Events

This online reading group invites students and faculty working on South Asia, the Himalayas, or Nepal to read and discuss influential and/or recent academic literature [...]

Trent Walker (University of Michigan Ann Arbor) READING GROUP: “Unpacking the Glossary: How Selection Defined Buddhist Scholasticism in Early Modern Southeast Asia” THURSDAY, April 9, 2026, 4-6pm, [...]

Petra Kieffer-Pülz (Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur Mainz) READING GROUP: “Ñeyyadhamma’s Letter to the Confusionists (1858)” THURSDAY, April 16, 2026, 4-6pm, UofT, JHB 213 LECTURE: The [...]

The Introduction to Buddhism Reading Group concludes in April 2026. Meetings will be hybrid with the in-person gathering in the compact seminar room JHB 208 [...]

Save the date. Details forthcoming.

Please save the date for our next lecture in our ongoing Buddhism and Posthumanism series! Details forthcoming. Register on Zoom for this meeting.    After [...]

Learn to speak the idiom of the Kathmandu Valley, to explore the texts of a thriving contemporary literary world, and to access Buddhist and Hindu literature in classical Newar.