Buddhist Hospice Care?

As my mother used to say: “Old age ain’t for wimps.” Now that baby boomers are entering their golden years, how to practice the Dharma as a senior and how to hang on to a Sangha have become more widely pondered issues.

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Numata Lecture, McMaster U, 2.14.13

The UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO / McMASTER UNIVERSITY YEHAN NUMATA PROGRAMME IN BUDDHIST STUDIES presents:

Geoffrey Samuel (Cardiff University) The Multiple Meanings and Uses of Tibetan Sacred Dance: ‘Cham in Context THURSDAY, February 14, 2013, 4-6 pm, McMaster University, University Hall 122

In some ways ‘cham . . . Read More.

Numata events at U of T and McMaster

The UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO / McMASTER UNIVERSITY YEHAN NUMATA PROGRAMME IN BUDDHIST STUDIES presents:

CRISTINA SCHERRER-SCHAUB (Université de Lausanne)

THURSDAY, February 7, 2013, 3-5 pm, U of T, JHB 317 READING GROUP: Tibet – An Archaeology of the Written

To obtain the reading materials please contact Christoph . . . Read More.

Robert Campany Numata Lecture/Reading Group

The UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO / McMASTER UNIVERSITY YEHAN NUMATA PROGRAMME IN BUDDHIST STUDIES presents: Robert Campany (Vanderbilt University)

LECTURE The Incredible Vanishing Religion: Glimmers of Buddhist Imagination from Medieval China THURSDAY, January 31, 2013, 2-4 pm, University of Toronto Mississauga, Instructional Building, IB 220

The Buddhism . . . Read More.

Upcoming Numata Events reminder

Two UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO / McMASTER UNIVERSITY YEHAN NUMATA PROGRAMME IN BUDDHIST STUDIES Events:

MATTHEW KAPSTEIN (University of Chicago / Université La Sorbonne)

LECTURE Buddhist Idealists and Their Jain Critics: On Our Knowledge of External Objects? THURSDAY, January 24, 2012, 3-5 pm, UofT, JHB 317

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Numata Lectures at U of T and McMaster 2012-2013

YEHAN NUMATA BUDDHIST STUDIES PROGRAM University of Toronto / McMaster University

SHAMAN HATLEY (Concordia University) LECTURE (co-sponsored by the Hindu Studies Colloquium and the Centre for South Asian Studies): Between Buddhism and Shaivism: The Figure of the Yogini in the Tantric Traditions of Medieval India Thursday, November . . . Read More.

Collett Cox Numata Lectures, McMaster 3.22.12 + U of T 3.23.12

READING GROUP: “Yogācāra Prehistory: The Interpretation of Bhāva, Svabhāva, Abhiniṣpanna, and Pariniṣpanna in a Gāndhārī Scholastic Text”
 – Thursday, March 22, 4-6, McMaster, University Hall 122

LECTURE: “Brittle Birch Bark Speaks: the Earliest Buddhist Manuscripts of Ancient Gandhāra” 
 -  Friday, March 23, 3-5, U . . . Read More.

Numata lecture on Buddhist medicine, McMaster/U of T 3.1-2.12

The University of Toronto / McMaster University Yehan Numata Buddhist Studies Program Presents

Pierce Salguero Pennsylvania State University

Reading Group Session:  “Narrating Buddhist Healing: Representations of Buddhist Medicine in Medieval Chinese Hagiographies”   Thursday, March 1, 4-6 pm University Hall 122, McMaster University

Lecture: “Chinese Buddhist Medicine: Global and . . . Read More.

Numata Lectures

The University of Toronto/McMaster University Numata Buddhist Studies Program presents

“Conventional Truth and Symbolic Terms in Saraha’s Adamantine Songs” Dr. Lara Braitstein, McGill University Lecture: Thursday, January 26, 4-6 pm, University Hall 122, McMaster University

“Rdo ring pa’s Rnam thar and the Limits of Reading . . . Read More.

Numata lectures @ UofT + McMaster

The University of Toronto / McMaster University Yehan Numata Buddhist Studies Program

Presents

Tōru Funayama (Kyoto University)

Professor Tōru Funayama has been described as a Buddhological renaissance man because of the breadth of his knowledge about Buddhism in India, Tibet, China and Japan. He has published six . . . Read More.

Numata Lectures, Dec 2011 – April 2012

UPCOMING IN WINTER/SPRING 2012

LARA BRAITSTEIN (McGill University) LECTURE: Thursday, January 26, 4-6, McMaster, University Hall 122 READING GROUP: Friday, January 27, 3-5, U of T, Jackman Humanities Building, Room 318

PIERCE SALGUERO (Penn State University, Abington College) READING GROUP: Thursday, March 1, McMaster, University Hall 122 . . . Read More.

Numata Lectures, Nov 10 (Hamilton), Nov 11 (Toronto)

M Wang Numata program 2011-12

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