Buddhist Studies Forum
Buddhist Studies Forum Featuring Matthew King – Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire
Speaker: Matthew King, Associate Professor of Transnational Buddhism and Director, Asian Studies Program, University of California, Riverside After the fall of the Qing empire, amid nationalist and socialist upheaval, Buddhist […]
Elizabeth Angowski – A Clash of Clawed Significations: Reading and Rereading the Life of Yeshé Tsogyal and the Story of the Starving Tigress
Speaker: Elizabeth Angowski, Assistant Professor of Religion, Earlham College For an eager bodhisattva intent on honing the virtue of generosity, there would appear to be no shortage of starving tigresses […]
Harvard Buddhist Studies Forum Featuring Aaron Proffitt – Buddha’s Name as Mantra in Medieval Japan
Speaker: Aaron Proffitt, Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies, University at Albany-SUNY The recitation of the name of a buddha (nenbutsu) is often associated with deathbed practices and traditions commonly grouped […]
Norihisa Baba – Sanskrit vs Pāli: Buddhaghosa’s Linguistic Turn and its Impacts on Mainland Southeast Asia
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Buddhist Studies Forum Featuring Julia Cross – Relic Transfers and Statue-Reliquaries in Medieval Japan
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speaker: Julia Cross, Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies and Lecturer in Religious Studies, Yale University Prior to the medieval period, Buddha relics (Sk. śarīra; dhātu) in Japan were typically […]
Buddhist Studies Forum featuring Halvor Eifring – Let the mind wander towards the Pure Land: Two 19th-Century Chinese Monks on How to Treat Spontaneous Thought
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speaker: Halvor Eifring, University of Oslo Mind wandering has been an issue within contemplative traditions for more than two thousand years. How to go about your meditation or prayer […]
Victor Fan – The Insight-Image: Illuminating the Reality of Deleuze’s Time-Image
Barker Center, Thompson Room 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MASpeaker: Victor Fan, King's College London In Zen Buddhism, the notion of here and now is the key to attain––or return to––paññā/prajñā (insight). On a day-to-day basis, we live each moment […]
Annabelle Pitkin – Renunciation and the Practice of Care: Himalayan Buddhist Embodiments of Longing and Devotion
Barker Center, Thompson Room 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MASpeaker: Annabella Pitkin, Assistant Professor of Buddhism and East Asian Religions, Lehigh UniversityDevotion plays a central role in Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist accounts of guru-disciple relationship, part of an ideal of […]
Brandon Dotson – Marginal Comedy and the Production of Sutras in 9th-Century Dunhuang
Barker Center, Thompson Room 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MASpeaker: Brandon Dotson, Associate Professor and Thomas P. McKenna Chair of Buddhist Studies, Georgetown University There is something delightful about jottings and doodles in the margins of religious books. Perhaps […]
Wei-Cheng Lin – House of the Buddha in Scale: China’s “Small” Architecture
Plimpton Room (133), Barker Center 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Wei-Cheng Lin, University of Chicago Venue
Alexis Brown – Time and Narrative in the Rasavāhinī: A Literary Theoretical Approach to Reading a Theravada Buddhist Text
Barker Center, Thompson Room 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MASpeaker: Alexis Brown, Harvard University Venue