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Dear Colleagues,
The Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire sur le Tibet et l’Himalaya (GRITH, or the Interuniversity Research Group on Tibet and the Himalayas) is pleased to announce a Spring 2024 lecture series titled: "Tibet in Canada/ Canada on Tibet.” This series will feature weekly lectures by 12 scholars who are either from Canada or currently based in Canada and doing their research on Tibet.
The Ho Centre for Buddhist Studies at the University of Toronto is pleased to announce a one-day hybrid symposium on the topic "Buddhism and the Body in Tibet." To register for in-person or online attendance, to view the full schedule, or to see conference abstracts, please visit our event page at: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/buddhism-and-the-body-in-tibet-a-one-day-hybrid-symposium-tickets-865091601267
The Tenth Annual Trans-Asia Graduate Student Conference, themed "Bridging Glocal Asias," is scheduled for April 19th and 20th at Ingraham Hall in rooms 206 and 336, the Univesity of Wisconsin-Madison. This event presents a unique opportunity for students, faculty, and staff to come together, sharing, learning, and discussing a wide array of Asian-related topics in a transregional and interdisciplinary context.
The following two events today and tomorrow now have a webinar option.
Today, March 21, Dr. Peter D. Hershock, East-West Center, Honolulu, will present the Leslie S. Kawamura Seminar: "Machine Consciousness: An Evolutionary Frontier?” The talk will be held in the Kawamura Memorial Library at 3:00PM (MST). It is free and open to the public.
A Zoom webinar has also been added for those unable to attend in person. Here is the link and password:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://ucalgary.zoom.us/j/93778262317?pwd=VzVucTJGSlhtSUk2eWxDblRUTVNlZz09
Meeting ID: 937 7826 2317
Passcode: NUMATA
On Friday March 22, Dr
Dear all,
We are pleased to announce a hybrid lecture by Ester Bianchi (University of Perugia) entitled “Mindful China: Embracing Early Meditation and Vipassanā Practices in Search for Awakening, and Secular Well-being” for the Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series, with Ngar-sze Lau (Chinese University of Hong Kong) as discussant.
Time: Thursday March 28, 2024, 4:00 pm Vancouver / 7:00 pm New York / Friday March 29, 2024 7:00 am Beijing & Taipei
Venue: University of British Columbia, Asian Centre, Room 604
Dear friends and colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the schedule for the upcoming From the Ground to the Cloud: Insights from Seven Years of Fieldwork, Training, and Data Collection online conference. The FROGBEAR project has now concluded field research and would like to share and discuss the results of the research and training activities.
Dear friends and colleagues,
We are pleased to announce a public lecture by Professor Yu ZHANG (Shanghai International Studies University).
Title: Jātaka, Purgatory, and Supernatural Stories (zhiguai)—On the Classicization of Buddhist Stories from the Perspective of Fa Yuan Zhu Lin
Date: Thursday, March 28, 2024, 2:00 pm PDT
Venue: University of British Columbia, Asian Centre, Room 604
Dear Colleagues,
Please see the below list of upcoming online Buddhist Studies events, compiled together with Mariia Lepneva (Ghent).
The below list only includes events taking place over the next month. The entire list is available on this Google doc.
We encourage everyone to help keep this list up to date by adding events we have overlooked.
Guttorm Gundersen,
PhD Candidate, Harvard University
22 March 2024, 14:00-16:00 Beijing time (6:00am GMT)
LECTURE > 拯救《起信論》:基於《楞伽經》、地論宗和初期《起信論》註疏的新嘗試
Speaker: 臺灣大學哲學系.耿晴副教授
Host: 2024年春季「對論與方法」系列講會
Event page: https://buddhist-tides.dila.edu.tw/?p=700&fbclid