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Temples to the Buddha and the Gods Lecture on Buddhist Art & Architecture in Sri Lanka Keynote Speaker: Dr Sujatha Meegama                    Respondent: Dr Elizabeth Harris On behalf of the British Mahabodhi Society / London Buddhist Vihara Sri Lanka’s diverse and interwoven cultural heritage has led to religious art being shared by followers of Buddhism… Read more »

PUBLICATION > Buddhist Studies Review Vol. 41 No. 1-2 (2024): Special Edition: Literary Buddhas: From Magadha to Mexico Edited by Christopher V. Jones and Naomi Appleton Now available: https://journal.equinoxpub.com/BSR/issue/view/2720 See insights and ads Boost post Like Comment Send Share

This meeting of the Sacred Traditions & the Arts seminar will explore the intersection between poetry and politics in representations of Buddhist and Hindu traditions. 7 Oct 2024 18:00 – 19:30 Free, booking essential Vernon Square Campus, Lecture Theatre 2 This event takes place at our Vernon Square campus (WC1X 9EW). Series: Sacred Traditions and the… Read more »

Zoom lecture: Meeting Registration – Zoom 13 April 2024 03:00 PM In her recent book, ‘I Hear Her Words: An Introduction to Women in Buddhism’, Prof Collett asks for a change in the way we understand the phrase ‘women in Buddhism’. She shows that increasing knowledge of the historical sources has made it possible to… Read more »

Speakers: Naomi Collick and Dr Nick Swann To book: Redisplaying the Buddhist Collection at Chiddingstone Castle – The Courtauld Chiddingstone Castle is a historic house and accredited museum in Kent, which holds the collections of the last private owner, Denys Eyre Bower (1905 – 1977). Bower had a personal interest in Buddhism, and it was a… Read more »

Call for papers 20 April 2024 (9:00am-5:00pm)  The University of Oxford China Centre, Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6LU  The University of Oxford and Yin-Cheng Buddhist Studies Network are pleased to announce a one-day conference on Buddhism and Food Ethics to be held on Saturday 20th April 2024 at the University of Oxford China Centre.  Food… Read more »

Date: Wednesday 13th December Time: 19:30-20:30 PM Location: on Zoom Description: Dr. Caroline Starkey, Associate Professor of Religion and Society and Director of Liberal Arts in the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science at the University of Leeds joins us online for a fascinating talk based on her work studying Buddhists in Britain. Caroline writes, ‘The aim of… Read more »

ON BEHALF OF CHARLES PREBISH As some of you may know, in 1993 and 1995 I did two surveys of Buddhist Studies as an academic discipline. Most of the results of these surveys were published in my 1999 book Luminous Passage. A little more than a decade later (in 2006) I did a follow-up survey…. Read more »

Crossing the Boundaries of the Pali Canon: An Analysis of Future Bodhisattas in Theravada Tradition Ven. Medagampitiye Wijithadhamma The next Buddhist Forum event of the SOAS Centre of Buddhist Studies is scheduled this Friday 19 May, 5-7pm; it will take place in the SOAS Main Building, room 4426 (4th floor). The lecture is free, and no registration is needed.Our speaker will be Ven. Medagampitiye Wijithadhamma, professor in the Department of Pali and… Read more »