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Past Events

March 2023

March 14

An Evening with Tsering Yangzom Lama

Multi-Faith Centre/Koffler House: Main Activity Hall, KP 208

February 2023

February 23

Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko, Polyester Blessings: The Persistent Incarnation of Purity in Contemporary Mongolia

Online

January 2023

January 26

Alice Millington, Mythical Beasts and Changing Climates: The Fulfilment of Buddhist Prophecies of Decline in Far-Eastern Nepal

Online

January 26

Buddhism & Posthumanism Conversation Series 2022–2023

Online

December 2022

December 01

Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko, Polyester Blessings: The Persistent Incarnation of Purity in Contemporary Mongolia

Online

December 01

Vaikuṇṭha Conference

Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317

October 2022

October 27

Mariangela Carpinteri, Green Buddhism: The Birth and Development of Environmental Buddhism

Online

October 19

Matthew King, In the Forest of the Blind

Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 318

September 2022

September 30

Dr. Michael Ium, "Tsongkhapa as a Mahāsiddha: A Reevaluation of the Patronage of the Gelukpa in Tibet"

Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 318

May 2022

May 19

Buddhism and Posthumanism Roundtable

Online

March 2022

March 24

Dekila Chungyalpa: Mother Wisdom: Learning to Embody Interdependence in the Anthropocene

Online

March 24

Buddhism & Posthumanism Conversation Series 2021–2022

Online

March 08

Jan Willis: Is Engaged Buddhism Possible?

Online

February 2022

February 10

Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia: The Chile and the Bears Are My Uncles: Buddhist Interspecies Relations in and Beyond West Sikkim

Online

January 2022

January 27

Janet Gyatso: Being with Animals: Buddhist Resources

Online

December 2021

December 10

Exploring the World of Pali: Current Doctoral Research at the University of Toronto

Online

December 02

Geoff Barstow: Rethinking Buddhist Notions of Human Superiority

Online

November 2021

November 04

All We Can Save: A Conversation with Leah Stokes

Online

September 2021

September 17

Buddhism & Breath Summit

Online

March 2021

March 12

The Treasury of Lives Biographical Encyclopedia

Online

March 04

Prioritizing Mental Health in our Classrooms

Online

February 2021

February 23

A Conversation between Lama Rod Owens and Students

Online

February 09

Isabelle Ratié on "A Śaiva response to the Buddhist criticism of action"

Online

December 2020

December 08

THE BUDDHIST DIGITAL ARCHIVES (BuDA) - AN ONLINE DEMONSTRATION

Online

March 2020

March 05

Theorizing the Wear and Waste of a Buddhist, Efficacious Object

Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317

February 2020

February 27

Mobility, Identity, and Lineage Networks in Modern Chinese Buddhism

Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317

February 26

Religion, Medicine, Bioethics, and the Law in End-of-life Care

The Munk Centre, 108N, North House

February 22

Did the Buddha Teach Sexual Consent?: Emergent Ethics after Abuse Allegations in an American Insight Organization

Room 208, Main Activity Hall, Multi-Faith Centre

February 21

#CiteWomen in the Classroom: How Publishing Practices Shape our Teaching

Munk School of Global Affairs, N208

February 21

New Paths in Teaching Buddhist Studies

Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 318

February 20

Tibetan Studies Librarianship and Resources: An Update

East Asian Library, Room 8051

January 2020

January 23

Refuge in the Empire: Visualizing Kingship in Qing Dynasty China

Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317

December 2019

December 05

To What Extent Can the Vinaya be Dissected?

170 St George St, Room 317

December 03

Academic Podcasting Working Group Lunch Series

Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 318

November 2019

November 18

Mindfulness and Meditation Across Traditions--CANCELLED

Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 318

November 15

Buddhist Studies Fall Writing Retreat

Harmony Dawn Retreat Centre

November 12

Thinking with the Body: Buddhist Perspectives on Embodiment

Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 318

November 11

Student Town Hall

Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 318

November 04

Faculty Town Hall

Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 318

November 01

Seminar on the Personal Library of a European Polymath: The Gros Collection

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Maclean Hunter Room

October 2019

October 31

How to Talk to Students about Mental Health

Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 318

October 30

Reading Buddhist Texts

UTM

October 28

Workshop on Buddhist Lexicography and Grammar

UTM

October 24

The Transmission of Buddhist Texts to Tocharian Buddhism

Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317

October 23

Tamil Buddhist Literature Workshop: The Maṇimēkalai

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 319

October 15

Getting Mindfulness Right: Promises, Pitfalls, and Potential of the Secular Mindfulness Movement

Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 318

October 04

Graduate Conference on South Asian Religions - Day 2

UTM

October 03

5th Biennial Graduate Conference on South Asian Religions

UTM

October 02

“Categories and Comparisons” in South Asian Religious History

UTM

September 2019

September 26

Religious Educational Materials for Buddhist Women’s Groups in Japan

August 2019

August 05

Workshop: Reading Gupta Epigraphy (UTM)

with Elizabeth Cecil

July 2019

July 29

Jainism Summer School (UTM)

UTM

July 04

CANCELLED: Facing Anxiety and Depression: A Conversation with His Holiness Ganden Tri Rinpoche

Room 208, Main Activity Hall, Multi-Faith Centre

June 2019

June 18

Growing Where We Are: Sharing Histories & Futures of Urban Agriculture

New College Library

April 2019

April 12

Lecture by Kerry Brown, "In the Presence of the Divine: Identity and Meaning in Newar Buddhist Art"

The Munk Centre, 108N, North House

April 12

Conference: Tibetan Cultural Renaissance in the People's Republic of China

April 08

Nepali and Newar Language Workshop with Laxminath Shreshta

April 05

Numata Lecture:<br/>Felicity Aulino

Lecture: Providing for Others: Care and Karmic Politics in Northern Thailand
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317

March 2019

March 28

Numata Lecture:<br/>Helmut Tauscher

Lecture: Kanjur Collections from Tibet’s Southern and Western Borderlands
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317

March 15

Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire

Matthew King's Book Launch
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 318

March 13

Vanessa Sasson, “Writing a Buddhist Lovestory”

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100

March 12

Workshop on Buddhist Kavya with Yuko Yokochi

March 07

Dr. Lauren Leve Lecture: Globalizing Vipassana: Buddhism and the Secular in the Goenka Meditation Movement

Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317

February 2019

February 08

Numata Lecture:<br/>Anupama Rao

Lecture: Ambedkar, Buddha, and Marx… Again
Munk School of Global Affairs, N208

January 2019

January 31

Numata Reading Group: Susan Andrews

Reading: “Women at Northern Dynasties Mount Wutai”
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317

January 22

Making Buddhist Art Workshop (Thangka, Mandala and Torma)

Workshop led by trained traditional artist Urgyen Gyalpo
University of Toronto, Mississauga – IB 220

January 18

Buddhism and Astrology in the Tang Dynasty

Jeffrey Kotyk Lecture
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317

December 2018

December 06

Numata Reading Group:<br/>Ruth Gamble

Reading: “Landscapes” from Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism: the Third Karmapa and the Invention of a Tradition
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317

December 05

Concreting the World's Highest River: Developing the Yarlung Tsangpo

Environmental, Cultural and Geopolitical Impacts of Developing the Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) River Lecture and discussion with Dr. Ruth Gamble, La Trobe University
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 318

December 04

River Histories, Cultures, and Environments: Walking the Humber River, with Dr. Ruth Gamble

Old Mill Subway Station

November 2018

November 29

Agnieszka Helman-Ważny: Tibetan Manuscripts of Mustang in Light of New Discoveries

Toronto Centre for the Book lecture
Faculty of Information

November 01

Numata Reading Group:<br/>Ryan Richard Overby

Reading: "The Prototantric Preacher"
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317

October 2018

October 25

Genealogies of Dalit Learning and Humanist Buddhism in 19th and 20th century India

The Munk Centre, 108N, North House

October 03

Echoes of the Sacred: Creating the Sand Mandala of Green Tara

University of Toronto Multi-Faith Centre

September 2018

September 28

Samaya Baji at UTSC

An Evening of Newar Ritual and Culinary Culture
Culinaria Kitchen Lab, SW 313 (Science Wing), UTSC

September 26

Tibetan Studies Orientation at the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library

Join us for a tour of the Tibetan Collection and a light lunch!
East Asian Library, Room 8051

May 2018

May 26

International Buddhist Bhikkhunis Forum

OISE auditorium

May 15

Workshop on Newar Buddhism

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 319

May 14

Healing through Dhāraṇī in Tantric Buddhism

Institute for Traditional Medicine

May 04

Nissaya Reading Workshop with William Pruitt

Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317

April 2018

April 17

Public lecture with Kate Crosby

Destroying the Dharma: Heresy, Suppression and Rationalism in the Emergence of Modern Buddhism
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 318

April 16

Research Colloquium on the Kālacakratantra

Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 318

April 06

Reading Group:<br />Brandon Dotson

The Horse and the Grass-Grazing Man:
Domestication, Food, and Alterity in Early Tibetan Cosmologies of the Land of the Dead
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317

April 06

Tibetan Studies Bibliographic Databases Workshop

170 St George St, Room 317

March 2018

March 08

Reading Group:<br />Megan Bryson

Between China and Tibet: Mahākāla Worship and Esoteric Buddhism in the Dali Kingdom
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317

February 2018

February 28

Rigdzin Düpa: Tibetan Buddhist Ritual Performance

Quiet Room, Multifaith Center

February 16

Indic Commentaries on the Kālacakratantra and Methods of Authenticating Tradition

Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 318

February 15

Temple Heritage of a Chinese Migrant Community: Movement, Connectivity and Identity in the Maritime World

208N Seminar Room, North House

February 08

Rohingya in Peril: Buddhist/Muslim tensions in Myanmar and Beyond

William Doo Auditorium

February 06

Heritage without People: UNESCO World Heritage and the Bureaucracy of Development

Bissel Building, Room 417

February 02

Tibetan Wylie Romanization Workshop

Robarts Library

January 2018

January 26

Lecture:<br />Julia Cassaniti

Out of Time:
Mindfulness and Temporality in Theravāda Asia
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317

December 2017

December 15

Hidden Lands in Himalayan Myth and History

Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 318

December 06

A Tale of the Sub-human: The Rohingyas in Myanmar and Bangladesh

The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility

November 2017

November 30

Reading Group:<br />Gudrun Bühnemann

Excerpts from Śākyamuni’s Return Journey to Lumbinī (lumbinīyātrā):
A Study of a Popular Theme in Newar Buddhist Art and Literature
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 319

November 03

Lecture:<br />Philip Bloom

Born in the Latter Days of the Dharma:
Ecology and Eternity in a Song-Dynasty Buddhist Monastery
University of Toronto, Mississauga – IB 345

October 2017

October 19

Lecture:<br />Jonathan Silk

Dreaming Dharma’s Decline:
The Ten Dreams of King Krikin and Other Prophetic Dream Texts
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100

October 12

Tibetan Studies Open House

at the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library
East Asian Library, Room 8051

October 05

Graduate Conference in South Asian Religions

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100

August 2017

August 27

Where the Buddha was Previously Born, Seen, and Heard

Transmission and Transformation of Rebirth Narratives in Art and Text within and beyond Gandhara
Royal Ontario Museum

August 21

Roundtable: <br/>Bridging Divides in Buddhist Studies

co-hosted with the American Council of Learned Societies
Royal Ontario Museum

August 20

XVIIIth Congress <br />of the International Association of Buddhist Studies

May 2017

May 31

Public Talk: <br />His Holiness the 17th Karmapa <br />Ogyen Trinley Dorje

Mindfulness and Environmental Responsibility
Convocation Hall

April 2017

April 17

Inaugural Public Lecture <br/>Donald Lopez

Hyecho’s Journey: The World of Buddhism
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 318

March 2017

March 30

Lecture:<br />Erick White

Spirit Possession as Buddhist Vocation:
Debates over Piety, Devotion and Charisma in Modern Thai Buddhism
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317

March 28

Pad Yatra: A Green Odyssey<br /> Film and Talkback

Directed by Wendy J. N. Lee
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100

March 23

Reading Group with <br />Kammie Takahashi

Birds and Fishes:
View and Method in the Mahāyoga Texts of Buddhaguhya
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317

March 14

Shielding the Mountains: <br />Film and Lecture

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100

March 02

Lecture:<br /> Kanō Kazuo

Papers and Leaves —
Legacy of Indian Buddhists in Tibet and Tibetan Translators in India
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317

February 2017

February 28

Drokpa<br /> Film and Talkback

Directed by Yan Chun Su
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100

February 17

Book Launch: <br />Social Structuration in Tibetan Society

By Dr. Jia Luo
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 318

February 15

Ritual Perfomance: <br/>Konchog Chidu

with Tulku Dawa Gyalpo Rinpoche
Quiet Room, Multifaith Center

January 2017

January 26

Reading Group with<br />Erik Braun

Excerpts from The Birth of Insight
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317

December 2016

December 01

Lecture:<br />Asuka Sango

The Love of Fame and the Desire for Enlightenment:
Life of the Scholar Monk in Medieval Japan
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317

November 2016

November 21

Putting Students at the Centre

An Innovation Showcase and Idea Exchange
Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation

October 2016

October 13

Lewis Lancaster

Maritime Buddhism:
The Spread of Buddhism from India to China
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317

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