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Becoming Citizens: Student-Monks and the Rise of Social Engagement in Modern Chinese Buddhism

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UBC’s Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program presents a lecture by the Venerable Rongdao Lai. Becoming Citizens: Student-Monks and the Rise of Social Engagement in Modern Chinese Buddhism Date: Wednesday, 9 April 2014 Time: 4:00 – 6:00 PM Place: Room 120, C.K. Choi Building, 1855 West Mall University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Lectures are free... Read more »

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The Encounter with Modernity in Chinese Buddhist Historiography

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THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO / McMASTER UNIVERSITY YEHAN NUMATA BUDDHIST STUDIES PROGRAM presents: JOHN KIESCHNICK (Stanford University) LECTURE: The Encounter with Modernity in Chinese Buddhist Historiography FRIDAY, April 4, 2014, 3-5 pm, UTSG, JHB 317 Over 1500 years, Chinese Buddhists developed a distinctive way of writing about the past, informed on the one hand by... Read more »

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Visit from Monks of Longquan Monastery, Beijing to UBC

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Via Lower Mainland Buddhism… Jan 20 and 22 (Chinese Language): Visit from Monks of Longquan Monastery, Beijing to UBC UBC’s Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program, generously supported by The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation, together with UBC’s Tzu-chi Buddhist Studies Forum, are pleased to welcome Ven. Xianli 賢立 and Xianxun 賢遜 to UBC campus. (These are Chinese... Read more »

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What is a ‘Buddhist Painting’? Lecture at McMaster, Oct 22, 2013

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The Department of Religious Studies at McMaster University is delighted to welcome our Dr. Harry Lyman Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor, Raoul Birnbaum.  Professor Birnbaum (University of California Santa Cruz) is an internationally-renowned scholar of Chinese Buddhism and art history. All are invited to a public lecture at McMaster: “What is a ‘Buddhist Painting’?  Some Registers... Read more »

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Tell China not to destroy the Jokhang Temple

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Here is a petition to the Chinese government, from change.org https://www.change.org/petitions/stop-destroying-the-jokhang-temple-the-barkor-neighborhood-of-lhasa?utm_campaign=friend_inviter_chat&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition&utm_term=permissions_dialog_true Please sign and share.

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