Virtual Go Global 101 Sessions
Online/Virtual EventThinking about adding a global learning program to your UBC experience? Check out this introduction to Go Global designed to help you decide if a Go Global program is right […]
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The Dharma-Ending Age: The Climate Crisis through the Lens of Buddhist Eschatology, Past and Present
The Dharma-Ending Age: The Climate Crisis through the Lens of Buddhist Eschatology, Past and Present
C. K. Choi Building for the Institute of Asian Research 1855 West Mall, VancouverThe unprecedented number of global crises is casting a shadow on the future of humanity, all of which seem to augur that the dharma-ending age (mofa 末法) described in Buddhist […]
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A Sense of an Ending: Chinese Buddhist Eschatology Reconsidered
C. K. Choi Building for the Institute of Asian Research 1855 West Mall, VancouverIn 1976, Dan Overmyer published Folk Buddhist Religion, a volume that drew attention to apocalyptic visions of some popular groups influenced by Buddhist conceptions, amongst others, of global disaster. This […]
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Buddhist Self-Immolation and Climate Change
C. K. Choi Building for the Institute of Asian Research 1855 West Mall, VancouverIn recent years, a number of climate activities have self-inflicted auto-cremation in a drastic response to climate change. Though Inspired by Buddhist auto-cremators of the late twentieth and early twenty-first […]
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