Dr. Pierce Salguero, "What is Buddhist Medicine?"
Help us celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health (BPMH) Program in 2026! Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health (BPMH) is the largest [...]
SYMPOSIUM: Rivalrous Healing: Well-Being in the Buddhist World
How do contemporary Buddhists engage with and reinterpret diverse healing practices, including elements of spirit religion?
Nepal Studies Reading Group, 2025–2026: Ina Zharkevich
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 [...]
Mark Miller, "What is Contemplative Science?"
Help us celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health (BPMH) Program in 2026! Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health (BPMH) is the largest undergraduate Buddhist [...]
Introductions to Buddhism Reading Group 2026 (Mar. 19)
The Introduction to Buddhism Reading Group continues in February 2026. Meetings will be hybrid with the in-person gathering in the compact seminar room JHB 208 [...]
Theravada Buddhism and Film: Uppalavanna
Join us for three events in a lecture and film series.
Mayfair Yang, "Chasing the Sarus Cranes: Hindu and Buddhist Multispecies Assemblages in Lumbini, Nepal"
Description Once common across Nepal and northern India, Sarus Cranes (Grus Antigone) are an endangered species today. 690 Sarus cranes remain in Nepal, over 90% of whom [...]
TRENT WALKER: Yehan Numata Program, 2025-26
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, [...]
Nepal Studies Reading Group, 2025–2026: Monica Mottin
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 [...]
PETRA KIEFFER-PÜLZ: Yehan Numata Program, 2025-26
Petra Kieffer-Pülz (Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur Mainz) READING GROUP: “Ñeyyadhamma’s Formal Letter to the Non-Confusionists in Sri Lanka (1860)” THURSDAY, April 16, 2026, 4-6pm, UofT, [...]
Introductions to Buddhism Reading Group 2026 (Apr. 22)
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 [...]
The Toronto Newar Summer School 2026
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.
See a record of our past events.

