By Yönten, on April 25th, 2013% 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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By Yönten, on February 8th, 2013% 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.
By Yönten, on February 1st, 2013% 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.
By Yönten, on January 28th, 2013% 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.
By Yönten, on January 18th, 2013% 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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By Yönten, on October 16th, 2012% 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.
By Yönten, on March 14th, 2012% 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.
By Yönten, on February 28th, 2012% 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.
By Yönten, on January 21st, 2012% 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.
By Yönten, on November 25th, 2011% 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.
By Yönten, on October 28th, 2011% 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.
By Yönten, on October 28th, 2011% M Wang Numata program 2011-12
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