Monks & Literati: Cultural Ideas and Lifestyle of Chinese Buddhism
CFP due April 14, 2023. Lian Shan Shuang Lin Monastery 蓮山雙林禪寺, Singapore, August 12–13, 2023Continue reading
Canonical, Non-Canonical and Extra-canonical: Interdisciplinary and Multi-media Studies of the Formation, Translation and Transmission of Buddhist Texts
This conference is being rethemed. See updated announcement.Continue reading
Conference: Site-Image-Object: Rethinking Place in Chinese Visual and Material Culture
University of British Columbia, December 7-9, 2022Continue reading
Guest Lecture: A New Translation and Study of The Zhuangzi (Sayings of Master Zhuang)
Richard John Lynn (University of Toronto). October 9, 2022, 7:30 PM PDT. In-person at UBC Asian Centre Auditorium and onlineContinue reading
Keynote Presentation: A Sense of an Ending: Chinese Buddhist Eschatology Reconsidered
T. H. Barrett (SOAS). October 7, 2022, 6:30 pm PDT. In-person at The Place of Many Trees, Liu Institute for Global Issues, and onlineContinue reading
The Dharma-Ending Age: The Climate Crisis through the Lens of Buddhist Eschatology, Past and Present
October 7–9, 2022, The xʷθəθiqətəm or Place of Many Trees, Liu Institute for Global IssuesContinue reading
Religions and Local Society in the Historical, Comparative, and Theoretical Perspectives: A Conference in Honour of Professor Timothy Brook
August 12–14, 2022, ONLINE with University of British ColumbiaContinue reading
How Zen Became Chan: Pre-modern and Modern Representations of a Transnational East Asian Buddhist Tradition
July 29–31, 2022, ONLINE with Yale UniversityContinue reading
Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series: Monasteries and Madhouses: On the Care and Confinement of the Insane in Early Modern and Contemporary East Asian Buddhism
August 1, 2022, with James Robson (Harvard). Online, via ZoomContinue reading
Image – Text – Reality in Buddhism: Interrelation & Internegation
May 23 – 25, 2022, multiple speakers, ONLINEContinue reading
Guest Lecture: Revival of Buddhism in Southeast China in the Late Ninth Century: The Case of Shanquan Temple
You Ziyong (Capital Normal University, China). 6:00 PM PDT, March 31, 2022. Online Continue reading
Guest Lecture: How did the Military Institutions Interact with Local Society in the Ming and Qing Dynasties: A Case of Yuzhou Guard
Deng Qinping (University of Political Science and Law, China). 6:00 PM PDT, April 6, 2022. Online Continue reading
