UBC’s Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program presents a lecture by Jan W. Walls.
Date: Thursday, 02 February 2012
Time: 5:00 – 7:00 PM
Place: Room 120, C.K. Choi Building, 1855 West Mall
Lectures are free and open to the public. Seating will be on a first-come first-serve basis. Doors will open 30 minutes prior to the lecture.
To download a .pdf poster for printing: Jan W. Walls Poster.
UBC’s Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program presents a lecture by Simon Wickham-Smith.
Date: Thursday, 26 January 2012
Time: 5:00 – 7:00 PM
Place: Room 120, C.K. Choi Building, 1855 West Mall
Lectures are free and open to the public. Seating will be on a first-come first-serve basis. Doors will open 30 minutes prior to the lecture.
To download a .pdf poster for printing: Wickham-Smith Poster.
The UBC Kameyama Lecture Series, with the UBC Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program, presents a lecture by Dr. Eugene Wang, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University:
Date: Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Time: 4:30 – 6:00 PM
Place: C.K. Choi Building, Room 120, 1855 West Mall, UBC Point Grey Campus
Lectures are free and open to the public. Seating will be on a first-come first-serve basis.
To download a .pdf poster for printing: Eugene Wang Poster.
The Department of Humanities, University of Toronto Scarborough is pleased to present,
A Call for Papers for: The Tung Lin Kok Yuen 東蓮覺苑 Conference on Buddhism and the Political Process (April 13-15, 2012)
The program committee welcomes proposals for papers from academics, professionals, graduate students and others. Proposals that include a max. 300 word abstract of the paper and a short academic CV should be made online through our submissions site at: http://link.library.utoronto.ca/buddhiststudies/conference/
The deadline for submissions is Friday November 18, 2011. Participants will be notified by December 17th if their submission has been successful.
For more information please visit: http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~humdiv/prg_bs.html
Dr. Paul R. Fleischman gave a talk on “Vipassana Meditation: A Practice and a Path” to around two hundred people at the First Nations Longhouse’s Great Hall on September 29, 2011.
He provided an detailed overview of its historical development, philosophical underpinnings, and practical requirements of this meditational practice–stressing its modern systematization and adaptation to modern lives.
Dr. Fleischman’s description of meditation was a self-reflective melding of natural scientific theories with the worldview that underlies vipassana meditation. He stressed two points in particular: (1) The natural laws that govern our world also govern us as embodied beings; cultivating awareness of our embodied existence, through concentration and observation, provides insight into the world itself. (2) The practice of meditation is supported by ethical practice, both in terms of basic precepts and the voluntaristic, service orientation of the vipassana movement itself. In addition to being detailed and informative, his talk was imbued with a wonderfully dry humor, making it accessible and entertaining. Continue reading
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