research on Tibetan diaspora, esotericism, and the globalization of Tibetan culture. This week, …