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What do East Asian Buddhists call their books and why?
C. K. Choi Building for the Institute of Asian Research 1855 West Mall, Vancouver- No events scheduled for April 15, 2023.
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Queer Worldmaking in Mental Health
Queer Worldmaking in Mental Health
About the Talk Dr. Meera Dhebar will review traditional cis-heteronormative colonialist assumptions embedded within the discourses and professional practice of mental health systems. She will discuss the centering of queer of colour cultural knowledge, queer theory, and queer of colour critiques to move beyond the current models of LGBT competencies and affirming therapy to a practice […]
What do East Asian Buddhists call their books and why?
What do East Asian Buddhists call their books and why?
Almost all scholars of East Asian Buddhism refer to Buddhists’ books as either the “Three Baskets” or the “canon”. But either term denotes a collection of thousands of individual books, whether in manuscript or printed form. Many premodern Japanese Buddhist temple librarians used another term, shōgyō 聖教 (shengjiao), possibly meaning the noble teachings. This presentation will explore […]