[Webinar] Buddhism & Posthumanism Conversation Series 2021–2022

Date: November 4, 2021 - March 24, 2022Time: 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm (EDT)Online via Zoom. Registration is required.You may register at any time to join a lecture. Your registration is valid for the whole series, and you may attend as many lectures as you like. You will automatically receive reminders for the lectures.Register here …

[Webinar] UVIC: love it or leave it? buddhist perspectives on the natural world

You can listen to the lecture here: https://soundcloud.com/universityofvictoria/3-a-karin-meyers-audio-cropped A webinar by Karin Meyers, Academic Director at Mangalam Research Center in Berkeley, CA. Date and time: Thursday, October 14, 5:00-6:00 p.m. PST Please find the Zoom link in the poster below

[Webinar] Mid-Century Modern: Jōdo Shinshū and the Making of American Buddhism

Please click here to watch the event recording: https://buddhism.arts.ubc.ca/2021/04/07/video-mid-century-modern-jodo-shinshu-and-the-making-of-american-buddhism-with-qa/ Date and TimeMonday, March 22, 2021, 6:00 (PST) About this eventJōdo Shinshū Young Buddhist Associations before, during, and long after the illegal war-time incarceration of Japanese Americans actively promoted Buddhism as part of their contribution to American culture. Despite practicing American Buddhism for fifty years before …

[Webinar] The Treasury of Lives Biographical Encyclopedia

Watch the event recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlgWfsTUc8o Date and TimeMarch 12, 2021, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm (EDT) About the eventThe Treasury of Lives is a biographical encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalayan region. In development since 2007, the online resource provides accessible and well-researched biographies of notable scholars, masters, or leaders in traditional …

[Webinar] Buddhist Contemplative Care for End of Life Speaker Series

Dates, Speakers, Topics & Tradition February 6, 4–6 p.m. EST: Doug Duncan Sensei and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei, "Vajrayana Buddhism and the Life, Death and Rebirth Bardos"Their talk is recorded and published on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/114589995265081/videos/820407485174064Read the workshop's full description.March 6, 2–3:30 p.m. EST: Venerable Bhante Sasana Sarana, "Make End of Life Peaceful" (Theravada Buddhism)His talk is recorded …

[Webinar] Convergences Between Buddhism and International Humanitarian Law

Please see here for the webinar recording: https://www.icrc.org/en/document/exploring-convergences-between-buddhism-and-international-humanitarian-law-introduction The ICRC in collaboration with the International Association of Theravada Buddhist Universities (IATBU), the International Association of Buddhist Universities (IABU), Shan State Buddhist University, the Association of Buddhist Colleges of Indonesia (APTABI), the International Network of Engaged Buddhists and King's College London is launching the first of …

[Webinar] Symposium: “Other Power” in Indian, Chinese, Korean and Japanese Buddhism: Its Nature and Role in Buddhist Awakening

Please see here for the event recording: https://buddhism.arts.ubc.ca/2021/01/27/video-other-power-in-buddhism-with-qa/ Date and time: Wednesday, December 16, 2020, 5:00 PM (PST) About this event The doctrine of “Other Power” continues to perplex many Buddhists and Buddhist scholars, who consider it antithetical to the foundational Buddhist spirit of self-cultivation. For many, it even reminds them of “grace” in Christianity. …

[Webinar] Envisioning the Buddhist Maṇḍala of Bhutan: The Importance of Terminology, Language, and “Secularities”

Watch the event recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3rVDT5pf4c&feature=youtu.be RSVP here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BSAzjnrCTd6HpwHYM6CjXg Tibetan emic terminologies used as functional equivalents for “religion” and “politics” in Bhutanese textual sources shed light on institutionalized and conceptualized boundaries between societal spheres in pre-modern Bhutan―in the spirit of the multiple secularities approach understood as social distinction and differentiation in a non-evaluating sense. Among …

[Webinar] Buddhist Texts as Lived Objects by Jingjing Li

Listen to the event recording here: https://soundcloud.com/universityofvictoria/buddhist-texts-as-lived-objects Thursday, November 19, 2020, 5:00-6:00pm PST Meeting URL: https://uvic.zoom.us/j/96971529046?pwd=a1JWRk-JYWVUxbUpmYUVPeGhPSHFGdz09 The concept of ‘fabricated texts’ is used to describe a class of literature whose origin is unreliable and untrustworthy. Over the years, scholars have tried to prove whether certain texts are authentic or not. Upon doing so, they deem …

[Webinar] 2020 Toshihide Numata Book Award Presentation and Symposium

Please see here for the event recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bv5r0zBL0I Conference/Symposium | November 6 | 12-3:30 p.m. |  Webinar Sponsors:  Center for Buddhist Studies, BDK America Registration Required (see below)The Toshihide Numata Book Award in Buddhism is presented on an annual basis to an outstanding book or books in the area of Buddhist studies. Administered by the Center …