Articles from inaugural issue (Vol. 1, No. 1) of Yin-Cheng Journal of Contemporary Buddhism (YCJCB) now available.
Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series: Mindful China: Embracing Early Meditation and Vipassanā Practices in Search for Awakening, and Secular Well-being
March 28, 2024, 4 pm PDT, with Ester Bianchi (University of Perugia). In person, Room 604, Asian Centre, UBC, and online
Zhan Ru Receives “Top Ten Best Books” of 2023 Award for Encounter Between Indian and Chinese Civilizations: Ximing Monastery of Tang Chang’an and the Silk Roads
Congratulations to Professor Zhan Ru!
Ghent Doctoral School: “Chinese Buddhist Iconography and Manuscript Culture”
June 17-21, 2024. Ghent University.
Report on “On Chinese Philosophy and Memory: A Project Examining Chan Buddhism Recollection, Ritual, and Narrative”
Mitacs report by Vivian Li, UBC
Report on “The Ways of Absorption and Interpretations of Prajna and Nagarjuna’s Philosophy in Tian Tai Buddhism”
Mitacs report by Long Gu, East China Normal University
2023 Glorisun International and Intensive Program with Peking University
“天宫勝景” from 會稽山龍華寺. https://www.kuaijishanlonghuasi.com. Searching the Way along the Zhijiang: The Sixth Glorisun International Intensive Program on Buddhist Studies (with Peking University & Mount Kuaiji Institute of Advanced Research on Buddhism) 之江問道——第六屆旭日國際佛學菁英班 (北京大學、會稽山佛教高等研究院) (August 9 – August 22, 2023 with Peking University) Schedule Seminar and Lecture Series Lecturers Student Continue reading
Guest Lecture: Jātaka, Purgatory, and Supernatural Stories (zhiguai)—On the Classicization of Buddhist Stories from the Perspective of Fa Yuan Zhu Lin
Professor Yu ZHANG. Thursday, March 28, 2024, 2:00 pm PST. In person at UBC Asian Centre, Room 604, and online
Theravada and East Asia
June 29, 2024. In person, University of Oxford, Weston Lecture Theatre, Weston Library, Broad Street, Oxford.
Burning Refuge Conference
March 7–9, 2024. In person and online, Harvard Divinity School.