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．	[Announcement] Temporary Suspension of Online Services during Jan. 12-13 and Jan. 26-27. posted date:2013-01-11 Time：8 AM Jan. 12, 2013 – 5 PM Jan. 13, 2013 / 8 AM Jan. 26, 2013 – 5 PM Jan. 27, 2013 Announcement: Temporary Suspension of Online Services during Jan. 12-13 and Jan. 26-27. Digital Library & Museum of Buddhist Studies will be suspended for network equipment upgrade during Jan. 12-13 and Jan. 26-27. All services will be unavailable during the process and available as soon as the upgrade is complete. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your understanding. Date: (1). 8 AM Jan. 12, 2013 – 5 PM Jan. 13, 2013 　　　(2) 8 AM Jan. 26, 2013 – 5 PM Jan. 27, 2013 Go Top

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．	[Admission] 2013 FGS Weekend Temple Retreats posted date:2013-05-06 Time：2013/5/10-8/18 Location：Fo Guang Shan Monastery, Kaohsiung (Ven. You De) Experience Life in a Buddhist Temple Enjoy a Weekend of Peace, Tranquility, and Self-Discovery All Activities Conducted in English Activities: Meditation, Buddhist Chanting, Sutra Calligraphy, Ch’an and Life Dharma Classes, Q&A Sessions, Vegetarian Cooking, Daily Practices Temple & Buddha Memorial Center Tour Dates: May 10th ~12th, June7th ~9th, July 12th~14th, August 16th~18th (Every 2nd Weekend of the Month) Retreat begins 7:30pm, Friday, and ends 2:00pm Sunday Venue: Fo Guang Shan Monastery, Kaohsiung and FGS Buddha Memorial Center Eligibility: Any English speaker aged 18-40 who is interested in Buddhism and experiencing life inside the temple. Number of people: 30 people per retreat Fees: $NT500 per retreat (paid upon registration) Successful attendance of 4 retreats (does not have to be consecutive) will be awarded with a full refund of fees. Application: 1. Closes 7 days before each retreat. 2. Apply online at http://www.fgs.org.tw/events/wkend_retreat 3. Registration notices will be emailed to successful applicants. 4. One or more retreat dates can be chosen upon application Contact Us: Fo Guang Shan Monastery, Kaohsiung (Ven. You De) E-mail：fgshbi@gmail.com Tel：07-6561921 Ext. 1374 Event Website: http://www.fgs.org.tw/events/wkend_retreat Related Link：*http://www.fgs.org.tw/events/wkend_retreat Go Top

．	[Admission] MBS Programme of The University of Hong Kong posted date:2013-03-04 Time：2013/3/15 Entrance Requirements for MBS Programme The basic qualification necessary for admission to the MBS programme is a Bachelor's degree with honours from The University of Hong Kong or an equivalent qualification from comparable institutions. Qualifying examinations and/or interviews to test the applicants' abilities may be conducted. Applicants with qualifications other than an honours degree may in exceptional circumstances be permitted to register if they demonstrate adequate preparation for studies at a Master's degree level and satisfy the examiners in a qualifying examination. Applicants from different disciplines are welcome. Applicants who wish to be admitted to the programme on the basis of a qualification from a university or a comparable institution outside Hong Kong where the language of teaching and/or examination is not English are required to obtain: 1. A score of 550 or above (paper-based test) or 79-80 or above (internet-based test) in the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). Applicants who took the TOEFL should request the Educational Testing Service (ETS) to send an official score report to the University direct. For this purpose, the TOEFL code of the University is 9671, It is a policy of the TOEFL Policy Council to validate scores which are obtained within a two-year period. The University therefore accepts this two-year validity rule in the admission exercise; or 2. A minimum overall band of 6 with no subtest lower than 5.5 in the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) Mode of Study: Full-time (1 year) Part-time (2 years) Classes are mainly conducted in weekday evenings and weekends. Course Fee: Full-time (1 year): HK$72,000 Part-time (2 years): HK$36,000 per annum (The fee above is subject to the University's approval) Applications should be submitted online through the following link. The online application system will be available after January 2, 2013. http://www.asa.hku.hk/admissions/tpg (When you are asked to choose your programme for application in the link above, please select Master of Buddhist Studies programme from the Faculty of Arts.) Supporting documents (e.g. transcripts, certificates, etc…) should be submitted to: Room 415, 4/F, The Jockey Club Tower Centennial Campus The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong (Attn: Miss Carol Li) Application results will be announced latest by June 30, 2013. Related Link：http://www.buddhism.hku.hk/admission.htm Go Top

．	[Admission] Position: Lecturer in East Asian Buddhism @ University of Sydney posted date:2013-02-18 Time：3 March 2013 (11:30pm Sydney time) Dear list members, Some of you may be interested in the following position in East Asian Buddhism (Lecturer in East Asian Buddhism (2052/1212)): LECTURER IN EAST ASIAN BUDDHISM FACULTY OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES AND CULTURE THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY AUSTRALIA REFERENCE NO. 2052/1212 · Join a comprehensive and diverse School of Languages and Cultures · Be part of an innovative Buddhist Studies program · Competitive remuneration package on offer The University of Sydney is Australia's first university and has an outstanding global reputation for academic and research excellence. It employs over 7500 permanent staff supporting over 49,000 students. The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences has a proud history and a tradition of intellectual rigour. It offers one of the most comprehensive and diverse ranges of humanities and social science studies in the Asia Pacific region. It has a vibrant research and teaching environment. The School of Languages and Cultures in the Faculty offers the widest range of undergraduate and postgraduate language studies in Australia. It is a centre for Asian, Middle Eastern, and European studies. Its academics are committed to excellence in teaching and to research in languages and their social and cultural contexts. The Buddhist Studies program is an independent program that sits within the School and draws its staff from several different departments. This is an innovative program covering the full spectrum of Buddhist thought, culture, and practice, as well as language studies. From 2013 the program will offer an undergraduate major in Buddhist Studies, with courses giving students a rich and coherent understanding of Buddhism, covering areas including textual analysis, history, cultural and political context, thought, praxis, contemporary Buddhist manifestations, and artistic expressions. The program has one of the largest postgraduate research programs in SLC. The program was recently expanded through the addition of an East Asian Buddhism teaching and research curricula, developed in response to widespread growing interest in Buddhism from an East Asian focus, particularly Chinese Buddhism. We are seeking to appoint a Lecturer in East Asian Buddhism with a specialisation in Chinese Buddhism to drive the teaching and research excellence of the program as it expands to become one of the leading institutions providing the most comprehensive Buddhist Studies program. In this role you will: · teach both junior and senior undergraduate units · supervise postgraduate research students in the field · undertake administration and curriculum development · pursue an active research program. To succeed in this position you will need: · to be PhD qualified in Buddhist Studies with a specialisation in Chinese Buddhism, though other areas of East Asian Buddhism are welcome · the ability to teach into language and non-language programs, that is, Classical and/or Buddhist Chinese and Chinese Buddhist thought and practice · experience in, and commitment to, teaching using Chinese language materials (and ideally, Sanskrit, Pali and Tibetan materials) · experience in taking responsibility for and coordinating units of study in Chinese and Buddhist studies and a willingness to engage in group/collaborative teaching · a proven research and publication record in the field of Chinese Buddhism · the capacity to teach and supervise students from various cultural backgrounds · the ability and willingness to contribute to School and Faculty administrative activities. All applications must be submitted via the University of Sydney careers website. Visit sydney.edu.au/positions and search by the reference number for more information and to apply. CLOSING DATE: 3 March 2013 (11:30pm Sydney time) The University is an Equal Opportunity employer committed to equity, diversity and social inclusion. Applications from equity target groups and women are encouraged. Regards Mark Allon University of Sydney Related Link：http://sydney.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm?event=jobs.checkJobDetailsNewApplication&returnToEvent=jobs.pr Go Top

．	[Admission] Summer Language Intensives at CBS in Kathmandu posted date:2013-02-18 Time：June 12 – August 9, 2013 Dear List Members, Kathmandu University - Centre for Buddhist Studies at Rangjung Yeshe Institute is now accepting applications for its Tibetan, Sanskrit and Nepalese summer intensive language courses offered in 2013. For the first time this year, the language programs include Beginning Classical Tibetan, in addition to three levels of colloquial Tibetan (beginning, intermediate, and advanced), beginning Sanskrit, and beginning and intermediate Nepalese. An introductory Buddhist Studies intensive, combining study and a meditation practicum, is also offered. The courses, which are structured as a full immersion into the local languages and cultures, include the opportunity to live with Tibetan and Nepalese families. All classes are held at Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery, just a few minutes’ walk from the Great Stupa of Boudhanath in the Kathmandu Valley. For more information, visit: www.cbs.edu.np/summer-courses/ Sincerely, Joanne Larson Director of Programs Kathmandu University Centre for Buddhist Studies at Rangjung Yeshe Institute Related Link：www.cbs.edu.np/summer-courses/ Go Top

．	[Admission] Summer Language Intensives in Tibetan and Sanskrit at Mangalam Research Center, Berkeley posted date:2013-02-18 Time：June 17 – August 2, 2013 This summer Mangalam Research Center for Buddhist Languages will again offer intensive 7-week language programs in both Classical Sanskrit and Classical Tibetan. The programs are designed to provide the equivalent of a first-year university-level language program in each language. Both courses meet four hours a day, five days a week. Lessons will be reinforced with daily assignments that will insure a working understanding of the concepts and forms discussed in class. The programs are ideal for students at the graduate and advanced undergraduate level, as well as for enthusiasts in South Asian humanities or linguists and classicists interested in learning the basics of either of these influential ancient languages. Faculty: The Sanskrit course will be taught by Dr. Ligeia Lugli. Dr. Lugli received her Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London. She went on to serve as a Research Associate at SOAS and a postdoctoral fellow in the ?āstravid Project at the University of Durham before joining Mangalam Research Center as a postdoctoral fellow. The Tibetan course will be taught by Dr. Alberto Todeschini, who also taught the intensive program last summer. Dr. Todeschini received his Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from the University of Virginia. He has studied and taught Tibetan and a number of other Asian languages at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), Kathmandu University (Nepal), Ryukoku University (Japan), and the University of Virginia, as well as at Mangalam Research Center. Applications for both these programs are due by May 1, and applicants will be notified by May 15. For further information, see www.mangalamresearch.org or contact inquiries@mangalamresearch.org. Jack Petranker Mangalam Research Center Related Link：http://www.mangalamresearch.org/programs/current-future-programs/summer-language-intensives-2013/ Go Top

．	[Admission] Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Mangalam Research Center, Berkeley (Petranker) posted date:2012-11-21 Time：2012/12/16 The Mangalam Research Center for Buddhist Languages in Berkeley invites recent Ph.D.'s in Buddhist Studies or closely related fields to apply for post-doctoral fellowships. The positions are for one year, starting in August 2013 or earlier, and are potentially renewable for a second year. Advanced language training in Sanskrit and at least one other canonical language is required. A strong interest in Buddhist sūtra and ?āstra traditions and in digital humanities is desirable. Applicants must have been awarded the Ph.D. prior to commencement of the fellowship. They should have a serious interest in philology and lexicography, since this is likely to be the main focus of their work. The primary responsibility of Mangalam Research Fellows will be research related to the Buddhist Translators Workbench, an online resource now under development, funded in part by a grant from the NEH. They will work with Mangalam Academic Directors, current postdoctoral fellows, and short-term Senior Scholars in Residence on the intellectual and practical side of the BTW digital lexicon. The primary focus will be philological and lexicographic, but expertise in Buddhist Studies, Buddhist philosophy and doctrine is also required. Average weekly time commitment is 25-30 hours. Housing, some meals, and medical insurance are provided as part of the compensation package, and there is a travel allowance for attending conferences. Previous fellows have received the status of Visiting Scholar from the University of California, Berkeley, which gives them full access to University facilities and resources. Applications must be submitted no later than December 16, 2012 and should be sent via email attachment to the Director, using this address: jackp@mangalamresearch.org. Applications need take no particular form, but should include the following: * A detailed description of your academic credentials and language skills (official transcripts are not required); * Statement of purpose describing your interests and research plans and any other information you consider relevant; * Three letters of reference from academic advisers or persons in the field who know and can evaluate your work. Applicants with suitable credentials will be invited for interviews in person or over the internet. Decisions will be announced by January 31. Go Top

．	[Admission]The 2nd Year of the Translator Training Program posted date:2012-08-23 Time：2012/10/1~2013/5/17 Location：Tinchuli, Boudha Kathmandu, Nepal P.O. Box 23034 This program is designed to provide a comprehensive training in the Tibetan language within a concentrated period of time. All aspects of the Tibetan language will be covered; however, an emphasis will be placed on translating classical Buddhist texts. Aims: ‧–Fluency in colloquial Tibetan ‧–Deepen understanding of Classical Tibetan ‧–Oral comprehension ‧–Textual translation As this is an advanced course, application requirements are: ‧–intermediate level of colloquial Tibetan (equivalent to eight months of study, or the content of the Manual of Standard Tibetan) ‧–basic knowledge of classical Tibetan grammar If you are interested in joining the 2nd year of this program, please send your application to cbernert@sakyaiba.edu.np. We would like you to complete an evaluation quiz by email to assess your suitability for the program. Please enclose: ‧–Your full name, age, and country. ‧–A motivation letter. ‧–A description of your Tibetan and Buddhist studies so far. The fees for the second academic year (Oct 2012-May 2013) will amount to $4000 USD. In addition to the Tibetan and additional courses on Buddhist philosophy, history etc., each student is entitled to a private room, three meals a day, tea during breaks, use of IBA’s library and other facilities, and unlimited Wi-Fi Internet. (Program fees do not cover transportation, visa fees ($50 per month for a student visa), medical insurance or other personal expenses.) Places are Limited! Application deadline: August 31, 2012 Related Link：http://sakyaiba.edu.np/translator-training/ Go Top

．	[Admission]Pali Summer School 2012 posted date:2012-04-17 Time：18th – 30th August 2012. The closing date for applications is 30th July. Pali Summer School 2012 Oxford 18th – 30th August 2012 The Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies offers its annual intensive Pali course this summer, 18th –30th August inclusive. The following details come from Professor Gombrich: Aim. At the end of the course you should be able, using the normal aids available, i.e., dictionaries, grammars and translations, slowly to read a Pali canonical text and understand it for yourself. Is this really possible? I devised the course and have already given it seven times with great success. Pali can be learnt in twelve days because the aim is only to read it, not to write or speak it – though you do learn to pronounce it and recite a few chants. There is also much less emphasis on memorisation than in a traditional course: why memorise things you can easily look up? Who may attend? Anyone who is genuinely interested and prepared to work hard. There are no academic prerequisites. There are no exams, and no certificates are issued. Method. Accordingly, the course is built on learning how to use the Pali-English Dictionary published by the Pali Text Society. The course begins with learning Pali alphabetical order, and throughout the course each pupil is constantly using the Dictionary. Tables of the main grammatical forms are supplied and, again, students constantly consult them for themselves, until they become familiar. 　　Students and teachers sit round a table together throughout the course. 　　Students are urged to keep asking questions, and to work in cooperation. Organisation. On the first day students will introduce themselves, and then we shall survey the grammatical terms and principles you need to understand for the course. Though anyone who has already studied Latin, Greek or Sanskrit will probably be familiar with much of this material, experience suggests that nothing is lost by asking everyone to attend. 　　The rest of the course is extremely intensive. It is cumulative, so that to miss an early lesson is disastrous. The one rigid rule is that no one may miss a class in the first week. We shall work out the precise timetable when we meet; the general pattern will be that there will be classes each day from 9.30 to 5.30, with a long lunch break. There will be homework every evening. There will be no classes on Sunday 26th August – but there will be homework. 　　The course will end at mid-day on Thursday 30th; our tradition is that we then all take lunch together, usually in Aziz Indian restaurant. Besides the Pali language, the course will discuss the Pali canon and many questions concerning the Buddha’s teaching and our evidence for it. Practical Arrangements. The course will take place at the main (Headington) campus of Oxford Brookes University. Students who do not live locally will be housed in single rooms in Clive Booth Hall (formerly Morrell Hall), which is less than ten minutes easy walk from the main campus: http://www.brookes.ac.uk/studying/accommodation/halls/clivebooth. I am afraid that there is no parking available. 　　There are cooking facilities at Clive Booth Hall, at no extra charge. There are bar and cafeteria facilities, including breakfast, on the campus, except on Sundays, and we shall ourselves maintain a supply of tea and coffee in the lecture room. The charge for the bedroom is ￡25.00 per night but if we can book ten rooms the charge is reduced to ￡20.00 each. This money is payable in advance for the whole course. Better class accommodation is available, of course at a higher price -- I believe ￡35 per night. 　　My tuition and the course materials are provided free, but we have to pay for some teaching assistance, the lecture room and some admin expenses. We therefore have to charge each student ￡250.00. Since this sum takes no account of overheads, any further donation will be very welcome. Payment is in sterling. Cheques should be made out to the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies and sent to me by the end of July. However, since we lose so much if we accept payment in a foreign currency, those coming from overseas may pay me on arrival in the UK, provided they warn me of this in advance. Booking. Please apply to me, Richard Gombrich, at Richard.gombrich@balliol.ox.ac.uk. When applying, please supply full contact details, including telephone and postal address, and let me know your highest educational qualification. We shall also need to know whether you require accommodation. The closing date for applications is 30th July. However, since enrolment is restricted to 14, the course is usually fully booked long before the closing date. This year, in fact, I have already had a record number of enquiries. Related Link：http://www.ocbs.org/events-ocbsmain-129/33-academic-events/215-pali-summer-school-2012 Go Top

．	[Admission]2012 International Youth Seminar on Life and Ch'an posted date:2012-03-15 Time：Registration Deadline: May 25, 2012 / Seminar: July 19th ~ 25th, 2012 Location：Fo Guang Shan Monastery, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 2012 International Youth Seminar on Life and Ch'an Objectives Using the Three Acts of Goodness (Do good deeds; Speak good words; Think good thoughts) of Humanistic Buddhism as the guiding philosophy: (1) Provide a communication platform for outstanding and talented youths worldwide. (2) Encourage the development of an attitude of providing service, mutual assistance and benefit to others in modern day youth through discussion in various topics such as culture, education, environmental and spiritual preservation. (3) Promote social harmony, world peace, and new social values in the new century. (4) Offer an opportunity to learn and practice Ch’an (Meditation) inside a traditional Buddhist monastery, through which self-exploration, inner peace, spiritual awareness, and discovery of positive energies are achieved. Date: 1. Seminar: July 19th ~ 25th, 2012 (Compulsory) 2. Meditation Retreat: July 26th ~ August 1st, 2012 (Optional) Venue:* Fo Guang Shan Monastery, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Lectures: Participants will learn the Buddhist perspective on various topics such as: (1)EQ Management: Participants will learn how Buddhist teachings such as causes and conditions, compassion and sympathy can be used to control and manage their emotions. Through the application of Buddhist teachings, participants will be better equipped to release their emotions, resolve conflicts, and deal with the many vicissitudes of daily life. (2)Environmental and Spiritual Preservation: This topic will explore how Buddhist teachings can be used to maintain physical and mental wellbeing through the realization of the interconnectedness of all living beings and the environment we live in. Participants will not only learn how Buddhist teachings can be applied to maintain spiritual health, but also to environmental preservation. Global environmental protection issues will also be discussed from the Buddhist perspective. (3)Life and Death Studies: Participants will be introduced to the Buddhist perspectives on life and death as well as Buddhist beliefs and practices relating to living and dying. Target Audience: Youth worldwide, ages 18 to 35 Number of Participants: 500 Application: 1) Please apply online at the event website. For environmental purposes, no paper applications will be accepted. 2) Your letter of recommendation MUST also be submited online by your professor or affiliated FGS department. Registration Fee: 1. FREE (Food and accommodation, and seminar fees will be sponsored by the organizers throughout the duration of the seminar. Please arrange own airfare and transportation to FGS) 2. Those who opt to also attend week two’s meditation retreat are required to make a $US100 deposit upon registration, which will be fully refunded upon full and satisfactory attendance of the entire event. Registration Deadline: May 25, 2012 Contact: FGS Department of Int’l Affairs Email: ibda1371@gmail.com URL:http://www.fgs.org.tw/events/lifeedu Tel： +886-7-6561921 ext. 1377 Fax：+886-7-6563217 * Participation in Week One’s seminar is compulsory Applicants for the meditation retreat are expected to attend the entire two-week event, including the seminar. A $US100 deposit is required for those who wish to attend the meditation retreat, and will be fully refunded upon full and satisfactory attendance of the entire event. Due to limited space, applicants will be selected in order of application. Admission will be posted on the event website on June 15th, 2012 Related Link：**http://www.fgs.org.tw/events/lifeedu Go Top

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．	[Conference] Oslo Buddhist Studies Forum Spring program posted date:2013-04-16 Time：2013/4/23; 5/6 04:15 PM - 06:00 PM Location：PAM, seminarrom 14 You are cordially invited to attend the Spring term lectures in the Oslo Buddhist Studies Forum: Astrid Hovden (PhD fellow, IKOS) will give the talk "Paying the monk tax: Reflections on recruitment and monastic economy in Himalayan village monasteries" Time and place: Apr 23, 2013 04:15 PM - 06:00 PM, PAM, seminarrom 14 On May 6, 2013 04:15 PM - 06:00 PM, PAM seminarrom 6 Professor Dr. Birgit Kellner (Heidelberg University) is Cluster Professor "Buddhist Studies" and Deputy Speaker, Research Area D "Historicities and Heritage", Cluster "Asia and Europe" at Heidelberg University, gives the talk "The Lion's Roar and the Mango in the Thornbush – Perceptions and Constructions of Scholarly Debate in Buddhism" Go Top

．	[Conference] The Nan Tien Institute Public Seminars posted date:2013-04-16 Time：2013/4/26, 27 1:00pm – 2:00pm Location：Conference Room, Nan Tien Institute, Berkeley, NSW The Nan Tien Institute in Australia is pleased to present two free public seminars by Professor Lewis Lancaster. FIRST SEMINAR “Is Buddhism a religion, a philosophy, or a cognitive science?” What role does Buddhism play in a global world of technology? In what ways has Buddhism become even more relevant today? With over fifty years of scholarship in Buddhist Studies, Professor Lancaster will explore the very nature of Buddhism itself. This exposition will uncover the “essence” behind tenets, philosophies, and the nature of perception. This lecture promises to be a journey exploring what makes Buddhism a growing and relevant religion in the world. Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Friday, 26 April 2013 Venue: Conference Room, Nan Tien Institute, Berkeley, NSW SECOND SEMINAR “Seaport Buddhism: International Maritime Trade and Religious Expansion.” The Silk Road remains one of the most important processes by which Buddhism spread across Eurasia. There is now a growing awareness of the maritime contribution to the global network of trade and cultural diffusion. Professor Lewis Lancaster has made significant inroads in this field of study. By building a global team of researchers, utilizing new data collection technologies, and using advanced data mapping and visualization to integrate cutting-edge results about the movements and trails of bygone ships and sailors, Professor Lancaster will unveil the latest findings regarding mercantile activity and the spread of Buddhism. Time: 10:00am – 11:00am, Saturday, 27 April 2013 Venue: Conference Room, Nan Tien Institute, Berkeley, NSW BIOGRAPHY Professor Lewis Lancaster, a distinguished scholar of Buddhism, founded the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative to use the latest computer technology to map the spread of various strands of Buddhism from the distant past to the present. Professor Lancaster has published over 55 articles and reviews and has edited or authored numerous books including Prajnaparamita and Related Systems, The Korean Buddhist Canon, Buddhist Scriptures, Early Ch’an in China and Tibet, and Assimilation of Buddhism in Korea. He is Emeritus Professor of the Department of East Asian Languages at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and has served as President, Adjunct Professor and Chair of the dissertation committee at University of the West since 1992. He was also the Chair of Buddhist Studies at UC, Berkeley, USA and Editor of the Berkeley Buddhist Studies Series. Related Link：http://www.paradeofthebuddhas.org/?page_id=2445 Go Top

．	[Conference] The Language of Meditation across Religious Traditions posted date:2013-04-01 Time：2013/4/6 Location：Mangalam Research Center, 2018 Allston Way, in downtown Berkeley The Mangalam Research Center for Buddhist Languages, will be hosting a day-long conference on "The Language of Meditation across Religious Traditions" on Saturday, April 6, 2013. A follow-up panel discussion and workshop open to the public will be held the next day. All events will be held at Mangalam Research Center, 2018 Allston Way, in downtown Berkeley. Schedule for the Saturday Conference: 10:15-10:30 Welcoming Remarks by Jack Petranker, Director 10:30-11:30 Carl McColman (Author and independent scholar) The Christian Language of Meditation: An Evolving Discourse 11:30-12:30 Alan Godlas (University of Georgia) Meditation in Islam and Sufism: Waking Up Now to the Real 1:30-2:30 Barbara Holdrege (University of California, Santa Barbara) Beyond Yoga and Tantra: Meditation as a Devotional Practice in the Gau?īya Vai??ava Tradition 2:30-3:30 Eleanor Rosch (University of California, Berkeley) Birthright or Pottage: Mindfulness in Buddhism and in Western Mindfulness Therapies 4:00-5:00 Robert Buswell (University of California, Los Angeles) The Transformation of Doubt (?ij?ng 疑情) in Zen “Questioning Meditation” (Kanhwa S?n 看話禪) 5:00-6:00 Jack Petranker (Center for Creative Inquiry) When Meditation Sidesteps Ontology: Toward a Language of Transformation for our Time Participation in the conference is by invitation. Participation in the panel discussion and the experiential workshop that follows is open to the public. The panel, with all conference participants except Professor Holdrege, will take place Sunday, April 7 from 1:00-2:30 PM, followed by an experiential workshop led by Professors Buswell, Godlas, and McColman. Costs are $15 for the panel and $45 for both the panel and workshop. Related Link：http://www.mangalamresearch.org/programs/current-future-programs/246-2/ Go Top

．	[Conference] Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia", Goettingen/Germany posted date:2013-04-01 Time：2013/6/26-29 Location： "Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia" Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology Georg-Augus The research network "Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia" holds its mid-term conference from June 26-29 in Goettingen, Germany. Conference Outline In global comparison, Southeast Asia stands out as a region marked by a particularly diverse religious landscape. Various “ethnic religions” interact with so-called “world religions”, all of the latter – with the exception of Judaism – being represented in the region. While religion has oftentimes been viewed as an antithesis to modernity, scholarship has shown that religion shapes and is intertwined with modernization processes in crucial ways and that its role in contemporary Southeast Asian societies is intensifying. The mid-term conference “Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia” will explore this link between "religion" and "modernity" by focusing on three dimensions of religious dynamics, namely mediality, politics and mobility. In the spirit of Southeast Asian studies as a holistic, i.e. trans-disciplinary approach, we invite papers from fields as diverse as history, anthropology, sociology, political science, media studies, geography or linguistic studies that investigate the peculiar dynamics of religion in times of globalization, and the ways in which these dynamics mediate change and continuity in Southeast Asia. Conference Keynote Lecture: Robert Hefner, Boston University Panel 1: Spatial Dynamics of Religion between Modulation and Conversion Panel Keynote: Janet Hoskins, University of Southern California Panel 2: Secularization of Religion, Sacralization of Politics? The State of Religion in Southeast Asia Panel Keynote: Anthony Reid, ANU Panel 3: Materializing Religion: on Media, Mediation, Immediacy Panel Keynote: Justin McDaniel, University of Pennsylvania Related Link：http://www.dorisea.de/de/node/996 Go Top

．	[Conference] Initial meeting of Theravada Studies Group at AAS THERAVADA STUDIES GROUP posted date:2013-03-19 Time：2013/3/23, 1- 2:30 pm Location：The Manchester Grand Hyatt, Del Mar A/B room, San Diego Invitation to attend initial meeting of Theravada Studies Group at AAS THERAVADA STUDIES GROUP The Theravada Studies Group (TSG) announces a new academic forum dedicated to the study of Theravada Buddhist traditions. The group will promote comparative and scholarly exchanges among social scientists and humanists who work on aspects of Theravada Buddhism in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Southwest China and globally though pilgrimage and diaspora networks. The Theravada Studies Group will hold an initial planning meeting at the AAS in San Diego at the Manchester Grand Hyatt, Del Mar A/B room, 1- 2:30 pm, on Saturday, March 23, 2013. The TGS plans to meet annually in conjunction with the AAS to promote comparative work on the religious, cultural and historical aspects and encourage the submission of proposals for AAS panels. Please plan to attend and share this announcement with interested colleagues. You can also become a member of the the Theravada Studies Group online by subscribing to our website theravadaciv.org. Membership is free. To access this site, please register and establish a profile (click the red “Login or Register” button at the upper right to get started). You can also add information about publications, subscribe to RSS feeds and contribute to discussions. Related Link：theravadaciv.org Go Top

．	[Conference] The Second International Conference on the Chinese Buddhist Canon posted date:2013-03-19 Time：2013/3/18-20 Location：Room AD208, University of the West, 1409 Walnut Grove Ave. Rosemead, CA, 91770 ICBS(the Institute of Chinese Buddhist Studies) cordially invite you to attend The Second International Conference on the Chinese Buddhist Canon 第二屆漢文大藏經國際會議----The Chinese Buddhist Canon in the Age of Printing: An East Asian Perspective刻本時代的漢文大藏經與東亞佛教 at the University of the West from March 18-20, 2013. Please find the detail information and schedule of the conference as follows: The 2nd International Conference on the Chinese Buddhist Canon Theme: The Chinese Buddhist Canon in the Age of Printing: An East Asian Perspective 刻本時代的漢文大藏經與東亞佛教 The conference is open to public for free, but has limited seats available. Please contact Jacqueline via icbs@uwest.edu for pre-registration. Related Link： http://www.uwest.edu/icbs/news/news3_2nd_conference.html Go Top

．	[Conference] Princeton University Symposium: Enduring Dharma (RSVP required) posted date:2013-03-15 Time：2013/4/20, 10:00 am–6:00 pm Location：Princeton University, Betts Auditorium (Architecture N101) SYMPOSIUM AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Enduring Dharma: A Symposium on the Inscription of Buddhist Scriptures on Stone Chinese Buddhists began to prepare for the apocalypse in the sixth century by carving the Buddhist canon into stone. In the most massive projects, texts on stone slabs were set into the walls of caves and buried underground or in vaults. Other believers tried to preserve the Buddhist law (Dharma) by arranging sūtras and statues of Buddhas on natural cliff-faces to form multimedia ritual environments. Since 2005 a multidisciplinary team sponsored by the Heidelberg Academy has been researching Buddhist stone inscriptions in China. This public symposium presents this project to a general audience and reflects on the practice of inscribing sūtras on stone from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and in contexts outside of China. Participants: Lothar Ledderose, Heidelberg University John Strong, Bates College Robert E. Harrist, Jr., Columbia University D. Max Moerman, Barnard College Pre-registration: The symposium is free and open to the public, but pre-registration is required (by sending an e-mail to csrelig@princeton.edu) by 8 April 2013. Organized by the Princeton University Buddhist Studies Workshop and cosponsored by the Department of Religion, the Tang Center for East Asian Art, the Program in East Asian Studies, the Center for the Study of Religion, and the Silk Road Project. Go Top

．	[Conference] Woodenfish 2nd Summer Program--10-day Guanyin posted date:2013-02-22 Time：2013/8/5-16 Location：Putuoshan, China ANNOUNCEMENT: Woodenfish 2nd Summer Program: 10-day Guanyin (Avalokite?vara) Study Workshop at Mt. Putuo, China led by Professor Chün-fang Yu The Guanyin Workshop will begin with a seven day intensive study on the culture of Guanyin (Avalokite?vara), led by the eminent Buddhism Scholar, Professor Chün-fang Yu, followed by a three day tour of the islands of Putuo and Luoqie. The seven day intensive will include a monastic life practicum including daily meditation and chanting. The program is being hosted by Putuo Buddhist College. Eligibility: Faculty, graduate level and advanced undergraduate students Application Deadline: May 15, 2013 Cost: Tuition and room and board in China will be covered by a scholarship Schedule: August 5: Arrival (Putuoshan, China) August 6-12: Classes and discussions on Guanyin and Monastic Life Practicum August 13-15: Mt. Putuo temples tour August 16: Departure (Putuoshan, China) Fees: Accepted applicants must provide their own transportation to and from Zhujiajian, Mt. Putuo, Zhejiang Province, China and $80 (USD) for uniforms. There are no additional costs for the Workshop. Room and board, tuition, and local transportation costs will be covered by a scholarship for all selected participants. For further information, please email: woodenfish.putuo@gmail.com To download the application form, please visit our website: http://woodenfish.org/guanyin-workshop Related Link：http://woodenfish.org/guanyin-workshop Go Top

．	[Conference] The 4th Annual Ryukoku University International Symposim posted date:2013-02-22 Time：2013/2/22 10:00am - 4:00pm Location： East Asian Seminar Room (110C), Doheny Memorial Library, USC The USC Center for Japanese Religions and Culture will be hosting the 4th Annual Ryukoku University International Symposium on Shin Buddhism and Japanese Culture. Please join us! The 4th Annual Ryukoku University International Symposim: "Shin Buddhist Studies: Japan and the U.S." FRIDAY February 22, 2013 Hosted by the USC Center for Japanese Religions and Culture and Co-sponsored by Ryukoku University. **Please Note: Some presentations will be made only in Japanese. Go Top

．	[Conference] Live Symposium posted date:2013-02-22 Time：2013/2/15-16 Location：Xavier Hall, Fromm Hall Time: Friday from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Saturday from 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM Where: Friday at Xavier Hall, Fromm Hall and Saturday at Maier Room, Fromm Hall Live Streaming will be available on February 15 and February 16. The Himalayan Studies Program and Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco are hosting a symposium on the Tibetan reincarnation system. "The Tulku Institution in Tibetan Buddhism: Past, Present, and Future Prospects of the Reincarnation System". We invite you to join us to hear many esteemed scholars representing diverse academic disciplines, with Professors Jeffrey Hopkins and Donald Lopez as our two keynote speakers. The event is free and open to public. Make sure you have the Adobe Flash Player installed on your machine. If the video does not start or pauses, please hit the "Refresh" button on your browser. If you want to view this on your smartphones, you can download this Skyfire app. Please note, this app is not free. Related Link：http://www.usfca.edu/artsci/thrs/symposium/tulku/stream/ Go Top

．	[Conference] The Pali Tipitaka Conference and Exhibition posted date:2013-02-22 Time：2013/2/23 Location：The Science Park Convention Center, Pathumthani (Thailand) Topic: The Transmission of Dhamma: from the Buddha Time to the Present Day 8:00 Registration 8:30 Introduction to the Dhammachai Tipitaka Series (Pilot Edition) 9:30 The transmission of Dhamma through oral tradition The transmission of early Buddhist literature (Prof.Richard F Gombrich) 10:15 The transmission of Dhamma through palm-leaf manuscript tradition The palm-leaf Pali manuscript tradition in South and South-East Asia (Prof.Dr. Oskar von Hinüber) 11:00 Lunch 13:00 The transmission of Dhamma through printed editions of the Tipitaka The Pali tradition and modernity: some observations on printed editions of the Tipi?aka (Prof. Rupert Gethin) 13:45 The transmission of Dhamma in the digital age (Prof. Masahiro Shimoda) 14:30 Panel: The importance of the critical edition of Pali Tipitaka and the Dhamma transmission. 16:00 Closing Ceremony Group Photo End of the Conference Related Link：http://www.dhammachaitipitaka.org/dmctipitaka/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21&Itemid Go Top

．	[Conference] 5th International Dharmakīrti Conference: Heidelberg posted date:2013-02-18 Time：25-29 August 2014 Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce that the well-established tradition of International Dharmakīrti Conferences – Kyōto (1982), Vienna (1989), Hiroshima (1997) and, again, Vienna (2005) – will be continued with the Fifth International Dharmakīrti Conference in Heidelberg from 25-29 August, 2014. The conference is aimed to showcase current research on all aspects of Buddhist epistemology and logic in India, China or Tibet from a historical, philological and/or philosophical perspective. Papers may also address aspects of the relationship of Buddhist pramā?a to other currents of thought within Buddhism or in the respectively pertinent broader intellectual environment. The conference is scheduled for the week immediately after the IABS conference in Vienna (August 18-23), to facilitate participation in both conferences for scholars from overseas. To receive further circulars for the Dharmakīrti conference in the future, please subscribe to the conference mailing-list at this website: https://listserv.uni-heidelberg.de/cgi-bin/wa?A0=IDHC5HEIDELBERG (Click "subscribe" on the right-hand side.) Participants of the last conference who already received the first circular are already subscribed to the list. An online registration system for the conference will be made available by 31 July 2013. With best regards, Birgit Kellner -- -------- Prof. Dr. Birgit Kellner Chair in Buddhist Studies Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context - - the Dynamics of Transculturality" University of Heidelberg Karl Jaspers Centre Vossstraße 2, Building 4400 D-69115 Heidelberg Phone: +49(0)6221 - 54 4301 Fax: +49(0)6221 - 54 4012 http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/home.html Related Link：https://listserv.uni-heidelberg.de/cgi-bin/wa?A0=IDHC5HEIDELBERG Go Top

．	[Conference] Understanding Buddhism through its Classic Texts posted date:2013-02-08 Time：July 8-August 2, 2013 Location：Berkeley, CA This summer, Mangalam Research Center for Buddhist Languages will be hosting a four-week NEH Summer Seminar, “Understanding Buddhism through its Classic Texts.” The program will be held from July 8-August 2, 2013 in Berkeley, CA. It will be led by Drs. Luis Gómez (emeritus, University of Michigan) and Parimal Patil (Harvard). The deadline for applications is March 4, 2013. Successful applicants will receive a $3,300 stipend through the NEH to defray the costs of attending the program (travel, housing, etc.) No tuition is charged for the program itself. Since the program requires no knowledge of the canonical languages, it should have broad appeal across a variety of disciplines, including religious studies, Asian studies, art history, area studies, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. However, Drs. Gómez and Patil will arrange special sessions for any participants who do know one or more canonical languages. The program is open to faculty teaching at the undergraduate level, and two positions are reserved for graduate students who plan an academic career. More details can be found at http://www.mangalamresearch.org/programs/neh-summer-seminar-2013/. For questions, please contact Samra Girma, samrag@mangalamresearch.org. We would appreciate your calling the program to the attention of colleagues who use or might wish to use Buddhist texts in their courses. Hard copies of fliers announcing the program can be mailed on request. Go Top

．	[Conference] Tradition and Modernity: Thinking Asia across Frontiers posted date:2013-02-08 Time：22-23 January 2013 Location：Saitama University "Tradition and Modernity: Thinking Asia across Frontiers" (22-23 January 2013) Part One: Workshop 22 January, 14:30-16:00 (Panel 1) "Japan's Encounter with Foreign Culture" 1. Ito, Hiroaki (Saitama University): "Two lions from Rome to Japan: The introduction of Western culture into Japan by Jesuits" 2. Inoue, Tomokatsu (Saitama University): "The bonreki movement – The defense of Buddhist astronomical image against Western astronomy in early modern Japan" 3. Steffen Doell (Muenchen University): "Chinese emigrant monks in medieval Japan: Thoughts on an alternative historiography of Zen Buddhism" 4. Nakamura, Daisuke (Saitama University): "The temples of Kudara (Baekje) and the Asuka-dera" 22 January, 16:20-17:50 (Panel 2) "Japanese Culture and East Asian Society" 1. Gereon Kopf (Luther College): "Kinship or Hegemony: An exploration of the political model implied by the sangoku motif and the concept of the 'one-and-yet-many'" 2. Ven. Chonduk (Central Sangha University): “Shikoku O-Henro and East Asian Pilgrimage Tradition” 3. Kwon, Soonchul (Saitama University): "Zange (repentance) in Eastern Philosophy: Messages from Japan" 4. Heo, Namkyol (Dongguk University): "Confucian Ethical Tradition and its effect on Modern East Asian Society" Part Two: Symposium 23 January, 10:00-11:30 (Panel 3) "The Role of Buddhism in International Affairs" 1. Opening remarks (Saitama University, Dongguk University, Governor Saitama Prefecture) 2. Damien Keown (Goldsmiths College, University of London): "Buddhism, Belligerence and Barack Obama" 3. Michael Zimmermann (Hamburg University): "Buddhism across Frontiers: Challenges on the Way to Modernity" 4. Ian Harris (Preah Sihanouk Raja University): "Buddhism, politics, and civilization: Are we comparing like with like?" 23 January, 13:00-14:30 (Panel 4) "Conflict and Reconciliation from Buddhist Perspectives" 1. Takahashi, Katsuya (Saitama University): "How to use Buddhism as militaristic philosophy? An analysis of the "Mayahana"-propaganda in modern Japan" 2. Achim Bayer (Dongguk University): "Conceptual Presuppositions for the Doctrine of 'Buddhism as a National Protector': On the Role of Critical thought in East-Asian Tantrism" 3. Hwang, Soonil (Dongguk University): "Saving animals and winning a war: Buddhist way of dealing with conflicts" 4. Asanga Tilakaratne (University of Colombo, Sri Lanka): "Buddhist foundations for meaningful co-existence among individuals, societies and nations" Remarks: (a) Panels 3 and 4 on the 23rd are open to the non-academic public. (b) There is simultaneous translation on the 23rd, but not on the 22nd. Venue: Royal Pines Hotel Urawa Please contact me (bayer_achim@yahoo.com) or the international office at Saitama University (kokusai@gr.saitama-u.ac.jp, 048-858-3908) in case of any questions. Related Link：http://www.saitama-u.ac.jp/event/2013-0111-1731-1.html Go Top

．	[Conference] The Pure Land in Buddhist Cultures: History, Image, Praxis, Thought posted date:2013-02-08 Time：May 31 – Jun 2, 2013 Location：University of British Columbia We are pleased to announce an extended paper submission deadline of FEBRUARY 15, 2013 for the upcoming conference, “The Pure Land in Buddhist Cultures: History, Image, Praxis, Thought” (May 31 – Jun 2, 2013, University of British Columbia). Individual paper and panel proposals on any aspect of pure land thought, from any region of the world or Buddhist tradition, are welcome. In addition, we are delighted to offer several travel grants for graduate students and young scholars, announce our keynote speakers, and further schedule details. Travel Grants for Graduate Students and Young Scholars Several travel packages are available for current graduate students and young scholars (under 40 years of age) without fulltime positions. These packages offer $300-$1,500 (CAN) in travel costs, depending on the distance traveled and include free accommodation for 3 nights. Eligibility: (1) paper accepted for publication at the conference; (2) enrolled in a graduate program or pursuing research without a fulltime position. Interested individuals whose papers are accepted may apply for a travel grant by March 15, 2013. Decisions will be made by March 31. There are two sources of funding for the grants, and if you are selected as recipient of one of the two funds, that of the International Association of Shin Buddhist Studies (IASBS), you will be asked to register as member of IASBS by April 15, 2013. (Student membership fee is waived for all first year, and from the second year, the fees are US$20 outside Japan or 2,000 yen in Japan.) Special thanks for the generous donation of travel funds for IASBS members by Rev. and Mrs. Shodo Baba of Chiba, Japan. And, special thanks to The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation, for travel funds for presenters from other scholarly associations. Keynote Speakers Profs. Georgios Halkias (Visiting Associate Researcher, Oxford University), a specialist of Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhism, and Masahiro Shimoda (Professor, Tokyo University), a specialist of Indian and Mahayana Buddhism, will deliver the keynote addresses. Schedule Registration will open in the mid-afternoon of Friday, May 31, and the first panels and keynote, in the late afternoon and evening. The conference will close in the afternoon of Sunday, June 2, and dinner provided for those able to join. All lunches and dinners are included in the registration fee. Please find the full Call For Papers appended below. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jessica Main Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation Chair \| Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program \| The University of British Columbia \| Vancouver Campus CK Choi Building, 1855 West Mall \| Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z2 Phone 604 822 9305 \| Fax 604 822 5207 jessica.main@ubc.ca \| ubcbuddhism.wordpress.com The Pure Land in Buddhist Cultures: History, Image, Praxis, Thought* University of British Columbia \| Friday, May 31 to Sunday, June 2, 2013 Abstracts due: extended deadline February 15, 2013 Papers due: May 23, 2013 Conference website: http://pureland2013.wordpress.com Pure Land Buddhist traditions have been some of the largest and most influential in Buddhist history, and remain so to the present day. Moreover, the very idea of a purified, perfect land of a buddha echoes throughout Buddhist text and praxis. Most often, this buddha is“Immeasurable Light” or “Immeasurable Life,” who created a pure land far to the west of our own world. But there are many others. This conference aims to examine sectarian traditions of Pure Land Buddhism as well as the “pure land” within Buddhism generally. As this conference is jointly-sponsored by associations connected to Pure Land Buddhist traditions in two countries, it is a unique chance to approach pure land expansively, in terms of its long history, global reach, and diverse regional and trans-regional expressions–whether in or across what are today known as China, Korea, Vietnam, Japan, Canada, and so on. The hope is to increase knowledge and scholarly exchange about the multifaceted development of pure land in Buddhist cultures. Papers are welcome on any aspect of pure land, type of Pure Land Buddhism, any region or historical period, and from any methodological or disciplinary perspective. Papers might address questions such as: - How did the praxis, thought, and social forms concerned with the pure land and its central buddha emerge historically? - How do we best describe and analyze pure land forms in visual culture, whether embedded in text, in art and architecture, or in spatial and meditative imaginaries? - And, in an increasingly globalized world, how do we understand the connections between various kinds of Pure Land all over the world and the challenges that each faces? Please submit a 100 word abstract and short bio to email us at bcsprogram@gmail.com by February 15, 2013 for consideration. For panels, The jointly-sponsored “The Pure Land in Buddhist Cultures” will be the 3rd Annual Conference of the Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program (University of British Columbia, funded by The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation), and the 16th Biennial Conference of the International Association of Shin Buddhist Studies (hosted by the IASBS North American District). --------------------------- H-Buddhism (Buddhist Scholars Information Network) Web Site: Posting Guidelines: h-net.org/~buddhism/posting_guidelines.html> Handling Your Account: = Go Top

．	[Conference] International Conference and exhibition on the Atisha and Cultural Renaissance posted date:2013-01-10 Time：2013/1/16-18 Location：11 Man Singh Road, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi-110011. An international Conference and exhibition on the 声tisha and Cultural Renaissance is being organised by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi during 16th to 18th January, 2013. The Conference aims at investigating into Atisha's life, vision, mission, activities, works, essence of his teachings, religio- cultural contributions, legacy, relevance of his precepts in modern time. This Conference also plans to undertake discussions on Tibetan treaties and other primary and secondary accounts on Atisha. Research papers will be presented from academia from Australia, Bangladesh, China, England, Germany, Indonesia, India, Japan, Mongolia, Nepal, Taiwan, Thailand and USA on the following themes: Life of Atisha Atisha's voyage to Sumatra/ Suvarnadvipa Challenges, vision and mission of Atisha Atisha's vision on Wisdom and Compassion Contemporaries of Atisha in India and Tibet Atisha as seen through visual arts Relevance of the teachings of Atisha in present day life. Related Link：http://ignca.nic.in/atisa_2013.htm Go Top

．	[Conference] 2013 AABCAP Annual Conference posted date:2013-01-09 Time：2013/8/24-25 Location：Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre The Australian Association of Buddhist Counsellors and Psychotherapists invites you to join us in Brisbane, Queensland for the 7th Annual AABCAP Conference. In 2013 we have a dynamic mix of internationally and nationally acclaimed speakers who will share their wisdom and insights in Keynote Addresses, Interactive Workshops, Panel Discussions and Q&A. Speaker: Venerable Robina Courtin Dr Stephanie Dowrick Dr Eng Kong Tan Renate Ogilvie Related Link：http://www.buddhismandpsychotherapy.org/events/annual-conference Go Top

．	[Conference] C-BEAR and Donghwasa International Conference posted date:2013-01-09 Time：2013/5/29-31 Location：Donghwasa Temple, South Korea "The Cult of the Healing Buddha in East Asia" Speaker: Juhyung Rhi, Seoul National University, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study The cult of the Healing Buddha (Skt. Bhai?ajyaguru, Ch. Yaoshi, K. Yaksa, J. Yakushi) constituted one of the major cults in East Asia. And yet, with the exception of Raoul Birnbaum’s seminal work (The Healing Buddha, first published in 1979), it has been until now largely neglected in Western scholarship. The present conference is intended as a first step toward redressing this neglect. The functional relation between Bhai?ajyaguru and healing opens up a large area of research on the relationships between Buddhism, medicine, and healing cults. In spite of seminal work done by Paul Demiéville (Buddhism and Healing) and Michel Strickmann (Chinese Magical Medicine), there has been very little research addressing these relationships. More specifically, the extent to which Bhai?ajyaguru’s cult contributed to promoting Buddhist priests as healers remains unexplored territory. The cult of Bhai?ajyaguru is not limited to disease and healing, however. A listings of its other aspects would include: Socio-political and cultural aspects in comparative perspective. Attention should also be paid to the mediating role played by this figure in the interface between the monastic tradition and folk beliefs in various Asian cultures. Donghwasa, a Son (Zen) monastery that is also one of the major cultic centers of Bhai?ajyaguru in Asia, is a particularly interesting case in this respect. Bhai?ajyaguru’s lapis-lazuli paradise and its relation to Amitābha’s Pure Land; repentance rituals and other ritualistic aspects of his cult; his relation to death, the dead, and the underworld; his role as a ruler of human destiny, which links him to the Twin-devas (J. kushōjin 倶生神) and rituals designed to recall the soul. The esoteric Bhai?ajyaguru as a cosmic deity, at the center of the spatio-temporal framework formed by the bodhisattvas Sūryaprabha and Candraprabha and the twelve spirit-commanders (who are linked to the twelve zodiacal signs). In his capacity as an astral deity, Bhai?ajyaguru is also associated with the cult of the seven Bhai?ajyaguru and the pairing of this septet with the seven stars of Ursa Major (i.e., the Big, or Northern, Dipper). In Japan, for example, this cult provided a bridge between esoteric Buddhism and the so-called Way of Yin and Yang (Onmyōdō). While this buddha has been relatively well studied by art historians, the tendency has been to treat him as an independent figure, separated from his ritual and iconographic contexts. Furthermore, his relationship to other figures (especially the twelve spirit-commanders, who are emanations of Bhai?ajyaguru) has been ignored. To give one example, in Japan the pestilence god Gozu Tennō 牛頭天王 is often considered a manifestation of Bhai?ajyaguru. Did similar relationships exist in China and Korea as well? Certain aspects of Bhai?ajyaguru’s cult have received more emphasis than others. A conference focused on this figure would ideally include those with expertise on Bhai?ajyaguru in South, Southeast, and Central Asian Buddhist cultures, not just East Asian Buddhism, so that a larger, cross-cultural picture may be painted. We may not achieve that goal on this first attempt. We can only hope that this conference, which aims to bring scholars from various countries and disciplines together at the Korean abode of Bhai?ajyaguru, will provide an impetus for further studies. If you have any questions regarding the conference, please contact our coordinator, Sujung Kim, at sujung.kim1979@gmail.com. Related Link：http://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/c-bear/ Go Top

．	[Conference] History as a Challenge to Buddhism and Christianity posted date:2013-01-09 Time：2013/6/27-7/1 Location： the Retreat Centre Oude Abdij, near Ghent. History as a Challenge to Buddhism and Christianity A joint conference between the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the European Network of Buddhist Christian Studies and the Tenth Conference of the European Network of Buddhist Christian Studies in cooperation with the KU Leuven. Thursday, 27. June Night Perry Schmidt-Leukel (University of Münster, Germany) Contemporary Historical Consciousness and the Challenge to Religion Friday, 28. June Morning Mark Blum (University of Albany, USA) The Traditional Buddhist Concept of History: Liberation History Jan-Olav Henriksen (Norwegen School of Theology, Oslo/Norway) The Traditional Christian Concept of History: Salvation History Afternoon Terrence Merrigan (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium) Jesus Christ: Fact and Fiction. John S. Strong (Bates College, USA) Gautama Buddha: Fact and Fiction Night Open research papers Saturday, 29. June Morning Open research papers Afternoon and Night Cultural tour of Ghent Sunday, 30. June Morning Sven Bretfeld (University of Bochum, Germany) Buddhist Historiography Giovanni Filoramo (University of Turin, Italy) Christian Historiography Afternoon Catharina Stenqvist (University of Lund, Sweden) Dangerous Memory: Christianity Ian Harris (University of Cumbria, UK) Dangerous Memory: Buddhism Monday, 1st July Morning Rita Gross (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, USA) Permitting Historical Consciousness in Buddhism Armin Kreiner (University of Munich, Germany) Permitting Historical Consciousness in Christianity Related Link：http://www.buddhist-christian-studies.net/?page_id=220 Go Top

．	[Conference] Buddhist Geeks Conference 2013 posted date:2013-01-09 Time：2013/8/16-18 Location：University Memorial Center (UMC) Lobby, University of Colorado DAY 1: FRIDAY, AUGUST 16TH / UMC 4:00 – 6:30pm Event Registration University Memorial Center (UMC) Lobby, University of Colorado 7:00 – 7:15pm Welcome to Buddhist Geeks Conference 2013 7:15 – 8:30pm Opening Keynote DAY 2: SATURDAY, AUGUST 17TH / UMC 8:00 – 9:00am #OpenPractice 9:30 – 11am Buddhist Geeks Live: Session One 11:30 – 12:30pm Buddhist Geeks Live: Session Two 2:15 – 4:00pm Buddhist Geeks Unplugged: Session One Facilitated by YOU! 4:30 – 5:30pm BG Roundtable 7:30 – 8:30pm BG User Submissions DAY 3: SUNDAY, AUGUST 18TH / UMC 8:00 – 9:00am #OpenPractice 9:30 – 10:30am Buddhist Geeks Live: Session Three 11:00 – 12:00pm BG Roundtable 1:45 – 3:00pm Buddhist Geeks Unplugged: Session Two Facilitated by YOU! 3:15 – 4:15pm Closing Keynote 4:15 – 5:00pm Buddhist Geeks 2012 Conference Closing Please provide your email address if you would like us to keep you updated on conference specials and offerings. Related Link：*http://conference.buddhistgeeks.com/schedule/ Go Top

．	[Conference] The 13th Sakyadhita International Conference on Buddhist Women posted date:2013-01-03 Time：2013/1/5-12 Location：Vaishali (Bihar) India The 13th Sakyadhita International Conference on Buddhist Women will be held in Vaishali (Bihar) India, January 5-12, 2013. Related Link：http://www.sakyadhita.org/ Go Top

．	[Conference] Buddhism and Australia 2013 posted date:2013-01-03 Time：2013/1/23-24 Location：St Georges College, University of Western Australia( Mounts Bay Road, Crawley WA 6009) IC Buddhism & Australia is pleased to announce that the 2nd international conference "Buddhism & Australia" will be held on 23 – 24 January 2013 in St Georges College, University of Western Australia. The conference acknowledges Buddhism in Australasian region and serves as a Buddhist-academical gathering for peace, wisdom and compassion in the interest of Australia and all human beings. The conference is open on January 23 to all people with an interest and passion in Buddhist culture to enjoy the full day of interest and education. The conference provides a fantastic opportunity for you to ask questions and learn from experts! Speakers include Ashin Ketu, State Pariyatti Sasana University Myanmar; Eigen Onishi, Kiyomizudera Temple Japan; Dr. Patricia Sherwood, Edith Cowan University; Joshua Esler, University of Western Australia, Ross Bolleter, Head of WA Zen Group; Ven. K.Dhammasiri, Bhikshu University of Sri Lanka; Ven. Praben K. Barua, Asokaramaya Temple Sri Lanka and others. The new project, an online Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedia will be introduced by Ven. Väärtnõu, the Head of Estonian Nyingma. Venue: St Georges College, University of Western Australia Address: Mounts Bay Road, Crawley WA 6009 Bus stop: Mounts Bay Road After Crawley Av Timeline: 09.30am – Check in 10.00am – An opening of the conference 10.30am – 12.00pm Presentations 12.00pm – 01.00pm Lunch 01.00pm – 02.30pm Presentations 02.30pm – 03.00pm Coffee break 03.00pm – 04.00pm Presentations 06.00pm - Dinner for conference speakers, the venue will be announced later Related Link：http://www.buddhismandaustralia.com/ Go Top

．	[Conference] Buddhism and Samkhya: Bhaviveka's 6th Century Madhyamaka Critique of Samkhya Philosophy posted date:2012-12-17 Time：2013/3/7,Tuesday, 5 pm Location：Olle Qvarnstrom, Lund University, Sweden Conference Room, Institute of East Asian Studies, 2223 Fult Thursday, March 7, 2013, 5 pm Buddhism and Samkhya: Bhaviveka's 6th Century Madhyamaka Critique of Samkhya Philosophy Olle Qvarnstrom, Lund University, Sweden Conference Room, Institute of East Asian Studies, 2223 Fulton, 6th floor Related Link：http://buddhiststudies.berkeley.edu/events/ Go Top

．	[Conference] 2013 TELDAP International Conference Call for Poster, Best Poster Award Contest posted date:2012-12-17 Time：2013/3/14-16 (Thursday-Saturday) Location：Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan The 2013 TELDAP International Conference will be scheduled on March 14-16, 2013 at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. We are now calling for posters for the 2013 TELDAP International Conference, this time, the panel of judges will select the best poster(s) from presented posters and the winner(s) will be awarded at the award ceremony. We encourage you to present and demonstrate your innovative work at the 2013 TELDAP International Conference Poster Session. For those who would like to contribute to the poster session, please submit an abstract of 400-500 words in English via the On-line Submission System by January 18, 2013. Recommended topics include, but limited to: (1) Technology and Scaling, (2) Disciplinary Impact / New Model Scholarship, (3) Business Model and Sustainability, (4) International Collaboration, and (5) e-Learning. A 5-minute Poster Presentation will be arranged on a specific time scheduled by the Conference Secretariat. The best poster, selected by a panel of judges, will be awarded at the Conference. Detailed Poster Guideline and evaluation criteria are available at http://collab.teldap.tw/teldap2013/cfposters.html. Should you have any questions, please contact Conference Secretariat Ms. Mandy Lin (Email: linyj@twgrid.org; Tel: +886-2-2789-8311). Go Top

．	[Conference] Buddhist Meditation from Ancient India to Contemporary Asia posted date:2012-11-27 Time：2012/11/29-30 Location：Dukam Seminar Hall, Dongguk University, Seoul. An International Conference on Buddhist Studies to commemorate 100 years of Master Seongcheol. Programme: 29th November Opening Ceremony: Prof. HWANG Soonil(Moderator) 09:00 Welcoming speech, Congratulatory address, Short introduction to the conference (HWANG Soonil, Dongguk University) Keynote Speech: Prof. Cho Sungtaek (Moderator) 10:20 Peter Skilling (EFEO) Buddhist Meditation: Who holds the monopoly? 11:00 Robert Buswell (UCLA) Kanhwa S?n 看話禪 (Questioning Meditation) and East Asian Buddhism: The Origins and Practice of a Distinctively East Asian Technique of Meditation Part One: Ancient India: Prof. Woo Jesun (Moderator) 13:00 Johannes Bronkhorst (Lausanne University) Early Buddhist Meditation 13:40 Alexander Wynne (DKF) Brahmanism and Buddhist Meditation. 14:20 Ven. Jongduk (Central Sangha University) Buddhist Meditation seen in the Divyāvadāna Part Two: Southeast Asia: Prof. Hea Namgyul (Moderator) 15:20 Kate Crosby (SOAS, University of London) Re-examining the Static Model of Theravada in the Light of borān kamma??hāna (yogāvacara/dhammakāya) Meditation Practices 16:00 Arthid Sheravanichkul (Chulalongkorn University) An Insane King or a Great Bodhisattva: Significance of Meditation Practice in the Narratives of King Taksin 30th November Part Three: East and Central Asia: Prof. Kim Seongchul (Moderator) 10:00 Gereon Kopf (Luther College) What to do with the Ox: An Exegesis of the Ox-herding Pictures. 10:40 Ven. Heawon (Dongguk University) Chan Meditation in China in reference to Korean Buddhism 11:20 Achim Bayer (Dongguk University) /Je pense, donc je ne suis pas/: Aspects of Sudden Awakening in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition Part Four: Korea: Prof. Ven. Misan (Moderator) 13:20 Charles Muller (University of Tokyo) Seon Views on Views (/d???i/): Are We Ever Rid of Them? 14:00 Yun Woncheol (Seoul National University) Buddhist Meditation in Korea 14:40 M.W. Seo (Sogang University) Ven. Seongcheol’s meditation (provisional) 15:40 Review and Discussion Moderator: Suchitra Chongstitvatana and Hwang Soonil Related Link： http://www.h-net.org/~buddhism Go Top

．	[Conference] Close Voices from Far Away: Japanese Buddhism and Continental Philosophy posted date:2012-11-27 Time：2012/11/30 16:00-18:00 Location：Harvard University, Center for the Study of World Religions, 42 Francis Avenue Cambridge, MA A symposium cosponsored by the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, and the Center for Humanities, Science and Religion, Ryukoku University. Presentations: "Naturalness in Zen and Shin Buddhism" Bret W. Davis, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University Maryland "Levinas in the Light of Shinran" Charles S. Hallisey, Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures, Harvard Divinity School "Freedom in Shinran and Heidegger" Dennis Hirota, Professor of Shin Buddhist Studies, Ryukoku University and visiting scholar at CSWR Open to the Public. All are welcome. Related Link： http://www.h-net.org/~buddhism Go Top

．	[Conference] Tibetan reincarnation system posted date:2012-11-27 Time：2013/2/15-16 Location：University of San Francisco The Himalayan Studies Program and Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco are hosting a symposium on the Tibetan reincarnation system. "The Tulku Institution in Tibetan Buddhism: Past, Present, and Future Prospects of the Reincarnation System" We invite you to join us to hear many esteemed scholars representing diverse academic disciplines, with Professors Jeffrey Hopkins and Donald Lopez as our two keynote speakers. The event is free and open to public. All travel and accommodation arrangements are the responsibility of symposium attendees. If you have questions about the symposium, please contact the organizers, Tsering Wangchuk at twangchuk@usfca.edu or Derek Maher at maherd@ecu.edu. Phone inquiries should call 415-422-6601. Go Top

．	[Conference] The Tenth Karmapa and Tibet's Turbulent 17th Century posted date:2012-11-21 Time：2012/11/9-11 Location：the Rubin Museum of Art "The Tenth Karmapa and Tibet's Turbulent 17th Century" conference and "Institutional landscapes and Intellectual Codifications in Tibet's long 17th Century" workshop (co-organized with Columbia U.), both held at the Rubin Museum of Art (Friday 9 - Sunday 11 November 2012) are going ahead as planned despite the recent hurricane. An updated conference schedule and registration information can be found at: www.rmanyc.org/karmapa In conjunction a workshop "Institutional landscapes and intellectual codifications in the long 17th century" co-organized with Columbia University on Sunday Nov 11 (also held at RMA) will take up some of the topics raised during this fascinating period of Tibetan history. Related Link：http://cuworkshopnov112012.weebly.com/ Go Top

．	[Conference] UCLA: Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Pers posted date:2012-10-22 Time：2012/11/08, 09 Thu.&Fri. Location：UCLA History Conference Room 6275 Bunche Hall A two-day program at UCLA and UC Irvine, showcasing the cutting-edge of international research on Afghanistan’s archaeology and history. Showcasing the cutting-edge of international research on Afghanistan’s archaeology and history, Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas is jointly organized by Nile Green, chair of the UCLA Program on Central Asia, and Touraj Daryaee, Director of the UCI Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture, with support from the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies, the UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies, the Center for Near Eastern Studies, the Center for the Study of Religion, and the Musa Sabi Term Chair in Iranian Studies (2004-2009). Thursday, November 08, 2012 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Friday, November 09, 2012 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Related Link：http://www.international.ucla.edu/buddhist/events/showevent.asp?eventid=9547 Go Top

．	[Conference] The Image of Women in Buddhist History posted date:2012-08-23 Time：2012/11/09~2012/11/10 Location：University of the West ICBS Fall 2012 Young Scholar Seminar The Institute of Chinese Buddhist Studies (ICBS) is glad to invite the submission of individual papers for ICBS Fall 2012 Young Scholar Seminar. The seminar is to provide a platform for graduate students and young scholars in North America to elevate their academic excellence and communication. Papers may include the areas of history, literature, art, philosophy of Buddhist women studies, lay Buddhism, monastic Buddhism, comparative studies on Buddhism and other religions, etc. Schedule: November 9th, 2012: Seminar at University of the West November 10th, 2012: Post-seminar one-day Buddhist Temple tour (optional) Requirements: This seminar opens to applicants who are Ph.D. candidates, or young scholars who received Ph.D. degree after 2010. Selected candidates need to make a 20-min oral presentation, followed by a 10-min discussion during the seminar. 5,000-8,000 words full-paper will be due no later than October 10, 2012. Sponsorship: ICBS will provide two nights’ accommodations on campus including lunch and dinner. Each selected applicant will receive up to $500 air/train/bus transportation reimbursement, depending on individual conditions. Related Link：http://www.uwest.edu/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=473:call-for-papers-for-the-i Go Top

．	[Conference] Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas posted date:2012-08-23 Time：2012/11/08~2012/11/09 (Thu.~Fri.) 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Location：UCLA History Conference Room 6275 Bunche Hall Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Ancient and Late Antique Persianate World a two-day program at UCLA and UC Irvine, showcasing the cutting-edge of international research on Afghanistan’s archaeology and history. The destruction of the giant Buddha statues at Bamiyan in March 2001 briefly brought the world’s attention to the rich pre-Islamic heritage of Afghanistan. Appalling as it was, the tragedy at Bamiyan has overshadowed the larger stories that surround the Buddhas, both in terms of the longer history of archaeological excavation in Afghanistan and the plurality of ancient cultures that flourished in the region. Bringing together archaeologists and historians, these two half-day conferences at UCLA and UC Irvine explore two related issues. First, what archaeological, art historical and philological research can tell us about the evolution and interaction of societies and religious groups in the ancient and late antique Persianate world. And secondly, what roles have domestic and international politics had to play in the sponsorship or reception of historical and archaeological research on pre-Islamic Afghanistan. By addressing these questions, the conferences aim to understand the larger issues that surrounded both the creation and the destruction of the great Buddhas of Bamiyan. Related Link：http://www.international.ucla.edu/buddhist/events/showevent.asp?eventid=9547 Go Top

．	[Conference] Domestic Dharma---Beyond Texts, Beyond Monasteries posted date:2012-08-23 Time：2012/9/22, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Location：Jodo Shinshu Center, 2140 Durant Avenue Berkeley, CA The 2012 IBS Numata Symposium will focus on the practice of Buddhism in the household—the Dharma in its domestic setting. Keynote addresses will be given by Paula Arai and Lisa Grumbach. Other speakers will include Daijaku Judith Kinst and Scott Mitchell. Dr. Arai will speak on the topic of “Cleaning Cloths, Poetry, and Personal Buddhas: Laywomen’s Healing Practices in Contemporary Japan.” In addition, this domestic Dharma often sees a loved one transformed into a Personal Buddha upon death, bestowing wise counsel and compassionate support. Paula Arai, the author of Women Living Zen: Japanese Buddhist Nuns and Bringing Zen Home: The Healing Heart of Japanese Buddhist Women’s Rituals, has performed ground-breaking research on monastic and lay Japanese Buddhist women. She is currently an associate professor of Buddhist Studies at Louisiana State University and vice-president of Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women. Dr. Grumbach’s presentation will be entitled, “Nuns at Home, Nuns as Home builders: Rethinking Ordination and Family in Medieval Japan.” She will explore the roles of ordained women within the social and familial structures of medieval Japan. Focusing on the reasons women became nuns, their age at ordination, and the work they performed as nuns, she will argue that women used ordination as a way to build and maintain homes rather than as a way to “leave home.” Lisa Grumbach teaches at the Institute of Buddhist Studies, Berkeley, California, and at Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan. Her research focuses on interactions between Buddhism and Shinto in medieval Japan, the development of Shinto-Buddhist ritual, and the role of food in East Asian religions. The public is free to attend. Registration information is forthcoming. Related Link：http://www.shin-ibs.edu/news-events/?p=580 Go Top

．	[Conference] Conference Schedule: Icons of Impermanence posted date:2012-06-26 Time：2012/7/6-7/7 Location：The University of British Columbia Conference Schedule: Icons of Impermanence “Icons of Impermanence: Contemporary Buddhist Art” The University of British Columbia, July 6-7, 2012, funded by The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation, in conjunction with the Visions of Enlightenment: Buddhist Art at MOA exhibition. Friday, July 6, 2012 1:30pm – 2:30pm Registration, C.K. Choi Building 2:30pm – 3:45pm Panel 1: Reframing Art in Contemporary South Asian and Himalayan Context Chair: Katherine Hacker (University of British Columbia) Catherine Becker (University of Illinois at Chicago) “Bulletproof Stupa: Framing the Buddhist Heritage of Andhra Pradesh” Latika Gupta (Jawaharlal Nehru University) “On Sacred Ground: Constructing an Ancient Ritual for ‘Tibetan’ Buddhism in Spiti” 3:45pm – 4:00pm Break 4:00pm – 5:15pm Panel 1: Reframing Art Continued M. Ponnu Durai (Jawaharlal Nehru University) “Mis-appropriation of a Buddha Image as a Popular Local Deity: Salem Thalaivetti Muniyappan and its Existing Religious Practices–A Visual Study” Ben Wood (University of Toronto) “‘World-System’ Images in Contemporary Tibetan Monastery Murals” 5:30pm – 7:00pm Reception Buffet, Museum of Anthropology 7:30pm – 9:00pm Keynote Address, Michael Ames Theatre, Museum of Anthropology Cynthea Bogel (Kyushu University) “New Roads to Nirvana: Visual Buddhism, Modern Eyes” - Click here for more information Saturday, July 7, 2012 8:30am – 9:00am C.K. Choi Building opens 9:00am – 10:15am Panel 2: Contemporary Artists and their Buddhist Inspirations Chair: [TBA] Sabine Grosser (University of Paderborn) “Changing Perspectives: Politics, Identity and Buddhism in Contemporary Sri Lankan Art” Anne Vincent-Durand (Institut d’Arts, Lettres et Histoire, U.C.O., Angers, France) “The Emergence of the Visible in the Works of Chen Zhen” 10:15am – 10:30am Break 10:30am – 11:45pm Panel 3: New Interactions with Japan Buddhist Images and Ideas Chair: Cynthea Bogel (Kyushu University) Sherry Fowler (University of Kansas) “Modern Pilgrimages to Premodern Kannon Temples in Japan” Patricia J. Graham (University of Kansas) “Buddhist-Inspired Artists from Contemporary Japan: Intersections of Tradition, Imagination, and Social Activism” 12:00pm – 1:30pm Lunch 1:30pm – 2:45pm Panel 4: Western Appearances Chair: Jessica Main (University of British Columbia) Gregory Levine (University of California at Berkeley) “Legend of the Colfax Buddha Heads: Landscape, Race and the Visual Cultures of Buddhist Modernism” Laurie Milner (Bishop’s University and Concordia University) “Resounding Stillness: Reflecting on the Bardo of the Present Moment” 2:45pm – 3:00pm Break 3:00pm – 4:15pm Panel 4: Western Appearances Continued Eva Seegers (Canterbury Christ Church University) “Contemporary Tibetan Stupas in Modern Europe: The Opportunities and Risks of Constructing Buddhist Monuments in a New Cultural Context” Marwood Larson-Harris (Roanoke College) “Contemporary Adaptations of the Oxherding Pictures and the Globalization of Buddhist Culture” 6:00pm – 9:00pm Dinner, The Point Grill The Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program is a joint initiative of the Department of Asian Studies and the Institute of Asian Research. Conference presentations are open to the public. To account for numbers, please send an email to bcsprogram@gmail.com and notify us of your desire to attend. This conference is held in conjunction with the“Visions of Enlightenment: Buddhist Art at MOA“ exhibition and we would like to recognize the following organizations for their support: The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation Canadian Society for Asian Arts Museum of Anthropology at UBC Related Link：http://ubcbuddhism.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/07/ Go Top

．	[Conference] Madhyamaka Seminar and Symposium Update posted date:2012-05-15 Time：conference time: August 3-9, 2012; submission deadline: July 10, 2012 Location：Mangalam Research Center for Buddhist Languages in Berkeley Mangalam Research Center for Buddhist Languages in Berkeley, CA is pleased to announce two related programs in the field of Madhyamaka studies, to be held from August 3-9, 2012. Consistent with MRC’s mission, the programs will focus on issues of language, philology, and translation. The two programs will be led by Drs. Anne MacDonald and Luis Gómez. Participating scholars include Drs. Bill Ames, Dan Arnold, Karen Lang, Akira Saito, and Kevin Vose. Also participating will be Dr. Michael Hahn, one of MRC’s two academic directors, and Dr. Siglinde Dietz, Visiting Scholar in Residence, as well as the MRC postdoctoral fellows. MRC invites other academics and advanced graduate students with an interest in Madhyamaka to apply to participate in these two programs. We hope that you will consider joining us and will forward this announcement to your colleagues and students. The first program, which will run from August 3-6, is a seminar on selected portions of the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā. The anticipated focus (subject to change) is the first 5-7 verses of MMK ch. 4 (refutation of cause and effect); MMK ch. 5, with consideration of its commentary in the Prasannapadā, and selected verses from chapters 15, 24, and 25, with reference to the Prasannapadā where helpful. The second program is a symposium, to run from August 7 through August 9. The symposium is intended to focus on translation and terminology choices for key Madhyamaka terms in light of the discussion during the preceding seminar. The second program is open only to individuals who have completed the first. Interested persons who wish to attend only the first program are welcome to apply. The programs will be held at Mangalam Research Center for Buddhist Languages in Berkeley. Details on how to apply, costs, housing options, etc. are posted on the MRC website, http://www.mangalamresearch.org/programs. We have extended the deadline for application to these linked programs to July 10. Please let any interested students and colleagues know. Jack Petranker Director, <http://www.mangalamresearch.org/> Mangalam Research Center Project Coordinator, Buddhist Translators Workbench 510-809-1003 Go Top

．	[Conference]6th International Lay Buddhist Forum posted date:2012-05-08 Time：30 October - 4 November 2012 Location：University of Malaga and International Institute for Tibetan and Asian Studies (ITAS) 6th International Lay Buddhist Forum "Lay Buddhism in the Modern World" 30 October - 4 November 2012 University of Malaga and International Institute for Tibetan and Asian Studies (ITAS), Karma Guen (Velez-Malaga), Spain Organiser-in-chief for the ILBF Steering Committee: Dr. Burkhard Scherer (Canterbury Christ Church University/ITAS) Call for Papers During recent centuries, modernity as a 'qualitative category' (Adorno) has been favouring, challenging, and transforming Buddhism(s). Intersecting with pre-modern and post-modern modes of being-in-time, modern Buddhisms have emerged in traditionally Buddhist spaces and in new cultural contexts. In traditionally Buddhist countries, Buddhist modernity expresses itself in juncture with the emergence of (post)colonialist subjectivity, for example, in lay mass meditation movements; charismatic reform movements; Socially Engaged Buddhism(s); nun and female monastic revival. In the "West", Buddhism was discovered and reinvented as spiritual science and spiritual psychotherapy, while modernity sparked also the commodification of Buddhist practices within the late-capitalist, neo-liberal global village. 'Global Buddhisms' are ever adapting to the challenges and opportunities of what Z. Bauman has termed 'liquid modernity'. For the 6th International Lay Buddhist Forum, we invite presenters from both Buddhist and academic communities to discuss modern challenges and opportunities for global Lay Buddhism. Papers should address the Forum's theme, "Lay Buddhism in the Modern World". In particular we invite contributions regarding - Lay Buddhism, Science and Psychotherapy - Lay Buddhism and Globalisation - Lay Buddhism and Reform in Buddhist Asia Abstract deadline: 1 May 2012. Full paper/poster deadline: 15 September 2012. Acceptance of participation is conditional until full papers/posters are received. Submit your abstract at https://ilbf2012.itas-uni.eu/ In case of further questions email: ilbf2012@itas-uni.eu Cost Accepted participants will be provided with free accommodation, board and conference transportation, sponsored by the Lay Buddhist Retreat Centre, Karma Guen (www.karmaguen.org/). Flights to/from Malaga (AGP) need to be covered by the participants themselves. Stipends There is a small amount of travel stipends of not more than 500 Euro for young and emerging Buddhist leaders and scholars from outside Europe. Applicants for these stipends are expected to find matching funding from their Buddhist or academic home organisations. If you would like to be considered for a travel stipend please include a 200 word reflection about yourself with your application form and paper abstract and provide information about matching funding sought from your own organisation. Preliminary Programme 30 Oct: Arrival 31 Oct-2 Nov: Conference 3-4 Nov: Temple stay and sightseeing About the ILBF The International Lay Buddhist Forum is an independent lay Buddhist movement that is all-inclusive in membership and outlook. Any lay or ordained individuals or members of lay or monastic organizations who are supportive of lay Buddhist development and interaction of lay and monastic members are welcome. The movement aims to represent and further the interests and roles of lay Buddhists in the development of Buddhism in modern day world. Background The International Lay Buddhist Forum began as a lay Buddhist movement at the first world Lay Buddhist Forum, held in Seoul in 2007. The forum was hosted by the Chongji Order with the support of the Association of Korean Buddhist Orders. Similar events have been held annually since then. The annual event has been attended by lay Buddhists and monastics from various countries in Asia, Europe and North America. At each forum, participants voiced the need for the existence of a lay organisation to serve its interests, and play a role in a healthy development of Buddhism in the modern world. This voice became stronger, louder and clearer at each succeeding Lay Buddhist Forum. This gave rise to the idea of establishing an international lay Buddhist movement. Because of its international participation and global outlook, it needed to form an international structure. A temporary committee was set up in 2010 to help formalise the organisation and plan the growth and development of this international lay Buddhist movement. This committee met to adopt a constitution and elect officers on October 26, 2011. With the constitution adopted, a proper name for the organisation and a formal Steering Committee were established on the same day. The organisation is formally named the International Lay Buddhist Forum, or ILBF in short. Steering Committee The Steering Committee of ILBF consists of six persons: Chairperson: Dr. Jong-in Kim (South Korea); Vice Chairperson: Dr. Sue-Lian Bong (Malaysia); Secretary-Treasurer : Dr. Gene Reeves (Japan); Members: Dr. Franz Gschwind (Germany), Dr Christie Y-L Chang (Taiwan), Dr. Burkhard Scherer (UK); Honorary Chairperson: Dr. Hwaling Lee (South Korea) Guiding Philosophy of ILBF ILBF is a wholly independent lay Buddhist movement, representing the interests and roles of lay Buddhists and lay Buddhists only, not the lineages or traditions or orders or organisations of the members. While ILBF membership may include members from various Buddhist organisations, and its activities may be hosted and/or supported by particular organisations or individuals, ILBF is independent of them and does not represent their teachings or values. Previous Forums The first five Lay Buddhist Forums were held in Seoul, South Korea hosted by the Chongji Buddhist Order with support from the Association of Korean Buddhist Orders and the government of South Korea. Go Top

．	[Conference]Nature and the Popular Imagination posted date:2012-05-08 Time：August 8-11, 2012 Location：Malibu, California at Pepperdine University The International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture http://www.religionandnature.com/society/ (ISSRNC) is pleased to announce its next conference in Malibu, California at Pepperdine University on August 8-11, 2012. The conference theme will be “Nature and the Popular Imagination.” For generations, the interconnections between religion and nature have been expressed, promoted, and contested through the incubator of popular culture, including films produced in nearby Hollywood. As a global and symbolic center that reflects and invents nature/religion representations, Malibu and its environs provide a fantastic venue for critical reflection on the religion/nature nexus in the popular imagination. Along with keynote addresses and other scholarly sessions, a number of special events and excursions are in the works, including a scholar-led tour of The Getty Villa in Malibu and opportunities to enjoy the beautiful and famous Malibu coast. Some of these may be offered before or after the official conference period. Affordable on-campus housing will be available to conference participants. We invite proposals about nature and religion in diverse expressions of popular culture, including films, television, comics, fiction, music, sports, graffiti, clothing, and festivals. As always, while we encourage proposals focused on the conference’s theme, we welcome proposals from all areas (regional and historical) and from all disciplinary perspectives that explore the complex relationships between religious beliefs and practices (however defined and understood), cultural traditions and productions, and the earth’s diverse ecological systems. We encourage proposals that include theoretical frameworks and analyses, emphasize dialogue and discussion, promote collaborative research, and are unusual in terms of format and structure. Proposals for individual paper presentations, sessions, panels, and posters should be submitted directly to Sarah Pike at and Robin Globus at . It is not necessary to be an ISSRNC member to submit a proposal. Individual paper proposals should include, in a single, attached word or rich text document, the name and email of the presenter(s), title, a 250-300 word abstract, and a brief, 150 word biography (including highest degree earned and current institutional affiliation, if any). Proposals for entire sessions must include a title and abstract for the session as a whole as well as for each individual paper. Proposers should also provide information about ideal and acceptable lengths for proposed sessions, and whether any technology, such as data projectors, are desired. Most paper presentations will be scheduled at 15-20 minutes and a premium will be placed on discussion in all sessions. Proposals will be evaluated anonymously by the Scientific Committee, but conference directors will be aware of proposers’ identities in order to select for diversity in terms of geographical area and career stage. Student proposals are particularly welcome. The deadline for proposals is 1 May 2012. For more information and updates, please go to: http://www.religionandnature.com/society/conferences.htm#malibu Go Top

．	[Conference]College Art Association 101st Annual Conference New York posted date:2012-05-08 Time：February 13–16, 2013 College Art Association 101st Annual Conference New York February 13–16, 2013 The College Art Association, founded in 1911, is the foremost organization in the United States dedicated to the fostering of the practice of art, teaching, and research of and about the visual arts and humanities. Over 12, 000 artists, art historians, scholars, curators, critics, collectors, educators, publishers, and other professionals in the visual arts belong as individual members. Another 2,000 departments of art and art history in colleges and universities, art schools, museums, libraries, and professional and commercial organizations hold institutional memberships. This is the first time in its history that a panel solely devoted to Indonesian art- one that specifically explores a broad spectrum of visual expressions- will be presented. ART IN INDONESIA: CONTINUITIES AND CHANGE American Council for Southern Asian Art Panel Chair: Cecelia Levin, Harvard University The 1967 volume Art in Indonesia: Continuities and Change by Claire Holt provided American scholars with their first look at the cultural expressions of this expansive equatorial archipelago. Holt told the story of Indonesian visual culture as it was perceived by its creators, while lending a creative ken the acknowledged the fluidity of Indonesia’s cultural forms— the visual arts, wayang kulit (shadow play), dance, and music were kindred due to their essential role as storytellers. Moreover, she may be considered the first scholar to examine Modernism in an Asian context. Almost a half-century later, does Holt’s reading of Indonesian art still successfully serve art historians? This panel invites papers presenting variations on Holt’s interdisciplinary approach, as well as those proposing contradicting analytical methods that potentially heighten our understanding of this creative region’s vast corpus of artistic material. Proposals on all aspects of Indonesian visual culture are welcome, including the Classical Hindu-Buddhist, Islamic, indigenous or tribal, and post-Independence traditions. Please send proposals to Cecelia Levin, Ph.D., Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University via email: clevin@fas.harvard.edu Proposals Due May 4, 2012 PROPOSAL REQUIREMENTS 1. Completed session participation proposal form, see http://www.collegeart.org/ 2. Preliminary abstract of one to two double-spaced, typed pages. 3. Letter explaining speaker’s interest, expertise in the topic, and CAA membership status. 4. CV with home and office mailing addresses, email address, and phone and fax numbers. Include summer address and telephone number, if applicable. Go Top

．	[Conference]The International Seminar on The Buddhist Teaching at University Level posted date:2012-05-01 Time：3-5 June, 2012 Location：Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University Main Campus, Wang Noi, Ayutthaya. The International Seminar on The Buddhist Teaching at University Level Co-organized by Mahachulalongkonrajavidyalaya University(MCU) and The World Buddhist University (WBU) Background Buddhism is a significant world religion which plays crucial roles in promoting an individual’s and world peace. Through Buddhism, one can cultivate one’s moral awareness and mutual responsibility. Buddhist teaching is thus a means of moral cultivation for the best of oneself and one’s community. In Thailand, Buddhist teaching is managed in monasteries and academic institutions. Students are expected to be good Buddhists as well as good members of their societies. This International Seminar on the Buddhist Teaching at University Level is the following part of the Seminar on Problems and Solutions of Buddhist Studies held at the University of the West, CA. U.S.A. in July 2554/2011. It expects to find the best method of Buddhist teaching in order to enhance students’ Buddhist knowledge and morality. Especially, this year marks many Buddhist and national events in Thailand Mahachulalongkornrajvidyalaya University and the World Buddhist University join together to celebrate them in this Seminar. Objective To consider problems and solutions of Buddhist teaching at the university level. To search for efficient and innovative methods of teaching Buddhism in present-day colleges and universities. To encourage more co-operation of professors in Buddhist studies around the world. To celebrate the auspicious Vesak Day, the 2600 Buddhajayanti, the 80th Birthday of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit, and the 60th Birthday of His Royal Highness Crown Prince Mahavajiralongkorn. Procedure and Methods Presentation and discussion Target Group 100 participants (50 Thais and 50 foreigners) who are professors in Buddhist Studies at the university level and Buddhist organizers from Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University and the World Buddhist University. Language English Date 3-5 June 2555/2012 Venue Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University Main Campus, Wang Noi, Ayutthaya. Related Link：http://www.worldbuddhistuniversity.com/post_detail.php?id=98 Go Top

．	[Conference]Pacific Seminar 2012: Shinran’s Quest posted date:2012-05-01 Time：July 6, 2012 to July 8, 2012 Pacific Seminar 2012: Shinran’s Quest July 6, 2012 to July 8, 2012 What does Shinran’s choice about the materials he used tell us about his religious understanding? How did Shinran’s insight resonate within his own historical context, and is that the same way it resonates today? Keynote Speaker: Mark Blum, State Univeristy of New York, Albany Piecing together the events in Shinran’s life with his writings, the goal of the seminar is to identify first the problematic issues that Shinran was facing personally and socially, then identify what the solutions were that he discovered, and then to expand this into a more broad discussion of the implications inherent in those solutions in regard to (1) how to interpret the Buddhist tradition, (2) how to assess the nature of mankind/humankind in his time, and (3) what implications these conclusions have for us today both in our particular social and psychological contexts, and for the human condition as a whole regardless of time or place. A key component of the entire seminar will be the relationship between the doctrines in Tannishō and the Nirvana Sutra and how this perspective or gestalt was used by Shinran to understand the core teachings of The Larger Sutra and The Contemplation Sutra. This way of studying Shinran is something that at this point is rarely if ever discussed in English language materials on Shinran and Shin thought as a whole. This event is co-hosted by the Center for Buddhist Education. Please contact the CBE for more information and registration materials. Download a PDF brochure and registration form. [PDF] Related Link：http://www.shin-ibs.edu/news-events/?p=582 Go Top

．	[Conference]Seminar on Buddhist - Christian Dialogue posted date:2012-04-17 Time：30 July – 3 August, 2012 Location：NTI Nan Tien Temple Campus, Wollongong Seminar on Buddhist - Christian Dialogue This Nan Tien Institute (NTI) subject is an ideal study opportunity for anyone interested in the study of comparative religions. A combination of perspectives from humanities and the social sciences are applied to religious topics. The similarities and differences between religious belief systems, and the way in which religious choices affect society and individuals are examined. For those postgraduate students aiming to study for a Masters, Diploma or Certificate in NTI’s Applied Buddhist Studies program, this subject provides a solid foundation for critical thinking and comparative research. Only interested in short, special interest courses? Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike will benefit from the non-biased and investigative wisdom offered in this subject. Plus you don’t need any prior knowledge to participate. Students will learn about: The basic doctrines of Buddhism (Four Noble Truths, Eightfold Noble Path, Dependent Origination, Karma, Samsara, Nirvana) The basic doctrines of Christianity (suffering, Messiah, Revelation, Gospel, the Mystical Body of Christ, incarnation, Sacraments, justification by faith, Protestant Principle) Cross-cultural philosophy of religion and religious pluralism The dialogue between Buddhism and Christianity on issues such as God, creation, the problem of evil, scriptures, liberation, ecology and more Structuring a research report using specific research questions, objectives and hypothesis When: 30 July – 3 August, 2012 Time: 9:00am – 5:30pm Fee: $850.00 Where: NTI Nan Tien Temple Campus, Wollongong Telephone +61 (2) 4272 0618 Related Link：http://www.nantien.edu.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=603%3Aseminar-on-buddhist-chr Go Top

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．	[Contribution] Midwest Asian Studies Conference (Oct. 2013) posted date:2013-04-25 Time：2013/10/25-27 Michigan State University is pleased to host the annual Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs at our East Lansing campus on October 25-27, 2013. MCAA is the Midwestern affiliate of the Association for Asian Studies and the largest such regional meeting. The Program Committee welcomes proposals for panels, roundtables or individual paper presentations that address Buddhism and other religious traditions of Asia. Panels and roundtables that take an innovative approach to format (interdisciplinary, pedagogical, creative, mixed media) are welcome, as are traditionally organized academic panels. We also encourage roundtables that address the state of the field. Submissions of proposals are now being accepted on the conference website. http://asia.isp.msu.edu/MCAA/conference_2013/conf_home.htm The deadline for applications is June 15, 2013. For questions regarding proposals, please contact Prof. Ethan Segal, Program Chair, at mcaa2013@msu.edu We look forward to welcoming you to East Lansing this October! Related Link：http://asia.isp.msu.edu/MCAA/conference_2013/conf_home.htm Go Top

．	[Contribution] International Indology Graduate Research Symposium (Pons) posted date:2013-04-25 Time：2013/10/17-18 The fifth International Indology Graduate Research Symposium (IIGRS) will be held at Bochum, Ruhr Universität, on the 17th-18th October 2013 – please find all the information at . The symposium is aimed at current graduate students, PhD candidates as well as early stage researchers, that is to say those who have completed their last degree within the past five years. The deadline for submitting abstracts is the 30th of June 2013. The proceedings of the symposium will be published in a series entitled “Pu?pikā: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions. Contributions to Current Research in Indology”, published by Oxbow Books Press, Oxford. If you are teaching at an institution, I would be extremely grateful if you could please circulate this information. Related Link：http://iigrs.byethost17.com Go Top

．	[Contribution] Conference 'Network and Identity’, Ghent University (Belgium) posted date:2013-04-16 Time：2013/5/15 The Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies Studies (Ghent University, Belgium) and the Buddhism in Motion Group of the KHK Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) are pleased to announce the International Conference 'Network and Identity: Exchange Relations between China and the World'. ( http://www.cbs.ugent.be/node/**637 ) At this stage, we invite proposals of papers for this conference to be held in Ghent, Belgium on 18, 19 and 20 December 2013. The aim of the conference is to examine the spread of ideas and practices along the major trade roads between India and Japan, with China in a pivotal position. This journey is conditioned by many factors: geographical, social, political, philosophical, artistic, religious and even linguistic environments all played their role. In each region, ideas and practices intermingle, giving rise to new identities. Roads also naturally rely on networks, economical as well as cultural. This conference aims to focus on these two concepts, 'networks' and 'identity': while people need each other to travel along the long routes of Asia, meeting each other also enhances ideas or questions about one's own position and cultural framework. We welcome any papers on the concepts identity and network or related to various forms of interaction and exchange in the Asian World. Interested scholars are invited to submit paper proposals and a short résumé by May 15th at cbs@UGent.be. Presentations should be approximately 15 to 20 minutes in length. The abstracts will be evaluated by a scientific committee (anonymous peer review). Notification of acceptance of your paper for presentation at the conference will be done by June 15th 2013. Attendance at the conference is free of conference fees for paper presenters. For more information and registration, please contact cbs@UGent.be. Go Top

．	[Contribution] Journal of Japanese Philosophy: Call for Papers posted date:2013-04-16 Time：2013/7/31 Journal of Japanese Philosophy: Call for Papers Call for Papers Date: 2013-07-31 Date Submitted: 2013-04-09 Announcement ID: 202898 The Journal of Japanese Philosophy, published by SUNY Press, is the first and only international peer-reviewed journal on Japanese philosophy. The first issue contains essays by Fujita Masakatsu, John Maraldo, Bret Davis, Graham Parkes, and others. We are currently inviting submissions for our following issues. The journal aims to demonstrate the relevance of Japanese philosophy. It welcomes rigorous academic papers on all time periods and all areas of Japanese philosophy, classical to contemporary, from a variety of perspectives, including interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and comparative studies. The entire article does not have to be focused on a Japanese philosophy or philosopher as long as some Japanese philosophy or philosopher plays a significant role in the article. The article should not exceed 8,000 words and should follow the latest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style (http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html). For details refer tohttps://sites.google.com/site/journalofjapanesephilosophy/. Send your inquiries and submissions tojapanesephilosophy@gmail.com. Related Link：https://sites.google.com/site/journalofjapanesephilosophy/ Go Top

．	[Contribution] "Buddhism and Science'' -- International Society for Buddhist Philosophy posted date:2013-04-11 Time：2013/5/2 The International Society for Buddhist Philosophy (ISBP) is soliciting paper proposals for a panel on the topic of "Buddhism and Science" at the group meeting at the Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA) Eastern Division in Baltimore, MD (December 27-30, 2013). Papers that address this topic from critical and/or constructive approaches are welcome, as are papers that are based on indigenous Buddhist and/or modern scientific perspectives. Please send title, abstract (200 words), personal information (name, email, and institutional affiliation) to Douglas Duckworth (duckworth@etsu.edu) by May 2, 2013. Go Top

．	[Contribution] 2013 Bulgwang Awards posted date:2013-04-01 Time：2013/4/30 Location：Bulgwang Research Institute (Seoul, South Korea) Bulgwang Research Institute (Seoul, South Korea) is pleased to announce the 2013 Bulkwang Awards. The intent of these awards is to encourage, recognize, and promote research into how Buddhism is currently being propagated. Topics of Articles Case studies of Buddhist proselytizers in modern society Buddhist visions in modern society Buddhist solutions to the problems modern society faces, including the ecological crisis, poverty, war, and other important social issues Criteria for Applicants: There is no restriction on the applicant’s academic career, but the applicants must provide his/her CV which proves that he/she has been working in the field of Buddhist studies or has been engaged in Buddhist-related activities. CV must include name, title, institution, mailing address (including summer address if different), telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address. The article must be directly related to the topics described in “Topics of Articles.” The article must be original and should not have any legal problem in being translated into Korean and published in the journal Dharma Propagation Research by Bulgwang Research Institute. A one-page abstract of the article must be submitted electronically. The author should eliminate all identifiable references to individuals and places that might bias reviewers. The synopsis should be emailed to the address below in Microsoft Word 97-2007 format. Evaluation/Award Procedures The applicant should send his/her own paper, together with his/her CV, to the committee by 17:00 on April 30, 2013. The deadline for receipt of full papers is September 30, 2013. Each article will be reviewed by a panel of Bulgwang Research Committee members using the following criteria: 1. organization and elegance of presentation 2. review of the literature 3. utilization of information from a variety of Buddhist sources Announcement of awards: October 30, 2013 The selected papers will be published (along with a Korean translation) in Dharma Propagation Research, the academic journal of The Bulgwang Research Institute. Award Amounts Paramita Recipient (1st place): $4,000 (US dollar) Dharma Propagation Recipients (2nd place): $2,500 (US dollar) Related Link：**http://laybuddhistforum.ning.com/profiles/blogs/award-for-distinguished-articles?xg_source=activity Go Top

．	[Contribution] Religion and Locality in the Chinese World Canberra, Australian National University posted date:2013-04-01 Time：2013/8/27-28 Location： The Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW), College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian Nati Call for Papers: Religion and Locality in the Chinese World Date: 27-28 August 2013 Location: The Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW), College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra Convenors: Dr Benjamin Penny, Mr Paul Farrelly This workshop will explore histories of how religion is created, transmitted, embodied and changed in specific locations in late imperial, modern and contemporary China and Taiwan. Taking not only temples, mosques, churches, schools, tea houses, festival sites, burial grounds and shrines as the locus of research, but also cities, neighbourhoods, counties and districts, it will explore the rich, and often overlooked, details that populate the lived experience of religious activity. Seeking to focus on interactions between place, text and individual agency, we aim to reflect on the layered and specific histories that develop as a consequence of this interplay. Through reducing the scale to a specific locale, phenomena such as religious change, conversion practice, and individual transformation can be reappraised. Questions to consider may include: How do the particular circumstances of time and place shape religious experience? What is specific to a location that influences the nature of religious practice there? What religious power is embodied in a place? How is the power created or maintained? How are narratives created around a location? How are locations represented in oral and printed media? What is characteristic of the religious world in a particular place? How do the defining religious features of a locality originate? Seeking to enhance scholarship about place and religion in China and Taiwan, we request work informed by microhistory and theories of the everyday that offer alternative perspectives on the sacred world. In doing this, we will explore the idea that religious experience is not homogenous across geography, and that even comparatively small distances can produce meaningful differences in institutions and practices. Through sharpening the focus of research to a county, district, neighbourhood, or particular numinous site we also hope to examine the relations between particular places and institutions of authority based locally or distantly. Interested participants should submit a paper title, abstract with keywords (300 words maximum) along with brief biographical information (name, affiliation) to paul.farrelly@anu.edu.au by 1 MAY 2013. CIW may be able to provide some financial assistance for the travel and accommodation expenses for successful applicants. The conference will be conducted in English and we plan to publish the proceedings in a special edition of East Asian History . Contact: benjamin.penny@anu.edu.au, paul.farrelly@anu.edu.au Related Link：http://ciw.anu.edu.au/events/event_details.php?searchterm=cap_631463962&semy ear=2013 Go Top

．	[Contribution] Dharma in Change: Process and Development of Buddhism in Baltic Sea Area (Toome) posted date:2013-04-01 Time：2013/4/15 CALL FOR PAPERS Dharma in Change: Process and Development of Buddhism in Baltic Sea Area An Interdisciplinary conference, Tartu, Estonia With the aim of defining and redefining Baltic Buddhism, the University of Tartu and Tallinn University will jointly hold an academic conference on “Buddhism in Baltic Sea Area.” The conference aims to study and review critically history of Buddhism, Buddhist practices, individuals, and institutions, and diverse Buddhist traditions as well as academic Studies of Buddhism in Baltic regions to date, which make uniquely Baltic Buddhism. The conference will be dedicated to the 75 birth anniversary of late Linnart Mäll (7.06.1938–14.02.2010), a prominent scholar of Buddhism in Estonia. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to: - Survey/history of Buddhist institutions and individuals; - Translations of Buddhist texts; - Statistical overview from Censuses of different countries/Demographics of Baltic Buddhism; - Diverse Buddhist communities/centres/traditions (Tibetan, Zen, Theravada, Mahayana/Chinese/Japanese/Vietnamese etc.); - TransBuddhism/Buddhist diaspora; - Buddhist impact of Baltic landscape and cultures (Buddhist arts and music, building stupas and shrines, etc.); - Changes and transformation/challenges and adoptions of Buddhism; - Genders, sexuality and sexual orientation in Buddhism; - Buddhist Meditations; - Monastic practices; - Engaged Buddhism; - Buddhist relationship with other religious traditions. We invite papers from scholars of religious studies/Buddhist studies, anthropologists, historians, Asian studies, independent researchers and graduate students from all areas of the humanities, social sciences, and anthropology. Abstracts of 250 words (including the author’s name, paper title, and institutional affiliation) should be sent with a two page CV by email to Chipamong Chowdhury, chidhamma@gmail.comor Märt Läänemets, mart_laanemets@yahoo.com, by April 15, 2013. Go Top

．	[Contribution] Conference 'Network and Identity’, Ghent University (Belgium) posted date:2013-03-07 Time：2013/12/18-20 Location：Ghent University, Belgium The Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies Studies (Ghent University, Belgium) and the Buddhism in Motion Group of the KHK Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) are pleased to announce the International Conference 'Network and Identity At this stage, we invite proposals of papers* for this conference to be held in Ghent, Belgium on 18, 19 and 20 December 2013. The aim of the conference is to examine the spread of ideas and practices along the major trade roads between India and Japan, with China in a pivotal position. This journey is conditioned by many factors: geographical, social, political, philosophical, artistic, religious and even linguistic environments all played their role. In each region, ideas and practices intermingle, giving rise to new identities. Roads also naturally rely on networks, economical as well as cultural. This conference aims to focus on these two concepts, 'networks' and 'identity': while people need each other to travel along the long routes of Asia, meeting each other also enhances ideas or questions about one's own position and cultural framework. We welcome any papers on the concepts “identity” and “network” or related to various forms of interaction and exchange in the Asian World. For more information and registration, please contact cbs@UGent.be. Go Top

．	[Contribution] The Research Institute for Oriental Studies calls for papers posted date:2013-03-01 Time：2013/3/5 The Research Institute for Oriental Studies, Peking University invites proposals of papers for a conference on “Vinaya Texts and Transmission History: New Perspectives and New Methods” to be held in the scenic city Hangzhou, China, from August 21 to August 22, 2013. We welcome any papers on the textual, historical and sociopolitical issues related to any vinaya tradition. Interested scholars are invited to submit proposals and cvs to Jinhua Chen (jinhua2013@gmail.com) by March 5, 2013. Full or partial financial aids, decided by needs, are available for conference-related costs, including airfare, ground transportations, meals and accommodation. Go Top

．	[Contribution] Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Call for Proposals posted date:2013-03-01 Time：2013/3/4 The topics suggested at the last business meeting were as follows: * The examination of self-immolation in Tibet * Interpolations, emendations, and corruptions of religious texts * Tibetan mythology * Writing Tibetan women and female lineages in Tibet * Discerning social history in Tibetan biographical literature * Animals in Tibetan religion * Sessions with a specific regional focus (Bhutan, Sikkim, etc.) Of course, proposals on any topic related to the religious traditions of Tibet and the wider Himalaya are welcome. Proposals should be submitted online via the PAPERS system here: http://papers.aarweb.org/ You may submit up to 2 proposals: either 2 different proposals or 1 proposal to two different AAR units. Thank you for your support of THRG activities in the past. Please let us know if we can be of assistance in putting your proposals together, connecting you with other participants, or arranging a co-sponsored session. We look forward to seeing you in Baltimore! Related Link：http://rsnonline.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1292&Itemid=1441 Go Top

．	[Contribution] CFP: Mind and Attention in Indian and Contemporary Western Philosophy posted date:2013-02-22 Time：2013/3/30 Location：Harvard University Call for Papers Subject: CFP: Mind and Attention in Indian and Contemporary Western Philosophy The goal of the workshop is to bring into focus philosophical work in Indian traditions that address the role of attention of all kinds in mental life. Papers should address any of the following questions in the context of Indian philosophy. Submissions by graduate students and early career scholars are especially encouraged. Funding for travel and lodging will probably be available for every speaker, and will definitely be available for graduate students. If your submission is accepted, we will have more information about funding at the time of acceptance. Submission due date: March 30, 2013 Conference date: September 21-22, 2013. Harvard University. Submissions should be sent by email to all three organizers: Susanna Siegel ssiegel fas.harvard.edu Parimal Patil ppatil fas.harvard.edu Sebastian Watzl sebastian dot watzl csmn.uio.no Go Top

．	[Contribution] Rematerializing Buddhist Modernism at AAR Regional Meeting posted date:2013-02-18 Time：May 10–11, 2013 Dear colleagues, In response to the Call for Papers (CFP) for the upcoming AAR Eastern International Regional Meeting (Toronto, Canada May 10–11, 2013) on the topic of material religion, we are seeking paper proposals for a panel on "rematerializing" Buddhist modernism. The uneven construction of “Buddhism” over the last two centuries has, in recent decades, increasingly become an object of academic inquiry in its own right. Rehearsing what is now a widely accepted scholarly view, David McMahan writes that this Buddhism, “is actually a modern hybrid tradition with roots in the European Enlightenment no less than the Buddha’s enlightenment, in Romanticism and transcendentalism as much as the Pali canon, and in the clash of Asian cultures and colonial powers as much as in mindfulness and meditation” (McMahan: 2008, 5). This “hybrid tradition”—styled as distinct from the indigenous traditions mined by philologists, historians, and ethnographers—has become the object of disciplines such as contemporary North American religions. The problem of situating the popular Buddhist modernism of Euro-American converts and some academics alongside the “imported,” ethnic varieties has long been understood along the much contested binary of “Two Buddhisms” (Numrich: 2003). Scholars have also begun to appreciate the local impact of the transit of “modernist, convert” Buddhism back into Asian Buddhist communities; a sort of modernism that challenges an easy quantification of what is “Western” and what is “traditional,” and has exposed some of the economic and racial presuppositions that have helped curate not only Buddhist modernism in practice, but also its academic study (Hickey: 2010). In all this there has been little sustained scholarly attention paid to the materiality of its various transnational articulations, despite the widely acknowledged roots of Buddhist modernism in the geo-politics of colonialism, imperialism, socialism and post-socialism, and now global capitalism. How is Buddhist modernism inflected by its various economic and material contexts? How does the putative spiritual, non-institutionalized, democratic, interiorized, and de-ritualized nature of its hybrid form dialogue with, and actually become constituted by, emergent forms of materiality; such as patronage networks, relic veneration, pilgrimage, temple building, the digital age, monastic reform, and so forth? Does foregrounding the “material” rescue the study of Buddhist modernism from over privileging ideas and lineal transmission, whether from Victorian Romanticism or the Buddha? We are seeking panelists whose research will help broach this important topic in the study of contemporary Buddhism, as these are found in, or in between, Asia and the “West.” We invite panelists whose research asks, “How does ‘rematerializing’ Buddhist modernism help nuance our academic understanding of its contemporary, transnational reception and articulation?” Proposals should include (1) a short abstract (300 words maximum) describing the nature of the paper and (2) a current CV. Send submissions to the panel co-organizers: Ryan Jones (ryan.jones3@mail.mcgill.ca) or Matt King (matthew.king@utoronto.ca). Panel proposals must be submitted to the AAR selection committee by February 15, 2013. Sincerely, Ryan Jones, McGill University & Matt King, University of Toronto Go Top

．	[Contribution] Call for Journal Papers - Buddhist Critical Thinking Skills posted date:2013-02-18 Time：Final Full-Article Deadline: 31 May 2013 International Association of Buddhist Universities Call for Journal Articles This is a call for papers for the 4th Volume of the Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Universities (JIABU), published by the generosity of Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University through the International Association of Buddhist Universities. The volume aims to be a special edition, covering Buddhist Critical Thinking Skills. This specialized theme should be of great interest to our university students and professors training and working in the field of Buddhist Studies and those involved in the education process. We encourage interdisciplinary studies and welcome articles from scholars in all fields related around the theme of Buddhist Critical Thinking Skills. In order to prevent a collection of articles all being an introductory survey of ideas, it was determined for scholars to begin by reading a selected text, and build upon that knowledge towards a higher level of wisdom. Towards common ground for the special edition, it is asked that scholars easily download (registration to the site is necessary) and read the following text: http://www.academia.edu/2344610/Buddhist_Critical_Thinking_Skills - this is the text: "Buddhist Critical Thinking Skills", by Dr. Dion Peoples, of Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University and the Manager of the IABU Secretariat. The groundbreaking text was developed for the sake of Buddhist education and training Buddhist students in the methods of the Buddha; therefore, a critical assessment of the tools offered by learned scholars is a very appropriate theme for a special edition of our JIABU. Acceptable articles, determined by the academic peer-review committee, will be selected and published, if exhibiting: . Thematic relevance . innovative theoretical perspectives, . clarity of organization, . an accessible prose style, . and significant research in primary resources . a higher extension of wisdom from what has already been written about. Please remember to produce an endeavor that deals with relevant topic material, Buddhist texts and the readers in meaningful ways. Please send all proposals and articles as Microsoft Word Files (.doc or .docx). Call for Papers issued: 11 January 2013 Final Full-Article Deadline: 31 May 2013 Publication of the JIABU: Soon after, upon final formatting. We must have your fully-perfected articles by the final deadline date to ensure that the article is considered for publication. Once the academic peer-review committee completes their selections, and the editorial-team has completed any additional formatting/revisions, the 4th Volume of the JIABU will be released. PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES . Submitted papers are refereed and selected on the basis of quality and relevance to the main theme of Buddhist Critical Thinking Skills for this Special Edition, 4th Volume of the JIABU. . Papers should be from 10-15 pages (not strict on these specifications), submitted in the preferred font: 'Times EXT Roman' (for papers with Pāli/Sanskrit diacritic markings). . Please download this font: http://www.bcca.org/services/fonts/ --and compose your article in this font. Articles will be returned if there are any undisplayed diacritical-markings. . Papers may be rejected for specific circumstances, but may be rewritten, following committee recommendations. PLEASE SEND FINAL PAPERS or any questions, to: Editorial Committee Manager: Dr. Dion Peoples: manager.secretariat@iabu.org We, thank you, for your interest in this specialized theme, and we hope that this topic: Buddhist Critical Thinking Skills, becomes a valued and often discussed theme in the future. We would be honored to receive your thoughtful and valuable contribution to Buddhist Studies. Yours sincerely, Most Ven. Prof. Dr. Brahmapandit Rector, Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University Chairman, International Association of Buddhist Universities Related Link：http://www.academia.edu/2344610/Buddhist_Critical_Thinking_Skills_-_revised_17_January_2013 Go Top

．	[Contribution] Call for Papers/AAR 2013 Millennialism and Buddhism posted date:2013-02-18 Time：Nov. 23-26, 2013 Call for Papers/AAR 2013 Millennialism and Buddhism I am proposing a session on Millennialism and Buddhism for AAR in Baltimore, Nov. 23-26, 2013. There are many possible approaches to this topic such as those listed below, but the main theme is to understand what is “millennialism” in Buddhism. Possible approaches: Buddhist messianic movements Buddhist eschatology Buddhist apocalyptic thinking Buddhist understandings of time The Lotus Sutra/Nichiren/Tientai Three Ages (xiangfa/zengfa/mofa) Wuwubaisui in Mahasamnipata and other texts The Decline of the Dharma – in the Diamond sutra and other scriptures Vajrayana – Kalachakra Tantra The Pure Land and degenerate Dharma Maitreya Buddha Pali canon: cullavagga vinaya pitaka (some insight in the vinaya?) The Three Stages Sect (Dunhuang) Miraculous Buddhist images/art If you are interested in joining the session proposal, please contact me as soon as possible with a short description of your paper. Thank you. Mariko Walter Research Associate Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Reischauer Institute Harvard University & Director: Asso. for Central Asia and Silk Road Studies (ACANSRS) mnwalter@post.harvard.edu mnwalter@acansrs.org Go Top

．	[Contribution] AAR 2013 Sacred Cities: Urban Buddhism in Modernizing Asia, 1850 - 1950 posted date:2013-02-18 Time：November 23-26, 2013 Dear list members, I am organizing a panel for this year's annual meeting of the AAR in Baltimore on urban Buddhisms in modern Asia. The topic has already been mentioned as part of the Buddhism Group's general call for papers, but I wanted to provide a little more detail on the panel topic: Sacred Cities: Urban Buddhism in Modernizing Asia, 1850 - 1950 The sacred places of Buddhism’s history have often been located in rural seclusion, from the groves and forests where the Buddha preached, to the temples, monasteries, and sacred mountains prized as refuges from the profane world of the Red Dust. Translation and monastic centers in Asian capitals among the exceptions until the beginning of the modern era, when urban spaces emerged as key nexus points where technology, capital, and innovation combined to support the production of Buddhist modernities. This panel will explore urban Buddhism in Asia during an era of modernization; papers will cover cities such as Columbo, Lhasa, Saigon, Shanghai, Seoul, and Kyoto, and examine how these places were religiously and historically significant for the development of Buddhism in modern Asia. Possible topics include Buddhist lay societies, publishers, seminaries, academic departments, and businesses. Relationships with other religious groups active in the city would also be an important consideration. The paper presenters and discussant will, as a group, attempt to compare the experience and aims of Buddhists in different Asian contexts to illuminate international and inter-lingual connections among these urban Buddhisms. We have two papers confirmed so far: Matt King, University of Toronto “Critique, Complicity, and Reform: The Invention of Buddhism and Mongolia in Ikh Khuree, 1900-1937” Gregory Adam Scott, Columbia University “Shanghai: Nexus of Chinese Buddhist Publishing” We are looking for two to three additional papers as well as a discussant. Please get in touch with me: Gregory Adam Scott gas2122@columbia.edu Thank you! -- Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞戈 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Religion, Columbia University http://www.buddhiststudies.net/ \| gas2122@columbia.edu Go Top

．	[Contribution] Call for Proposals posted date:2013-02-08 Time：The deadline for submission is March 1, 2013. Dear Colleagues, With apologies for cross-posting, I write as co-chair (with Sara McClintock) of the Buddhist Philosophy Group at the American Academy of Religion to alert you to the recently opened CFP for the November 2013 national conference in Baltimore. The AAR offers an excellent forum for presenting your work in progress, and we encourage you to submit a proposal. The deadline for submission is March 1, 2013. More information is available here: http://rsnonline.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1198&Itemid=1348 The text of the CFP is reproduced below, for your convenience. * [The Buddhist Philosophy] Group entertains individual paper proposals, but mostly encourages thematically integrated sessions. These sessions might focus on specific philosophical topics, on methodological issues, or on a recent publication in the field or a classical text of particular importance. Sessions representing a diversity of methods to address a regionally-defined topic are also encouraged. There is particular interest in developing a papers session or roundtable proposal that would be suitable for co-sponsorship with the Philosophy of Religion Section. Other possible topics include: - Yogācāra as a theory of meaning, and/or Buddhist philosophy of language more generally - Buddhist philosophy and theism, and/or atheistic religious experience - Intersubjectivity as a problem - Action theory in Buddhist thought - Nonduality in pan-Indian perspective/what’s so bad about duality? - Controversy as a source of philosophical development/construction of doctrinal identity - Pluralism and attitudes to religious others - Buddhist and Vedāntic modernism - The problem of relations - Why/how does Buddhism matter for the philosophy of religion? Those interested in any of these topics should contact the Chairs for information on other members intending to develop proposals on the same topic. * Best wishes, R. Nance Indiana University Related Link：http://rsnonline.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1198&Itemid=1348 Go Top

．	[Contribution] Imaging the ineffable in religion and film posted date:2013-02-08 Time：Deadline for Submissions: February 4th 2013 Imaging the Ineffable: Representation and Reality in Religion and Film March 29th to March 31st, 2013 Call for Papers: 2013 Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Student Conference Deadline for Submissions: February 4th 2013 The Mahindra Humanities Center of Harvard University invites you to submit paper abstracts for the 2013 Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Student Conference on the topic of imaging the ineffable in religion and film. The paradox of showing what cannot be shown is a perennial issue in the fields of both Religion and Film Studies. In one of the most celebrated passages of Buddhist scripture, for instance, the sage Vimalakirti is asked to expound on the ultimate meaning of the Buddha’s teachings. Famously, Vimalakirti responds with silence, for the Buddha’s teachings are beyond words. In the same vein, the celebrated film critic and theorist Stanley Cavell argued that the unique feature of the filmic medium lies in its ability to show us what isn’t there; that is, to make absence present. This conference focuses on the intersection of religion and film in their aspirations to challenge the limits of signification. Papers are welcome on any of the following topics: · The Representation of the Unrepresentable. How do different religious traditions negotiate the representation of the unrepresentable? How do films presence absence or emptiness? How do films reflect or express particular religious negotiations of the unrepresentable? How might we examine the ways these concerns are translated into various filmic techniques that can help us understand the possibilities, limitations, and ethical ramifications of imaging the ineffable? · Illusion and Reality. Religion and film share a unique link by virtue of the way that each specifically engages a tension between reality and illusion. How can religious perspectives on the illusory nature of reality, as well claims about the reality of illusion, inform views on the role and relevance of film, itself a highly artificial and mediated form? How can attention to the medium of film – ephemeral bursts of light flickering rhythmically on a screen – be productive for thinking about the interplay of illusion and reality, fiction and truth, artifice and authenticity in religious contexts? · Experience and Embodiment. In response to recent academic shifts towards attending to issues of the senses, embodiment and aesthetics, how might religion use film to approach the aesthetic, sensory and embodied modes of religious experience? Conversely, how does film engage modes of practice, devotion and so-called ‘religious’ or ‘spiritual’ experience? What are the epistemological consequences of an academic approach that accounts for these sensory dimensions? * * · Any of the above three topics in relationship to the films of Nathaniel Dorsky, Abbas Kiarostami, Claire Denis, Michael Haneke, Robert Gardener, Krysztof Kieslowski, Stan Brakhage, Yasujiro Ozu, Alain Resnais (Night and Fog), Ari Folman (Waltz with Bashir) or Satyajit Ray (Pather Panchali) are of particular interest, given that we will be screening some of their work at the conference. Paper abstracts should be approximately 500 words. Final presentation papers should be in the range of 1000-3000 words and will be considered for subsequent publication in the Imaging the Ineffable: Representation and Reality in Religion and Film conference proceedings. Please see our website http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/imaging-ineffable for details.** Please email paper abstracts in MS Word format to linaverchery@fas.harvard.edu and zoekn@bu.edu by February 4th 2013. Please include your full name, title, institution, phone number, e-mail, and mailing address in the email and on the paper abstract. Lina Verchery and Zoe Kelly-Nacht Co-organizers Committee on the Study of Religion Harvard University 12 Quincy street Cambridge, MA, 02138 http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/imaging-ineffable Go Top

．	[Contribution] Invitation for Contributing Articles for Vijjavimutti posted date:2013-02-08 Time：Deadline: 31st March, 2013 Invitation for Contributing Articles for Vijjavimutti Buddhist and Pali College of Singapore has been doing a great service of education in Singapore since its establishment in 1992, with the guidance of the great late Venerable Mahavira Mahanayaka Thera, the former abbot of Mangala Maha Vihara, Singapore. The Buddhist and Pali College is a well known overseas affiliate Centre for Buddhist studies of Buddhist and Pali University in Sri Lanka. So far, several hundreds of Diploma holders and Undergraduates, Postgraduates, and a few PhD graduates have been produced by the College. This is the time to rejoice and pay tribute to the College and its academic staff and the people who are involving and contributing for the wellbeing of the College. There will be a special celebration to commemorate its 20 years of great service by the end of 2013. At this remarkable juncture, the College is expecting to produce a volume of research/academic papers under its name. On behalf of Venerable Dr. Pategama Gnanarama (D.Litt), the Principal of Buddhist and Pali College, Publication Committee, we are happy to invite Buddhist Scholars around the world to contribute articles for this memorable work. Academic writings and research papers pertaining to Buddhist studies are welcome. The length of the papers should be 2500 $(Q#\|(B 3000 words typed in Times New Roman, font size is 12. For the footnotes, please, follow the Chicago Manual Footnotes. No bibliography is needed, only a reference list (the works cited in your writing) should be provided. The deadline for submitting articles is 31st of March, 2013. Kindly email your articles to the flowing address. buddhism.singapore@gmail.com We expect for your kind support by contributing an excellent piece of writing. Thank you The Editor Ven. Dr. Rangama Chandawimala Thero, Publication Committee Buddhist College of Singapore, Buddhist and Pali College of Singapore, Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery, 30 Jalan Eunos, 88 Bright Hill Rd, Singapore 419495. Singapore 574117. -- Contacts: Office : Ven.Rangama Chandawimala Thero, Buddhist College of Singapore, Kong Meng Sang Phor Kark See Monastery, 88 Bright Hill Road, Singapore 574117. Phone: Office: +65 6457 9983 Mobile - +65 9159 6025 Fax - +65 6456 0180 Go Top

．	[Contribution] The Pure Land in Buddhist Cultures: History, Image, Praxis, Thought posted date:2013-01-10 Time：2013/2/1 CALL FOR PAPERS Abstracts due: February 1, 2013 Papers due: May 23, 2013 Conference website: http://pureland2013.wordpress.com Papers might address questions such as: How did the praxis, thought, and social forms concerned with the pure land and its central buddha emerge historically? How do we best describe and analyze pure land forms in visual culture, whether embedded in text, in art and architecture, or in spatial and meditative imaginaries? And, in an increasingly globalized world, how do we understand the connections between various kinds of Pure Land all over the world and the challenges that each faces? Please submit a 100 word abstract and short bio to bcsprogram@gmail.com by February 1, 2013 for consideration. The jointly-sponsored, “The Pure Land in Buddhist Cultures,” will be the 3rd Annual Conference of the Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program (University of British Columbia, funded by The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation), and the 16th Biennial Conference of the International Association of Shin Buddhist Studies (hosted by the IASBS North American District). Related Link：http://ubcbuddhism.wordpress.com/ Go Top

．	[Contribution] 23rd International Conference on The Pacific Rim Management posted date:2013-01-03 Time：2013/7/11-13 Location：Monte Carlo Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Conference Outline The 23rd International Conference on the Pacific Rim Management is organized by the Association for Chinese Management Educators (ACME). The ACME’s goal is to provide a forum for management educators and practitioners to exchange information and to stimulate cooperation with both academic and nonacademic organizations in the Pacific Rim region. Specifically for this conference, the ACME aims to explore and discuss opportunities and challenges to form networks and collaborations to further advance management theory and practice. Main Topics Theoretical, conceptual and empirical articles are welcome. Major topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Academic Technology Management Accounting Information Systems Accounting Brand Management Consumer Behavior Corporate Finance & Foreign Direct Investments Culture Tourism Management Data Mining/Warehousing Decision Support Systems Entrepreneurship Financial Management Financial Institute Management Healthcare & Hospital Management Human Resource Management & Industrial Relations Information Security and Management Information Technology Innovative Teaching Methods International Accounting International business Internet & E-Commerce Investments Management Information Systems Manufacturing & Service Design Marketing & International Trade Organizational Behavior Organizational Learning & Knowledge Management Production & Operations Management Project Management Product Management Service Science Strategic Management Structural Equation Modeling Supply Chain Management System Dynamics Technology & Innovation Management Transportation, Communication, and Logistics Virtual Community and Social Network Analysis Web 2.0 Applications Wireless Networking Submission Guidelines A full paper, written in English and in MS Word, should be uploaded to the conference website by February 25th, 2013. The length of the full paper is limited to 15 pages. Authors are requested to prepare their full papers using the APA style. https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=icprm2013 Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by committee members. The authors will be notified of acceptance by March 15th 2013. Authors submitting articles for publication warrant that the work is not an infringement of any existing copyright and will indemnify the publisher against any breach of such warranty. For more information regarding submission, please go to http://myacme.org. Contact: Dr. Sam Wu ( president@uwest.edu) or Dr. Bill Chen ( billchen@uwest.edu) Related Link：http://www.uwest.edu/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=523:call-for-papers-for-the-2 Go Top

．	[Contribution] Reading Outside the Lines Workshop on the Intersection of Buddhists Art and Texts posted date:2012-12-17 Time：2013/2/15 Location：Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, München Reading Outside the Lines: A Workshop on the Intersection of Buddhist Art and Texts held at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, München sponsored by the Doctoral Program in Buddhist Studies The Doctoral Program in Buddhist Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, München is pleased to announce a call for papers for Reading Outside the Lines: A Workshop on the Intersection of Buddhists Art and Texts, to be held at LMU, München on September 13-14, 2013 in the beautiful city of Munich, Germany with a keynote address by Christian Luczanits, curator at the Rubin Museum of Art, New York. Selected contributors will present their research in a workshop environment and all papers will have discussant responses followed by discussion. The workshop will be conducted in English. While it is of course preferred that expenses for attendees are funded by their home institutions, travel funding is available for some attendees and will be awarded based on need and merit. Please submit an abstract no longer than three to five hundred words to: buddhist-studies-workshop@lrz.uni-muenchen.de by February 15, 2013 to be considered for selection to attend. Expect to be notified in mid-April 2013. Those selected will be required to submit a finished draft of their paper by July 15, 2013 to ensure discussants and all participants have time to prepare responses. Additionally, there is the chance that we will publish the proceedings. While this has not been finalized please note this possibility. Related Link：http://www.en.buddhismus-studien.uni-muenchen.de/currentissues/reading-outisde/index.html Go Top

．	[Contribution] The Journal of the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University posted date:2012-12-07 Time：2013/3/31 The Journal of the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University solicit submissions with a contemporary or a historical focus on the themes of freedom, liberty, and liberation in religious thought and practice for the 2013 issue (Vol. 41). Possible topics for submissions might include: · Religious or theological interpretations of freedom, liberty, and/or liberation · Freedom of religion · Freedom or liberation from suffering · Freedom and virtue, e.g. sin, wrongdoing, and the problem of evil · Relations among concepts of freedom, liberty, law, destiny, and providence · Concepts of liberation in religio-political contexts · Concepts of freedom in the ancient world, and their reception (or lack thereof). E.g. The Greek concept of Freedom in the Jewish, Greco- Roman, and Ancient Christian worlds. The editors also solicit reviews of recently published books related to the study of religion. Arc is an interdisciplinary, refereed journal published annually by the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University. The journal combines the talents of professors and graduate students in offering space for scholarly discussions on various aspects of the academic study of religion, including method and theory in the study of religion. Arc encourages submissions from diverse religious traditions and perspectives. The submission deadline is March 31st, 2013. For detailed submission guidelines, please consult the Guidelines for Contributors (PDF) on our website. All electronic correspondence, including requests for review copies of books, should be sent to the editors, Richard Cumming and Ryan Jones, at the following email address: arc.relgstud@mcgill.ca. Go Top

．	[Contribution] Institute of Buddhist Studies' third annual graduate student symposium. posted date:2012-12-03 Time：2013/1/7 Call for papers: We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the 3rd Annual Graduate Student Symposium at the Institute of Buddhist Studies. Our theme this year is “Buddhist Ritual, Buddhist Culture.” Buddhist ritual practices are shaped by their location and are affected by the ritual objects. How does the material world determine the ways that Buddhism is practiced? How do Buddhists use ritual objects? In turn, how does Buddhism shape these objects and transform the physical world? What is the impact, for example, on the physical world as a result of religious pilgrimage or tourism? How do Buddhists transform physical objects in the process of ritualization? This symposium will focus on these themes and will consider both historical and contemporary uses of material objects in Buddhist ritual, Buddhism’s impact on cultural materials, and the relationships between Buddhism and sacred objects. We invite graduate students to submit proposals considering one or more of these topics, either historically or contemporarily. Proposals should be no more than 200 words, and include the paper’s title and the author’s name, affiliation, and contact information. Please submit proposals to courtney.bruntz@gmail.com no later than January 31, 2013. Professor McDaniel's keynote address is being generously supported by the Yehan Numata Foundation. Important Dates: Submission of Abstract: January 7, 2013 Notification of Proposal Result: February 15, 2013 Submission of Full Paper: April 1, 2013 Conference Event: April 13, 2013 Go Top

．	[Contribution] CFP: Graduate Symposium Politics of Religion—deadline extended posted date:2012-12-03 Time：2012/12/8 Call for Papers (Extended Deadline: December 8): The Florida State University Department of Religion is pleased to announce its 12th Annual Graduate Student Symposium to be held February 22-24, 2013 in Tallahassee, Florida. Last year’s symposium was a huge success, allowing over 60 presenters from over 18 universities and departments as varied as History, Political Science, Philosophy, Psychology, and Classics to share their research, learn from one another, and meet many of their peers and future colleagues. This year’s symposium will be centered on the theme “Politics of Religion.” Dr. Aaron W. Hughes of the University of Rochester will deliver this year’s keynote address. His lecture is tentatively titled “The Search for Urreligion: The Politics of Religious Studies.” Due to our commitment to collaborative scholarship, students from all fields with interdisciplinary interests in the study of religion and at all levels of graduate study are encouraged to submit paper proposals. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: Identity Formation; Comparative Conflict; Church and State; Human Rights and Ethics; the Construction of Legitimizing Discourses; Issues of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality; the Body; and the Role of the Scholar. Presentations should be approximately 15 to 20 minutes in length and will receive faculty responses. In addition, every year respondents select the best graduate paper to receive the Leo F. Sandon Award, an endowed award named for the Religion Department's former chair. Proposals including an abstract of approximately 300 words, a list of key terms, and a one-page CV should be submitted by December 8, 2012 for review. Final papers must be submitted by January 15, 2013. Please send proposals to Brent Gordon at . Go Top

．	[Contribution] CFP: The Pure Land in Buddhist Cultures: History, Image, Praxis, Thought posted date:2012-11-30 Time：2013/2/1 Abstracts due: February 1, 2013 Papers due: May 23, 2013 Papers might address questions such as: - How did the praxis, thought, and social forms concerned with the pure land and its central buddha emerge historically? - How do we best describe and analyze pure land forms in visual culture, whether embedded in text, in art and architecture, or in spatial and meditative imaginaries? - And, in an increasingly globalized world, how do we understand the connections between various kinds of Pure Land all over the world and the challenges that each faces? Please submit a 100 word abstract and short bio to bcsprogram@gmail.com by February 1, 2013 for consideration. “The Pure Land in Buddhist Cultures,” will be the 3rd Annual Conference of the Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program (University of British Columbia, funded by The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation), and the 16th Annual Conference of the International Association of Buddhist Studies (hosted by the IASBS North American District). Related Link：http://pureland2013.wordpress.com Go Top

．	[Contribution] Singaporean Journal of Buddhist Studies launched posted date:2012-11-30 Time：2013 The Buddhist College of Singapore has just launched a new peer-reviewed Chinese & English journal of Buddhist Studies, the Singaporean Journal of Buddhist Studies. The first issue is to be published in a year or so, after that it will be published twice a year. It accepts unpublished research papers on all aspects of Buddhist Studies. Interested scholars can send their work to chuancheng@bcs.edu.sg. Related Link：http://www.bcs.edu.sg/index.php/bcs_en/journal/ Go Top

．	[Contribution] 2013 Cornell Southeast Asia Program Graduate Student Conference posted date:2012-11-21 Time：2013/3/1~3/3 Location： the Kahin Center for Advanced Research on Southeast Asia at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York 15th Annual Southeast Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference The conference will be held March 1-3, 2013 at the Kahin Center for Advanced Research on Southeast Asia at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. A very limited number of modest travel allowances may be available for those traveling longer distances. We encourage applicants to seek funding from their home institutions first. Please indicate along with your abstract whether you expect to receive travel funding from your home institution and if you would like to be considered for a travel allowance from the Cornell Southeast Asia Program Graduate Student Committee. We will be in touch in February to coordinate graduate student host lodging for confirmed presenters. We welcome submissions of abstracts from graduate students who have completed original research related to Southeast Asia. There is no specific theme for this conference, as we hope to attract a wide range of submissions. Our intention is to reflect the dynamic research currently undertaken by graduate students. The Cornell Southeast Asia Program’s Graduate Committee will review the abstracts, select presenters, and organize panels by theme. In order to aid this process of thematic organization, we ask that you please include a few keywords summarizing your presentation along with your abstract.Presenters should be prepared to submit full papers of 5000-8000 words by February 15. All abstracts should be limited to 250 words and sent in MS Word format. Do not send a .pdf. Please name your abstract using your first and last name together (for example, johnsmith.doc for John Smith’s abstract). The subject of the message should specify “Abstract” and the body should include the following information: - Author name(s), institutional affiliation(s), and a primary email address - Title of paper - Paper topic or keywords - The abstract - Expectations of Funding Needs Abstract Submission Deadline: January 10, 2013 Notification of Acceptance: Late January 2013 Confirmation of Attendance Deadline: February 5, 2013 Full Papers Due: February 15, 2013 Please submit abstracts to the following email address: * seapgradconference@gmail.com Related Link：http://seap.einaudi.cornell.edu/node/13404 Go Top

．	[Contribution] Call for Papers for the ICBS Fall 2012 Young Scholar Seminar posted date:2012-06-26 Time：Schedule:2012/11/9-10 Deadlines:paper proposal (2012/7/31), full-paper (2012/10/10) Location：icbs@uwest.edu Call for Papers for the ICBS Fall 2012 Young Scholar Seminar Theme: The Image of Women in Buddhist History The Institute of Chinese Buddhist Studies (ICBS) is glad to invite the submission of individual papers for ICBS Fall 2012 Young Scholar Seminar. The seminar is to provide a platform for graduate students and young scholars in North America to elevate their academic excellence and communication. Papers may include the areas of history, literature, art, philosophy of Buddhist women studies, lay Buddhism, monastic Buddhism, comparative studies on Buddhism and other religions, etc. Schedule: November 9th, 2012: Seminar at University of the West November 10th, 2012: Post-seminar one-day Buddhist Temple tour (optional) Deadlines: 300-500 words of paper proposal should be submitted by July 31, 2012 Selected proposals will be noticed by August 10 5,000-8,000 words full-paper will be due no later than October 10, 2012 Requirements: This seminar opens to applicants who are Ph.D. candidates, or young scholars who received Ph.D. degree after 2010 Selected candidates need to make a 20-min oral presentation, followed by a 10-min discussion during the seminar Sponsorship: ICBS will provide two nights’ accommodations on campus including lunch and dinner Each selected applicant will receive up to $500 air/train/bus transportation reimbursement, depending on individual conditions. Application and Registration: https://sites.google.com/site/icbsuwest/Home/icbs-fall-2012-seminar-1 Organizer: The Institute of Chinese Buddhist Studies (ICBS), UWest Contact: Jacqueline Jingjing Z., Coordinator Please send all queries to icbs@uwest.edu, and state “ICBS Fall 2012 Young Scholar Seminar” as the subject. Go Top

．	[Contribution]American Philosophical Association group meeting posted date:2012-05-15 Time：submission deadline: May 30, 2012 Location：the American Philosophical Association in Atlanta The Society for the Study of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy will have a panel at the December meeting of the Society for the Study of Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy at the American Philosophical Association in Atlanta, 2012. This is a call for papers (Length-20 minutes). The topic for this year will highlight MOONSHADOWS: CONVENTIONAL TRUTH IN BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY. edited by The Cowherds (Oxford). Papers about the essays in the book or inspired by the book will be welcome. Please send a short abstract by May 30.. Go Top

．	[Contribution]Buddhism and Peace Blue Pine Books "Buddhism and Peace" posted date:2012-05-08 Time：June 30, 2012 Location：chanjumun@hotmail.com ; rgreen@coastal.edu. Call for papers: Buddhism and Peace Blue Pine Books invites submissions of papers on the topic "Buddhism and Peace" for possible inclusion in an upcoming publication of collected articles. The resulting book will investigate peace from the theoretical and practical perspectives of an array of Buddhist traditions. Within the frame of Buddhism and peace, submissions may address such issues as the individual and peace, society and conflict resolution, environmentalism, world peace, culture and peace, scriptural bases for/against engaging in peacemaking practices, historical examples of Buddhist figures and peace. Email submissions should be sent directly to the editors Chanju Mun at chanjumun@hotmail.com and Ronald S. Green at rgreen@coastal.edu. Blue Pine Books is committed to publishing quality academic materials in Religious Studies. DEADLINE for submissions: June 30, 2012 GUIDELINES: Electronic submissions are acceptable in Word, WordPerfect, PDF or HTML formats. Please use standard academic style (Chicago or MLA). References must be cited in full. Papers should be written primarily in the English language with non-English citations in transliteration or appropriate scripts. Related Link：http://bluepinebooks.com/ Go Top

．	[Contribution]IATS XIII (2013) "Tibetan Information Technology" posted date:2012-05-08 Time：July 21 - 27, 2013 Location：<ph2046@columbia.edu>;<ph2046@columbia.edu> IATS-XIII Tibetan Information Technology July 21 - 27, 2013 Ulaanbaatar, MONGOLIA This panel covers a variety of related topics from technical development issues -- such as data encoding and Tibetan-specific needs in systems designs, to the results of research in Tibetan studies utilizing information technologies. Papers suitable for inclusion in this panel fall within three broadly defined areas of Tibetan Information Technology: 1. Technical papers. Research into key technical problems in Tibetan IT. Stated simply, such a paper would be comprised of certain key elements: a. A statement of the technical problem being addressed and its relationship 　 to Tibetan language and Tibetan research b. An overview of any previous attempts to address it or similar problems 　and an analysis of their (partial) successes or failures. c. A clear, technical statement of the approach take by the person or team 　 authoring the paper d. A theoretical or experimental assessment validating the approach chosen. 　 Obviously a methodologically sound assessment of an actual implementation 　 of the solution to the problem would be nice, but I realize that such is 　 not always possible in some cases (arguments about UNICODE being a good 　 example). 2. Application Papers Research in Tibetan subjects enabled by technology. Stated simply, such papers could be consider "soft" technical papers presenting research that focuses on the application of existing technologies within Tibetan language, Tibetan research and pedagogy. Such papers should present research that has not been previously published or presented in other forums. Such papers should also focus a non insignificant amount of time on the enabling technology rather than the results of the application, since that is the purpose of this panel. Papers should avoid "trivial" instances of technology use, however, for example, the simple utilization of "black box" technologies. 3. “Workshop” Papers Tutorials on problem solving within the field of Tibetan IT This category of submission would be more aptly described as presentation of general techniques for problem solving within Tibetan IT. Such topics could be: Unicode font design, data structure construction for bibliographic and archival databases, etc. Submissions should include: Author’s name Affiliation (if any) Proposed Paper Title Type of Paper (technical, application, workshop) Paper Abstract Please send copies of paper proposals to both: Panel Chair, Paul G. Hackett Panel Chair, Tashi Tsering Go Top

．	[Contribution]The International Journal for the Study of Humanistic Buddhism (IJSHB) posted date:2012-05-08 Location：JSHB@cuhk. edu.hk *Call for Papers ~ The International Journal for the Study of Humanistic Buddhism (IJSHB)* The International Journal for the Study of Humanistic Buddhism aims to become a high quality academic publication on Buddhist and Humanistic Buddhist studies. The content of the journal includes researches that account for the historical, philosophical, cultural, theoretical and methodological examination of various Buddhist schools from its traditional period up to the contemporary era. IJSHB concerns topics relating Buddhism with the society, politics, science and other current issues as well as the exploration of its relationship with modernization and globalization. We also encourage researches that integrate various Buddhist canons, doctrines with different historical courses. The journal covers topics of the following categories: 1. Hermeneutic studies of Buddhist Canon in connection with the theoretical foundation and practices of Humanistic Buddhism 2. Historical and philosophical studies of various Buddhist traditions and schools 3. Theoretical and methodological studies 4. Case studies on topics relating Buddhism with the society, politics, economics, charity and other current issues 5. Book and article reviews IJSHB is published semiyearly in printed format. Calling for papers is continuous throughout the year. All submissions should be sent to JSHB@cuhk. edu.hk in Microsoft Word compatible format. Please include “Submission to IJSHB” in the subject title of your email. Go Top

．	[Contribution]Arc, the Journal of the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University posted date:2012-05-08 Time：submission deadline: June 15, 2012 Location：arc.relgstud@mcgill.ca. The Journal of the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill Universityare soliciting submissions on the theme of embodiment for the 2012 issue. Submissions could address various topics, including: · The role of the body in religion, · The valuation of the body as sacred or profane, · Embodiment and personhood, · The value of the body in the religious fulfillment of the human being, · Theories of embodiment in religious studies, · The role of the body in religious narratives, · Body-centric rituals and practices, · Gender and sexuality, · Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the body and religion. Arc is an interdisciplinary, refereed journal published annually by the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University. The journal combines the talents of professors and graduate students in offering space for scholarly discussions on various aspects of the academic study of religion, including method and theory in the study of religion. Arc encourages submissions from diverse religious traditions and perspectives. The submission deadline is June 15, 2012. For detailed submission guidelines, please consult the Guidelines for Contributors (PDF) on our website. All electronic correspondence, including requests for review copies of books, should be sent to the editors, Richard Cumming and Ryan Jones, at the following email address: arc.relgstud@mcgill.ca. Go Top

．	[Contribution]Buddhist Exchange and Pioneer Buddhists Conference posted date:2012-05-08 Time：13-15 September 2012; submission deadline of abstracts :Monday 9 July 2012 Buddhist Exchange and Pioneer Buddhists Conference Conference Notice - 1st call for papers South-East Asia as a Crossroads for Buddhist Exchange: pioneer European Buddhists and Asian Buddhist networks 1860-1960 Study of Religions Department, University College Cork, Ireland 13-15 September 2012 The recent discovery of the extraordinary life of 'The Irish Buddhist' U Dhammaloka (documented in the special issue of Contemporary Buddhism 11:2, December 2010) has stimulated new avenues of research into numerous significant but neglected East-West and global Buddhist encounters. This conference focuses on forgotten or under-represented Buddhist pioneers, their connections and collaborations, and the contribution of these individuals and networks to the construction of Buddhist modernities. Casting South-East Asia as a 'cross roads' invites contributions on pioneer exchanges and connections not only between 'the West' and 'Asia' but also within Asia, from China, Korea and Japan through Southeast Asia to India and Ceylon. The period to be covered, broadly 1860-1960, is intended to include the earliest documented pioneer European [and e.g. Japanese] Buddhist practitioners of the colonial period whilst stopping short of the mass interest in Buddhism of the late 20th century. We are interested in any figures, groups or networks whose commitment to Asian Buddhist praxis in the colonial period contributed in some way to the emergence of modern global Buddhism and whose role was pioneering, rather than following a traditionally established path. We are equally interested in networks of exchange and communication such as trade routes, monastic interrelationships, military ventures, cultural exchanges, missionary enterprises and imperialist and socialist (etc.) institutions and ideas which enabled Buddhists to interact in pioneering ways during this period. Forgotten figures such as U Dhammaloka, despite their historical significance for these exchanges in colonial Asia, have long been obscured in conventional scholarly narratives which have presented a very small selection of 'pioneer' figures found respectable within today's Western Buddhist lineages or canonised in Asian accounts. Recent discoveries overturning these entrenched narratives have been made possible in part by the new digitisation and indexing of colonial-era newspapers, travel books, directories, missionary reports and other obscure and disparate sources which can provide - often fragmentary - pointers to lost lives and events which may in the end be documented only through traditional archival research. This conference aims to further this new and exciting field of research by bringing together scholars with a shared interest in global Buddhism and expertise in different periods and regions of Asia and the West. There are many contested issues and theoretical perspectives to be explored in this context, and we welcome papers of a theoretical nature so long as they are to some extent grounded in empirical examples. We intend to produce a journal special issue or edited volume based on papers presented at the conference. The conference will take place from Thursday afternoon 13th September to Saturday morning 15th September 2012 and is hosted by the Study of Religions Department, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. There is no conference fee but delegates will be responsible for their own travel and accommodation; there is plenty of moderately priced accommodation close by the University. Cork Airport is a short distance from the University and about 1hr by air from London and other major European hubs. Some limited financial support for postgraduates may be available. The conference is co-organised by Prof Brian Bocking and Dr Phibul Choompolpaisal (UCC Study of Religions Department) with an advisory committee comprising Dr Laurence Cox (NUIM, Ireland), Prof Alicia Turner (York University, Toronto), Dr Andrew Skilton (KCL, London) and Dr Kate Crosby (SOAS, London), in association with the 12-month postdoctoral research fellowship project 'Continuities and Transitions in Early Modern Thai Buddhism' at UCC supported by the Dhammakaya International Society of the United Kingdom. The Conference itself has a far wider remit than Thailand, and papers in all regions are warmly welcomed. The deadline for submission of abstracts is Monday 9 July 2012, but abstracts will be considered as they are submitted from now on to facilitate your travel planning. If you hope to attend the conference we would appreciate an email indicating this a.s.a.p. A conference website will be established in the near future. In the meantime enquiries, expressions of interest and abstracts should be emailed to Prof Brian Bocking in Cork, email: b.bocking [at] ucc.ie or to Dr Phibul Choompolpaisal in Thailand, email: phibulart [at] yahoo.com Related Link：http://publish.ucc.ie/researchprofiles/A040/bbocking Go Top

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．	[Course] International Buddhist Academy Summer Program posted date:2013-05-03 Time：2013/5/29-8/28 The International Buddhist Academy (Boudha/Kathmandu) is happy to offer the following courses this summer: - Colloquial Tibetan (May 29 - August 28) - Introduction to Classical Tibetan (May 30 – July 23) - May 29-June 25: Introduction to Buddhist practice, taught by Khenpo Jamyang Tenzin - July 1-26 & August 1-28: the Bodhicaryavatara by Shantideva, taught by Khenpo Jorden and HE Ratna Vajra Rinpoche - September 3-12 & 15-24: 2 meditation retreats led by Ven. Dhammadipa For further details and registration, please visit: www.internationalbuddhistacademy.org Related Link：www.internationalbuddhistacademy.org Go Top

．	[Course] Summer Language Intensives in Tibetan and Sanskrit at Mangalam Research Center, Berkeley posted date:2013-03-07 Time：2013/3/15 This program was previously announced one month ago. Since then, the deadline for applications has been changed to March 15; applicants will be notified by April 15. Apologies for the short notice of this change: if this deadline poses a difficulty for anyone, let us know and we may be able to make accommodations. This summer Mangalam Research Center for Buddhist Languages will again offer intensive 7-week language programs in both Classical Sanskrit and Classical Tibetan. The programs are designed to provide the equivalent of a first-year university-level language program in each language. Go Top

．	[Course] The Buddha nature mind posted date:2012-12-24 Time：2013/1/7-3/16 Location：Karmapa International Buddhist Institute The upcoming course will be again blessed by the presence of H.H. Gyalwa Karmapa. He is going to give a seven day course with teachings and empowerments during the mid of March. Any further information will be published in January 2013. Examination: At the end of the course every student is asked to write a thesis. FIRST YEAR Uttaratantrashastra: The Buddha nature mind (whole book) main subject Bodhisatvacharya avatara: The Bodhisattva's ways of life: (chapter 1, 2 and 3) Jewel Ornament of Liberation: The path that combines the tradition of the Kadampa lineage as descended from Atisha, and Mahamudra, as initiated by the great Mahasiddha Maitripa (chapter 1,2 ,3, 4 and 5). Basic Tibetan language (optional): Students will be taught how to read and write classical Tibetan. SECOND YEAR Madhyamikaavatara by Chandrakirti: (the whole book) main subjects Bodhisatvacharya avatara: The Bodhisattva's ways of life: (chapter 4, 5 and 6) Jewel Ornament of Liberation: (Chapter 6,7,8,9,10) Basic Tibetan language (optional): Students will be taught how to read and write classical Tibetan. THIRD YEAR Madhyanta-vibhaga: Middle path that establishes ultimate nature of existences: (whole book) main subject. It is one of the five treatises of Maitreya. New subject in KIBI. Bodhisatvacharya-avatara: (Chapter 7 and 8) Jewel Ornament of Liberation: (Chapter 11,12,13,14,and 15) Basic Tibetan language (optional): Students will be taught how to read and write classical Tibetan. FOURTH YEAR Heart Sutra Rice Seedling Sutra Bodhisatavacharyaavatara: (chapter 9 and 10) Jewel Ornament of Liberation: (chapter 16,17,18,19,20, and 21) Basic Tibetan language (optional): Students will be taught how to read and write classical Tibetan. Related Link：http://www.kibi-edu.org/curriculum.htm Go Top

．	[Course] 2013 Philosophy Courses and Retreat Outline posted date:2012-12-24 Time：2013/9/3-24 The 1st course, taught by Khenpo Jamyang Tenzing will offer pith instructions and guided meditations, ideal for those interested in building a genuine Buddhist practice. The 2nd (taught in part by H.E. Dungsey Ratna Vajra Rinpoche from mid-end July) and 3rd courses (teacher to be announced) present a classic of Mahayana Buddhist literature: the renowned Bodhicaryavatara, by Shantideva. For more information click here or the menu tab. In September we offer two meditation retreats: on samata (calm abiding meditation) and vipassana (insight meditation) each led by the renowned meditation master, Ven. Dhammadipa. For more information please click here or the menu tab. Fee and registration information can be found here. Related Link：http://internationalbuddhistacademy.org/retreats2013/ Go Top

．	[Course] H. E. Ratna Vajra Rinpoche to teach part of the July 2013 course posted date:2012-12-24 Time：7/12-26 Location：P.O. Box 23034 Tinchuli, Boudha Kathmandu, Nepal His Eminence, Ratna Vajra Rinpoche, eldest son of His Holiness the 41st Sakya Trizin, will be teaching part of the ‘Way of the Bodhisattva’ Course from 12-26 July! Related Link：http://internationalbuddhistacademy.org/news/ Go Top

．	[Course] Going Forth Online posted date:2012-12-17 Time：2012/12/31 (Mon.) Location：Barre Center For Buddhist Studies Class Title: Going Forth Online Instructor(s): Mu Soeng, Andrew Olendzki, Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia Class Details: As baby-boomers reach retirement age, they confront existential issues in altogether new ways. Can the Buddha's insights into the human condition be articulated and contextualized in ways that can help guide and support a new kind of community? One part of the BCBS Going Forth program is to create an online retirement community that will inspire the daily practice of a far-flung network of Buddhist practitioners. Building upon the ancient Indian paradigm of retirement being a precious opportunity for personal growth, we will use the classical teachings from the Pali texts as our primary source material for reflections and conversations, with input from later Buddhist traditions as well. This virtual community is one part of the Going Forth program. A number of courses have been conducted on campus in 2012, with another planned for 2013. The virtual community is open to all those willing to make some specific commitments. The virtual community consists of monthly teaching materials (a Buddhist text, commentaries by BCBS core teachers Andrew Olendzki, Mu Soeng, and Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia), commitment to a daily practice, and participation in a Google Groups virtual discussion. Our registration system is set up predominantly for on-campus courses. Please complete the relevent sections of the registration form, ignoring those that relate to an on-campus course. If the registration system requires you to input information that is not relevent for an off-campus course, please simply go through the motions in order to complete your registration. Thank you. This course has a suggested registration fee of $100. We do not want you to feel you cannot participate due to finances, so please call us at 978-355-2347, ext. 10, to register if you would like to pay a different fee. Cost: $100.00 Related Link：http://www.bcbsdharma.org/courses/?page=Class_Details&id=a0GA000000Fqe8dMAB Go Top

．	[Course] 2013 Summer Courses in Buddhist Philosophy posted date:2012-12-17 Time：2013/5/28-8/29 Location：International Buddhist Academy Topics covered will include: Prerequisites for the path to freedom. Overcoming inner obstacles. Avoiding pitfalls on the path. Practical mind training (based on compassion and bodhicitta). Contemplative practices: calm abiding and special insight. Developing joyful perseverance. Mind training that transforms obstacles into the path itself. Wisdom: the profound view of reality, according to Middle Way philosophy. Fees and Registration: http://internationalbuddhistacademy.org/fees-registration/ Related Link：http://internationalbuddhistacademy.org/philosophy2013/ Go Top

．	[Course] Understanding Buddhism Class posted date:2012-08-23 Time：2012/08/26 Location：Hsi Fang Temple : 4536 Park Blvd., San Diego, CA 92116 9:00am Diamond Sutra Repentance Dharma Service (Service in Chinese, Main Shrine) 10:00am Children's Dharma School (Buddhism Classes for Children) 1:30pm Discussion Group (Topic: "What the Buddha Taught") 2:30pm Understanding Buddhism Class - Venerable's Visit (Informal Intro to Buddhism, no prerequisites and no advance registration is required) 3:30pm Meditation (Ch'an walking & sitting meditation, Meditation Hall) All are welcome! Related Link：http://www.hsifang.org/english/calendar.jsp Go Top

．	[Course] The Map of Wisdom posted date:2012-08-23 Time：2012/09/01 Location：149 Lockwood Road, Barre, Massachusetts This daylong workshop will offer an in-depth exploration of some of the core teachings of the Buddha: impermanence, karma, selflessness, and compassion, and how they relate to each other forming a holistic path of wisdom and understanding. There will be dharma talks, discussions, and periods of meditation. (978) 355-2347 office (978) 355-2798 fax bcbs@dharma.org Related Link：https://bcbs.dharma.org/Pages/course_detail.lasso?-KeyValue=228&-Token.Action=&image=1 Go Top

．	[Course] Studying the Buddha’s Words posted date:2012-07-04 Time：2012/7/14-2012/9/29 Location：Chuang Yen Monastery, 2020 Route 301, Carmel, NY 10512 The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha A Course in the Majjhima Nikaya with Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi This ongoing course offers the opportunity to study the Majjhima Nikaya with one of the co-translators of the influential English translation, The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha (Wisdom Publications). The class starts at 9:30 am with a half-hour silent meditation. This is followed at 10 am by a talk on a sutta, with time for questions. A discussion period led by the teacher will be held after lunch, from noon to 12:30 pm. Newcomers are welcome. Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi, originally from New York City, has been a Buddhist monk since 1972 and is highly regarded as a scholar and teacher. He lived in Asia for 24 years, where he was president and editor of the Buddhist Publication Society. He has been living at Chuang Yen Monastery since 2007. Location: Chuang Yen Monastery, 2020 Route 301, Carmel, NY 10512 Place : Kuan Yin Hall Note: Because of a persisting health problem, Bhikkhu Bodhi may on occasion have to cancel a scheduled Saturday morning class. We therefore suggest that you verify whether each class will be given before you travel to Chuang Yen monastery. This verification can be done by either: (1) checking your e-mail, or (2) phoning the monastery. (1) E-mail. Chuang Yen Monastery will send everyone registered in the class an e-mail by 7:00 AM on the Saturday morning of each class, indicating whether the class will be given or is cancelled. (2) Phone. Those without e-mail should check the recorded message at 845- 228-4645 at 7:00 AM on the morning of each class. The message will say whether the class will be given or cancelled. There is no charge for the course. Donations for the monastery are always welcome. Related Link：http://www.baus.org/en/?p=3234 Go Top

．	[Course]Studying the Buddha’s Words posted date:2012-03-15 Time：2012/3/24 - 6/23 Location：Chuang Yen Monastery, 2020 Route 301, Carmel, NY 10512 The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha A Course in the Majjhima Nikaya with Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi This ongoing course offers the opportunity to study the Majjhima Nikaya with one of the co-translators of the influential English translation, The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha (Wisdom Publications). The class starts at 9:30 am with a half-hour silent meditation. This is followed at 10 am by a talk on a sutta, with time for questions. A discussion period led by the teacher will be held after lunch, from noon to 12:30 pm. Newcomers are welcome. Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi, originally from New York City, has been a Buddhist monk since 1972 and is highly regarded as a scholar and teacher. He lived in Asia for 24 years, where he was president and editor of the Buddhist Publication Society. He has been living at Chuang Yen Monastery since 2007. Location: Chuang Yen Monastery, 2020 Route 301, Carmel, NY 10512 Place : Kuan Yin Hall Note: Because of a persisting health problem, Bhikkhu Bodhi may on occasion have to cancel a scheduled Saturday morning class. We therefore suggest that you verify whether each class will be given before you travel to Chuang Yen monastery. This verification can be done by either: (1) checking your e-mail, or (2) phoning the monastery. (1) E-mail. Chuang Yen Monastery will send everyone registered in the class an e-mail by 7:00 AM on the Saturday morning of each class, indicating whether the class will be given or is cancelled. (2) Phone. Those without e-mail should check the recorded message at 845- 228-4645 at 7:00 AM on the morning of each class. The message will say whether the class will be given or cancelled. There is no charge for the course. Donations for the monastery are always welcome. Related Link：http://www.baus.org/en/?p=3234#more-3234 Go Top

．	[Course]Summer Program 2012 in International Buddhist Academy posted date:2012-03-07 Time：June 4 – 29, July 3 – 31, August 6 – 31, 2012 Summer Program 2012 in International Buddhist Academy This Summer we will offer three individual month-long courses in Buddhist meditation and philosophy (see below and follow the links for more information), all of which are essential for genuine Buddhist practice. The first and third months have a practical emphasis: the stages of meditation and mind training. The second month is more philosophically-oriented. In addition, there will be three separate courses in Tibetan language offered (Mon-Fri) in June, July and August. We will also be offering a 10 day retreat. Details will be confirmed shortly. The courses are taught directly in English by experienced and fully-qualified teachers (Khenpos) and are supplemented with afternoon revision and Q&A sessions. Registration opens on February 15th. Please note that this year accommodation on-campus is limited. Please do not send any deposit until your on-campus accommodation has been confirmed. June 4 – 29 “Uniting Method and Wisdom” Kamalashila’s Stages of Meditation Kamala?īla was the disciple of the great abbot ?āntarak?ita. It is Kamala?īla’s most widely renowned work, and teaches how to progress on the Buddhist path. In this course we will study the first book in the series of three, which is the most extensive is rarely taught. .This course will discuss the theoretical as well as the practical aspects of authentic Buddhist practice. July 3 – 31 “Entering Reality” Candrakirti’s Introduction to the Middle Way Candrakīrti was a Buddhist master famous for his exposition of the Madhyamaka (‘Middle Way’) philosophy, generally regarded in Tibet as the pinnacle of Buddhist thought. More than just an introduction to this philosophy, his Introduction to the Middle Way is an extensive and profound treatise studied by all traditions of Tibetan Buddhism up to the present day, aimed at revealing the view of ultimate reality. August 6 – 31 “The Alchemy of Suffering” A Stream of Nectar: Pith Instructions for the Cultivation of the two Bodhicittas According to the Mahāyāna, it is said that the entire Buddhist path is contained in one thing only: the practice of bodhicitta, the mind of enlightenment. Ga Rabjamba Kunga Yeshe’s text on Mind Training (lojong) teaches methods which are easy to apply in everyday life and have the power to produce a profound inner transformation. Related Link：http://sakyaiba.edu.np/external/blog.html Go Top

．	[Course]Pali Summer School 2012 in OCBS posted date:2012-03-07 Time：18th – 30th August 2012 Pali Summer School 2012 Oxford 18th – 30th August 2012 The Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies offers its annual intensive Pali course this summer, 18th –30th August inclusive. The following details come from Professor Gombrich: Aim. At the end of the course you should be able, using the normal aids available, i.e., dictionaries, grammars and translations, slowly to read a Pali canonical text and understand it for yourself. Is this really possible? I devised the course and have already given it seven times with great success. Pali can be learnt in twelve days because the aim is only to read it, not to write or speak it – though you do learn to pronounce it and recite a few chants. There is also much less emphasis on memorisation than in a traditional course: why memorise things you can easily look up? Who may attend? Anyone who is genuinely interested and prepared to work hard. There are no academic prerequisites. There are no exams, and no certificates are issued. Method. Accordingly, the course is built on learning how to use the Pali-English Dictionary published by the Pali Text Society. The course begins with learning Pali alphabetical order, and throughout the course each pupil is constantly using the Dictionary. Tables of the main grammatical forms are supplied and, again, students constantly consult them for themselves, until they become familiar. Students and teachers sit round a table together throughout the course. Students are urged to keep asking questions, and to work in cooperation. Organisation. On the first day students will introduce themselves, and then we shall survey the grammatical terms and principles you need to understand for the course. Though anyone who has already studied Latin, Greek or Sanskrit will probably be familiar with much of this material, experience suggests that nothing is lost by asking everyone to attend. The rest of the course is extremely intensive. It is cumulative, so that to miss an early lesson is disastrous. The one rigid rule is that no one may miss a class in the first week. We shall work out the precise timetable when we meet; the general pattern will be that there will be classes each day from 9.30 to 5.30, with a long lunch break. There will be homework every evening. There will be no classes on Sunday 26th August – but there will be homework. The course will end at mid-day on Thursday 30th; our tradition is that we then all take lunch together, usually in Aziz Indian restaurant. Besides the Pali language, the course will discuss the Pali canon and many questions concerning the Buddha’s teaching and our evidence for it. Practical Arrangements. The course will take place at the main (Headington) campus of Oxford Brookes University. Students who do not live locally will be housed in single rooms in Clive Booth Hall (formerly Morrell Hall), which is less than ten minutes easy walk from the main campus: http://www.brookes.ac.uk/studying/accommodation/halls/clivebooth. I am afraid that there is no parking available. There are cooking facilities at Clive Booth Hall, at no extra charge. There are bar and cafeteria facilities, including breakfast, on the campus, except on Sundays, and we shall ourselves maintain a supply of tea and coffee in the lecture room. The charge for the bedroom is ￡25.00 per night but if we can book ten rooms the charge is reduced to ￡20.00 each. This money is payable in advance for the whole course. Better class accommodation is available, of course at a higher price -- I believe ￡35 per night. My tuition and the course materials are provided free, but we have to pay for some teaching assistance, the lecture room and some admin expenses. We therefore have to charge each student ￡250.00. Since this sum takes no account of overheads, any further donation will be very welcome. Payment is in sterling. Cheques should be made out to the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies and sent to me by the end of July. However, since we lose so much if we accept payment in a foreign currency, those coming from overseas may pay me on arrival in the UK, provided they warn me of this in advance. Booking. Please apply to me, Richard Gombrich, at Richard.gombrich@balliol.ox.ac.uk. When applying, please supply full contact details, including telephone and postal address, and let me know your highest educational qualification. We shall also need to know whether you require accommodation. The closing date for applications is 30th July. However, since enrolment is restricted to 14, the course is usually fully booked long before the closing date. This year, in fact, I have already had a record number of enquiries. Related Link：http://www.ocbs.org/events-ocbsmain-129/33-academic-events/215-pali-summer-school-2012 Go Top

．	[Course]Integrated Study and Practice Program (ISPP) posted date:2011-02-17 Time：2012.06 The Barre Center for Buddhist Studies offers one-year programs that seek to integrate meditation practice with the study of Buddhist thought. The programs provide experienced dharma students with the opportunity to delve more deeply into the meaning and significance of the Buddha’s teachings, and to creatively explore the relationship of these teachings to meditation practice. These programs are generally designed for students with an established vipassana meditation practice. The programs are led by Andrew Olendzki, Executive Director and Senior Scholar at BCBS, and Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia, a dharma teacher and longtime member of BCBS’ visiting faculty. Admission to the ISPP is by application only. The current program, which runs through October 2011, is now full. The deadline for the 2012 ISPP will be March 2012, with the program planned to start in June 2012. The documents below will be updated when the 2012 program is finalized. You may use the documents available for download below for more information on how the program works, or email us at bcbs@dharma.org. Related Link：http://www.dharma.org/bcbs/Pages/course_special_programs.html Go Top

Exhibition

．	[Exhibition]Pearls of the Snowlands: Tibetan Buddhist Painting from the Derge Parkhang at Fowler Mus posted date:2012-04-17 Time：4/22-10/14, 2012 Location：UCLA Fowler Museum Pearls of the Snowlands: Tibetan Buddhist Painting from the Derge Parkhang at Fowler Museum Pearls of the Snowlands: Tibetan Buddhist Painting from the Derge Parkhang at the Fowler Museum, 4/22-10/14 Sunday, April 22, 2012 12:00 PM UCLA Fowler Museum Founded in 1729, the Derge Parkhang, also called the Derge Sutra Printing House, is one of the foremost cultural, religious and historical institutions in Tibet, a place where books are still being made as they have been for nearly 300 years: hand-printed from hand-carved wooden blocks, with ink and paper locally manufactured in a centuries-old tradition. "Pearl of the Snowlands: Tibetan Buddhist Printing From the Derge Parkhang," on display from April 22 through Oct. 14 at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, features woodblock prints from the Parkhang's collection, along with beautiful photographs by Patrick Dowdey and Clifton Meador of the elaborate Tibetan architecture of the printing house, its ancient hand-printing process and the people who work there. Today, the Derge Parkhang prints books and images from a collection of more than 300,000 woodblocks, including renowned editions of the Buddhist Kanjur and Tanjur (the teachings of the Buddha and the collected commentaries on his teachings, respectively). This exhibition features fine examples of the Parkhang's detailed, beautifully composed woodblock prints and thankga, or prints mounted on fabric. Many of the prints portray stories of the Buddha and the deities and bodhisattvas of Tibetan Buddhism, including a portrait of Guru Padmasambhava at the Samye Monastery, made from one of the printing house's oldest blocks. Another pair of prints designed by Chuba Phurbu, a personal artist to the 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso (1879–1933), depict Padmasambhava and the revered Green Droma, who protects sentient beings from the "eight disasters" intricately depicted around the edge of this print: lions and pride; wild elephants and delusions; enemies and fanatical views; prisons and avarice; demons and doubt; snakes and envy; floods and lust; and fires and anger. www.fowler.ucla.edu/exhibitions/pearl-of-the-snowlands Related Link：http://www.international.ucla.edu/buddhist/events/showevent.asp?eventid=9409 Go Top

Lecture

．	[Lecture] On the Five Treatises of Maitreya by P. Turenne posted date:2013-05-03 Time：2013/5/5, 10am Location：International Buddhist Academy, Tinchuli, Boudha/Kathmandu We are very happy to invite you to our next Academic Talk at IBA (Kathmandu) this coming Sunday. Philippe Turenne of RYI will speak on: The Five Treatises of Maitreya: Lessons from a Tibetan Concept Time: Sunday, May 5, 2013, 10am Venue: International Buddhist Academy, Tinchuli, Boudha/Kathmandu Go Top

．	[Lecture] Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions Seminars and Fora 2012-13 posted date:2013-05-03 Time：2013/5/9, 5:00-7:00 pm Location：Room Khalili Lecture Theatre (SOAS, Russell Sq. Building) The SOAS Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions (CSJR) is pleased to host a lecture by Brian Victoria. School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Thursday, 9 May 2013, 5:00-7:00 pm, Room Khalili Lecture Theatre (SOAS, Russell Sq. Building) A Tale of Two Buddhisms: Will the 'Real' Buddhism Please Stand Up? By Brian Daizen Victoria (Antioch University) This lecture compares and contrasts martyred Uchiyama Gudo's politically left-wing understanding of Buddhism with that of Imperial Army General Matsui Iwane, 1939 founder of the Kōa (Develop Asia) Kannon temple. In the Tokyo War Crimes trials, Iwane was found responsible for the December 1937 Nanking Massacre and executed in December 1948. The goal of this lecture is not to determine which of these two understandings of Buddhism is correct, but to serve as a catalyst for exploring what Buddhism's political ideology might be (should it have one). Brian Daizen Victoria is professor of Japanese Studies and director of the AEA Japan and Its Buddhist Traditions Program at Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio. In addition to a 2nd, enlarged edition of Zen At War (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006),Professor Victoria’s major writings include Zen War Stories; an autobiographical work in Japanese entitled Gaijin de ari, Zen bozu de ari (As a Foreigner, As a Zen Priest); Zen Master Dōgen, coauthored with Prof. Yokoi Yūhō of Aichi-gakuin University; and a translation of The Zen Life by Sato Koji (Weatherhill, 1972). Please note that the event will be followed by a wine reception ALL WELCOME This event is free and no registration is required. Related Link：www.soas.ac.uk/csjr/events Go Top

．	[Lecture] Zen as a Cult of Death posted date:2013-05-02 Time：2013/5/3, 5pm The last Japan Forum Lecture of this semester at the University of Leeds, UK: Brian Victoria (Antioch) May 3 at 5pm, Social Sciences SR 9.11 "Zen as a Cult of Death in the W.W. II Writings of D.T. Suzuki" Go Top

．	[Lecture] CASS Lectures by Prof. SAITO Akira posted date:2013-04-25 Time：2013/5/7 9:30 am to 11:30 am Location：Conference Room 941, Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences No.5 Jianguomennei The CASS Center for Sanskrit Studies and the Institute of Philosophy is pleased to invite Professor SAITO Akira, University of Tokyo, to deliver two lectures on Tuesday, May 7th, 2013. LECTURE 1: In Search of the Identical Self: The Debate about ?tman and its Background LECTURE 2: Sanskrit Studies in Present-day Japan ALL WELCOME Please note that this event is free and open to the public, and no registration is required. For directions to the venue, please visit the website: http://philosophy.cass.cn For further information, please contact HE Huanhuan at: pkuhhh@gmail.com Go Top

．	[Lecture] Sander and Falk, Soka University, Tokyo (Kudo) posted date:2013-04-25 Time：2013/5/1 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM (JST) Location： Meeting Room (6F), A Building, Soka University. 1-263, Tangi-cho, Hachioji, Tokyo Lectures by Dr. Lore Sander and Dr. Harry Falk at the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, Soka University in Tokyo. Lecturer: Dr. Lore Sander (Ex-curator, Indian Museum, Berlin) Theme: Tocharian Royals in Kizil Caves Lecturer: Dr. Harry Falk (Prof. Emer., Free University of Berlin) Theme: Wine in the Buddhist monasteries of Gandhāra Place: Meeting Room (6F), A Building, Soka University. 1-263, Tangi-cho, Hachioji, Tokyo Contact Phone number: +81-(0)42-691-2695 Contact Email Address: iriab@soka.ac.jp Access (Japanese): http://www.soka.ac.jp/about/access/index.html Access (English): http://www.soka.ac.jp/en/access.html See also: http://iriab.soka.ac.jp/orc/pdf/13-64-Meeting.pdf All those who are interested in the topic will be welcome. Related Link：http://www.soka.ac.jp/en/access.html Go Top

．	[Lecture] Talks on Japanese Religions at Harvard posted date:2013-04-22 Time：2013/4/19 4:15-5:45 p.m. Location：Porte Room (S250), Second Level, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street 1) Jason Josephson will be presenting on his exciting new book - The Invention of Religion in Japan (Chicago, 2012). Details of this event are posted at: http://www.harvard.com/event/jason_nanda_josephson/. 2) I will be presenting the following talk: “Thick Conversations: Toward a Dialogical Theory of Japanese Buddhism” Based on 14 months of interviews with 226 Buddhist priests of every stripe from all over Japan, this talk presents a series of dialogs about contemporary temple realities. Rather than provide ethnographic cover for over-determined notions of “Japanese Buddhism”, I want to explore particular, localized negotiations of various teachings, customs, and personalities. This is a search for the “ordinary” priest. It is as much a study of doubt and discomfort as of faith and certainty. Friday, April 19 from 4:15-5:45 p.m. in the Porte Room (S250), Second Level, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street Related Link：http://www.harvard.com/event/jason_nanda_josephson/ Go Top

．	[Lecture] The April Meeting of the Kyoto Asian Studies Group posted date:2013-04-16 Time：2013/4/23 6:30-8:30 Location：Room 212 of the Fusokan on the Doshisha University Campus The speaker for the April meeting of the Kyoto Asian Studies Group is Jeff Schroeder, who will present “Class Struggle, Free Speech, and the New Science of Shin Buddhism: The 1928 Heresy Incident of Kaneko Daiei” (see abstract below). The lecture will be held on Tuesday, April 23rd from 6:30-8:30 in Room 212 (please note room change!) of the Fusokan on the Doshisha University Campus. Abstract: In 1928, Shin Buddhist monk and Otani University professor Kaneko Daiei was accused of heresy (ianjin) for denying the existence of the Pure Land and pressured to resign his professorship. These events triggered student protests, mass resignations of faculty, and a storm of press in the Chugai NippoBuddhist newspaper. This incident’s collision of competing factions (including “doctrinal modernists” and “conservatives,” administrators, students, professors, and journalists) provides a window on the complicated politics of religious change. Here we can take a broad view of Japanese Buddhist “modernization,” seeing doctrinal innovation by the likes of Kaneko Daiei or Kiyozawa Manshi as one factor in a larger story of institutional conflict and social transformation. In this case, the actual content of Kaneko’s theories was apparently only of peripheral importance, considering the striking lack of open discussion of those theories. In lieu of doctrinal analysis, I analyze Kaneko’s heresy incident from three interrelated perspectives: 1) Economics: emphasizing the perspective of students angered at their “capitalist” sect, I examine how the incident was interpreted in terms of class interest and the sect’s obligations to its donors; 2) Political Rights: focusing on the perspective of the editors of Chugai Nippo, I discuss how the incident was compared to the 1920 Morito Incident and debated as an issue of free speech; and 3) Academics: I examine how Kiyozawa, Kaneko, Soga Ryojin and their critics, including Kiyozawa disciple Tada Kanae and administrator Shimoma Kukyo, debated the potential and limits of the new, quasi-scientific discipline of Shin Buddhist studies. In my interpretation, the incident’s ambiguous resolution (Kaneko was never officially judged a heretic and would be welcomed back into the sect and university in 1941) points to a symbiotic, albeit uneasy relationship between the sect and its “modernist” thinkers in the context of a modernizing society. Jeff Schroeder is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Religion Department of Duke University. Sponsored by the Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies. Please refrain from bringing food or drinks into the meeting room. Contact: Hillary Pedersen, hillyped@yahoo.com Related Link：http://www.doshisha.ac.jp/english/access/ima_campus.html Go Top

．	[Lecture] Korea’s Jōdōshinshū: Lay Monk Villages in Colonial Korea" by Hwansoo Kim (Duke University) posted date:2013-04-16 Time：2013/4/25 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM Location：East Asian Seminar Room (110C), Doheny Memorial Library, USC The USC Center for Japanese Religions and Culture is pleased to present a lecture by Professor Hwansoo Kim, Duke University on Thursday, April 25, 2013. Korea’s Jōdōshinshū: Lay Monk Villages in Colonial Korea (1910-1945) - CJRC Lecture Series - ABSTRACT A newspaper editorial from 1930s colonial Korea characterized the isolated villages of married Buddhist monks spread across the northern border between Korea and China as “the mystery of the century”. These lay monk villages (K. jaega-seung burak or Jp. zaikeso) existed from the seventeenth century until the 1960s. The males in these villages shaved their heads and had wives and children, and they ranged in number from thousands to tens of thousands at their peak. These lay monks and their families comprised the descendents of the Jurchens, an ethnic group from northern China who migrated to Korea and later mixed with Koreans. In this presentation, based on previous scholarship and on untapped primary sources, he would like to take up two questions. First, how did these villagers come to take on a monastic identity (or, at minimum, the appellation)? Second, how should we understand the history of these communities within the context of Korean Buddhism? While scholars conventionally understanding the origin of this monastic identity as coincidental and unauthentic, he argues that Korean monks fleeing or relocating as a result of Choson Korea’s anti-Buddhist policies perhaps contributed to the formation of a monastic identity of the males in these villages. Finally, he will address how the Neo-Confucian Choson dynasty, imperial Japan, and North Korean authorities politicized these communities for their own purposes. These lay monk communities were an unusual manifestation of Korean Buddhism and as such force us to consider what, and who, defines Korean Buddhism and monastic. BIOGRAPHY Hwansoo Kim, Duke University Hwansoo Kim is an assistant professor at Duke University in the field of Korean Buddhism and culture with the departments of Religion and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies. He received his doctorate from Harvard University in 2007, followed by a post-doctoral appointment with the Harvard Reischauer Institute. He then taught Japanese religions as an assistant professor at the University of Arizona. Kim’s most recent article is “A Buddhist Christmas: The Buddha’s Birthday Festival in Colonial Korea (1928–1945).” He is the author of Empire of the Dharma: Korean and Japanese Buddhism, 1877–1912 (Harvard Asia Press, 2012). This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP to cjrc@dornsife.usc.edu Related Link：http://religiondepartment.duke.edu/people?Gurl=/aas/Religion&Uil=hwansoo.kim&subpage=profile Go Top

．	[Lecture] The Spring 2013 Lecture Series (ICBS) posted date:2013-04-01 Time：2013/3/20, 7:00 - 8:30pm Location： AD208, University of the West, 1409 N. Walnut Grove Ave., Rosemead, CA91770 ICBS (the Institute of Chinese Buddhist Studies) cordially invite you to attend the Spring 2013 Lecture Series on March 20, 2013. This lecture will be given by Dr. Mario Poceski and will be held at University of the West. Lecture Title:** Mazu’s Hagiographic Representation in the Hall of Patriarchs Collection( Zu tang ji) Date: March 20, 2013 (Wednesday) Time: 7:00 - 8:30pm Lecturer: Dr. Mario Poceski/University of Florida Venue: AD208, University of the West, 1409 N. Walnut Grove Ave., Rosemead, CA91770 Tel: 626-571-8811 Web: http://www.uwest.edu/icbs/lectures/lecture18.html About the Lecture: Compiled in 952 in the kingdom of Southern Tang (937–975), Zu tang ji 祖堂集is an invaluable source of information about the formative history of the Chan school and the gradual evolution of Chan literature. Long lost and forgotten in China, only to be rediscovered during the early part of the twentieth century among the woodblocks of the Buddhist canon stored at Haein Monastery 海印寺 in Korea, the text represents an outline of earlier Chan “history,” written from a regional perspective. Among the text’s prominent features is its inclusion of unique materials not found in other Chan collections. In this lecture Prof. Poceski will focus materials included in the biographical entry of Mazu Daoyi 馬祖道一 (709–788), the famous leader of the Hongzhou school 洪州宗. In additional to revealing peculiar aspects of the evolving hagiographic representation of Mazu, especially his unique depiction as a thaumaturge, these stories are also helpful for understanding the changing communal remembrances of the great Chan masters from the Tang era. About the Lecturer: Mario Poceski, an associate professor of Buddhist studies and Chinese religions at the Religion Department, University of Florida, received a PhD in East Asian Languages and Cultures, with specialization in Buddhist studies, from the University of California, Los Angeles (2000). He has spent extended periods as a visiting researcher at Komazawa University, Japan, Stanford University, and the National University of Singapore, and has received several prestigious fellowships, including a Humboldt Research Fellowship (Germany). Poceski is the author of Ordinary Mind as the Way: The Hongzhou School and the Growth of Chan Buddhism (Oxford UP 2007) and Introducing Chinese Religions (Routledge 2009). His publications also include two other books and a number of articles and chapters on various aspects of Buddhist studies. His latest book is the Blackwell Companion to East and Inner Asian Buddhism (Blackwell, forthcoming in 2013); he is also working on a new book on Chan literature, provisionally titled “The Records of Mazu Daoyi (709–788) and the Making of Classical Chan Literature.” All are welcome! Pre-registration is not required. Related Link：http://www.uwest.edu/icbs/lectures/lecture18.html Go Top

．	[Lecture] Interpretations and Transformations of the ‘Mother of All Buddhas’ in Medieval Shingon posted date:2013-04-01 Time：2013/3/14, 5:00-6:30 pm Location：Room G2 (SOAS, Russell Sq. Building), School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) The SOAS Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions (CSJR) is pleased to host a lecture by Steven Trenson, which I am sure will be of great interest to many of us. We hope that those of you who are in the London area will be able to attend! Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions Seminars and Fora 2012-13 School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Thursday, 14 March 2013, 5:00-6:30 pm, Room G2 (SOAS, Russell Sq. Building). Interpretations and Transformations of the ‘Mother of All Buddhas’ in Medieval Shingon Buddhism Steven Trenson (Kyoto University) The ‘Mother of the Buddhas’ was an important concept in medieval Japanese esoteric Buddhism. Past studies have shown it occupied a central place in the Tendai imaginary of sacred kingship, but research on the subject in a Shingon context has somewhat been lagging. Therefore, this talk will highlight three important interpretations/transformations of the Mother of the Buddhas in medieval Shingon—as the Dainichi Buddha of the Womb Mandala, as the Jewel of the Dragon, as the Jewel Woman—to show that the concept was already by the latter half of the twelfth century as much important to Shingon, if not more, than it was to Tendai. In this way, the talk intends to place the notion of the Mother of the Buddhas in a wider historical perspective. Steven Trenson is Associate Professor at Kyoto University, where he teaches courses on Japanese history, culture, and religions. His research focuses on the historical development of esoteric Buddhist rituals during the medieval period and uses a historical-critical approach to deepen the understanding of the nature of these rituals and reveal their significance or impact on medieval Japanese society. ALL WELCOME Please note that this event is free and open to the public, and no registration is required. For directions to the venue, please visit the website h ttp://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/ For further information, please contact Benedetta Lomi at: bl21@soas.ac.uk Related Link：www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/ Go Top

．	[Lecture] Problems in Buddhist Life–Writing: Indian Caryāgīti Songs in Tibetan Narrative posted date:2013-03-04 Time：2013/3/14, 6pm Location：Building 70, Room 72A1, Main Quad, Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford Speaker: David Templeman, Monash University In the biography of the 11th cent Indian Mahāsiddha K???ācārya/Kā?hā written by his 12th incarnation, the scholar from Mustang, Kunga Drölchog (1507-1566) we find something quite unique. Specifically we find that the series of Caryāgīti songs attributed to Kā?hā have been employed as a structural part of the narrative of the biography. In this presentation Dr. Templeman wishes to examine and expand upon a point he made in a small footnote in a 1994 paper (Reflexive Criticism – The Case of Kun Dga’ Grol Mchog and Tāranātha in Kvaerne, P. (ed) Tibetan Studies; Proceedings of the 6th IATS, Fagernes 1992.). In a preliminary discussion Dr. Templeman wishes to locate the two authors, Kunga Drölchog and Tāranātha in their times – a period referred to as the ‘Turbulent 17th century’ in which Buddhist lineages became subjected to inordinate family pressures to provide their ‘true’ reincarnations. On such results depended the version of the hagiography eventually to be written. He will examine how precisely these songs were used within the narrative structure itself and why their order appears to be substantially different from the commonly accepted order of the songs as found for example in the work the Caryāgītiko?a. The presentation will demonstrate that the songs were either used to ‘guide’ the narrative itself or that the imagery found within the songs was used to describe the narrative events themselves. The talk will also show how the various versions of the Life of K???ācārya/Kā?hā have travelled through a series of complex permutations at the hands of Tibetans such as Bu ston, dPa’ bo gtsug lag and Tāranātha since their inception one thousand years ago. Dr. Templeman suggests that in some cases these considerable variations are due to reasons less connected with divinity and more with maintaining the illusion of a perfect lineage and in this particular case, reflecting the family rivalry which made Tāranātha pre-eminent. Related Link：http://hcbss.stanford.edu/event/problems-buddhist-life%E2%80%93writing-indian-cary%C4%81g%C4%ABti-so Go Top

．	[Lecture] Wealth Admired; Wealth Hated: Managing Money and Power in Fifteenth-Century Basel posted date:2013-03-04 Time：2013/3/7, 5:15pm - 6:45pm Location：Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center Speaker: Laura Stokes, Stanford University When Uly Mörnach was found murdered on a cold November morning in 1502, no one was surprised. He had been the most hated member of the butchers' guild, and the other guildsmen had conspired to kill him. The most powerful member of that conspiracy was Caspar David. David and Mörnach were cousins, both wealthy butchers of roughly equal standing. While Mörnach died a violent death, and his family disappeared from the city within a generation thereafter, David escaped any blame for the murder, and his family rose in the ruling elite of the city. This intense contrast between their fates derived from their very different stances on the ethics of personal liberty and wealth. Part of a series of lectures and colloquia on Religion and Wealth Related Link：http://hcbss.stanford.edu/event/wealth-admired-wealth-hated-managing-money-and-power-fifteenth-centu Go Top

．	[Lecture] Buddhist medical networks in a Hindu state posted date:2013-03-04 Time：2013/3/4, 6pm Location：Committee Room - Wolfson College, The Oxford Center for Buddhist Studies Speaker: Dr. Will Tuladhar-Douglas Topic: "Buddhist medical networks in a Hindu state" Related Link：http://www.ocbs.org/events-ocbsmain-129/33-academic-events/262-hilary-2013-lecture-series Go Top

．	[Lecture] Consciousness and Intentionality in Buddhist Philosophy posted date:2013-03-01 Time：2013/3/8-11 Location：Library Room, Department of Philosophy, Chengchi University Speakers: Dan Arnold (University of Chicago) Christian Coseru (College of Charleston) Lectures 3/8 (Fri) 14: 00-16: 00 Christian Coseru, "Consciousness and Intentionality: Terminological Preliminaries" 3/9 (Sat) 9: 20-9: 30 Introduction 9: 30-12: 00 Dan Arnold, "On the Temporality of Self-Consciousness (svasaṃvitti)" 14: 00-17: 00 Christian Coseru, "Self-Awareness and the First-Person Stance: Charting the Phenomenology of Svasaṃvedana" 3/10 (Sun) 9: 30-12: 00 Christian Coseru, "Who's Afraid of Naturalism?" Non-eliminative Reductionism and the Enlightened Mind" 14: 00-17: 00 Dan Arnold, "Intentionality and the 'Conventional Truth' of Madhyamaka" 3/11 (Mon) 9: 30-12: 00 Dan Arnold, Reading the Viṃ?atikā Related Link：http://buddhica.nccu.edu.tw/ Go Top

．	[Lecture] Spring 2013 Lecture Series posted date:2013-03-01 Time：2013/3/3-4 Location：Hsi Lai Temple and University of the West ICBS(the Institute of Chinese Buddhist Studies) cordially invite you to attend the Spring 2013 Lecture Series on March 3-4, 2013. These two lectures are given by Dr. Morten Schlütter and will be held at Hsi Lai Temple and University of the West separately. All are welcome! Pre-registration is not required. Contact: Jacqueline Jingjing Zhu /Coordinator of ICBS E-mail: icbs@uwest.edu Lecture 1: (Hsi Lai Temple Public lecture) Title: “Who is reciting the name of the Buddha?” as Kōan in Chinese Chan (Zen) Buddhism Date: March 3, 2013 (Sunday) Time: 10:30am-noon Language: English Lecturer: Dr. Morten Schlütter, University of Iowa Venue: Meeting Room, Hsi Lai Temple 3456 S. Glenmark Dr. Hacienda Heights, CA 91745 Tel: 626.961.9697 info@hsilai.org Lecture 2: (ICBS lecture) Title: Monastics, Lay People, and the Changing Text of the Platform Sūtra of the Sixth Patriarch (Liuzu tanjing 六祖壇經) Date: March 4, 2013 (Monday) Time: 7:00 - 8:30pm Language: English Lecturer: Dr. Morten Schlütter, University of Iowa Venue: AD208, University of the West 1409 N. Walnut Grove Ave. Rosemead, CA91770 Tel: 626-571-8811 Organizer: Institute of Chinese Buddhist Studies (ICBS), UWest Go Top

．	[Lecture] On RatnAkarazAnti's PrajJApAramitopadeza (Shoryu Katsura) posted date:2013-02-22 Time：2013/2/15 1315~1445 Location：Shoofuukan 3F, Omiya Campus, Ryukoku University Ryukoku Research Center for Buddhist Cultures in Asia (BARC) Speaker: Dr. Luo Hong, China Tibetology Research Center Title: On RatnAkarazAnti's PrajJApAramitopadeza Date: February 15 Time: 1315~1445 Place: Shoofuukan 3F, Omiya Campus, Ryukoku University Go Top

．	[Lecture] Buddhist Arts and Practices in Thailand posted date:2013-02-08 Time：Wednesday 23rd January 2013, 1.00 pm Location：Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Mahidol University, Salaya Campus, Nakhon Pathom Lecturer: Nicolas Revire, Thammasat University and Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle Topic: 'Buddhist Arts and Practices in Thailand' Date and Time: Wednesday 23rd January 2013, 1.00 pm Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Mahidol University, Salaya Campus, Nakhon Pathom For further details: http://www.sh.mahidol.ac.th/bodhi/content.php?content_id=1155 Go Top

．	[Lecture] Living Morally in a Breaking World posted date:2013-02-08 Time：Thursday 7 February 2013, 7:30 p.m. Location：The Siam Society A SIAM SOCIETY LECTURE Living Morally in a Breaking World: the Essence of the Ethics of the Buddha and of Socrates A talk by Dr. Bart Gruzalski Date: Thursday 7 February 2013 Time: 7:30 p.m. Place: The Siam Society The world is breaking. For many of us adults it is no longer true that those in the generations of our grandchildren or great grandchildren can hope to enjoy the convenience and safety of the world, which is familiar to us adults. We are the first generation for which this is true. Our ancestors were able to hope and expect that their descendants could live in a world as good or better than they did. Our ancestors were also able to expect that we would enjoy a lifestyle as good or better than they have enjoyed. Climate change is the global change that is altering the world as we know it, putting populations at risk from floods, storms, drought, and famine. Species of large animals are becoming endangered at an alarming rate. Accompanying these ecological changes is a widespread loss of faith of many people around the world in government, organized religions, and cultural standards. The US government has predicted that wars because of climate change are more likely. The world, which we adults currently know, is in the process of breaking. The question I address is how should we live in a world in which traditional expectations are being shattered along with traditionally accepted norms? How can we know what it is for us to live morally? Is there even any point to living morally- whatever that means? When we turn to the core of the ethics taught by the Buddha in the Palitexts, we find the core value of equanimity. We can intellectualize thisinto a goal of Buddhist ethics- Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood- but that is to overly intellectualize what is intended to be part of our own experience. The Buddha was not pointing to an intellectual theory but a way of being that involved equanimity or inner harmony. It is this identical quality, which is the core criterion of the ethics that was taught by Socrates in Plato’s Republic. In this talk I will first show the intimate parallels between these ways of looking at morality and then show how they not only provide us with a guide for living morally, but they also provide a reason for living morally. Dr. Bart Gruzalski, Professor Emeritus, received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, taught at Bowling Green State University, and subsequently taught for sixteen years in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Northeastern University in Boston. Responding to the need for different educational and societal models in light of growing ecological and societal crises, Gruzalski voluntarily left his tenured position at Northeastern University in order to help found the Pacific Center for Sustainable Living in Northern California. Gruzalski has written and lectured primarily on themes in theoretical ethics, applied ethics, on the ethics of globalization, on nonviolence, on the philosophy of the Buddha, on Gandhi, and on the importance of inner work. He has had the privilege of spending many three-month retreats with monks and nuns at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery. His two most recent books are On the Buddha and On Gandhi. In response to the attacks at the Twin Towers and the Pentagon on 9/11, Gruzalski began lecturing at US universities about why the U.S. response to terrorism is counterproductive and on the contours of a plausible alternative. He currently lives in Ireland with his wife Marion where he teaches meditation, the Jon Kabot-Zinn Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction course, and continues his writing projects. The Siam Society is deeply grateful to the James H.W. Thompson Foundation for its generous support of the 2012 - 2013 Lecture Series The Siam Society is open from Tuesday to Saturday from 09:00 to 17:00 The Society premises are situated on Asoke Montri Road (Sukhumvit Soi 21) two minutes walk from Sukhumvit subway station (exit 1) and five minutes walk from Asoke skytrain station (exit 3). Take a look at our new heritage protection website – www.siamese-heritage.org "Knowledge Gives Rise to Friendship" was adopted as the Siam Society's motto in 1924, to convey the message that the search for knowledge is the bridge to friendship between people of all nations. The Siam Society Under Royal Patronage 131 Asoke Montri Road, Sukhumvit 21, Bangkok 10110, THAILAND Tel. +66 (0) 2661-6470-7, Fax. +66 (0) 2258-3491, e-mail: info@siam-society.org Web site: www.siam-society.org Office Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 9.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m. Go Top

．	[Lecture] Professor Masahiko Okada, SOAS, 23-24 January 2013 posted date:2013-02-08 Time：23-24 January 2013 Location：SOAS The Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions and the Japan Research Centre at SOAS are pleased to host two lectures by Professor Masahiko Okada, which will surely be of great interest to many of us. Wednesday 23 January 17:00-19:00 A Forgotten Buddhist Astronomy: History of "Bonreki" Movement in 19th Century Japan Professor Masahiko Okada (Tenri University) Room G50, Ground floor, SOAS, Russell Square A Buddhist monk, Fumon Entsu (1754-1834), published his main work, Bukkoku Rekisho hen (Astronomy and Calendar System in the Land of Buddha), in 1810 and established a unique theory of Buddhist astronomy and calendar system based on the idea of flat and motionless earth in the traditional Buddhist scriptures. Entsu calculated the movements of heavenly bodies and predicted astronomical events to verify his theory. Moreover, he invented a miniature mechanical model of Buddhist worldview to demonstrate the plausibility of his astronomical theory. People influenced by Entsu’s theory organized a school and developed a unique intellectual movement in Japan. In this seminar, I would like to introduce this intellectual movement, which was highly popular at one time but rapidly disappeared in 19th century. I hope that we can consider the meaning of “modernity” in Japan by focusing on this forgotten Buddhist intellectual movement. Thursday 24 January 17:00-19:00 Historical Documents and Cultural Materials in the Study of Modern Japanese Buddhism: Varieties of Materials in Bonreki Movement Professor Masahiko Okada (Tenri University) Room G2, Ground floor, SOAS, Russell Square In this seminar, I would like to reconstruct the whole picture of the Bonreki movement by introducing a variety of regional materials. Even though the Bonreki movement was basically a Buddhist intellectual movement, the areas in which its activities unfolded were various and wide. Boreki exponents made astronomical observations and predicted astronomical events by calculating the movement of heavenly bodies. They manufactured precision instruments such as an orrery of the Buddhist world system. Besides, they distributed their original Buddhist calendars and sold Buddhist medicines in local communities. The variety of Bonreki materials shows us that a rich intellectual fields for religious activities existed in pre-modern Japanese society, and makes us aware of how narrow the modern definition of religion is. Biography Professor Masahiko OKADA currently teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at Tenri University in Japan. He completed his PhD in Religious Studies at Stanford University in 1997. His research interests are the intellectual and cultural history of 19th century Japan. His recent works include some books and articles on modern Japanese Buddhist thinkers and their intellectual movements. In 2006, he translated James Ketelaar's Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan. Please note that this event is free and open to the public, and no registration is required. For directions to the venue, please visit the website http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/ and for further information, please contact Benedetta Lomi at: bl21@soas.ac.uk We hope that those of you who are in the London area will be able to attend! Go Top

．	[Lecture] Making Buddhist Ancestors: Portrait-Statues at Baoshan posted date:2013-02-08 Time：Thursdays, 10 January 2013, 5:00-6:30 pm Location：Room G2 (SOAS, Russell Sq. Building). School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Making Buddhist Ancestors: Portrait-Statues at Baoshan a Lecture by Wendi Adamek (University of Sydney) Thursdays, 10 January 2013, 5:00-6:30 pm, Room G2 (SOAS, Russell Sq. Building). School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Abstract: In the sixth and seventh centuries, donors and mortuary sculptors at the site known as Baoshan 寶山, near Anyang in Henan province, appear to have combined preexisting devotional imagery and eulogistic forms to create a distinctive style of commemoration. The site includes over two hundred mortuary niches with numerous inscriptions dedicated by monks, nuns, laymen, and laywomen for deceased teachers and family members. Arranged in clusters on Baoshan and nearby Lanfengshan 嵐峰山, some of these niches still contain seated representations. Other niches include inscriptions that refer to the process of making an image to represent the deceased. Last year the Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions at SOAS gave me the opportunity to share research on eschatological references in the design of Baoshan’s main devotional cave-shrine. This year we will continue exploration of the site by focussing on Baoshan’s innovative mortuary constructions, where portrait-like representations of the deceased are enshrined in a manner formerly reserved for buddha-images. Following an overview of the precedents for Baoshan’s niches, we will look at references to image-making in five of the inscriptions. Born in Hawai’i and educated at Stanford University, Dr. Wendi L. Adamek is a Lecturer in East Asian Buddhism at the University of Sydney. Her current book project, Practicescape: The Buddhists of Baoshan, centers on a 7th-century community in Henan. Her award-winning first book,The Mystique of Transmission, is a study of an 8th-century Chan/Zen group in Sichuan. Other research interests include Daoism, Buddhist art, network theory, and environmental literature. Please note that this event is free and open to the public, and no registration is required. For directions to the venue, please visit the website http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/ and for further information, please contact Benedetta Lomi at: bl21@soas.ac.uk We hope that those of you who are in the London area will be able to attend! Go Top

．	[Lecture] Abhinavagupta on the Subjective Nature (pramāt?dharmatā) of Brahmanical Values posted date:2013-02-08 Time：15th (Tue) January 2013 16:00-18:00 Location：#214, Hobun 1 Gokan, Hongo Campus, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan Date: 15th (Tue) January 2013 16:00-18:00 Place: #214, Hobun 1 Gokan, Hongo Campus, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan Title of the Lecture: Abhinavagupta on the Subjective Nature (pramāt?dharmatā) of Brahmanical Values: ?ākta Fundamentalism Against the Absorption of ?aivism into Hinduism. Summary: Of the two great divisions of the ?aiva tradition, the Atimārga (2nd century CE+) and the Mantramārga (5th century CE +), the first shows ?aivas adopting ever more radically counter-brahmanical forms of religious asceticism, passing from the Pāñcārthika Pā?upata phase to the Lākula and finally that of the Kāpālika Somasiddhānta, while the second ('Tantric ?aivism') shows a progressive effort to accommodate the brahmanical system, attempting to establish a ?aiva-brahmanical socio-religious order. This reformation led by the ninth century to a widespread acceptance in orthoprax brahmanical circles that the ?aiva scriptures and the practices that they ordain are after all valid. This 'Hinduization' was not welcomed by the ?aiva theorists whose works have reached us. They reacted in the manner of a counter-reformation with various strategies designed to keep alive the threatened sense that ?aivism, like Buddhism for Buddhists, offered a path to a true liberation that lay far beyond the goals achievable by following the 'mundane', brahmanical religion of ?ruti and Sm?ti (laukiko dharma?). Among the mainstream Mantramārgic ?aivas, those of the Saiddhāntika tradition—it was this that had become acceptable in brahmanical circles—this reaction was entirely on the level of theory designed to indoctrinate their co-religionists with the conviction that their rituals were operating in spite of appearances and now widespread belief on an entirely higher level. But among the ?aivas of the ?ākta persuasion, who inherited and further refined the radical rejection of brahmanical values developed in the Atimārga, the sense of transcendence was kept alive through modes of counter-cultural practice. However, with the entry of this tradition into the highly learned culture of Kashmir in the tenth century we see an attempt on the part of its greatest theorist, Abhinavagupta, to provide an intellectually coherent critique of what he perceived as the basis of brahmanical orthopraxy, namely the uncritical belief that the properties of relative purity and impurity ascribed by brahmanical regulation to persons, things, and acts, are objective, real properties (prameyadharma-). Elaborating on this basis a theory of the subjective nature of such ascribed properties while at the same time rendering their cultural objectivity intelligible, he shows how the ?ākta practices that he advocates in accordance with his scriptures make sense as the means of escaping from what he saw as the bondage of the soul imposed by the brahmanical tradition. -------------- Professor Masahiro Shimoda Department of Indian Philosophy and Buddhist Studies Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology University of Tokyo Tel +81-(0)3-5841-3757 Go Top

．	[Lecture] Yogācāra and Cognitive Science posted date:2013-02-08 Time：2013.1.28 (Monday) 16:00-18:00 Location：Ito International Research Center, 3rd Floor, Special Meeting Room Yogācāra and Cognitive Science By William Waldron (Professor, Middlebury College) Time：2013.1.28 (Monday) 16:00-18:00 Venue：Ito International Research Center, 3rd Floor, Special Meeting Room Access: http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ext01/iirc/en/access.html Abstract This talk examines the remarkable parallels between the Indian Buddhist school of Yogācāra Buddhism and developments in modern cognitive science and philosophy of mind. Both are oriented toward investigating how “things come to be” or, as the Buddhists put it, how they dependently arise—a mode of analysis that necessarily precludes the idea of unchanging essences or essential selves. Nevertheless, we human beings have a strong and arguably innate sense of a self in addition to the sense that we directly perceive an observer-independent world—that is, we are all naïve realists. All this contradicts the findings of modern cognitive science, which argues that what we actually experience is a mere simulation or representation of a self and the world, even though the processes of constructing these representations are unconscious and thus hidden from ordinary awareness. The task of both the Yogācārins as well as cognitive scientists is therefore to understand why are we are so mistaken, to discover exactly how this sense of self and world come about through our own cognitive processes. ---------------------------- William Waldron is Professor in the Religion Department at Middlebury College, where he teaches courses on South Asian Buddhism, Hinduism, and the Study of Religion. He received his B.A. in South Asian Studies and Ph. D. in Buddhist Studies from the University of Wisconsin, after working with native scholars in India, Nepal and Japan. His research focuses on South Asian Buddhism, in particular Yogācāra philosophy of mind, the topic of his monograph, The Buddhist Unconscious. He has written numerous articles on the interface between Buddhist philosophy and modern theories of mind from evolutionary biology, cognitive science and psychology (‘Buddhist Steps to an Ecology of Mind’). He taught as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Nepal (2007-08), and several times at the Centre for Buddhist Studies in Kathmandu. He has spent more than ten years in Asia. Most of his publications are available as PDFs on the Middlebury College web site at http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/rel/faculty/node/25351. Contact: Charles Muller 03-5841-3735 -- ------------------- A. Charles Muller University of Tokyo Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, Faculty of Letters Center for Evolving Humanities 7-3-1 Hongō, Bunkyō-ku Tokyo 113-8654, Japan Office: 03-5841-3735 Web Site: Resources for East Asian Language and Thought http://www.acmuller.net Go Top

．	[Lecture] Kyoto Asian Studies Group meeting 12/18 posted date:2012-12-17 Time：2012/12/18, 6:30-8:30 Location：Room 213 of the Fusokan on the Doshisha University Campus The speaker for the December meeting of the Kyoto Asian Studies Group is Mechtild Mertz, who will present “Wood Identification of Ancient Buildings in China and in the Tibetan Cultural Realm” (see abstract below). Mechtild Mertz is an East Asian art historian, ethnobotanist, and wood anatomist and is an associate member of the CRCAO (Far East Civilisations Research Institute) based in Paris. She is currently conducting research in Japan and India. Related Link：http://www.doshisha.ac.jp/english/access/ima_campus.html Go Top

．	[Lecture] The Tulku Symposium Announcement posted date:2012-12-07 Time：2013/2/15-16 Location：Xavier Room, Fromm Hall (USF Main Campus) the symposium on the Tibetan reincarnation system that the Himalayan Studies Program and Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco are hosting at USF on February 15-16, 2013. We invite you to join us to hear many esteemed scholars representing diverse academic disciplines. The event is free and open to public. All travel and accommodation arrangements are the responsibility of symposium attendees. Morning Session 9:00-9:15 Welcome Speech by Prof. Marcelo Camperi, Dean of Arts & Sciences Tulkus in Transnational Buddhism: Authentication and Contestation of Hybridity in the Cross-Cultural Reincarnation System Moderator: (TBA) 9:15-9:45 Elijay Ary (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris) "So what's it like to be a Tulku?" Western Reincarnations and their Roles within the Tibetan Tulku Institution 9:45-10-15 Jessica Falcone (Kansas State University) A Transnational Tulku: the Multiple Lives of a Spanish-born Tibetan Buddhist Lama 10:15-10:45 Anya Bernstein (Harvard University)** Buddhist Body Politics: Life, Death, and Reincarnation in Transnational Eurasia 10:45-11:15 Derek Maher (East Carolina University) The Bodong Trulku: Reincarnation in Exile** 11:15-11:45 Discussion 11:45-1:00 Lunch Break Afternoon Session Tulkus in Historical Context: Power, Knowledge, and Politics in the Innovation of the Reincarnation Institution Moderator: (TBA) 1:00-1:30 Tsering Shakya (University of British Columbia) Contestation over the Succession of the Dalai Lamas in the 17-18th Century 1:30-2:00 Elliot Sperling (Indiana University) Qing Organization of the Incarnation Process: The Broader use of the Golden Urn 2:00-2:30 Jann Ronis (UC Berkeley) The Rise of Tulkus in the Nyingma Sect: An innovation of the large scholastic monasteries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries** 2:30-3:00 Nicole Willock (University of Denver) Ethics and Education: Gelukpa Narratives on Reforming the Tulku Institution in the Deng Xiaoping era** 3:00-3:30 Discussion 3:30-3:45 Tea/Coffee Break 3:45-4:30 Keynote Lecture by Prof. Donald Lopez (University of Michigan) Four Possibilities 4:30-4:45 Discussion * * Tulkus as a Model of Ideal Beings: Embodying the Enlightened Characteristics Moderator: (TBA) 4:45-5:15 Benjamin Bogen (Georgetown University) The Tulku as Prodigy: Reflections on the Childhood of the Tenth Karmapa 5:15-5:45 Suzanne Bessenger (Randolph College) Deity Emanation and the Legitimization of Sonam Peldren** 5:45-6:00 Discussion * * Saturday, February 16, 2013, Maier Room, Fromm Hall (USF Main Campus) 9:30-10:15 Keynote Lecture by Prof. Jeffrey Hopkins (UMA Institute for Tibetan Studies and University of Virginia) Reflections on Tulku Institution: Technical and Personal 10:15-10:30 Discussion Envisioning and Retelling Birth-Stories: Tulku Lineage Narratives and the Quest for Legitimation Moderator: (TBA) 10:30-11:00 José Cabezón (UC Santa Barbara) How Tulku Lineages Are Constructed: The Case of Khöntön Peljor Lhundrub and the Lineage of the Changkya Incarnations** 11:00-11:30 Nancy Lin (Vanderbilt University) Birth-Stories of the Fifth Dalai Lama 11:30-12:00 Daniel Hirshberg (UC Santa Barbara) Reincarnation before its institutionalization: Nyang-rel Nyima Özer (1124-1192) on magical emanations, magically-emanated reincarnations and the persistence of patrilineal inheritance in Tibet 12:00-12:30 Discussion 12:30-12:45 Concluding Remarks Go Top

．	[Lecture] New Approaches to the Study of Japanese American Buddhism posted date:2012-12-03 Time：2012/12/8 10:00am - 4:00pm Location： East Asian Seminar Room (110C), Doheny Memorial Library, USC CJRC Japanese American Religion and Society Project NEW APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF JAPANESE AMERICAN BUDDHISM A Workshop Presenters: MICHIHIRO AMA, University of Alaska Anchorage MICHAEL K. MASATSUGU, Towson University DUNCAN WILLIAMS, University of Southern California DESCRIPTION: Three scholars of Japanese American Buddhism take on established narratives of Buddhism in the West, Japanese American religiosity, and the significance of Japanese American Buddhism to American life. PLEASE NOTE: This workshop requires registration and the prior reading of the three research papers. The three papers will cover the prewar period, Buddhism in the wartime period, and the emergence of a Japanese American Buddhism in the postwar period. For copies of the papers and to register, Please contact Kana Yoshida at cjrc@dornsife.usc.edu. Go Top

．	[Lecture] 井上円了における伝統仏教教学体系と仏教・哲学一致論 posted date:2012-11-27 Time：2012/11/28 16.30 - 18.00 Location：Toyo University (Hakusan Campus), Bldg. 6 (1F), 3rd Conf. Room. Title: 『井上円了における伝統仏教教学体系と仏教・哲学一致論』(Inoue Enryo on the Traditional System of Buddhist Doctrines and the Consistency of Buddhism and Philosophy) The presentation will be in Japanese. Related Link：www.toyo.ac.jp/event/detail_j/id/6498/ Go Top

．	[Lecture] Re-entering the World? Rituals and Decisions to Leave the Sangha > in Theravada Communitie posted date:2012-11-27 Time：2012/11/27 16:00-17:30 Location： 1st Conference Room 304, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo Speaker ： Kate Crosby, SOAS/King’s College, London Abstract： The reason boys and young men become monks in Theravada Buddhism has been much studied. Becoming a monk generates merit for parents, provides access to education, and enables social mobility. It is a lifecycle ritual, revealing brahmanical influences and re-enacting the Buddha’s leaving home. Related Link：http://www.h-net.org/~buddhism Go Top

．	[Lecture] The Zen of Orientalism posted date:2012-11-27 Time：2012/11/27 at 5pm Location：Oxford Brookes University Dr Urs App will be speaking on 'The Zen of Orientalism' His talk is part of our ongoing Europe Japan Research Centre (EJRC) Seminar Series. The talk will be held in the Gibbs Building on the Gypsy Lane Campus. It will be followed by a buffet reception to which all are invited. Go Top

．	[Lecture] Schopenhauer: Europe's First Buddhist? posted date:2012-11-21 Time：2012/11/30 (Fri.) 5:00 - 7:00 pm Location：Room B111 (Brunei Gallery) School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) The SOAS Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions (CSJR) is pleased to present a Lecture by Dr Urs App Urs App, the renowned buddhologist and historian of the European discovery of Asian religions, author of The Cult of Emptiness (2012) and The Birth of Orientalism (winner of the 2012 book prize of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres), traces Schopenhauer's discovery of Asia's largest religion and explains the connection between Schopenhauer's "Nichts" and Buddhist Nothingness. This event is free and open to the public, and no registration is required. For directions to the venue, please visit the website http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/ and for further information, please contact Benedetta Lomi at: bl21@soas.ac.uk Go Top

．	[Lecture] Once Again on the Desires of the Buddha posted date:2012-11-21 Time：2012/12/6, 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM (JST) Location： Meeting Room (6F), A Building, Soka University. A lecture by Prof. Dr. Eli Franco at the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, Soka University in Tokyo. Lecturer: Professor Eli Franco Date and Time: 6, December, 2012, 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM (JST) Contact Phone number: +81-(0)42-691-2695 Contact Email Address: iriab@soka.ac.jp Access (Japanese): http://www.soka.ac.jp/about/access/index.html Access (English): http://www.soka.ac.jp/en/access.html See also: http://iriab.soka.ac.jp/orc/pdf/12-61-Meeting(Franco).pdf Related Link：http://www.soka.ac.jp/en/access.html Go Top

．	[Lecture] Buddhism, Becker and Social Violence: Toward a Buddhist Critical Social Theory posted date:2012-10-22 Time：2012/11/01 Thu. Location：Conference Room, Institute of East Asian Studies, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th floor In Escape from Evil, Ernest Becker famously declared that "evil comes from man's urge to heroic victory over evil." He argues that is it our vain attempt — driven by hope, fear and ignorance — to forge unchanging personal and social identities that ends up making "the earth an even more eager graveyard than it naturally is." Indian Buddhist thought similarly suggests that it is our attempt to turn reality on its head (viparyāsa) — to find satisfaction, permanence, and personal identity in a world characterized by its opposites — that ends up making more, not less, suffering and unhappiness. Buddhist thought, though, has not typically directed its trenchant analysis toward the dreadful dynamics of social and political life, leaving modern Buddhists bereft of a critical social theory. This talk suggests such an approach by interweaving ideas from traditional Buddhism, Ernest Becker and the natural and social sciences. William Waldron teaches courses on Buddhism, Buddhist Philosophy, and the Study of Religion at Middlebury College. Thursday, November 1, 2012, 5 pm Related Link：http://buddhiststudies.berkeley.edu/events/ Go Top

．	[Lecture] Contemporary Conversations between Buddhism and Science posted date:2012-10-22 Time：2012/10/25 Thu. Location：Conference Room, Institute of East Asian Studies, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th floor While the dialogue between Buddhism and science has opened up interesting new arenas of investigation, certain topics of potential great import remain unaddressed. These include deep questions about the nature of consciousness and the limitations of Western science, as it is conventionally practiced, to address such questions. David E. Presti, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, and Program in Cognitive Science, University of California, Berkeley. Thursday, October 25, 2012, 5 pm Related Link：http://buddhiststudies.berkeley.edu/events/ Go Top

．	[Lecture] A Talk by the Venerable Subul Sunim posted date:2012-10-22 Time：2012/11/07 Wed. Location：Charles E Young Grand Salon, Kerckhoff Hall UCLA Los Angeles, CA 90095 Zen Meditation for Today: A New Approach by a Modern Korean Master The Venerable Subul Sunim is Head Teacher of the International Seon Center at Dongguk University in Seoul, Korea, and abbot of Beomeosa Temple of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism, the principal Buddhist denomination in Korea. Wednesday, November 07, 2012 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Cost: Free and open to the public Download File: Susbul-Sunim-at-UCLA-v2-tx-lz2.pdf Related Link：http://www.international.ucla.edu/buddhist/events/showevent.asp?eventid=9673 Go Top

．	[Lecture] Zen Monastic Life in Korea and the Context of Belief posted date:2012-09-14 Time：Saturday, September 29, 2012 5:30pm – 7:00pm Location：C. K. Choi Building, Room 120 Zen Monastic Life in Korea and the Context of Belief Date: Saturday, September 29, 2012 Time: 5:30pm – 7:00pm (Doors open at 5:00pm) Place: C. K. Choi Building, Room 120 Anyone exposed to even a little of Zen Buddhist literature will have been enchanted, or perhaps appalled, by the iconoclastic stories of the school’s masters. Whatever one’s reaction, it is hard to remain neutral toward a religious tradition that portrays its most revered of teachers as torching their sacred religious icons, bullying their students into enlightenment, rejecting the value of all the scriptures of Buddhism, even denying the worth of Zen itself. The living monastic tradition of Zen in Korea offers an important corrective to this portrayal, which will allow us to go beyond the rhetoric of Zen texts to perceive how Zen monks have actually put into practice the doctrines and teachings of their religion. Dr. Robert Buswell holds the Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair in Humanities at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is also Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies and founding director of the university’s Center for Buddhist Studies and Center for Korean Studies. Buswell is widely recognized as one of the premier Western specialists on Korean Buddhism and the broader East Asian Zen tradition. He has published fifteen books and some forty articles on various aspects of the Korean, Chinese, and Indian traditions of Buddhism. In 2009, he was awarded the prestigious Manhae Grand Prize in Korea in recognition of his pioneering contributions to establishing Korean Buddhist Studies in the West. Related Link：http://ubcbuddhism.wordpress.com/2012/09/06/0927/#more-2276 Go Top

．	[Lecture] Surpassing Gender: Korean Buddhist Nuns and Lay Women posted date:2012-09-14 Time：Friday, September 28, 2012 5:30pm – 7:00pm Location：C. K. Choi Building, Room 120 Surpassing Gender: Korean Buddhist Nuns and Lay Women Date: Friday, September 28, 2012 Time: 5:30pm – 7:00pm (Doors open at 5:00pm) Place: C. K. Choi Building, Room 120 Long ignored in histories of both Korea and Buddhism, Korean Buddhist nuns and laywomen have played a critical role in the development of both. This talk will delve into the long silent story of one of the oldest female religious traditions in the world. Some stories of women in the Choson court might provide insight that challenges commonly held notions about the kingship in Confucian Choson. Dr. Eun-Su Cho is a professor of Buddhist Philosophy at Seoul National University in Korea, and currently the director of the Institute of Philosophical Research. She received her Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from the University of California and was an assistant professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include Indian Abhidharma Buddhism, Korean Buddhist thought, and women in Buddhism. Related Link：http://ubcbuddhism.wordpress.com/2012/09/06/0927/#more-2276 Go Top

．	[Lecture] New Visions for Engaged Buddhism: The Jungto Society and the Indra’s Net Community Movemen posted date:2012-09-14 Time：Thursday, September 27, 2012 5:30pm – 7:00pm Location：C. K. Choi Building, Room 120 New Visions for Engaged Buddhism: The Jungto Society and the Indra’s Net Community Movement in Contemporary Korea Date: Thursday, September 27, 2012 Time: 5:30pm – 7:00pm (Doors open at 5:00pm) Place: C. K. Choi Building, Room 120 I will talk about two major Buddhist movements in contemporary South Korea, the Jungto Society and Indra’s Net Community, that address issues in daily lives of lay people. Visionary monks began these movements: Jungto was established by Pomnyun in 1988 and Indra’s Net by Tobop in 1999. Both began as grassroots communities based on Buddhist principles, seeking an alternative way of thinking and living in response to contemporary society’s emphasis on mass consumption, commercialism, competition, and the exploitation of the natural resources. Dr. Pori Park is the associate professor of religious studies at Arizona State University. Her research has focused on the intersection between Buddhism, colonialism, modernity, nationalism, and globalization. Her recent publications include Trial and Error in Modernist Reforms: Korean Buddhism under Colonial Rule (2009), “Buddhism in Contemporary Korea,” and “The Buddhist Purification Movement in Post-Colonial South Korea”. Related Link：http://ubcbuddhism.wordpress.com/2012/09/06/0927/#more-2276 Go Top

．	[Lecture] Tibetan Buddhist Iconography through the three vehicles posted date:2012-09-14 Time：8th October - 26th November (Mondays) 5.30pm (except for 19th November - 3pm) Location：Balliol Lecture Theatre XXIII 8th October - 26th November (Mondays) Balliol Lecture Theatre XXIII 5.30pm (except for 19th November - 3pm) For the Michaelmas Term we are very pleased to be presenting a course of lectures by Jeff Watt - the Director and Chief Curator of Himalayan Art Resources (HAR). The lectures may be attended on an individual basis. However, the maximum benefit will come from attending the whole series as it builds into a comprehensive course. Jeff Watt, one of the leading scholars of Himalayan art, acquired his prodigious knowledge of Buddhist, Bon and Hindu iconography from a longtime study of Buddhism and Tantra. He is the Director and Chief Curator of Himalayan Art Resources (HAR), a website and 'virtual museum' featuring more than 40,000 images with detailed descriptions, making it the most comprehensive resource for Himalayan 'style' art and iconography in the world. Watt was also the founding Curator and leading scholar at the Rubin Museum of Art (RMA) in New York City, from October 1999 until October 2007. The RMA houses one of the largest collections of Himalayan and Tibetan art in North America. The HAR website has been the primary curatorial tool for cataloguing and mounting all exhibitions at the RMA. Related Link：http://www.ocbs.org/events-ocbsmain-129/33-academic-events/256-tibetan-buddhist-iconography-through- Go Top

．	[Lecture] The Buddhas of the Kathmandu Valley posted date:2012-09-11 Time：Thursday, September 20, 2012, 5 pm Location：Conference Room, Institute of East Asian Studies, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th floor Thursday, September 20, 2012, 5 pm 2012 Numata Lecture The Buddhas of the Kathmandu Valley Musashi Tachikawa, Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies, UC Berkeley Conference Room, Institute of East Asian Studies, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th floor Although Mahayana Buddhism in India disappeared around the thirteenth century, it continued to be practiced among the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley, and, with some modifications, it survives there today. Accordingly, their pantheon of deities is structured according to late Indian Buddhist Tantric models and for this employs the standard Sanskrit names of Buddhas and other divine beings. This talk will explore the way the Newar pantheon is imagined and structured, tracking its Indian origins and its local modifications. Musashi Tachikawa received his Ph.D. in Sanskrit and Indian Studies from Harvard University and was Professor at the National Museum of Ethnology (1992-2004) and Aichi Gakuin University (2004 to 2011) in Japan. He also was a visiting professor of Buddhist studies at the University of California, Berkeley (1987), at the University of Chicago (1992) and at Leiden University, The Netherlands (2001). Related Link：http://buddhiststudies.berkeley.edu/events/ Go Top

．	[Lecture] Buddhist Nuns? The Workings of Initiation Rituals and Normative Texts in Their Historical posted date:2012-09-11 Time：Thursday, September 27, 2012, 5 pm Location：370 Dwinelle Hall Thursday, September 27, 2012, 5 pm Buddhist Nuns? The Workings of Initiation Rituals and Normative Texts in Their Historical and Local Contexts Ute Hüsken, Professor of Sanskrit, University of Oslo, Norwaya 370 Dwinelle Hall Buddhism is often perceived and represented as a universal religion. At the same time, Buddhism always takes historically and locally specific forms. These forms emerge in close interaction with wider cultural and social norms and values. Contextual changes, the transfer of Buddhism from one context to another, and other dynamics often lead to conflicts and contradictions. Such conflicts challenge fundamental norms and values which are expressed in diverse canonical texts and also by contemporary representatives of Buddhist traditions. One of the most pressing contemporary challenges are the controversies over the ordination of women into the monastic community: Should women be allowed to formally lead the life of a Buddhist mendicant, become ordained nuns (bhikkhuni / bhikshuni) and be full-fledged members of the Sangha? In my presentation I will introduce some canonical textual traditions on the matter, discuss their contemporary interpretations and applications, and discuss the actual state-of-affairs in the Tibetan and Theravada traditions, interpreting the ordination as Buddhist nun as legal act and as a transformative rite de passage respectively. Ute Hüsken is an Indian studies scholar and cultural anthropologist with PhD degree from Göttingen University (1996) and Habilitation from Heidelberg University (2002). Her main fields of expertise are Ritual Studies, Women in Buddhism, and South Indian Hindu traditions. Since 2007 she is Professor of Sanskrit at Oslo University, where she teaches courses on religion in South Asia, Sanskrit, Pali, ancient and contemporary Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism. Together with Ronald L. Grimes (Canada) she co-edits the Oxford Ritual Studies Series (OUP). Related Link：http://buddhiststudies.berkeley.edu/events/ Go Top

．	[Lecture] Buddhism, Becker and Social Violence: Toward a Buddhist Critical Social Theory posted date:2012-08-23 Time：2012/11/01 (Thu) ,5 pm Location：Conference Room, Institute of East Asian Studies, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th floor In Escape from Evil, Ernest Becker famously declared that "evil comes from man's urge to heroic victory over evil." He argues that is it our vain attempt — driven by hope, fear and ignorance — to forge unchanging personal and social identities that ends up making "the earth an even more eager graveyard than it naturally is." Indian Buddhist thought similarly suggests that it is our attempt to turn reality on its head (viparyāsa) — to find satisfaction, permanence, and personal identity in a world characterized by its opposites — that ends up making more, not less, suffering and unhappiness. Buddhist thought, though, has not typically directed its trenchant analysis toward the dreadful dynamics of social and political life, leaving modern Buddhists bereft of a critical social theory. This talk suggests such an approach by interweaving ideas from traditional Buddhism, Ernest Becker and the natural and social sciences. William Waldron teaches courses on Buddhism, Buddhist Philosophy, and the Study of Religion at Middlebury College. He received his B.A. in South Asian Studies and Ph. D. in Buddhist Studies from the University of Wisconsin, after working with native scholars in India, Nepal and Japan. His research focuses on the Yogācāra school of Indian Buddhism. He has published a monograph on the 'store-house consciousness' (ālaya-vijñāna) (The Buddhist Unconscious) and numerous articles on Buddhist philosophy of mind in dialogue with modern philosophy and cognitive science. Related Link：http://buddhiststudies.berkeley.edu/events/ Go Top

．	[Lecture] 2012 Numata Lecture：The Buddhas of the Kathmandu Valley posted date:2012-08-23 Time：2012/09/20 (Thu), 5 pm Location：Conference Room, Institute of East Asian Studies, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th floor Although Mahayana Buddhism in India disappeared around the thirteenth century, it continued to be practiced among the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley, and, with some modifications, it survives there today. Accordingly, their pantheon of deities is structured according to late Indian Buddhist Tantric models and for this employs the standard Sanskrit names of Buddhas and other divine beings. This talk will explore the way the Newar pantheon is imagined and structured, tracking its Indian origins and its local modifications. Musashi Tachikawa received his Ph.D. in Sanskrit and Indian Studies from Harvard University and was Professor at the National Museum of Ethnology and Aichi Gakuin University in Japan. He also was a visiting professor of Buddhist studies at the University of California, Berkeley, at the University of Chicago and at Leiden University, The Netherlands. Now he is a Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies, UC Berkeley. Related Link：http://buddhiststudies.berkeley.edu/events/ Go Top

．	[Lecture] Alexander the Great and Dionysus in India: The Greek Interaction with Early Buddhist Art posted date:2012-08-23 Time：2012/10/18 (Thu), 6:00pm Location：Building 200, Room 030, Stanford University-Stanford, CA The diversity and syncretism characterizing Gandhāran Buddhist art from the time of Kanishka I resulted from the cultural, religious and artistic heritage of the former political supremacies: Persians, Greeks, Scythian and Parthians. The presence of Greeks in the area since the conquest of Alexander the Great has to be taken as an important historical fact. At the time the Kushans reached their apogee, cultural interactions and pre-existent Hellenistic artistic forms facilitate a progressive Indianization. The Indian conquest of Alexander the Great has a mythic analogy in the Indian Triumph of Dionysos. Dionysos, the god of wine, inspired many Buddhist artists of Central Asia and Gandhara. Judging from the archaeological findings this god was particularly popular among the Scythians and Greeks. As the god who taught Indians how to cultivate vine, he is shown with Ariadne drinking wine prepared by his companions. Sileni, satyrs, Pan, and other fertility demons are shown on Buddhist reliefs drinking, dancing, harvesting, kissing or indulging in sexual intercourse. These Dionysian scenes could be understood as a symbolic representation of the Middle Region of gandharva or Yakshas. The present talk aims to argue that these Dionysian scenes represent the stratified vision of the Indian cosmology as narrated in the Vedic literature. Speaker's Bio: Osmund Bopearachchi is a Director of Research at the French National Center for Scientific Research in its Hellenism and Oriental Civilisations program, and teaches Central Asian and South-Asian archaeology and art history at the Paris IV–Sorbonne University. Professor Bopearachchi holds a BA from the University of Kelaniya (Sri Lanka), a BA honors, (MA), M.Phil., Ph.D from the Paris I-Sorbonne University, and a Higher Doctorate (Habilitation) from the Paris IV-Sorbonne University. Related Link：http://hcbss.stanford.edu/event/alexander-great-and-dionysus-india-greek-interaction-early-buddhist- Go Top

．	[Lecture] The Power of Compassion posted date:2012-08-23 Time：2013/02/28 (Thu) , 7:30pm Location：Sanctuary, The Circle, Old Union, Third Floor Telo Tulku Rinpoche was born in Kalmyk family in the United States. As a 4-year-old boy, he expressed his wish to be a Buddhist monk. And at the age of 6, in 1979, he got a chance to meet with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in NY who recommended sending him to Drepung Gomang Monastery in India to get a proper training as a Buddhist monk. He spent 13 years in Drepung Gomang studying Buddhist philosophy under the guidance of illustrious Tibetan masters. In late 1980s, while studying in the monastery, he was recognized as a new reincarnation of great Indian saint Tilopa. In 1991, Telo Tulku Rinpoche paid his first visit to Kalmykia with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Shortly afterwards, in 1992, he was elected as "Shadjin Lama" (Head Lama) of Kalmykia by the Kalmyk people and was entrusted to lead the process of spiritual restoration of one of the three Buddhist regions in Russia, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Since then, he has supervised and managed to rebuilt over 27 Buddhist temples that had been destroyed during communist era, as well as the main temple in the capital city, The Golden Abode of Buddha Shakyamuni, which is the biggest Buddhist temple in Russia and Europe. Related Link：http://hcbss.stanford.edu/event/power-compassion Go Top

．	[Lecture] The Sources of Compassion posted date:2012-08-23 Time：2012/11/01 (Thu) 7:30 p.m. Location：Sanctuary, The Circle, Old Union, Third Floor Given that compassion has a central role in the Buddhist spiritual life, what are Buddhists referring to when championing compassion? How does a person evoke and cultivate compassion in oneself? What gives rise to compassion and what is its role in Buddhist practice. Gil Fronsdal will discuss these questions both from his own experience as a Buddhist practitioner and from the earliest Buddhist teachings from India. Speaker's Bio: Gil Fronsdal has been a Buddhist practitioner for 35 years in both the Zen and Theravada Insight traditions. He has a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Stanford and is currently the guiding teacher at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City. Related Link：http://hcbss.stanford.edu/event/sources-compassion Go Top

．	[Lecture] Domestic Dharma Beyond Texts, Beyond Monasteries posted date:2012-07-20 Time：Saturday, September 22, 2012, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Location：Jodo Shinshu Center-2140 Durant Avenue-Berkeley, CA The Institute of Buddhist Studies Numata Symposium: Domestic Dharma Beyond Texts, Beyond Monasteries Saturday, September 22, 2012, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Jodo Shinshu Center 2140 Durant Avenue Berkeley, CA Lay Buddhist practices are increasingly recognized as a distinct tradition, existing outside the definitions of Buddhism provided by the textual tradition and by monastic models. The 2012 IBS Numata Symposium will focus on the practice of Buddhism in the household—the Dharma in its domestic setting. Keynote addresses will be given by?Paula Arai and Lisa Grumbach. Other speakers will include?Daijaku Judith Kinst and Scott Mitchell. Dr. Arai will speak on the topic of “Cleaning Cloths, Poetry, and Personal Buddhas: Laywomen’s Healing Practices in Contemporary Japan.” Creativity, flexibility, and accessibility are qualities characteristic of the Buddhist practices that women in contemporary Japan engage in as they weave healing activities into their daily life. Home-made ritualized activities, which draw upon and innovatively adapt age-old traditions, include common greetings turned into healing events, cleaning cloths performing medical mysteries, and poetry writing. In addition, this domestic Dharma often sees a loved one transformed into a Personal Buddha upon death, bestowing wise counsel and compassionate support. Paula Arai, the author of Women Living Zen: Japanese Buddhist Nuns (Oxford University Press, 1999) and Bringing Zen Home: The Healing Heart of Japanese Buddhist Women’s Rituals (University of Hawaii Press, 2011), has performed ground-breaking research on monastic and lay Japanese Buddhist women. She is currently an associate professor of Buddhist Studies at Louisiana State University and vice-president of Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women. Dr. Grumbach’s presentation will be entitled, “Nuns at Home, Nuns as Homebuilders: Rethinking Ordination and Family in Medieval Japan.” She will explore the roles of ordained women within the social and familial structures of medieval Japan. Focusing on the reasons women became nuns, their age at ordination, and the work they performed as nuns, she will argue that women used ordination as a way to build and maintain homes rather than as a way to “leave home.” Autobiographical writings by women, historical and biographical information about nuns, and medieval literature will be used to show that ordination and family life were not opposing categories for many women, suggesting that we need to revise our understanding of what it meant to be a “nun” in medieval Japan. Lisa Grumbach teaches at the Institute of Buddhist Studies, Berkeley, California, and at Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan. Her research focuses on interactions between Buddhism and Shinto in medieval Japan, the development of Shinto-Buddhist ritual, and the role of food in East Asian religions. The public is free to attend. Registration information is forthcoming. Related Link：http://www.shin-ibs.edu/news-events/?p=580 Go Top

．	[Lecture] Keynote Address: Cynthea Bogel posted date:2012-06-26 Time：Friday, July 6, 2012 Location：Museum of Anthropology, 6393 North West Marine Drive Keynote Address: Cynthea Bogel Professor Cynthea J. Bogel, Kyushu University, will present a keynote address for the conference, “Icons of Impermanence: Contemporary Buddhist Art”: “New Roads to Nirvana: Visual Buddhism, Modern Eyes” Date: Friday, July 6, 2012 Time: 7:30pm – 9:00pm (Doors open at 7:00pm) Place: Museum of Anthropology, 6393 North West Marine Drive RSVP is required: Please click here. http://goo.gl/jHrM6 Across the modern world Buddhism is taught, re-shaped, and challenged through a range and variety of visual means and visual experiences, including manga, magazines, mementos, art installations, temple visitations, and mountain perambulations. Contemporary international artists draw inspiration from Buddhism or Buddhist imagery in ways that find no basis in doctrine. The lecture reviews these possibilities and developments, then turns to Japan, highlighting the reception and presentation of Buddhism by Buddhist adherents, detractors, and everyone between, beginning with the reception of Kusama Yayoi in 1959 New York, and continuing with today’s popular Son et Lumière events and the bōzu boomu (monk boom) in manga. Dr. Bogel focuses on the art and architecture of Japan and Buddhist visual cultures. Her 2009 book, With a Single Glance: Buddhist Icon and Early Mikkyō Vision, examines early East Asian Esoteric icons and ideas. She recently received a National Endowment for the Humanities research fellowship. Beginning her career as a curator at the RISD Museum of Art, she then taught at the University of Oregon and for thirteen years at the University of Washington, Seattle, where she was Associate Professor. In April of this year she became a professor at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, where she teaches Japanese visual culture and thought. She is writing a book on Japanese prints, an essay on Saidaiji, and an annotated bibliography of Asian Buddhist material culture. This keynote address and the conference, “Icons of Impermanence: Contemporary Buddhist Art”, will be held at the University of British Columbia, in conjunction with the “Visions of Enlightenment: Buddhist Art at MOA“ exhibition. Conference presentations are also open to the public. To account for numbers, please send an email to bcsprogram@gmail.com and notify us of your desire to attend. We would like to recognize the following organizations for their support: The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation Canadian Society for Asian Arts Museum of Anthropology at UBC Related Link：http://ubcbuddhism.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/07061/#more-2169 Go Top

．	[Lecture] Mustang, Gateway to Tibet posted date:2012-06-26 Time：Sat Dec-1-2012, 1:00pm - 4:00pm Location：TBA Mustang, Gateway to Tibet Christian Luczanits The Rubin Museum, New York Date: Sat Dec-1-2012, 1:00pm - 4:00pm Location: TBA Program / Series: TT & WF Chao Lectures on Buddhist Art Co-sponsor: Stanford Continuing Studies Mustang, called Lo in Tibetan, is a discrete geographical region to the north of central Nepal mostly inhabited by people who are culturally Tibetan. The Mustang valley is defined by the Kali Gandaki River, which flows straight from north to south. Tracks paralleling the river once served as a major trade route between Tibet and India and provided the surplus that enabled the building of monasteries of substantial size and the creation of stunning artworks, in particular from the late 14th to the 17th centuries. Besides presenting major monuments and art objects from the region, the seminar also introduces Mustang's colorful history and landscape. Speaker's Bio Christian Luczanits received his Ph.D from the Institute of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna. His research focuses on the Buddhist art of India and Tibet, based on extensive field research and documentation done on site. He is the author of Buddhist Sculpture in Clay: Early Western Himalayan Art, late 10th to early 13th centuries. More recent research has concentrated on Buddhist art immediately before and during Kushana rule. In this connection he co-curated the exhibition "Gandhara – the Buddhist Heritage of Pakistan, Legends, Monasteries and Paradise" at the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Bonn. Christian Luczanits was a Freeman Visiting Professor at UC-Berkeley in 2004-05, Visiting Professor at Frei Universität in Berlin 2006–08 and held visiting professorships at Stanford and UC- Berkeley in the first half of 2010. Related Link：http://hcbss.stanford.edu/event/mustang-gateway-tibet Go Top

．	[Lecture] Theravada Buddhist Arts of Mainland Southeast Asia posted date:2012-06-26 Time：Sat Feb-2-2013, 1:00pm - 4:00pm Location：TBA Theravada Buddhist Arts of Mainland Southeast Asia Boreth Ly University of California, Santa Cruz Date: Sat Feb-2-2013, 1:00pm - 4:00pm Location: TBA Program / Series: TT & WF Chao Lectures on Buddhist Art Co-sponsor: Stanford Continuing Studies This seminar comprises two parts. First, it introduces participants to the little discussed Buddhist arts and architecture of Laos, and in particular, the mural paintings, textiles, and ephemeral ritual arts of Luang Prabang. We will consider this body of materials in its local and religious contexts. The second part of the seminar will address the role Theravada (and Socially Engaged Buddhism) plays in the Contemporary arts of Southeast Asia. Questions to be raised include: How do local and global artists integrate Theravada Buddhist philosophical perspectives on materiality, ritual, space, and performance into their arts? In what ways do socially engaged Buddhist arts offer us alternative ways for thinking about social political movements and communities? Speaker's Bio Boreth Ly is Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian Art and Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He was born in Cambodia, and educated in France and the United States. Dr. Ly has conducted field research and traveled extensively in Southeast Asia. At the University of California at Santa Cruz, he teaches courses on ancient and Contemporary arts of Southeast Asia and its diaspora. He has published numerous articles on the visual culture of Southeast Asia and its diaspora; in addition, he has co-edited a book, with Nora Taylor, Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art: An Anthology (Ithaca, NY: SEAP, 2012). Related Link：http://hcbss.stanford.edu/event/theravada-buddhist-arts-mainland-southeast-asia Go Top

．	[Lecture] Alexander the Great and Dionysus in India: The Greek Interaction with Early Buddhist Art posted date:2012-06-26 Time：Thu Oct-18-2012, 7:30pm Location：TBA Alexander the Great and Dionysus in India: The Greek Interaction with Early Buddhist Art Osmund Bopearachchi Paris IV–Sorbonne University Date: Thu Oct-18-2012, 7:30pm Location: TBA Program / Series: TT & WF Chao Lectures on Buddhist Art Silk Road Buddhism Lectures The diversity and syncretism characterizing Gandhāran Buddhist art from the time of Kanishka I resulted from the cultural, religious and artistic heritage of the former political supremacies: Persians, Greeks, Scythian and Parthians. The presence of Greeks in the area since the conquest of Alexander the Great has to be taken as an important historical fact. At the time the Kushans reached their apogee, cultural interactions and pre-existent Hellenistic artistic forms facilitate a progressive Indianization. The Indian conquest of Alexander the Great has a mythic analogy in the Indian Triumph of Dionysos. Dionysos, the god of wine, inspired many Buddhist artists of Central Asia and Gandhara. Judging from the archaeological findings this god was particularly popular among the Scythians and Greeks. As the god who taught Indians how to cultivate vine, he is shown with Ariadne drinking wine prepared by his companions. Sileni, satyrs, Pan, and other fertility demons are shown on Buddhist reliefs drinking, dancing, harvesting, kissing or indulging in sexual intercourse. These Dionysian scenes could be understood as a symbolic representation of the Middle Region of gandharva or Yakshas. The present talk aims to argue that these Dionysian scenes represent the stratified vision of the Indian cosmology as narrated in the Vedic literature. Speaker's Bio Osmund Bopearachchi is a Director of Research at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in its Hellenism and Oriental Civilisations program (UMR 8546/5), and teaches Central Asian and South-Asian archaeology and art history at the Paris IV–Sorbonne University. Professor Bopearachchi holds a BA from the University of Kelaniya (Sri Lanka), a BA honors, (MA), M.Phil., Ph.D from the Paris I-Sorbonne University, and a Higher Doctorate (Habilitation) from the Paris IV-Sorbonne University. He has published nine books, edited six others, and published 130 articles in international journals. Currently the Trung Lam Visiting Scholar in Central Asian Art and Archaeology (2010–2012) at the University of California, Berkeley, Professor Bopearachchi is working on a new catalogue of Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coins, as well as the publication of a selection of hitherto unknown masterpieces from Gandhāra and Greater Gandhāra dispersed in museums and private collections in Japan, Europe, Canada, and the United States of America. Related Link：http://hcbss.stanford.edu/event/alexander-great-and-dionysus-india-greek-interaction-early-buddhist- Go Top

．	[Lecture] ICBS Summer 2012 Lecture Series on Buddhism in the Modern World posted date:2012-06-26 Time：from 6pm - 7:30pm starting July 31 to August 10 Location：CE101 in the UWest campus ICBS Summer 2012 Lecture Series on Buddhism in the Modern World The Institute of Chinese Buddhist Studies announces a new Summer 2012 Lecture Series entitled "Buddhism in the Modern World: 19th - 20th Century Twists and Turns" by Dr. Lewis Lancaster. Classes take place in CE101 in the UWest campus from 6pm - 7:30pm starting July 31 to August 10. Date　　　　　　　　　　　Topics July 31, Tuesday　　　　Chinese Buddhism: Challenges of diplomacy, 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Colonialism, Missionaries August 1, Wednesday　　Korea Buddhism: the Awakening of a Tradition 　　　　　　　　　　　　　in an Urban World August 2, Thursday　　 Theravada: Resistance and Adaptation to Modernity August 3, Friday　　　 Europe and America: New Voices August 7, Tuesday　　　 Tibetan Diaspora: Preservation August 8, Wednesday　　Japanese Buddhism: Redefinition August 9, Thursday　　　Buddhism Re-Kindled: Emergence after Suppressions August 10, Friday　　　 Buddhism Today: A Changing World of Science, 　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Psychology, and Post-human Philosophy The lecture is free and all are welcome to attend. Pre-registration is not required. For more information, please contact Jacky Liu at icbs@uwest.edu. About the Lecturer Dr. Lewis Lancaster is a professor emeritus in the Department of East Asian Languages at the University of California at Berkeley and has been an adjunct professor at UWest since 1992. He has served as the Chair of Buddhist Studies at UC Berkeley and Editor of the Berkeley Buddhist Studies Series. Dr. Lancaster has published over 55 articles and reviews and has edited or authored numerous books including Prajnaparamita and Related Systems, The Korean Buddhist Canon, Buddhist Scriptures, Early Ch'an in China and Tibet, and Assimilation of Buddhism in Korea. Related Link：http://www.uwest.edu/site/file/docs/pubs/icbs/buddhism_mworld.pdf Go Top

．	[Lecture] Special Dharma Lecture - Buddhism in a "Post-Human" Era: Technology and Human Interconnect posted date:2012-06-26 Time：Sunday, August 12, 2012 at 10:30 am Location：Conference Room, Fo Guang Shan Hsi Lai Temple Special Dharma Lecture - Buddhism in a "Post-Human" Era: Technology and Human Interconnect Speaker: Dr. Lewis R. Lancaster Place: Conference Room, Fo Guang Shan Hsi Lai Temple Date & Time: Sunday, August 12, 2012 at 10:30 am Dr. Lewis R. Lancaster Professor (Emeritus) Department of East Asian Languages and Culture, University of California, Berkeley Past President and Professor (Emeritus) of University of the West Director of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative Recent research involved with the history of the printing of the Chinese Buddhist canon in the Northern Sung dynasty and the role of new technology in Asian and cultural studies Related Link：http://www.hsilai.org/en/event_subpages/event.html#precepts Go Top

．	[Lecture] Special Dharma Talk by the Most Venerable Hsin Ting posted date:2012-06-26 Time：Saturday, July 14th, 2012 Location：Fo Guang Shan Hsi Lai Temple Courtyard Hsi Lai Temple, Hacienda Heights: Saturday, July 14th, 2012 7:00pm - 8:00pm Fo Guang Shan Hsi Lai Temple Courtyard Venerable Hsin Ting born on Feb 2nd, 1944 Abbot of Fo Guang Shan from 1997 to 2005 Abbot of Fo Guang Shan Hsi Lai Temple from 1989 to 1993 Please prepare warm clothing while attending Related Link：http://www.hsilai.org/en/event_subpages/event_information/2012/07/dharmatalk/11.jpg Go Top

．	[Lecture] Meditation and psychotherapy: Convergence and divergence posted date:2012-06-11 Time：Tuesday, July 3, 2012, 6:15 pm Location：room 221 ESA 1 East Meditation and psychotherapy: Convergence and divergence Prof. Dr. Luis O. Gómez (El Colegio de México, México, DF) Tuesday, July 3, 2012, 6:15 pm Venue: room 221 ESA 1 East (Asien-Afrika-Institut) For some time, confusion about the nature of Buddhist thought and practice, to say nothing of its multifaceted religious life, has led to various characterizations of some aspects of Buddhist traditions as "a psychology," or even as "a psychotherapy." At the same time, secular psychotherapeutic strategies developed in the last two decades seem to approach closely meditation techniques apparently belonging to the family of Buddhist "mindfulness" practices. Controversies have begun to rage over the use of the words "meditation" and "mindfulness" to describe empirically-based psychotherapeutic practices and over the possibility of "mindfulness" practice independent of its putative Buddhist roots. This lecture outlines some of the preconditions that need to be met if the controversy is to be productive and not a conversation with participants speaking at cross-purposes. The many assumptions of the psychotherapeutic profession and the equally variegated presuppositions of the Buddhist meditation traditions will be examined with the intent of outlining what both sides still need to do if they want to either come closer to each other or draw lines of difference that can lead to constructive de-identification. FLYER Related Link：http://www.buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de/index.php?id=133&L=1#c1805 Go Top

．	[Lecture] Practical Wisdom for Management and Economics from the Buddhist Traditions posted date:2012-05-15 Time：November 15-16, 2012; contribution deadline: 15 July, 2012 Location：Bangkok, Thailand EABIS - The Academy of Business in Society, Yale University, and Thammasat Business School are organizing a high profile international conference on PRACTICAL WISDOM FOR MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMICS FROM THE BUDDHIST TRADITIONS, November 15-16, 2012 in Bangkok, Thailand. Webpage: http://www.eabis.org/?id=343 Topics include - Buddhist Economics, including the manifold traditions and denominations of Buddhism in the world - Buddhist Approach to Business, Management Practice and Management Education - Buddhist Approach to Human Resource Management and Development - Buddhist Ethics in Business, Management and Economics - Relationship between spiritual orientations and business outcomes - Spiritual embedding of organizational ethics and interpersonal virtues - Buddhist Good Governance, Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Social Responsibility - Buddhist Practical Wisdom in Community Management - Buddhist Practical Wisdom in Natural Resource and Environment Management - Buddhist contribution to sufficiency economy and sustainable development - Leadership and Fellowship in Buddhist Wisdom and Traditions - Practical Wisdom in Buddhist Tripitaka - Practical Wisdom in Contemporary Buddhist Thought (including all the different traditions) - Buddhist Practical Wisdom in Peace Development and Management - Buddhist Practical Wisdom in Managing Global Crisis Guidelines for Contributions We invite interested scholars and practitioners to submit a one page proposal outlining their proposed topic and the nature of their contribution. Please download the full call for contributions. The deadline is 15 July 2012 and proposals must be submited by e-mail to Cristian Loza Adaui, Editorial Assistant: cristian.loza@eabis.org. Proposals will be reviewed and the authors informed of acceptance by 31 July 2012. The conference will be hosted by the Business School of Thammasat University, Bangkok, on 15-16 November 2012. A full final paper will be expected by 10 December 2012. Go Top

．	[Lecture] Kyoto Asian Studies Group meetings 5/21 and 5/28 posted date:2012-05-15 Time：2012/5/21,5/28 Location：Room 213 of the Fusokan on the Doshisha University Campus The Kyoto Asian Studies Group would like to announce twomeetings for the month of May. We will welcome separate speakers for each meeting. 1. On Tuesday, May 21st, Sherry Fowler will present “Six Kannon Lake and Six Kannon Images in Kyushu” (see abstract below). Sherry Fowler is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Kansas. Sherry Fowler: “Six Kannon Lake and Six Kannon Images in Kyushu” The island of Kyushu has some of the earliest references to images of the Six Kannon in Japan and throughout the history of this cult Kyushu has been a site of great activity. Although much of Kyushu’s history is not well documented, from the high concentration of existing Six Kannon examples and related literary references tied to the island, we can see that the cult revolves around Six Kannon Lake (Rokkannon no miike), which is a volcanic crater lake located in the Kirishima Mountains near Ebino City, Miyazaki prefecture. Legend has it that the tenth century Tendai Buddhist prelate Shoku was intoning the Lotus Sutra next to the lake when he had a vision of Six Kannon. He proclaimed that they were the true Buddhist forms of the six shrines in the Kirishima Mountains (Kirishimasan Rokusho Gongen) and carved images of them, which he enshrined in a small hall that he built next to the lake. Although Shoku’s Six Kannon images are no longer extant, and links between existing Six Kannon sets in Kyushu to the lake are indirect, the legacy of these Six Kannon images seem to have had a far-reaching following. This talk will explore some of these sets in Kyushu. 2. On Tuesday, May 28th, Patricia J. Graham will present “Celebrating Design and Craftsmanship: Early Acquisitions of Japanese Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art” (see abstract below). Patricia J. Graham is a research associate at the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Kansas, an independent art historian and a certified appraiser of East Asian Art. Patricia J. Graham: “Celebrating Design and Craftsmanship: Early Acquisitions of Japanese Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art” The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is recognized for its superb holdings of Chinese art. Yet in its formative period, 1930-35, the museum also began amassing an extraordinary collection of Japanese art under the oversight of Harvard University Art Museum curator and lecturer Langdon Warner (1881-1955), one of the earliest specialists on Asian art in the USA, who also led excavations in China and Central Asia, and advised the Cleveland and Philadelphia Art Museums on acquisitions during the course of his long career. For the Nelson, Warner bought large and diverse groups of textiles, arms and armor, ukiyoe prints and paintings, lacquer, ceramics, and Buddhist art that represented his personal feelings for Japan's defining spiritual, aesthetic, and cultural characteristics, and above all highlighted the Japanese as among the world's greatest designers and craftsmen. When the Japanese collection came under the jurisdiction of Chinese art historian Laurence Sickman in 1935, much of this collection fell into obscurity because of his emphasis on Chinese art. After Sickman became Director in 1953 he began a renewed effort to collect Japanese art, but then emphasized the acquisitions of masterpieces by famous artists and other arts such as porcelains, large-scale folding screens, early Buddhist sculptures, and lacquers, that could be described as refined products of Japanese elite culture, all reflective of the aesthetic taste of post-war Japanese art enthusiasts. Recently, as art museums re-evaluate their collections, they are becoming interested once again in the types of formerly ignored objects that Warner collected, recognizing that the aesthetic achievements of diverse cultures may encompass art forms that fall outside the parameters of artworks deemed "masterpieces" or "fine arts" by Western criteria. Scrutinizing the early Japanese collection at the Nelson with these issues in mind illuminates more than changing attitudes towards appreciation of Japanese art. It raises questions about the presentation, collection, and interpretation of world art in art museums today. Both lectures will be held from 6:30-8:30 in Room 213 of the Fusokan on the Doshisha University Campus (see link below for access information). Sponsored by the Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies. For access information see: http://www.doshisha.ac.jp/english/access/ima_campus.html Please refrain from bringing food or drinks into the meeting room. Contact: Hillary Pedersen, hillyped@yahoo.com Go Top

．	[Lecture] Stairway to Nirvā?a: A Structural Analysis of the Twenty Saṃghas posted date:2012-05-11 Time：2012/5/28 Monday 1500-1700 Location：National Chengchi University 政治大學山上校區百年樓二樓宗教所會議室（330211） 1.Online Registration: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFVmOHAwNlA4ODl3a2k0UmpjR3loTkE6MQ 2.Speaker: Prof. James B. Apple Department of Religious Studies, University of Calgary Prof. Apple's webpage 3.Abstract: The Twenty Varieties of the Saṃgha (Tib. dge ’dun nyi shu) is one of the most formative subjects in traditional Tibetan Buddhist studies. The Saṃgha is one of the Three Jewels (‘Buddha, Dharma, Saṃgha’) universally revered by all Buddhists and is comprised of the ideal community of Noble Persons who embody the Buddha’s teachings. The Twenty Saṃghas enumerates all the possible stages through which any given individual might pass, depending upon factors such as that individual’s cosmological circumstances, the acuity of his or her faculties, and the individual’s degree of meditative cultivation and cognitive insight. This presentation centers on the interpretation of the Saṃgha given by the 14th century Tibetan scholar Tsong-kha-pa blo-bzang grags-pa. The presentation provides an overview of the importance of the Twenty Saṃghas in Tibetan Buddhist culture and a structural analysis of the topic’s overall content. 4.Organizer:Department of Philosophy, National Chengchi University 5.Principle Investigator:林鎮國教授（政治大學哲學系特聘教授、宗教研究所合聘教授） 6.Contact Person：胡志強(email:buddhismstudy@yahoo.com.tw) Related Link：http://buddhica.nccu.edu.tw/ Go Top

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．	[Scholarship] Postgraduate Research in Thai Studies at the University of Leeds (Bauer) posted date:2013-04-11 Time：2013/7/1 Scholarships from the Royal Thai Embassy in London for Postgraduate Research in Thai Studies at the University of Leeds School of Modern Languages & Cultures with six months of fieldwork in Thailand. We are very pleased to advertise a total of three scholarships each of ￡12,000 for postgraduate studies commencing next academic year (October 2013). For further details: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/news/article/3392/scholarships_for_pg_students_researching_in_thai_studies_for_2012-13 Related Link：http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/news/article/3392/scholarships_for_pg_students_researching_in_thai_studi Go Top

．	[Scholarship] Position: Director of Japan and Its Buddhist Traditions Program posted date:2013-04-01 Time：2013/4/1 Antioch University, Antioch Education Abroad Director of Japan and Its Buddhist Traditions Program, Kyoto Japan Institution Type: College / University Location: Ohio, United States Position: Director Antioch Education Abroad announces an opening for a faculty position in Japanese Studies as Director of Antiochs Japan and Its Buddhist Traditions program. During the fall semesterSeptember through December 2013, the successful candidate will have responsibility for leading the program in Kyoto, Japan, teaching courses that are part of this program, and supervising students' independent work. As Program Director the candidate will also be responsible for academic and administrative functions during the program including managing the budget, and supervising the work of the program assistant and adjunct faculty lecturers in Japan. Careful attention is given to group dynamics at all stages of the program; therefore, interpersonal and cross-cultural skills are highly valued for the position. Prior to the fall semester the Program Director will have part time responsibility for the following: participation in student recruitment, advising prospective students for the program, logistical support for the Japan and Its Buddhist Traditions program, planning the budget, selecting the program assistant and adjunct faculty lecturers in Japan, as well as other activities associated with the program This position is for eight months (May-Dec, 2013). For more information on the program, visit our website at: www.antioch.edu/japan. Qualifications PhD in Japanese Studies with focus on Buddhist Studies (Candidates with ABD or M.A. and substantial experience will be considered) Experience in international education is highly desirable Effective command of Japanese language and understanding of Japanese culture Teaching experience with students of diverse backgrounds Experience with Buddhist meditation practice Demonstrated experience in group process and conflict management Administrative experience with off-campus programs preferred Application Review of applications will begin on April 1, and continue until the position is filled. To apply please submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, names of at least two references, student evaluations (if available) and a copy of transcript of completed graduate studies. Antioch University is committed to creating a community in which a diverse population can live and work in an atmosphere of sensitivity, civility, and respect for the rights of each individual. Antioch provides equal employment opportunity for all qualified applicants and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, family status, or disability. Antioch University, which enrolls over 5,000 graduate and undergraduate students, includes Antioch Midwest in Yellow Springs, Antioch Seattle, Antioch New England in Keene, New Hampshire, and Antioch Southern California at Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. Related Link：http://www.antioch.edu/aea/ Go Top

．	[Scholarship] Position: Indian Religions, Post-doctoral Fellow, Georg-August- Universität Göttingen posted date:2013-04-01 Time：2013/4/25 Location：Centre of Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Universität Göttingen, Center for Modern Indian Studies Postdoctoral Fellow--Indian Religions Institution Type: College / University Location: Germany Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow The Centre for Modern Indian Studies at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen seeks to fill the position of Post-Doctoral Fellow in Indian Religions This position will begin on Oct. 1, 2013. The position is full time; regular working hours are 39.8 per week. We offer a two-year fixed-term contract. Remuneration will be according to E13 TV-L (the German public sector pay scale). Applications from scholars representing all subfields in the study of religions in India are welcome; preference will be given to candidates whose research and writing addresses one or more of the following topics: minority religions, law, conversion, gender, social inequality, religion and empire, and religion and democratic practice. Applicants must have a PhD in a relevant field, such as Religious Studies, History, Anthropology, Sociology, South Asian Studies, or Political Science. In addition to pursuing a postdoctoral research project, the fellow will assist in the design and organization of conferences and workshops on Indian religions, and in the teaching of religion courses at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies. The scholar will be based at the University of Goettingen in Germany, but may spend a portion of the fellowship period conducting field research, in consultation with the Indian Religions research group leader. Applicants from all countries are encouraged to apply. English proficiency is expected; German is not required, but would be welcome. The University of Göttingen is an equal-opportunity employer and places particular emphasis on fostering career opportunities for women. Qualified women are therefore strongly encouraged to apply as they are underrepresented in this field. Disabled persons with equivalent aptitude will be favoured. Please send your application with the usual documents (a writing sample, a 1000-word proposal for a postdoctoral research project, and three letters of reference, to be sent directly by the referees). Materials should preferably be sent by email to iris.karakus@cemis.uni-goettingen.de no later than the 25th of April, 2013. Alternatively you can send your application by post to: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Centre of Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS) Frau Iris Karaku? Waldweg 26 D-37073 Göttingen Related Link： https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=46536 Go Top

．	[Scholarship] One-Year Fellowships to Scholars of History and Cultures of the Countries of Asia posted date:2013-04-01 Time：2013/5/31 Oriental Institute is offering one-year fellowships to outstanding scholars (with a preference on non-Czech residents) of history and cultures of the countries of Asia (with a preference on Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, East Asia) for the 2013-2014 academic year. Eligibility: This position is open to recent PhDs (as a post-doctoral position). PhD must be completed by September 1, 2013. Terms: The position is open beginning by September 2013 (negotiable). The annual salary will be in the 12.000-14.500 EUR range. Researchers are expected to be in residence at the Oriental Institute in Prague. During their residence, researchers are required to produce academic publications (ideally turn their doctoral dissertations into monographs) and participate in all Oriental Institute seminars and other events. We reserve the right not to fill this position. Deadline for applications: May 31, 2013. Notification: June 30, 2013. Inquiries: Please direct inquiries to Ondrej Beranek at beranek@orient.cas.cz or call 00420 - 266 052 488. Application: Please submit all of the following materials: 1) CV and Publication List 2) Project proposal a. In three to five pages (double spaced 12 pt. font) please explain the project you would undertake in the starting stage of your residence. In addition please include a separate bibliography of works to demonstrate how this project relates to the current state of research. b. A strong proposal articulates a clear hypothesis and methodology; outlines a clear and realistic work plan; and demonstrates how this contributes to an original understanding of Asian regions. 3) Writing Samples a. Please include a writing sample of no more than 20 pages. b. Please include a Dissertation Abstract of no more than 2 pages. 4) Two letters of Recommendation a. Please list the names, addresses and occupations of the two persons, not related to you, who will submit letters of recommendation on your behalf. Letters of recommendation must be submitted by the deadline for the application to be complete. Mailing Instructions: Please send the application and letters either electronically to: beranek@orient.cas.cz or mail it to: Dr. Ondrej Beranek Orientalni ustav AV CR (ORIENTAL INSTITUTE, ASCR) Pod vodarenskou vezi 4 182 08 Praha 8 Ceska republika (CZECH REPUBLIC) http://www.orient.cas.cz/sd/novinky/hlavni-stranka/news_0040.html Related Link：http://www.orient.cas.cz/sd/novinky/hlavni-stranka/news_0040.html Go Top

．	[Scholarship] Hong Kong Buddhist Association Postgraduate Scholarships in Buddhist Studies posted date:2013-03-04 Time：2013/3/15 This scholarship is available for application to all applicants of the Master of Buddhist Studies degree programme with priority of awards given to those who are teaching Buddhism in schools run by the Hong Kong Buddhist Association or administrators in the secretariat and subsidiary organisations of the Hong Kong Buddhist Association. Under special circumstances, the Selection Committee may consider to award the scholarships to other candidates. The number of scholarships awarded each year shall not be more than four and the annual scholarship fund available for allocation is HK$60,000. Please submit the form to the Centre of Buddhist Studies, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong by March 15, 2013. Related Link：http://www.buddhism.hku.hk/course_and_scholarships.htm Go Top

．	[Scholarship] Glorious Sun Group Postgraduate Scholarships in Buddhist Studies posted date:2013-03-04 Time：2013/3/15 This scholarship is established to award Buddhist clergies who pursue the Master of Buddhist Studies or Research Postgraduate degree programme. For MBS applicants, the maximum scholarship amount is HK$138,000 for overseas ones and HK$88,000 for local ones. Please submit the form and the supporting documents to the Centre of Buddhist Studies, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong by March 15, 2013. Related Link：http://www.buddhism.hku.hk/course_and_scholarships.htm Go Top

．	[Scholarship] Tung Lin Kok Yuen Postgraduate Scholarships in Buddhist Studies 2013-14 posted date:2013-03-04 Time：2013/3/15 This scholarship is available for application for all students pursuing the Master of Buddhist Studies degree programme. Scholarships of up to HK$50,000 & HK$140,000 each will be awarded to successful local and overseas applicants respectively. The value of each of the scholarships will be determined by the Selection Committee. The scholarships shall be awarded with priority given to candidates pursuing the 1-year full-time degree programme. Under special circumstances, the Selection Committee may consider to award the scholarships to students pursuing the 2-years part-time degree programme. The scholarships shall be awarded on the basis of academic merit; the candidates’ financial needs and the candidates’ personalities. Please submit the form to the Centre of Buddhist Studies, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong by March 15, 2013. Related Link：http://www.buddhism.hku.hk/course_and_scholarships.htm Go Top

．	[Fellowship] Summer Fellowship Opportunity posted date:2013-02-22 Time：2013/3/1 Location：New York City Members of H-Buddhism are invited to apply for a fellowship to the CrossCurrents Research Colloquium 2013 Spend the month of July in New York working on a research or writing project related to one of the following themes: LGBT Theology: Projects that emphasize translating theology for wider audiences; and possibly focusing on international dimensions will be welcomed. Moral Economy / Religious critique of Economic Theory: What is a "moral economy"? Can religious thought interface or dialogue with economic theory? How should religious communities have an impact on economic life? Intersectionality: How does intersectionality theory contribute, if it does, to human thriving, allowing people to move beyond barriers of race, class, gender or sexual orientation? Projects that draw upon or critique the theory of intersectionality will be welcomed as well as those that use the theory in suggestive and groundbreaking ways. Wildcard: applicants may apply for a topic of their own interest. The Colloquium will bring together scholars of religion, sociologists, clergy, activists and others who have worked on these questions and offer them an opportunity for in-depth scholarly exploration of commonalities and differences. By creating an environment conducive to research, open reflection and scholarly inquiry, participants are encouraged to learn from others who have studied different or convergent topics, bringing perspectives from their different fields. Application deadline is March 1, 2013 For further information check out our website at http://www.crosscurrents.org/colloquium.htm To apply visit: http://charles33.wufoo.com/forms/crosscurrents-auburn-research-colloquium-20 13/ Related Link：http://www.crosscurrents.org/colloquium.htm Go Top

．	[Scholarship] PhD scholarships posted date:2013-02-08 Time：Deadline for applications: 15 February 2013 The Doctoral Program in Buddhist Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany invites applications for two PhD scholarships for dissertation projects related to Buddhism: Deadline for applications: 15 February 2013 Start of scholarship: Fall semester 2013 Duration of scholarship: 3 or 4 years Scholarship amount: 1000 € per month + insurance + support for rent + 460€ per year Scholarship donor: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) The selection process comprises two stages: Applications are sent to the Doctoral Program in Buddhist Studies in Munich. The program will select promising candidates and forward their materials to the DAAD. In a second stage, an election committee chosen by the DAAD will decide upon the successful candidates. It is expected that the successful candidates will be chosen and informed by June 2013. The prerequisites for application are non-German citizenship (foreign applicants should not have lived in Germany for more than one year at the time of their nomination), a Master of Arts or Magister Artium degree or equivalent, excellent knowledge of at least one Buddhist source language, outstanding qualifications in the subject and fluency in English. A basic knowledge of German is also desirable and willingness to learn German/improve German language skills will be expected. For details concerning the application, please visit our homepage: http://www.en.buddhismus-studien.uni-muenchen.de/currentissues/stipendium/index.html Go Top

．	[Scholarship] Shinjo Ito Postdoctoral Fellowship in Japanese Buddhism posted date:2013-02-08 Time：Deadline: 1st March, 2013 Shinjo Ito Postdoctoral Fellowship in Japanese Buddhism University of California, Berkeley Deadline: March 1, 2013 With the generous support of the Shinnyo-en Foundation, the Center for Japanese Studies at UC Berkeley is pleased to invite applications for a postdoctoral research fellowship. The term of the appointment is August 1, 2013, to May 31, 2014 (negotiable). The Fellowship is intended to foster the academic careers of recent Ph.D.'s, providing time to pursue their research. Fellows will deliver a public lecture on their research as part of the Center for Japanese Studies Colloquium Series. Fellows will be provided with office space, library privileges, and a stipend of $40,000 plus benefits. Applicants must have their doctoral degrees in hand by June 30, 2013, and must be no more than six years out of their doctorate. Candidates who do not yet hold a Ph.D. but expect to by June 30, 2013, should supply a letter from their home institution confirming their schedule to completion. Applicants whose research interests are primarily in the areas of Buddhism outside Japan should apply to the Shinjo Ito Postdoctoral Fellowship in Buddhist Studies, administered through the Center for Buddhist Studies, rather than to the Shinjo Ito Fellowship in Japanese Buddhism. Applicants should submit the following materials: 1. Curriculum vitae 2. Graduate school transcripts 3. A personal statement of no more than 2000 words outlining previous research (including dissertation), the research the applicant will undertake during the term of the fellowship, future professional goals, as well as any other information deemed relevant to the application 4. A writing sample 5. Three letters of recommendation Application Deadline and Notification of Award: All application materials, including letters of recommendation, must be postmarked on or before March 1, 2013. Faxed or emailed applications will not be accepted. Only complete applications will be considered. It is the applicant's responsibility to ensure that all documentation is complete and that referees submit their letters of recommendation by the closing date. Awards will be announced in April, 2013. Send all materials to: Steven Vogel Chair, Center for Japanese Studies Attn: Shinjo Ito Postdoctoral Fellowship in Japanese Buddhism University of California, Berkeley 2223 Fulton Street, Room 500 Berkeley, CA 94720-2318 U.S.A. For any questions or concerns, please contact cjs@berkeley.edu UC Berkeley is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and educator. Women, minorities, and international candidates are especially encouraged to apply. Alyssa Yoneyama \| Program Coordinator Center for Japanese Studies University of California, Berkeley 510.642.3415 \| http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cjs Go Top

．	[Scholarship] Shinjo Ito Postdoctoral Fellowship in Buddhist Studies, Berkeley posted date:2012-12-03 Time：2013/1/14 With the generous support of the Shinnyo-en Foundation, the Program in Buddhist Studies at UC Berkeley is pleased to invite applications for a one-year postdoctoral research-teaching fellowship. The term of the appointment is July 1, 2013, to June 30, 2014, with the possibility of a one-year renewal. The Fellowship is intended to foster the academic careers of recent Ph.D.'s, providing time to pursue their research along with the opportunity to gain teaching experience. Fellows are expected to teach two courses per year under the auspices of the Group in Buddhist Studies. (At least one course will be at the undergraduate level.) In addition, Fellows will give a public lecture on their research as part of the Center for Buddhist Studies Colloquium Series, and they are expected to take part in regular Center for Buddhist Studies events and workshops. We particularly welcome applicants whose research and teaching interests complement areas covered by Berkeley's Buddhist Studies faculty. Fellows will be provided with office space, library privileges and a salary of approximately $50,000 that comes with benefits. Applicants must have their doctoral degrees in hand by June 30, 2013, and must be no more than six years out of their doctorate. Candidates who do not yet hold a Ph.D. but expect to by June 30, 2013, should supply a letter from their home institution confirming their schedule to completion. Applicants whose teaching and research interests are primarily in the area of Japanese Buddhism should apply to the Shinjo Ito Postdoctoral Fellowship in Japanese Buddhism, administered through the Center for Japanese Studies at UC Berkeley, rather than to the Shinjo Ito Fellowship in Buddhist Studies. Applicants should submit the following materials: Curriculum vitae Graduate school transcripts A personal statement of no more than 2000 words outlining previous research (including dissertation), the research the applicant will undertake during the term of the fellowship, future professional goals, as well as any other information deemed relevant to the application A writing sample A two- to four-page statement of teaching interests, along with two brief course proposals (with optional syllabi) of courses they propose to teach for the Group in Buddhist Studies (Note: UC Berkeley courses normally meet a total of three or four hours per week throughout a fourteen-week semester) Three letters of recommendation Application Deadline and Notification of Award All application materials, including letters of recommendation, must be postmarked on or before Monday, January 14, 2013. Faxed or emailed applications will not be accepted. Only complete applications will be considered. It is the applicant's responsibility to ensure that all documentation is complete and that referees submit their letters of recommendation by the closing date. Awards will be announced in March, 2013. Send all materials to: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Buddhist Studies Group in Buddhist Studies University of California, Berkeley 3413 Dwinelle Hall, #2230 Berkeley, CA 94720-2230 U.S.A. Related Link：http://buddhiststudies.berkeley.edu/fellowship/ Go Top

．	[Scholarship] Postdoctoral fellowships-University of Pittsburgh posted date:2012-11-30 Time：2013/3/1 The University of Pittsburgh Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences is offering approximately five postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities and social sciences for the academic year 2013-2014. These are not intended for Pitt graduate students and graduates. Fellows will teach one course each semester, complete scholarly work, and participate in the academic and intellectual communities of the departments with which they are affiliated and across the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. To foster interaction within the group of fellows and with ongoing concerns of the Humanities Center, the World History Center, and other programs on campus, we seek applicants with projects that engage the concept or practice of comparison—across time, space, language, genre, discipline or other category. How do we, at this moment, compare? Why do we compare? What can be compared? What do we gain by comparing? What do we lose? We welcome any proposal relating to these issues. We invite applications from qualified candidates in the humanities and social sciences who have received, or will receive, the PhD between September 1, 2011 and April 1, 2013. As part of the application, applicants who have not already received the PhD must submit a letter from their dissertation chair with the scheduled defense date. The annual stipend will be $45,000. Fellows may apply for an additional year renewal. Applications must be received by 5 p.m. EST on March 1, 2013. We expect to announce the awards by April 15, 2013. Women, minorities, and international candidates are especially encouraged to apply. Related Link：http://www.as.pitt.edu/postdoctoral-fellowship-program Go Top

．	[Scholarship] The Sheng Yen Fellowship for M.A.-level students posted date:2012-11-21 Time：2012/12/15 The Sheng Yen Education Foundation Graduate Fellows in Chinese Buddhism offers approximately $15,000 per year plus tuition waivers (less student fees) for a duration of two years with no teaching obligation requirements. On the third year, the recipient's tuition is waived and his/her stipend will be picked up by the Department of Religion (students will be awarded with Teaching Assistant scholarships). Due to language requirements (Chinese and/or Japanese), M.A. students usually obtain their degrees in the 3rd year. There are, of course, exceptions for those who already have a strong language background. A maximum of two new fellows are designated annually. Interested applicants should follow the same application procedure as stipulated in the Admission page: http://religion.fsu.edu/graduate_admission.html Related Link： http://religion.fsu.edu/buddhist_top.html Go Top

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．	[Work Shop] Resisting Resistance: Buddhists and Religious Freedom, 1926–1945 posted date:2013-04-01 Time：2013/4/5, 6 to 8pm Location：Waseda University Please join us for the next meeting of the Modern Japanese History Workshop on Friday, April 5, from 6 to 8pm at Waseda University. The workshop is open to all, and directions to the venue can be found on our website. Resisting Resistance: Buddhists and Religious Freedom, 1926–1945 Jolyon Thomas PhD Candidate, Religion Princeton University The counterfactual question of why Japanese Buddhist leaders failed to resist authoritarianism and militarism in prewar and wartime Japan has frequently appeared in foregoing scholarship. However, this question cannot be answered without taking a normative religious standpoint (assuming, for example, that Buddhists should be pacifist or celebrating Buddhist martyrdom for political causes). Such inquiry abrogates the principle of doctrinal neutrality that distinguishes the history of religions from theology, while the associated expectation that Buddhist leaders should have resisted by appealing to the constitutional religious freedom clause easily slips into the presentist fallacy of applying postwar understandings of religious freedom to an earlier period. Humanist understandings of religious freedom were still largely unthinkable during the early Shōwa era (1926–1989), and neither the state nor religious groups can be expected to have espoused conceptions of religious freedom as a universal human right that preceded citizenship or superseded governmental authority. This paper uses three case studies to elucidate how some Buddhists imagined religious freedom and ideal religion-state relations in early Shōwa era Japan. Examining priest-turned-politician Andō Masazumi’s (1876–1955) influential participation in the crafting of controversial religions legislation, I show that Buddhist complicity with seemingly oppressive bureaucratic projects did not necessarily occur at the total expense of liberal interpretations of religious freedom. Conversely, the case of influential Buddhist priest Chikazumi Jōkan’s (1870–1941) stalwart opposition to the proposed religions legislation shows that Buddhist resistance to bureaucratic initiatives was very real, but it was not necessarily based on liberal, egalitarian interpretations of religious freedom. Finally, a critical reading of the 1943 arrest and interrogation of Sōka Kyōiku Gakkai founder Makiguchi Tsunesaburō (1871–1944) suggests that seemingly draconian policies were understood in context to protect religious freedom, not infringe upon it. Related Link：http://sites.google.com/site/modernjapanhistoryworkshop/ Go Top

．	[Work Shop] The Ontology of Asian Philosophy--Perspectives from Buddhist Studies and Analytic Philos posted date:2013-04-01 Time：2013/4/13-14 Location：Ryukoku University, Omiya Campus, West Wing 2F, Kyoto The Ontology of Asian Philosophy--- Perspectives from Buddhist Studies and Analytic Philosophy at Ryukoku University, Omiya Campus, West Wing 2F, Kyoto. April 13 Sat. 1000-1800 1. Shoryu Katsura , What exists in Buddhist philosophy? 2. Mark Siderits, Abhidharma Ontology and its Defense 3. Jay Garfield, I am a Brain in a Vat (or perhaps a pile of sticks by the side of the road) 4. Tom Tillemans, Serious, Lightweight or Neither? 5. Hideyo Ogawa, Existence and meaning: Indian grammarians’ approach to ‘existence’ April 14 Sat. 1000-1800 6. Kai-Yuan Cheng, Self and Body in the Zhuangzi 7. Chen-kuo Lin, How to meditate with the knowledge of particulars and universals for attaining enlightenment? -- Huizhao on svalakṣaṇa and sāmānyalakṣaṇa 8. Yasuo Deguchi, Logic of Emptiness; Nishitani, Jizang, and Para-consistency 9. Ricki Bliss, Metaphysical Anti-Foundationalism 10. Takashi Yagisawa, Deflationary Existence and Necessity Anyone in Kansai area who is interested in the subject will be welcomed. Shoryu Katsura, Ryukoku University, Kyoto Go Top

．	[Work Shop] Chengchi-Kyoto Joint Workshop on Buddhist Analytic Philosophy posted date:2013-02-07 Time：2013/02/18（一）9:30-17:00 Location：政治大學文學院百年樓一樓會議廳（330106） Chengchi-Kyoto Joint Workshop on Buddhist Analytic Philosophy Date: 2013/02/18（一）9:30-17:00 Venue: 政治大學文學院百年樓一樓會議廳（330106）線上報名：http://buddhica.nccu.edu.tw/ 9: 30-9: 40 Introduction 9: 40-10: 40 Yasuo Deguchi Constructing a Philosophical Logic of Emptiness: Nishitani, Zisang, and Paraconsistency 10: 40-11: 20 Su-an Lin Dignāga and Bhāviveka on Universal (samanya-lak?a?a) 11: 20-12: 00 Chun-ying Wang The Missing/Mysterious Dimension: the Methodological Significance of the Ultimate in Buddhist Epistemology and the Transcendental in Kant 12: 00-2: 00 Lunch Break 2: 00-2: 40 Chih-chiang Hu Some Remarks on the Notion of Backwards Causality: Dummett and Prajñākaragupta 2: 40-4:40 Ching Keng, Hans-Rudolf Kantor, Chien-hsing Ho Reading the Wubuqien lun（物不遷論） 4: 40-5: 00 Concluding Discussion 主辦單位：國立政治大學哲學系、日本京都大學哲學系計畫主持人：林鎮國教授（政治大學哲學系特聘教授、宗教研究所合聘教授）聯絡人：胡志強 buddhismstudy@yahoo.com.tw 計畫網站：http://buddhica.nccu.edu.tw/ Go Top

．	[Work Shop] Workshop on Buddhists and Buddhism in the History of 20th Century China posted date:2011-10-14 Time：2012.05.30-2012.05.31 Location：The Chinese University of Hong Kong Workshop on Buddhists and Buddhism in the History of 20th Century China - The Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 30-31, 2012 The organizers of the Workshop on Buddhists and Buddhism in the History of 20th Century China─sponsored by the Centre for East Asian Studies and the Centre for the Study of Humanistic Buddhism at the Chinese University of Hong Kong─announce an open call for individual research paper submissions. The workshop will discuss new scholarship that offers fresh perspectives on the significance of Buddhist figures, organizations, cultures, thought, and practices within the broader history and historiography of twentieth-century China. Applicants should send a CV and a 300-word abstract to buddhismworkshop@gmail.com, by Dec. 1, 2011. Workshop Directors Xue Yu The ChineseUniversity of Hong Kong Jan Kiely The ChineseUniversity of Hong Kong J. Brooks Jessup The University of Minnesota at Morris Go Top

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．	[Others] OBITUARY Takasaki Jikido (1925-2013) posted date:2013-05-06 Time：2013/5/10 Location：東京都北区赤羽西1-20-1静勝寺(Josho-ji Temple) It is with deep sadness that I convey to you the unfortunate news of the passing away of Professor Jikido Takasaki. Professor Takasaki was professor emeritus of The University of Tokyo and the former president and professor emeritus of Tsurumi University. He was also the former president of the International Association of Buddhist Studies as well as the former president of International Congress of Asian and North African Studies (ICANAS). He was awarded Japan Academy imperial book award for his watershed work _Nyoraizō shisō no keisei_ ("The Formation of Tathāgatagarbha Thought" ; Shunjūsha, 1974), and was internationally recognized as a leader in the study of Buddhist thought, especially in the area of Tathāgatagarbha and Buddha-nature. The wake and the funeral will be held as follows: Funeral host:　Takasaki Chūdo (高崎忠道) Wake: May 9 (Thurs.) from 5 pm Funeral: May 10 (Fri) from 12 pm Ceremony location: Joshoji Temple, 1-20-1 Akabane-nishi, Kita-ku, Tokyo 115-0055 Phone 03-3900-4455 115-0055　東京都北区赤羽西1-20-1　静勝寺(Josho-ji Temple)　（電話03-3900-4455） Go Top

．	[Others] A New Web Resource on Shōsōin Documents posted date:2013-04-25 Time：2013/5/1 A new web resource on Shōsōin documents: As many of you know, Shōsōin 正倉院 is the name of an eighth-century storehouse located on the grounds of the temple Tōdai-ji 東大寺. While it is most famous for its collection of treasures, including many objects that reached Japan via the silk road, it also preserves over 10,000 hand-written documents all dating from the Nara period (710–784). The manuscripts were originally part of a state-sanctioned scriptorium, but the corpus also includes records related to tax collection, censuses, temple construction, and even poetry. The material represents one of the best sources for understanding not only religious and economic aspects of early Japan, but also the Japanese language, the lives of commoners who have otherwise disappeared from the historical record, material culture, and political history. This online Guide to Shos?oīn Research intends to facilitate Shōsōin research through a bibliography of reference works, an ever-expanding glossary, and a blog on issues related to Shōsōin studies. It also includes an overview of the Shōgozō 聖語蔵, a repository for sutra manuscripts located at the Tōdai-ji compound next to the Shōsōin treasure house. The project was born out of a workshop on the Shōsōin corpus held at Princeton University in March 2012. We hope that it will be a useful resource for scholars. Related Link：https://my.vanderbilt.edu/shosoin Go Top

．	[其他] La Vallee Poussin's Kuiji, Cheng weishi lun shuji edition posted date:2013-04-25 Time：2013/5/1 There is an edition in 20 volumes available in digital form at the 日本国立国会図書館, the National Digital Library of Japan, which might be the one Prof. Weinstein is mentioning. For those interested, there is a wealth of other now out-of-copyright material at this site, up to the early 20th century including such gems as the quite complete 大正新脩大蔵経 and many volumes of the 大日本校訂大蔵経. It is definitely worth a visit at http://dl.ndl.go.jp . Related Link：http://dl.ndl.go.jp Go Top

．	[Others] Teaching materials on Vietnamese Buddhism posted date:2013-04-11 Time：2013/4/11 I am looking for accessible materials in English for an undergraduate class on Vietnamese Buddhism. Suggestions for books, articles and films dealing with the history of Buddhism in Vietnam; Vietnamese Buddhist practice; Buddhism and Vietnamese politics and culture; or the influence of Vietnamese Buddhism in the West, would all be welcome. If it is more convenient, I would be happy to receive suggestions at my personal email: stobias@fullerton.edu Many thanks Saul Tobias Assistant Professor Department of Liberal Studies California State University Fullerton email: stobias@fullerton.edu Go Top

．	[Others] NCC Published the 2nd Edition of it Research Access Guides In Commemoration of the 2nd Anni posted date:2013-04-01 Time：2013/3/11 For immediate release, March 11, 2013 NCC Published the 2nd Edition of it Research Access Guides In Commemoration of the 2nd Anniversary of Japan’s Triple Disasters of 2011 NCC (the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources) is pleased to announce publication of: The NCC’s Online Guide to Research Access in Japanese Museums, Libraries, and Archives, 2nd Edition (日本研究のためのMLAアクセスガイド) contains detailed entries for an additional 50 institutions, bringing the total number of institutions profiled in the Research Access Guides to 100. The second edition includes profiles on more of Japan’s major museums and their collections, and expands the number of research libraries and archives with instructions for users to plan for and gain permission to do onsite research. New components to the site include an interactive map for locating the 100 listed institutions, cross-reference by subject and collection specialization, all found linked to the alpha list of institutions: http://guides.nccjapan.org/content.php?pid=216466&sid=3505746 Entries are presented in a uniform English-language format with links to an institution’s principal Japanese and English webpages; major collections and facilities each have individually linked pages with brief English summaries of key contents. Bilingual templates for letters of introduction and materials request forms are downloadable in an easily edited format, and a bilingual glossary is appended. Each Research Access Guide provides contact information, special policies and procedures of individual institutions, online maps, hours of operations, institutional holidays, and other programs of special interest to scholars and students from abroad. Find the Research Access Guides at: http://guides.nccjapan.org/researchaccess All 100 entries in the Research Access Guides have been reviewed and updated. The guides are published with a Creative Commons licensewith materials available on an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike basis. Visit the NCC’s homepage for a complete list of online services: http://guides.nccjapan.org/homepage Related Link：http://guides.nccjapan.org/homepage Go Top

．	[Others] Chūgai Nippō Microfilm Collection at Oxford Brookes University posted date:2013-04-01 Time：2013/4/1 Location：Oxford Brookes University (Lo Breglio) Thanks to a generous grant from the Japan Foundation Endowment Committee (JFEC), Oxford Brookes University Library has been able to purchase a microfilm collection of Chūgai Nippō 中外日報newspaper, 1897-1945 (26 reels; 30,000 frames). Chūgai Nippō is a Buddhist newspaper and is the primary source of information concerning the Japanese religious world prior to the Second World War. We believe that the collection now at Oxford Brookes University is the only one in Europe. We therefore welcome all interested scholars to visit our campus and use this collection. Related Link：http://www.english-languages.brookes.ac.uk/staff/prof.asp?ID=569 Go Top

．	[Others] University of London, Department of the Study of Religions, Lecturer in Buddhist Studies posted date:2013-03-21 Time：2013/4/2 ￡32,558 - ￡46,741 p.a inclusive of London Allowance Vacancy No: 000503 Applications are invited for a Lectureship in Buddhist Studies within the Department of the Study of Religions, to commence on 1 September 2013.We are looking for a specialist in Indian, South Asian and/or South East Asian Buddhism, with excellent knowledge of Sanskrit and Pali, and an ability to combine expertise in the textual traditions with knowledge of contemporary religious practice. The appointee will be expected to teach courses both at UG and PGT levels in these areas, will have a proven record of excellence in research, with potential to develop new research projects. We are looking for an enthusiastic scholar who can contribute to building up the programme in Buddhist Studies and actively promote the Centre of Buddhist Studies. Applicants should have completed, or be close to completing, a PhD relevant to the post. The Lectureship is a full-time permanent post on G7/Ac2 - G8/Ac3 scale, plus London Allowance. Membership of USS will be available. Interviews are provisionally scheduled for the week commencing: 13 May 2013 SOAS values diversity and aims to be an equal opportunities employer. Prospective candidates seeking further information may contact Cosimo Zene, Head of Department, at zc@soas.ac.uk. To apply for this vacancy or to download a job description/further information, please visit www.soas.ac.uk/jobs. Related Link：https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=46503 Go Top

．	[Others] Leibniz Institute of European History Research Position for an International Postdoc posted date:2013-03-21 Time：2013/4/15 The Post-Doctoral Fellow will undertake research in Mainz from July 2013 (for a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 12 months). The research fellow will work on his or her own project as part of the junior research group ?Transfer and Transformation of Missionaries' Images of Europe in Contact with the Other 1700–1970?, funded by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) within its research programme "Europe seen from the outside". The junior research group at the IEG is examining the development of the concepts of European values and images of Europe held by English and German speaking Protestant missionaries and the way that these were modified by the experience of life and work in non-European cultures. We invite applications from those who have completed their doctorates and are working in this area and region or other areas and regions of the history of missions (e.g. Catholic or Evangelical missions). The postdoc will work at the Institute in Mainz and may also live in housing provided at the Institute. He or she will participate in the research group's regular discussions and workshops and in its international and interdisciplinary cooperation. He or she is also invited to take part in the activities of the Graduiertenkolleg ?The Christian Churches and the Challenge of Europe?. The Institute's library (220.000 holdings, more than 500 current periodicals) is available to the fellows for their research as are the libraries of Johannes Gutenberg University and the city. They may also consult archives, libraries, and specialists and attend conferences outside Mainz. Requirements · a degree in a historical discipline (e.g. history, cultural anthropology, church history, religious studies) · completed PhD or appropriate doctoral degree · a fluency in either English or German, a basic knowledge of the other language, or a willingness to learn the language · a willingness to participate in the junior research group's activities Please send your application prior to 15 April 2013 via e-mail to: Institut fuer Europaeische Geschichte \| Subject: ?Europe seen from the outside? \| seibel@ieg-mainz.de Please attach in one file (PDF) · a curriculum vitae · a list of publications · an outline of the proposed research topic including working plan for the time at the Institute For full consideration, applicants should send hardcopies of all university transcripts, one copy of the applicant's PhD-thesis (CD-ROM or published version), and referees' reports on the proposed research project by two senior academic scholars via air mail to: Leibniz-Institut fuer Europaeische Geschichte Verwaltung Subject: ?Europe seen from the outside? Alte Universitaetsstrasse 19 55116 Mainz / Germany For inquiries concerning the position please contact: Dr Judith Becker (becker@ieg-mainz.de, 0049-6131-2116963). Related Link：https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=46488 Go Top

．	[Others] Newcastle University, Classics and Archaeology Reader / Senior Lecturer posted date:2013-03-21 Time：2013/3/31 The School of History, Classics and Archaeology is seeking to appoint a Reader / Senior Lecturer or Lecturer in the History of Modern China. The primary purpose of the post is to undertake research on the history of modern China and to provide research-led teaching and research supervision in this field at undergraduate and postgraduate level within the broader context of the School’s strategic commitment to the development of East Asian history within an international curriculum. The successful candidate will take on an appropriate administrative workload, and work with colleagues in the School and the Faculty to develop interdisciplinary initiatives, innovative programme developments, and international research and teaching collaborations. Candidates for a Readership will have already established an excellent track record of recent publications in internationally recognised journals in their specialist area, experience in research project management and a record of successful funding applications. They should be experienced in programme development and curriculum innovation, have an ability to build up international networks and have a flair for leadership. Candidates for a Senior Lectureship will already have a national and international profile in research, a record of successful funding applications and experience of curriculum development and teaching in their subject area. They should have some experience in administration. Candidates for a Lectureship will have a Ph.D. in an appropriate subject, a good record of recent research and publication and firm plans for future research and publication. They should also have experience of teaching and curriculum development at university level Reader/Senior Lecturer: ￡45,941 - ￡53,233 (with potential progression to ￡61,439) Lecturer Grade F: ￡32,267 - ￡36,298 Lecturer Grade G: ￡37,382 - ￡44,607 (with potential progression to ￡50,186) Closing date: 31 March 2013 Related Link：https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=46504 Go Top

．	[Others] East Asian Languages and Cultures Program Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Chinese cult posted date:2013-03-21 Time：2013/4/1 University of Winnipeg, East Asian Languages and Cultures Program Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Chinese Culture The East Asian Languages & Cultures Program at the University of Winnipeg invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor focusing on Chinese culture. The successful candidate will have strong research potential, and will be expected to teach across various aspects of Chinese culture and society in addition to their area of focus. We are especially looking for candidates whose expertise allows them to introduce China in both conceptual and concrete frameworks to students from a variety of backgrounds as well as to promote interest in the relevance and meaning of China’s culture in the past and present. The ability to teach Mandarin Chinese language will be considered a strong asset, as will the ability to teach about East Asia in a broader sense, and an ability to address gender and gender related issues. Subject to final budgetary approval, the appointment will commence on July 1, 2013 or as soon as possible thereafter. Applicants will be expected to have a completed Ph.D. or be near completion by the time of appointment. In addition, candidates should provide a letter outlining their suitability for the position, a statement of their teaching philosophy and evidence of teaching proficiency, a current C.V., three confidential letters of reference, and a written sample of their work (e.g. a dissertation chapter or a refereed publication). Interested applicants may send their materials electronically in PDF format to Dr. Jeffrey Newmark, Search Chair, at j.newmark@uwinnipeg.ca. Letters of reference must be signed by and sent directly from the referees. The search committee will begin reviewing applications on April 1, 2013 and continue until such time that the position is filled. East Asian Languages & Cultures is a three year-old program at the University of Winnipeg, and it is administered through the Religion & Culture Department. Applicants can learn more about the program and current faculty research interests at . The University of Winnipeg is committed to employment equity, welcomes diversity in the workplace and encourages applications from all qualified individuals including women, members of visible minorities, aboriginal persons and persons with disabilities. In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, this advertisement is initially directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada. Related Link：https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=46487 Go Top

．	[Others] Doctoral Fellowship in South Asian History / Early Modern History / Environmental History posted date:2013-03-21 Time：2013/4/15 Doctoral Fellowship (wiss. Mitarbeiter) in South Asian History / Early Modern History / Environmental History The "Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE) at Heidelberg University invites applications for a Doctoral Fellowship (wiss. Mitarbeiter for 3 years) in South Asian History Early Modern History / Environmental History within the Junior Research Group (JRG) "Environment and Society. Facing Famine in the Early Modern World". The position will start on May 1st 2013 or as soon as possible thereafter, and is awarded for 3 years (2+1). The position is remunerated according to the German TVL 13 scale. It includes a fully equipped work space, and access to travel and publication funds. Heidelberg University does not charge tuition. The JRG investigates the co-development and entanglement of society and environment focussing on early modern food crises. The JRG is interdisciplinary in scope and combines approaches of environmental history, historical climatology, social ecology and postcolonial studies. The successful applicant will be expected to complete a PhD dissertation on 18th century famines focussing on the Indian subcontinent and contribute to the group's scientific activities. Potential candidates can contact the group leader Dr. Dominik Collet (dominik.collet@uni-heidelberg.de) for more information. Successful applicants will hold a Master's degree in Indian/South Asian studies, history, cultural anthropology or a related discipline and have received substantial training in archival research and ethnographic methods. Very good spoken and written English is required. Proficiency in Bengali and/or Farsi is advantageous. Applications must include a cover letter, CV, academic transcripts, a short proposal of the planned PhD project (max. 700 words, in English or German), and one letter of recommendation (sent separately). Heidelberg University is an equal opportunity employer and wishes to promote equality at all levels. Deadline for applications is April 15th 2013, though applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Please submit your application electronically as a single PDF to the following address: dominik.collet@uni-heidelberg.de Related Link：https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=46480 Go Top

．	[Others] Position: Buddhism, Lecturer, School of Oriental and African Studies posted date:2013-03-19 Time：2013/4/2 JOB GUIDE NO: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=46503 University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, Department of the Study of Religions Lecturer in Buddhist Studies Institution Type: College / University Location: United Kingdom Position: Lecturer 32,558 - 46,741 p.a inclusive of London Allowance Vacancy No: 000503 Applications are invited for a Lectureship in Buddhist Studies within the Department of the Study of Religions, to commence on 1 September 2013.We are looking for a specialist in Indian, South Asian and/or South East Asian Buddhism, with excellent knowledge of Sanskrit and Pali, and an ability to combine expertise in the textual traditions with knowledge of contemporary religious practice. The appointee will be expected to teach courses both at UG and PGT levels in these areas, will have a proven record of excellence in research, with potential to develop new research projects. We are looking for an enthusiastic scholar who can contribute to building up the programme in Buddhist Studies and actively promote the Centre of Buddhist Studies. Applicants should have completed, or be close to completing, a PhD relevant to the post. The Lectureship is a full-time permanent post on G7/Ac2 - G8/Ac3 scale, plus London Allowance. Membership of USS will be available. Interviews are provisionally scheduled for the week commencing: 13 May 2013 SOAS values diversity and aims to be an equal opportunities employer. Contact: Prospective candidates seeking further information may contact Cosimo Zene, Head of Department, at zc@soas.ac.uk. To apply for this vacancy or to download a job description/further information, please visit www.soas.ac.uk/jobs. Website: www.soas.ac.uk/jobs Primary Category: Religious Studies and Theology Secondary Categories: None Posting Date: 03/15/2013 Closing Date 04/02/2013 Related Link：www.soas.ac.uk/jobs Go Top

．	[Others] Position: Buddhist Studies and Middle Indian Languages, Assistant (Doctoral Fellow) posted date:2013-03-15 Time：2013/4/30 Assistant (doctorate), Buddhist Studies and Middle Indian Languages, University of Lausanne, Buddhist Studies. Institution Type: College / University Location: Switzerland Position: Doctoral Fellow Section and Slavic Languages ??and Civilizations of Southeast Asia invites applications for a position of Graduate assistant Buddhist Studies Contract Period: 1 year. This contract may be renewed 2 x 2 years. The maximum duration is 5 years. Workplace: Lausanne-Dorigny Desired profile: 1.Degree or Master in Buddhist Studies or Indian Studies or a related discipline. 2.Develop a thesis in the field of literature and the history of Indian Buddhism. 3.Knowledge of Sanskrit and Indian language at least (Pali, Prakrits, Gandhari) is required. 4.A good knowledge of French would be an advantage. Description of tasks: 1.50% minimum participation rate will be dedicated to the completion of a doctoral thesis. 2.50% of the maximum rate of activity will be devoted to support teaching duties in the field of Sanskrit language and means-Indian, coaching students in Bachelor, participation in chapter activities and projects initiated in Buddhist Studies. Application: Letter of motivation, CV, copies of academic qualifications, summary of master thesis and brief presentation of a thesis project (about one page) The file should be sent in electronic form to: Prof. Dr. Ingo Strauch, Sanskrit and Buddhist Studies, Section of Slavic Languages ??and Civilizations of Southeast Asia, Faculty of Arts, University of Lausanne, Anthropole 4118, 1015 Lausanne, email : Ingo.Strauch@unil.ch For further information, contact Prof.. Dr. Ingo Strauch: ingo.strauch@unil.ch Website: https://applicationsw.unil.ch/adminpub/?MIval=PoIntHome&TypelC=811&PoId=2870 Deadline for application 04.30.2013 Related Link：https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=46484 Go Top

．	[Others] Toshihide Numata Book Prize in Buddhism posted date:2013-03-01 Time：2013/4/15 The Toshihide Numata Book Prize in Buddhism The Toshihide Numata Book Prize in Buddhism (or "Toshi" Prize) is awarded on an annual basis to an outstanding book in any area of Buddhist studies. The prize is administered by the Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Eligibility To be considered for the prize during the 2013 nomination period, a book must have a copyright date of 2012. Books must be written in English. Edited and/or coauthored books are eligible. Nominations Nominations, consisting of the book and a nomination letter, must be received by April 15, 2013, and may come from scholars (including authors) or book publishers. Supporting documentation, such as readers' reports and reviews, may also be included but are not required. Nomination materials should be sent to: Toshi Prize in Buddhism University of California, Berkeley Center for Buddhist Studies 2223 Fulton Street, Room 512 Berkeley, CA 94720-2318 U.S.A. Prize The annual prize is in the amount of $10,000. The committee has the discretion to split the prize among multiple books. The prize winner(s) are reimbursed for expenses related to their attendance at the prize presentation. Presentation The prize is presented annually at the University of California, Berkeley. The prize is celebrated with a public lecture by the prize recipient, a symposium focused on the book's theme, and a presentation dinner. For more information, please contact: Dr. Sanjyot Mehendale Vice-Chair, Center for Buddhist Studies 2223 Fulton Street, Room 512 Berkeley, CA 94720-2318 (510) 643-5104 buddhiststudies@berkeley.edu Related Link：http://buddhiststudies.berkeley.edu/bookprize/ Go Top

．	[Others] Positions Buddhist Studies, Antioch Univ Abroad, Instructors (Conlon) posted date:2013-02-22 Time：2013/4/15 Location：Ohio, United States JOB GUIDE NO: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=46381 Antioch University, Antioch Education Abroad Instructor, Buddhist Studies Program Institution Type: College / University Location: Ohio, United States Position: Instructor ANTIOCH EDUCATION ABROAD seeks two instructors to accompany the Buddhist Studies Program to Bodh Gaya, India, in the fall of 2013. This semester-long program draws undergraduates from colleges throughout the United States and Canada. Candidates must have background in two of the following: Buddhist philosophy, cultural anthropology, ancient Indian history, conversational Hindi or Tibetan. Qualifications: Ph.D. preferred, but applicants with an M.A. will be considered; experience in teaching, in Buddhist meditation, and in living in India; maturity and flexibility; excellent health. Round-trip transportation, room and board for the duration of the program plus a stipend are provided. Application materials should include curriculum vitae, two letters of reference, and a letter of application that discusses relevant academic and experiential background, qualifications to advise students in an intercultural setting, and reasons for wanting to go to Bodh Gaya. Applications should be submitted by April 15, 2013 to: C. Robert Pryor, Director, Buddhist Studies Program in India, Antioch Education Abroad, Antioch University, Yellow Springs, OH 45387. 937-769-1013email: rpryor@antioch.edu Contact: C. Robert Pryor, Director, Buddhist Studies Program in India, Antioch Education Abroad, Antioch University, Yellow Springs, OH 45387. 937-769-1013 email: rpryor@antioch.edu Website: http://www.antioch.edu/aea/programs/buddhist-studies-in-india/ Primary Category: Religious Studies and Theology Secondary Categories: Asian History / Studies Related Link：http://www.antioch.edu/aea/programs/buddhist-studies-in-india/ Go Top

．	[Others] AAR Panel on Qixinlun posted date:2013-02-18 Time：November 23-26, 2013 Dear Colleagues, I am working on a new English translation of Qixinlun, or the Awakening of Faith in Mahayana. The close reading of the treatise necessitated by the translation makes me pay very close attention to the details of the text, and that tempts me to think of an AAR (2013) panel devoted especially to the issues in the reading of Qixinlun - there are many things which we take for granted deserves careful re-reading if we want to have a more effective reading of this famous treatise. I have already had a second panelist, who is also working on a new translation of the text, and thus we would need two or three more people. If interested, please email me at this address - we will certainly welcome suggestions for modifying the theme proposed above. Thank you! Tao Jin -- Tao Jin Assistant Professor of Religion Illinois Wesleyan University 303 East Emerson Street – PO Box 2900 Bloomington, IL 61702-2900, USA Email: tjin@iwu.edu Phone: 309-556-3342 Go Top

．	[Others] The Tulku Symposium Website posted date:2013-02-18 Time：Indefinite Duration Dear Colleagues, The Himalayan Studies Program and Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco are hosting a symposium on the Tibetan reincarnation system. "The Tulku Institution in Tibetan Buddhism: Past, Present, and Future Prospects of the Reincarnation System" will take place at USF on February 15-16, 2013. We invite you to join us to hear many esteemed scholars representing diverse academic disciplines, with Professors Jeffrey Hopkins and Donald Lopez as our two keynote speakers. The event is free and open to public. All travel and accommodation arrangements are the responsibility of symposium attendees.For more information, see the symposium website: http://www.usfca.edu/artsci/thrs/symposium/tulku/ Sincerely, Tsering Wangchuk Assistant Professor Theology and Religious Studies University of San Francisco, CA Related Link：http://www.usfca.edu/artsci/thrs/symposium/tulku/ Go Top

．	[Others] Special Issue of Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines on Self-immolation in Tibet posted date:2013-02-18 Time：Indefinite Duration Members of this list may be interested in the latest issue of Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines, a twice-yearly journal published by the UMR 8155 (CRCAO) of the CNRS, Paris. Number 25 of the journal is a special issue devoted to papers delivered at a workshop on self-immolation in Tibet held at Collège de France in May 2012. The entire issue is available for free download in pdf format here: http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/journals/ret/index.php?selection=0 Table of Contents: Tibet is burning — Self-Immolation: Ritual or Political Protest? Edited by Katia Buffetrille and Françoise Robin Self-Immolation in Tibet: Some Reflections on an Unfolding History (1.9 MB, pp. 1-17), author: Katia Buffetrille Self Immolation, the Changing Language of Protest in Tibet (539 kb, pp. 19-40), author: Tsering Shakya Political Self-Immolation in Tibet: Causes and Influences (513 kb, pp. 41-64), author: Robert Barnett Kīrti Monastery of Ngawa: Its History and Recent Situation (819 kb, pp. 65-80), author: Daniel Berounsky Chinese Policy Towards Tibet versus Tibetan Expectations for Tibet: A Divergence Marked by Self-Immolations (1.2 MB, pp. 81-87), author: Fabienne Jagou Conversations and Debates: Chinese and Tibetan Engagement with the Broader Discussion of Self-Immolation in Tibet (482 kb, pp. 89-97), author: Elliot Sperling Online Articles on Self-immolation by Tibetans in Exile — A Brief Survey (182 kb, pp. 99-104), author: Chung Tsering bTsan byol bod mi'i drwa thog bod yig dpyad rtsom nas rang lus mer bsregs la blta ba (1.9 MB, pp. 105-112), author: Chung Tshe ring The Flames of Poetry Spreading From the Fire of Heroes (1.9 MB, pp. 113-122), author: Noyontsang Lhamokyab Fire, Flames and Ashes. How Tibetan Poets Talk about Self-Immolations without Talking about Them (344 kb, pp. 123-131), author: Françoise Robin Fire and Death in Western Imagination (228 kb, pp. 133-141), author: Michel Vovelle Self-Immolation in Context, 1963-2012 (781 kb, pp. 143-150), author: Michael Biggs Immolation in a Global Muslim Society Revolt against Authority — Transgression of Strict Religious Laws (248 kb, pp. 151-157), author: Dominique Avon Self-Immolations by Kurdish Activists in Turkey and Europe (254 kb, pp. 159-168), author: Olivier Grojean The Arab Revolutions and Self-Immolation (252 kb, pp. 169-179), author: Farhad Khosrokhavar Self-Immolation by Fire versus Legitimate Violence in the Hindu Context (245 kb, pp. 181-189), author: Marie Lecomte-Tilouine Immolations in Japan (322 kb, pp. 191-201), author: François Macé Multiple Meanings of Buddhist Self-Immolation in China — A Historical Perspective (237 kb, pp. 203-212), author: James A. Benn James A. Benn Chair Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University University Hall, Room 105, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4K1, CANADA Phone: 905 525 9140, ext 24210/ 24734 (Chair’s office) Fax: 905 525 8161 URL: http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/bennjam/ Related Link：http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/journals/ret/index.php?selection=0 Go Top

．	[Others] Project Invitation: Story of Story in Early South Asia posted date:2013-02-18 Time：Indefinite Duration Dear Colleagues, With apologies for cross-posting, I am writing to announce the commencement of a new three-year research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) that is to be jointly held by Cardiff University and the University of Edinburgh. It is entitled: The OJ: Character and Genre across Hindu, Buddhist and Jain Narrative Traditions It involves myself and Dr. James Hegarty and will focus on sources in Sanskrit, Pali and, to a lesser extent, the Jain Prakrits. Its aim is to explore what shared literary characters, lineages and genres can tell us about the religious history of early South Asia. It will culminate in a jointly-authored book, and we also plan to convene one or more conference panels on the theme to encourage a wider scholarly conversation on the subject. We have created a project blog in order to share some of our sources and thoughts as the project progresses. We greatly value dialogue with other scholars interested in this area, so please do subscribe to the blog and offer comments. The blog may be found at http://storyofstoryinsouthasia.wordpress.com/. Twitter details are given on the blog. With best wishes, Naomi ----------------------------- Dr Naomi Appleton Chancellor's Fellow in Religious Studies School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh Naomi.Appleton@ed.ac.uk naomiappleton.wordpress.com storyofstoryinsouthasia.wordpress.com Related Link：http://storyofstoryinsouthasia.wordpress.com/ Go Top

．	[Others] Prof. A.K.Warder posted date:2013-02-08 Time：11 a.m. Friday 15 February 2013 Location：Turner & Porter Funeral Home, 2357 Bloor Street, West, Toronto The death in Toronto has been announced of the distinguished scholar Prof. A.K.Warder. A funeral service for him and for his wife Nargez will take place at 11 a.m. on Friday 15 February 2013, at Turner & Porter Funeral Home, 2357 Bloor Street, West, Toronto (viewing from 10.00 a.m.); with interment afterwards at St. John's Dixie Cemetery, 737 Dundas Street East, Mississauga, Ontario. Prof. Warder, a graduate of the University of London, taught for many years at the University of Toronto. As Chairman of the Department of East Asian Studies during a formative period, he built up a strong programme in Sanskrit and South Asian Studies, which for some years existed as a separate Department. A very learned scholar, he is best known for his Indian Buddhism (1st pub. 1970; 3rd revised edition, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2000) and for his monumental 8-volume study of Indian Kāvya Literature (Motilal Banarsidass, 1972-2011). As well as other books on Buddhism, Indian philosophy and Indian literature, he also wrote an Introduction to Pali (Pali Text Society, 1963; 3rd revised edition, 2005), and Pali Metre: A Contribution to the History of Indian Literature (Pali Text Society, 1967); and he was active for some years in the affairs of the Pali Text Society. A volume of studies in his honour was edited by Profs. N.K.Wagle and F.Watanabe (1993). Go Top

．	[Others] Taking Refuge in the Triple Gem Five Precepts and Bodhisattva Precepts Retreat posted date:2012-08-23 Time：2012/11/16~2012/11/18 Location：Pilgrim Lodge, Fo Guang Shan Nan Tien Temple, 180 Berkeley Rd, Berkeley NSW Australia Purposes a. To promote the correct understanding of Buddhist Precepts. b. To encourage lay Buddhists to uphold the Precepts diligently in daily life. c. To reinforce the purification of the human mind and the society. d. To propagate Buddhism and to foster correct beliefs, allowing those interested to learn Buddhism to become Buddha’s disciples under the Triple Gem. Eligibility Anyone who is willing to vow to be a Buddhist for life. Any Buddhist Devotee who is willing to observe and practice the Five Precepts and Bodhisattva Precepts in daily life. Fee a. Precepts: The education fee of AUD $60 must be paid when lodging the application form. b. Taking Refuge in the Triple Gem free. c. Meals and accommodation will also be provided by the temple. (Donations are welcome to help cover the costs.) Related Link：http://www.nantien.org.au/en/news/News_View.asp?NewsID=440 Go Top