Buddhist Studies Forum
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Mikael Bauer – Under the Gaze of Jion: Kōfukuji’s Heian Period Internal Ritual Network
Barker Center, Thompson Room 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MASpeaker: Mikael Bauer, McGill University Venue
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Xiaotian Yin – Mantra and Icon: Verbalizing and Visualizing Sitatapatrā in Buddhist Art of Inner Asia and China
Barker Center, Thompson Room 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MASpeaker: Xiaotian Yin, Harvard University Venue