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Reading Group

All Events

Thursday, January 26, 2017
Reading Group with
Erik Braun
Excerpts from The Birth of Insight
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Reading Group with
Kammie Takahashi
Birds and Fishes:
View and Method in the Mahāyoga Texts of Buddhaguhya
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317
Thursday, November 30, 2017
Reading Group:
Gudrun Bühnemann
Excerpts from Śākyamuni’s Return Journey to Lumbinī (lumbinīyātrā):
A Study of a Popular Theme in Newar Buddhist Art and Literature
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 319
Thursday, March 08, 2018
Reading Group:
Megan Bryson
Between China and Tibet: Mahākāla Worship and Esoteric Buddhism in the Dali Kingdom
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317
Friday, April 06, 2018
Reading Group:
Brandon Dotson
The Horse and the Grass-Grazing Man:
Domestication, Food, and Alterity in Early Tibetan Cosmologies of the Land of the Dead
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317
Friday, May 04, 2018 - 06
Nissaya Reading Workshop with William Pruitt
All Day
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317
Tuesday, May 15, 2018 - 18
Workshop on Newar Buddhism
All Day
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 319
Thursday, November 01, 2018
Numata Reading Group:
Ryan Richard Overby
Reading: "The Prototantric Preacher"
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317
Thursday, December 06, 2018
Numata Reading Group:
Ruth Gamble
Reading: “Landscapes” from Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism: the Third Karmapa and the Invention of a Tradition
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317
Thursday, January 31, 2019
Numata Reading Group: Susan Andrews
Reading: “Women at Northern Dynasties Mount Wutai”
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Religious Educational Materials for Buddhist Women’s Groups in Japan
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Tamil Buddhist Literature Workshop: The Maṇimēkalai
All Day
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 319
Thursday, October 24, 2019
The Transmission of Buddhist Texts to Tocharian Buddhism
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317
Thursday, January 23, 2020
Refuge in the Empire: Visualizing Kingship in Qing Dynasty China
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317
Thursday, February 27, 2020
Mobility, Identity, and Lineage Networks in Modern Chinese Buddhism
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317
Thursday, March 05, 2020
Theorizing the Wear and Waste of a Buddhist, Efficacious Object
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
A Conversation between Lama Rod Owens and Students
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Online
Thursday, January 23, 2025 - 24
Francesco Sferra – A Passage from the Sarvarahasyatantra and its Unpublished Commentary by Ratnākaraśānti
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 614
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Eric Greene – “Inborn Nature (xing 性) and Instinctive Emotion (qing 情) in the Earliest Chinese Buddhist Texts”
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 614
Thursday, April 03, 2025
Paulina Kolata – Managing Decay: Material Afterlives and Other Life Stories of Buddhist Objects
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 614
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