June 2023
May 2023
March 2023
March 30
March 14
February 2023
February 23
January 2023
January 26
December 2022
December 01
October 2022
October 27
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
March 2022
March 24
February 2022
February 10
January 2022
December 2021
December 10
November 2021
September 2021
March 2021
February 2021
December 2020
March 2020
March 05
February 2020
February 27
Mobility, Identity, and Lineage Networks in Modern Chinese Buddhism
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317
February 26
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
January 2020
January 23
Refuge in the Empire: Visualizing Kingship in Qing Dynasty China
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317
December 2019
November 2019
November 18
November 12
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 24
October 23
October 15
Getting Mindfulness Right: Promises, Pitfalls, and Potential of the Secular Mindfulness Movement
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 318
September 2019
August 2019
July 2019
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
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 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 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
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 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
Domestication, Food, and Alterity in Early Tibetan Cosmologies of the Land of the Dead
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 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 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
February 06
Heritage without People: UNESCO World Heritage and the Bureaucracy of Development
Bissel Building, Room 417
January 2018
January 26
Lecture:<br />Julia Cassaniti
Out of Time:
Mindfulness and Temporality in Theravāda Asia
Mindfulness and Temporality in Theravāda Asia
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317
December 2017
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
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
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
The Ten Dreams of King Krikin and Other Prophetic Dream Texts
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100
October 12
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
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
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
View and Method in the Mahāyoga Texts of Buddhaguhya
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317
March 02
Lecture:<br /> Kanō Kazuo
Papers and Leaves —
Legacy of Indian Buddhists in Tibet and Tibetan Translators in India
Legacy of Indian Buddhists in Tibet and Tibetan Translators in India
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317
February 2017
February 28
February 17
Book Launch: <br />Social Structuration in Tibetan Society
By Dr. Jia Luo
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 318
February 15
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
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
The Spread of Buddhism from India to China
Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 317
