[Event] Toronto: Healing through Dhāraṇī in Tantric Buddhism (May 14, 2018)

A public lecture, co-sponsored by the Ho Centre for Buddhist Studies, will be held on Monday May 14, 2018 at the Institute for Traditional Medicine, 553 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M5V 2B6. The event is free but with a $10 suggested donation to the Institute of Traditional Medicine. RSVP Abstract: Throughout the history of …

[Blog] “Unbalanced Flows in the Subtle Body”: A Talk by Professor Geoffrey Samuel

By Ryan Jones and Jingjing Li (McGill University) This semester, McGill’s School of Religious Studies (SRS) had the honor to invite Professor Geoffrey Samuel from Cardiff University and University of Sydney, as the annual Numata Visiting Scholar of 2017. With the support of the Numata foundation, SRS and McGill’s Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, …

[Event Announcement] UBC: Liturgy, Icon, and Text in the Development of Esoteric Buddhism (Feb.9, 2017)

Visualization is commonly regarded as the sine qua non of tantric Buddhist practice, and scholars have sought to trace the relationship between visualization and the use of images in the evolution of tantric or esoteric Buddhist ritual.  Thus, dhāraṇī scriptures have often been classified as ‘proto-tantric’ and marshaled to argue for the gradual interiorization of …