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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 »

OVERVIEW 15 May 2023 at 5:00-6:00pmLaurence Cox and Brian BockingResearching colonial Buddhist history from below – Irish-Burmese monk U Dhammaloka, subaltern perspectives and plebeian movements 22 May 2023 at 7:00-8:30pmAjahn Brahmali, Venerable Canda and Guest Bhikkhuni (Registration required)Two Buddhist Nuns & a Monk Discuss the Buddha’s Views on Women & Gender 24 May 2023 at… Read more »

University of Oxford Glorisun Lecture Series in Buddhist Studies 2022-2023 & Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture 2023 Trinity Term 2023 Lecture Room 1 at 5:00pm   Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies  Pusey Lane Oxford, OX1 2LE   All Welcome   Tea and snacks at 4:15 – 4:45pm (Common Room in the basement)   All enquiries: [email protected]       24 April 2023 Donna Marcus Duke ‘Identity without Essence’: Self… Read more »

15-16 December, The Foyle Suite, British Library 96 Euston Road London NW1 2DB The British Library and International Dunhuang Project will be hosting a conference to celebrate the close of the Lotus Sutra Manuscripts Conservation and Digitisation Project (https://www.bl.uk/…/lotus-sutra-manuscripts-digitisation) on 15 and 16 December. The keynote will be delivered by Professor Stephen Teiser and the… Read more »

Professor Antje Richter, University of Colorado Boulder Chaired by Dr Xiaojing Miao, Pembroke College Location: Harold Lee Room, Pembroke College Time: 1 December, 2022, 14:00-16:00 GMT The silence of Vimalakirti is a famous moment in Mahayana Buddhism. The householder’s decision to respond with “thundering silence” when asked to explain his understanding of non-duality forms the… Read more »