UBC Tianzhu-Hurvitz Distinguished Lecture Series: Ethics of Ambiguity in Chan and Existentialism
April 22, 2021, with Wendi L. Adamek (Calgary). Online, via Zoom.Continue reading
UBC Tianzhu-Hurvitz Distinguished Lecture Series: Karma in Chinese Buddhist Historiography
October 9, 2020, with John Kieschnick (Stanford). Online, via Zoom.Continue reading
![[CANCELLED] Guest Lecture: Theravāda Meditation within Contemporary Chinese Buddhism. The case of Sichuan Shifosi 石佛寺](https://frogbear.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/bianchi-BG-1740x700.jpg)
[CANCELLED] Guest Lecture: Theravāda Meditation within Contemporary Chinese Buddhism. The case of Sichuan Shifosi 石佛寺
Ester Bianchi (Perugia University). Wednesday, April 8, 2020, 5:30 pm–7 pm. UBC, C. K. Choi Building, Room 120.Continue reading
![[CANCELLED] UBC Tianzhu-Hurvitz Distinguished Lecture Series: The Buddhahood of Ordinary Persons: Revisioning the Lotus Sūtra in Medieval Japan](https://frogbear.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Naga-princess-at-the-Lotus-assembly-cropped-1-1740x700.jpg)
[CANCELLED] UBC Tianzhu-Hurvitz Distinguished Lecture Series: The Buddhahood of Ordinary Persons: Revisioning the Lotus Sūtra in Medieval Japan
Jacqueline Stone (Princeton University). Friday, March 6, 2020, 5:30–8 pm. University of British Columbia, St John’s College.Continue reading
![[CANCELLED] Guest Lecture: Sun Wukong: The Monkey God](https://frogbear.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/照片-015-副本-1740x700.jpg)
[CANCELLED] Guest Lecture: Sun Wukong: The Monkey God
Li Ling (Sichuan University). 4 pm Thursday, March 5, 2020. UBC Asian Centre, Room 604.Continue reading
Guest Lecture: Did women produce Buddhist texts in Medieval China? And does it matter if they did?
Stephanie Balkwill (The University of Winnipeg). 2:30pm Thursday, January 30 2020. UBC Asian Centre, Room 604.Continue reading
Guest Lecture: Chiasmus in Bodhisattva Literature: Two Examples and Theorizing a Meta-Structure
Matthew Orsborn (Taiwan National University). January 30, 2020. 370 Dwinelle Hall, University of California, Berkeley.Continue reading
Guest Lecture: Clerical Privileges and the Jurisdiction of the Buddhist Clergy: Do They Exist?
Cuilan Liu (University of Pittsburgh). 5 pm, Friday, November 15, 2019. UBC C.K. Choi Building, Room 120.Continue reading
Guest Lecture: Cataloging the Medieval Japanese Sacred Transmitted Documents (shōgyō 聖教) from Shinpukuji 真福寺 and Amanosan Kongōji 天野山金剛寺
George Keyworth (University of Saskatchewan). 2:30 pm, Thursday, November 14, 2019. UBC Asian Centre, Room 604.Continue reading
Guest Lecture: Through Altruism to Enlightenment
Rey-Sheng Her (Tzu Chi University). 2:30 pm Thursday, November 7, 2019. UBC Asian Centre, Room 604Continue reading
Guest Lecture: “All Living Beings Have Buddha-Nature”—the Genesis of the Concept of Universal Buddhahood
Michael Zimmermann (Numata Center for Buddhist Studies, Hamburg University/University of Tsukuba). 4:30 pm, Monday, October 7, 2019. UBC Geography Building, Room 229.Continue reading
Guest Lecture: The influence of Buddhism on Chinese language
Peng Lu (Wuhan University). 2:30 pm–4 pm, Thursday, October 3, 2019. UBC Asian Centre, Room 604.Continue reading