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
From Jetavana to Jerusalem: Sacred Biography in Asian Perspectives and Beyond
November 7–9, ONLINE with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Yale University.Continue reading
Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series: Fostering Education beyond the Classroom Examples from Republican Buddhism and their Legacy Today
December 8, 2021, with Stefania Travagnin (SOAS, University of London). Online, via ZoomContinue reading
A Forest of Knowledge about the Texts and Images regarding Buddhist Saints, Sages, Translators, and Encyclopedists
October 14–16, 2021, ONLINE with Yale University.Continue reading
China, India, and Iran – Scientific Exchange and Cultural Contact
October 8-9, ONLINE with the Needham Research Institute (NRI), the Ancient India and Iran Trust (AIIT), and the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES) at Cambridge UniversityContinue reading
