Thinking 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 for you. During Go Global 101 students will: • Learn about the types of programs available like Exchange, Summer Abroad, Global Seminars and Research Abroad […]
The 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 classics is now silently approaching us. At this crossroad, the climate crisis may wield the most immediate impacts for the world. Buddhism may prove to […]
In 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 keynote will discuss what has been written in this vein since then, reaction in East Asia to climate change, what have we learned over the […]
In 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 centuries, Buddhist self-immolation has a long history in East Asia. This lecture will explore some of the deeper historical connections between Buddhist self-immolation and climate […]
The UBC Farm Farmers' Market starts in June Join us on Saturday, June 4 for the beginning of the UBC Farm Farmers' Market season. Don't miss Vancouver's only multi-vendor farmers' market located on a working farm! In addition to certified organic and farm-fresh produce, fruits, herbs, and seeds from the UBC Farm, the Saturday multi-vendor […]
This lecture will explore selected translations of the Kyōunshū 狂雲集 (Crazy Cloud Anthology), an anthology of poems in literary Chinese by medieval Rinzai monk Ikkyū Sōjun 休宗純 (1394-1481). The readings will concentrate on poems from Ikkyū’s later years spent during the catastrophic Ōnin War (1467-1477). Ikkyū’s experience as a refugee watching the world crumble around […]
