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Toronto Learning Event: Buddhist Education for Youth

Buddhism in Canada Buddhist community Education Events Toronto Youth

Buddhist Education Foundation for Canada and the University of Toronto Buddhism & Psychology Student Union present Learning Event on Buddhist Education for Youth Education for Compassion and Wisdom, a holistic approach Keynote address: Professor Jack Miller Professor, Curriculum, Teaching and Learning The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto Concurrent Workshops... Read more »

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U of T Buddhist Studies Faculty + Grad Research Presentations

Buddhism in Canada Buddhist community Education

Please join us for a workshop on new research by faculty and students in Buddhist Studies at the Department for the Study of Religion. From 12 noon – 5 pm on April 18, faculty and students in the Department will introduce and discuss their recent and upcoming research projects in Buddhist studies. Location: Room 318, JHB... Read more »

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Buddhist Nuns in India / U of T conference

Buddhism around the World Conferences Education Events Toronto

The University of Toronto/McMaster University Yehan Numata Buddhist Studies Program is pleased to announce an international conference on the lives of ordained Buddhist nuns in India from the time of the Buddha until the eventual disappearance of the bhikṣuṇī saṅgha from Indian soil. BUDDHIST NUNS IN INDIA April 16-17, 2011, University of Toronto Trinity College,... Read more »

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Gregory Schopen lecture @ U of T

Buddhism around the World Education Events Toronto

The University of Toronto/McMaster University Yehan Numata Buddhist Studies Program is pleased to announce a free, public lecture by Professor Gregory Schopen (UCLA): “The Limited Reach of Religious Doctrine: Debt, Slavery, and Who could Become a Buddhist Nun (or Monk) in Early India.” Time and date: 5 pm, April 15, 2011 Place: Muzzo Family Alumni... Read more »

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Numata Lecture @ U of T, March 3, 2011: The trouble with tribals

Buddhist Psychology Education Events Toronto

Christian Wedemeyer, Assistant Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School, will be a Numata Program visiting speaker on March 3, 2011, from 4-6 pm at the Jackman Humanities Building (170 St George St), Room 317. He will deliver a lecture entitled “The Trouble with Tribals: Indian Esoteric Buddhism and... Read more »

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