Sumeru News — Nepal
Buddhism in Nepal / Numata lecture and reading group
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The UofT/McMaster Yehan Numata Buddhist Studies Program presents a reading group and lecture on Buddhism in Nepal: ALEXANDER VON ROSPATT (University of California Berkeley) READING GROUP The Sacred Origins of the Svayambhucaitya and the Nepal Valley. Foreign Speculation and Local Myth, and The Mural Paintings of the Svayambhupurana at the Shrine of Santipur, and their... Read more »
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“Architects of Buddhist Leisure” lecture, Hamilton, Sept 20, 2013
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The University of Toronto / McMaster University NUMATA BUDDHIST STUDIES PROGRAM 2013-14 presents: JUSTIN McDANIEL (University of Pennsylvania) NUMATA READING GROUP (co-sponsored by the Asian Institute?s Centre for Southeast Asian Studies): “The Bird in the Corner of the Picture. Some Problems with the Use of Buddhist Texts to Study the Buddhist Ornamental Art of Thailand”... Read more »
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Lumbini update
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Here’s the latest status report from Save Buddhist Heritage, on UNESCO efforts to establish the world heritage site at Lumbini: http://save-buddhist-heritage.org/Lumbini/?page_id=583
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Canadian Buddhist Temple in Lumbini?
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I recently received this from Glenn Mullin, Canadian Buddhist scholar and teacher currently living in Mongolia… Greetings from Korea. I am here for two weeks, and then will leave for Mongolia. Hey, come horse riding… Thanks for putting my little Lumbini video on your website. Maybe it will get some traction. There is no Canada... Read more »
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Glenn Mullin at Lumbini 2013
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Here’s a short video from Glenn Mullin about Lumbini, with pix of all the temples and gardens. The site is much more well-developed than it was even 25 years ago, in part because the United Nations was pressing the international community to take its designation as a World Heritage Site more to heart. There’s a... Read more »
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