Fourth Volume of “Famed Mountains and Great Monasteries” Series. Edited by Shi Miaojiang, Chen Jinhua, Shi Kuan Guang and Ji Yun.
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.
Update – Cluster 2.1 and 3.2
Clusters 2.1 and 3.2 Field Visits in Northern China. June-July, 2019.
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.
Guest Lecture: Through Altruism to Enlightenment
Rey-Sheng Her (Tzu Chi University). 2:30 pm Thursday, November 7, 2019. UBC Asian Centre, Room 604
Update – Cluster 1.2 Religion and Technology
Cluster 1.2 at DILA. July 17-25, 2019.
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.
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.
Rules of Engagement
New book publication: Rules of Engagement, edited by Susan Andrews, Jinhua Chen, and Cuilan Liu.
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.
