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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, Canada

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 […]

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Event Series 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, Canada

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 […]

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Ikkyū and the Crazy Cloud Anthology: Then and Now

Asian Centre 1871 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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 […]

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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, Canada

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 […]

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A New Translation and Study of The Zhuangzi (Sayings of Master Zhuang)

Asian Centre 1871 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

This lecture will explore the Western reception of the Zhuangzi, a foundational text of the Chinese philosophical tradition and the cornerstone of Daoist thought, and how the early European encounters with South and East Asian religious traditions profoundly shaped the development of modern Orientalism and expansion of Western religious perspectives.

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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, British Columbia, Canada

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 […]

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Jātaka, Purgatory, and Supernatural Stories (zhiguai)—On the Classicization of Buddhist Stories from the Perspective of Fa Yuan Zhu Lin

Asian Centre 1871 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

This presentation focuses on the collection Fa Yuan Zhu Lin compiled by the Tang Dynasty’s Buddhist scholar Daoshi, and explores the role of Fa Yuan Zhu Lin in the canonization of Buddhist stories, focusing on the Jātaka (Buddha’s past life stories), purgatory, and supernatural stories. The Jātaka stories can be divided into types such as treasure hunting in the […]

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Mindful China: Embracing Early Meditation and Vipassanā Practices in Search for Awakening, and Secular Well-being

Asian Centre 1871 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

There has been a surge of interest in earlier meditation techniques as well as in Theravāda meditation, particularly vipassanā, throughout the Sinitic world over the past few decades. These Theravāda-inspired meditation techniques, whether rediscovered in canonical scriptures or newly introduced from South-East Asia, retain the allure of being early Buddhist practices and are welcomed as such […]

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Event Series From the Ground to the Cloud: Insights from Seven Years of Fieldwork, Training, and Data Collection

From the Ground to the Cloud: Insights from Seven Years of Fieldwork, Training, and Data Collection

Online/Virtual Event

The FROGBEAR project is a research and training network that fosters scholarship of East Asian religions through field visits, skill building, study, and knowledge sharing. Since the project’s inception in 2016, our international teams of researchers have identified new textual and visual sources preserved in East Asia. The research clusters have surveyed key sites of […]

mountains with a group of people in the foreground
Event Series From the Ground to the Cloud: Insights from Seven Years of Fieldwork, Training, and Data Collection

From the Ground to the Cloud: Insights from Seven Years of Fieldwork, Training, and Data Collection

Online/Virtual Event

The FROGBEAR project is a research and training network that fosters scholarship of East Asian religions through field visits, skill building, study, and knowledge sharing. Since the project’s inception in 2016, our international teams of researchers have identified new textual and visual sources preserved in East Asia. The research clusters have surveyed key sites of […]

mountains with a group of people in the foreground
Event Series From the Ground to the Cloud: Insights from Seven Years of Fieldwork, Training, and Data Collection

From the Ground to the Cloud: Insights from Seven Years of Fieldwork, Training, and Data Collection

Online/Virtual Event

The FROGBEAR project is a research and training network that fosters scholarship of East Asian religions through field visits, skill building, study, and knowledge sharing. Since the project’s inception in 2016, our international teams of researchers have identified new textual and visual sources preserved in East Asia. The research clusters have surveyed key sites of […]

mountains with a group of people in the foreground
Event Series From the Ground to the Cloud: Insights from Seven Years of Fieldwork, Training, and Data Collection

From the Ground to the Cloud: Insights from Seven Years of Fieldwork, Training, and Data Collection

Online/Virtual Event

The FROGBEAR project is a research and training network that fosters scholarship of East Asian religions through field visits, skill building, study, and knowledge sharing. Since the project’s inception in 2016, our international teams of researchers have identified new textual and visual sources preserved in East Asia. The research clusters have surveyed key sites of […]