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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20181025T100000
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URL:https://buddhiststudies.utoronto.ca/events/genealogies-dalit-learning-
 humanist-buddhism-19th-20th-century-india/
SUMMARY:Genealogies of Dalit Learning and Humanist Buddhism in 19th and 20t
 h century India
DESCRIPTION:\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nConveners: Christoph Emmrich and Srilata Raman\n
 \n&nbsp\;\n\n10am-12pm Lecture followed by Discussion\n\nDr. Stalin Rajang
 am (American College\, Madurai): "Living Buddhism"\n\nLiving Buddhism: the
  term signifies that Buddhism isn’t dead and that it continues to flouri
 sh. I see the term as discursively important: it is abstracted from Tamil 
 social reformer Iyothee Thass Pandithar’s (1845-1914) writings. I shall 
 draw on his usage of the term but also go beyond it. In other words\, I be
 gin with an examination of his thought-world but will go on to note how it
  acquired a further lease of life in the thought and work of those who cam
 e after him\, including of Dr Ambedkar.\n\n&nbsp\;\n\n2-4pm: Lecture follo
 wed by Discussion\n\nProfessor Jon Keune (Michigan State University): “D
 hamma\, Diversity\, and Dalitness: Emerging Networks among Buddhists in In
 dia\, Taiwan\, and Japan.”\n\nIn the past two decades\, Buddhists in Nag
 pur who inherit Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s legacy have cooperated increasingly
  on institution-building and educational projects with Zen Buddhists from 
 Taiwan and diverse sects of Japanese Buddhists. My presentation explores t
 he distinct hopes\, assumptions\, and interests that each group brings to 
 the encounter and how they try to negotiate differences. I focus on three 
 examples of how these transnational networks are rendered visible: the Ind
 o-Japanese collaboration that built the Dragon Palace Temple near Nagpur\,
  the projects of the Nagpur-based Japaneses monk Shurei Sasai\, and an edu
 cational partnership between the Nagaloka Buddhist Training Centre in Nagp
 ur and an independent Zen monastery in central Taiwan. By observing transn
 ational flows of people\, resources\, and cultural capital through these s
 ites\, I consider the prospects and challenges of appealing to a common 
 “Buddhism” at work in them to bridge cultural and sectarian difference
 s\, and I reflect on the impact this transnational networking has especial
 ly on Dalits who participate.\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nA co-sponsored event between t
 he Robert H. N. Ho Family Centre for Buddhist Studies\, The Buddhist Educa
 tion Foundation for Canada\, and The Centre for South Asian Studies at Uni
 versity of Toronto.\n\n&nbsp\;
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