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 »
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A Narrative Approach to Early Chinese Buddhist Prose
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 »
Nanzhao-Dali Workshop: Buddhism in China’s southwest frontier and surrounding regions
28 November, 2022 The Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms prospered throughout China’s Southwest frontier between the eighth and thirteenth centuries. Nanzhao-Dali coexisted with Tang-Song China, Tibet and the surrounding Southeast Asian civilisations. Buddhism was an important component of the Kingdoms, with the capital understood as a centre for Buddhist learning. For this workshop, we have invited… Read more »
University of Oxford Lecture Series in Buddhist Studies 2022-2023
Lecture Room 1 at 5pm Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Pusey Lane Oxford, OX1 2LE All Welcome All enquiries: [email protected] Michaelmas Term 2022 Monday 7 November 2022 Ligeia Lugli, The Mangalam Research Centre, Berkeley, California. Modelling the Dharma: advances in Buddhist Sanskrit Corpus linguistics and Natural Language Processing This talk introduces a new corpus of… Read more »
Buddhist Identities in Twenty-First Century Asia (University of Cambridge)
April 8–9th 2022, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. With support from the Global Humanities Initiative at the University of Cambridge, the Faculty of Divinity and Selwyn College invite scholars and students to a conference devoted to the theme of Buddhist identities across twenty-first century Asia. Over two days, invited and selected speakers will address… Read more »