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, Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaThe 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 […]
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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, Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaIn 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, Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaIn 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 […]
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UBC Farm Farmers’ Market
UBC Farm 3461 Ross Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaThe 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' […]
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, Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaThe 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 […]
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