Guest Lecture: Sun Wukong: The Monkey God
Li Ling (Sichuan University). Monday, March 9, 2020. Location TBA.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
Tianzhu Book Prize Lecture: The Meanings of Meditation in Early Zen Buddhism
Sam van Schaik (British Library). 7 pm, Saturday, September 21, 2019. UBC St. John’s College.Continue reading
Guest Lecture: On the “Image of the Extinction of the Dharma” at the Dazhushengku Cave of Baoshan
Liu Yi (Capital Normal University). 2:30 pm–4 pm, Thursday, September 19, 2019. UBC Asian Centre, Room 604.Continue reading
UBC Tianzhu-Hurvitz Lecture Series: A Place for Doubt: The Theory and Practice of “Questioning Meditation” (Kanhwa Sŏn 看話禪 ) in Korean Zen Buddhism
Robert E. Buswell Jr. (University of California, Los Angeles). 5 pm. Thursday, September 12, 2019. UBC Ponderosa Commons Ballroom.Continue reading
Special Guest Lecture: The Uneven Terrain of Gender and Diversity: The View from the Humanities
Natasha Heller (University of Virginia). 7:00 PM. Thursday, June 6, 2019. Ghent University, Auditorium P (Zaal Jozef Plateau), Campus Boekentoren.Continue reading
Guest Lecture: On Chinese Qin and Chan Buddhism Literature: to learn from the performance of Guqin
Huqun Li (China University of Political Science and Law). 2:30pm. Thursday, March 14, 2019. UBC Asian Centre, Room 604.Continue reading
The Initial Rise of Manjusri Belief: Centered on the “Three Biographies of Qing Liang Mountain”
Long Chen (Xinzhou Teachers University). 4:30pm. Thursday, January 24, 2019. UBC Buchanan Building B Room 302Continue reading