Sumeru News — Numata

Ho Centre for Buddhist Studies at U of T 1 year old

October 21, 2017 • Buddhism • Buddhism in Canada • Buddhist Studies • Education • Numata • Toronto

A message from our director The Ho Centre is officially one year old! Thank you for your support throughout our first year, and we hope you will join us for what promises to be a busy second year. We have begun the year with our public workshop series on Tea and Buddhism. This series strives... Read more »

Self-ordination in an Indian Monastic Code / Numata Lecture

February 04, 2015 • Buddhism around the World • Buddhist Studies • Education • Events • Hamilton • Numata • Theravada • Toronto • Visiting Teachers

The UofT/McMaster University Numata Buddhist Studies Program presents: VINCENT TOURNIER (School of Oriental and African Studies) LECTURE: Self-ordination in an Indian Monastic Code THURSDAY, February 12, 2015, 3-5 pm, UTSC (University of Toronto, Scarborough Campus), JHB 317 This presentation will explore the status of the Buddha as the first fully ordained monk, as it emerges... Read more »

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Shi Huifeng: Numata series reading group & lecture

January 16, 2015 • Buddhism around the World • Buddhist Studies • Education • Events • Hamilton • Numata • Toronto

The UofT/McMASTER UNIVERSITY YEHAN NUMATA BUDDHIST STUDIES PROGRAM presents: SHI HUIFENG (Fo Guang University) READING GROUP: Literary Parallelism. Connecting Criticism and Hermeneutics in an Early Mahayana Sutra THURSDAY, January 22, 2015, 3-5 pm, UTSG, JHB 317 LECTURE: Chiasmus Methodology for Buddhist Textual Studies FRIDAY, January 23, 2015, 4-6 pm, McMaster, University Hall 122 The modern... Read more »

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The Encounter with Modernity in Chinese Buddhist Historiography

March 31, 2014 • Buddhism around the World • Buddhist Studies • China • Events • History • Numata

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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More Alive Than All the Living: Sovereign Bodies and Cultural Politics in Buddhist Siberia

February 21, 2014 • Buddhism • Buddhism around the World • Buddhist Studies • Education • Events • Hamilton • Lecture • Numata • Toronto

THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO / McMASTER UNIVERSITY YEHAN NUMATA BUDDHIST STUDIES PROGRAM presents ANYA BERNSTEIN (Harvard University) LECTURE More Alive Than All the Living: Sovereign Bodies and Cultural Politics in Buddhist Siberia THURSDAY, February 27, 2014, 3-5 pm, UTSG, JHB 317 This talk explores religious practice among Buryats, a Siberian people, through scholarship on sovereignty... Read more »

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