SCBS Calendar 2004-05

2004-2005

Programs and events related to Buddhist studies at Stanford and Berkeley. For past calendars, see Archives.

Unless otherwise noted, events are open to the public. For information, consult the sponsoring unit listed after the event or contact SCBS.

SCBS reading groups are open to the campus community. Students may receive credit, as noted. For information, contact SCBS.

For academic classes, see ARC Courses. For other Buddhist programs, see Buddhist Community at Stanford. For listing of other events on Asian religions and cultures, see the ARC Calendar. For events at Berkeley, see Group in Buddhist Studies.

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Autumn

Thursday, 9/23. Chizuko Yoshimizu (Tsukuba). "Listening to a Stanza on Impermanence (anityatâ): Indian and Japanese Insights into a Fundamental Buddhist Doctrine." 5:00 p.m., 3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley. BSBS.

Monday, 9/27. Japanese studies of religion in China reading group (Kumada in charge). Orientation meeting. 10:00 a.m., 70-71E. SCBS and Religious Studies.

Thursday, 9/30. Mark Blum (SUNY Albany). "Redefining Death in Mahayana Buddhism: The Antarabhava Sutra and the Deconstruction of Karma." 5:00 p.m., 3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC, Berkeley. BSBS.

Friday, 10/8. Michael Zimmermann (Religious Studies). "The Historical Roots of Non-Violence in Buddhism." 12 noon, 100-101K. Ethics At Noon.

Monday, 10/11. Discussion of readings on mandala and sacred space. 5:00 p.m., Baker Room, Stanford Humanities Center. (Readings available at SCBS, 70-71E.) Sacred Geographies Workshop.

Wednesday, 10/13. Jacques Leider (EFEO-Myanmar). "The Challenge of Monastic Reform in 18th Century Burma." 4:15 p.m., IEAS Conference Room, 6th Floor, 2223 Fulton St., Berkeley. Center for Southeast Asia Studies.

Monday, 10/25. Christian Luczanits (Vienna). "A Three-dimensional Mandala? An Analysis of the Tabo Main Temple." 5:00 p.m., Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center. Sacred Geographies Workshop.

Wednesday, 10/27. Sarah Fremerman (Religious Studies). "Dreams of a Jewel Woman: The Cult of Nyoirin Kannon in Medieval Japan." 7:00 p.m., Institute of Buddhist Studies, 2717 Haste Street, Berkeley. Reception preceding lecture, at 6:30 p.m. IBS.

Monday, 11/1. Fabrizio Pregadio (Religious Studies). "The Daoist Database Project." 4:15 p.m., 60-61G. ARC/China and SCBS.

Wednesday, 11/3. John Listopad (Cantor Center). "The Modern Buddhist: Sangha Reform, National Integration, and Thai Art History." 12:00 noon, 200-305. BSBS.

Monday, 11/15. CANCELLED. Discussion of readings on sacred space. 5:00 p.m., Baker Room, Stanford Humanities Center. (Readings to be announced.) Sacred Geographies Workshop.

Tuesday, 11/23. Gustaaf Houtman (Royal Anthropological Institute, London). "Aung San Suu Kyi and Buddhist Responses to Confinement in Burma (Myanmafication)." 12:00 noon, East Florence Moore Hall, Main Lounge. BMW and Structured Liberal Education.

Monday, 11/29. Alexander von Rospatt (UC Berkeley). "Mandala and Sacred Landscape in Nepal." 5:00 p.m., Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center. Sacred Geographies Workshop.

Monday, 11/29. Paul Swanson (Nanzan). "Threefold Structure of Mahayana." 7:00 p.m., Institute of Buddhist Studies, 2717 Haste Street, Berkeley. Reception preceding lecture, at 6:30 p.m. IBS.

Thursday, 12/2. Bernard Faure (Religious Studies). "The Beauty of Polytheism." 12:15 p.m., 70-72A1. Religious Studies Colloquium.

Friday, 12/3. Berkeley Stanford Buddhist Studies Graduate Student Colloquium. 2:00 p.m., 374 Dwinnelle Hall, U.C., Berkeley. Reception to follow. SCBS and Berkeley Group in Buddhist Studies.

Wednesday, 12/8. Lori Meeks (USC). "Constructing Female Models of Buddhist Practice: Empress Hashihito and the Nun Shinnyo in Chuguji Revival Narratives." 7:00 p.m., Institute of Buddhist Studies, 2717 Haste Street, Berkeley. Reception preceding lecture, at 6:30 p.m. IBS.

Winter

Wednesday, 1/12. Sherry Fowler (Kansas). "Mapping the Precincts of Japanese Temples and Shrines." 6:30 p.m., Cummings Art Building, Room 4.

Tuesday, 1/18. Michael Como (William and Mary). "The Monk Dôkyô and the Birth of 'Heian Buddhism.'" 5:00 p.m., 3335 Dwinelle, UC Berkeley. EALC Candidate Job Talks.

Wednesday, 1/19. Mario Poceski (Florida). "Stages of Transcendence: Conceptions of the Progressive Path of Cultivation and Realization in Mid-Tang Chan Buddhism." 5:15 p.m., 60-61G. BSBS.

Tuesday, 1/25. Duncan Williams (UC Irvine). "Hot Water Buddha: Healing, Purification, and Bathing in Japanese Buddhism." 5:00 p.m., 3335 Dwinelle, UC Berkeley. EALC Candidate Job Talks.

Thursday, 1/27 - Sunday, 2/13. International Buddhist Film Festival. San Francisco, Berkeley, San Rafael.

Monday, 1/31. Ronald Davidson (Fairfield). "Arcane Cosmopolis: Mandala Origins in the Indian Buddhist Tantras." 5:00 p.m., Humanities Center. Sacred Geographies Workshop

Tuesday, 2/1. Barbara Ambros (International Christian University, Tokyo). "Licensed Preachers or Licentious Entertainers: Kumano Bikuni as Mendicants in the Early Modern Status System of Japan." 5:00 p.m., 3335 Dwinelle, UC Berkeley. EALC Candidate Job Talks.

Monday, 2/7. Griffith Foulk (Sarah Lawrence). "'Sacred Spaces' in the Ch'an (Zen) Buddhist Monasteries of Southern Sung China." 5:00 p.m., Baker Room, Humanities Center. Sacred Geographies Workshop

Tuesday, 2/8 - Wednesday, 2/9. "Speaking for the Buddha? Buddhism and the Media." Conference. 1:30 - 6:00 p.m., Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley. Group in Buddhist Studies & Institute of East Asian Studies.

Tuesday, 2/8. "Kundun" (Martin Scorcese, 1997). Film screening and discussion with George Dreyfus (Williams), Donald Lopez (Michigan), and Orville Schell (Berkeley). 7:30 p.m., Wheeler Auditorium, UC Berkeley. UC Berkeley Center for Buddhist Studies.

Thursday, 2/24. "Meditation in American Shin Buddhism." Jodo Shinshu symposium. 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., Fairchild Auditorium, 291 Campus Drive. IBS and BMW.

Friday, 2/25. "The Work of a Lifetime: History and Religion in Japan and East Asia. A Symposium in Honor of Professor Emeritus Delmer Brown." 1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m., Alumni House, U.C. Berekeley. Center for Japanese Studies.

Monday, 2/28. Gregory Levine (Berkeley). "Faking the Masters: Calligraphy Connoisseurship and the Forgery of 'Bokuseki' in early 17th-century Kyoto." 5:00 p.m., Art 2, Nathan Cummings Art Building. Sacred Geographies Workshop.

Wednesday, 3/2. Buddhist consecration ceremony opening "Guardian of the Flame" exhibition. 12:00 noon, Cantor Arts Center. Cantor Arts Center and BMW.

Wednesday, 3/2 - Sunday, 6/12. "Guardian of the Flame: Art of Sri Lanka." Exhibition. Cantor Arts Center.

Wednesday, 3/9. Henry Glassman (Haverford). "Aspects of the Jizo Cult in Thirteenth-Century Japan. 7:00 p.m., 2717 Haste Street, Berkeley. Reception at 6:30 p.m. IBS.

Sunday, 3/13. John Listopad (Cantor). Lecture on "Guardian of the Flame" exhibition. 1:00 p.m., Cantor Center Auditorium. Cantor Arts Center.

Tuesday, 3/15. Michael Hahn (Marburg). "A Never-Ending Story: On the Rediscovery of Buddhist Sanskrit Texts." 5:00 p.m., IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor. Reception to follow. Center for Buddhist Studies, U.C., Berkeley.

Wednesday, 3/16. Griffith Foulk (Sarah Lawrence). "Zen Scholasticism." 7:00 p.m., 2717 Haste Street, Berkeley. Reception at 6:30 p.m. IBS.

Wednesday, 3/30. Christian Luczanits (Vienna). "Early Tibetan Art in Ladakh." 6:00 p.m., Doe, 308B. Dinner and talk. Asian Art Working Group, U.C., Berkeley.

Spring

Wednesday, 4/6. Michael Hahn (Marburg). Title to be announced. 7:00 p.m., 2717 Haste Street, Berkeley. Reception at 6:30 p.m. IBS.

Friday, 4/8. José Cabezón (U.C.Santa Barbara). "The Sera Project: Representing a Tibetan Monastery in a Digital Environment." 5:00 p.m., 370, Dwinnelle, U.C. Berkeley. Center for Buddhist Studies.

Thursday, 4/14. Dina Bangdel (Ohio State). "Myths, Mandalas, and Monuments: Art of the Newar Buddhist Monasteries of Nepal." 5:00 p.m., 425 Doe Library, U.C. Berkeley. Center for Buddhist Studies.

Friday, 4/15. Berkeley Stanford Buddhist Studies Graduate Student Colloquium. 2:00 p.m., Stanford Humanities Center. Reception to follow. SCBS and Berkeley Group in Buddhist Studies.

Thursday, 4/21. Mario Poceski (Florida). "Patterns of Engagement: Pluralism and Identity Creation in Chinese Religious History." 4:15 p.m., Encina Hall, 3rd Floor, Oksenberg Conference Room. Religious Pluralism in Chinese History. CEAS.

Monday, 4/25. Justin McDaniel (U.C. Riverside). "Wither a Buddhist Golden Age? The History of the Burmese in Northern Thailand." 12:15 p.m., IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor, U.C., Berkeley. Center for Buddhist Studies.

Tuesday, 4/26. Michael Hahn (Marburg). "Through Action to Moral Perfection: The Ethics of the Buddhist Jatakas." 5:00 p.m., 420-050 (Terrace Room). BSBS..

Wednesday, 4/27. James Robson (Michigan). "To Change Place: On the Conversions of Sacred Sites in China." 5:00 p.m., Stanford Humanities Center. Sacred Geographies Workshop.

Wednesday, 4/27. Christian Luczanits and Hudaya Kandahja. "Depictions of the Gandavyuha Sutra in Tabo and Borobodur." 6:00 p.m., Doe, 308B. Asian Art Working Group, U.C., Berkeley.

Friday, 4/29. Richard Madsen (U.C. San Diego). "Religion and the State: Taiwan and the PRC." 12:00 noon, Encina Hall, 3rd Floor East, Okimoto Conference Room. Religious Pluralism in Chinese History. CEAS.

Wednesday, 5/4. Michael Zimmermann (Stanford). "Violence in Early Mahayana Buddhism." 7:00 p.m., 2717 Haste Street, Berkeley. Reception at 6:30 p.m. IBS.

Thursday, 5/12. Stephen Bokenkamp (Indiana). "The Birth of Rebirth in China." 4:15 p.m., Encina Hall, 3rd Floor, Oksenberg Conference Room. Religious Pluralism in Chinese History. CEAS.

Thursday, 5/19. Stephen Teiser (Princeton). "Religious Pluralism? Religion, Ethnicity, and National Indentity in Chinese Buddhism." 4:15 p.m., Encina Hall, 3rd Floor, Oksenberg Conference Room. Religious Pluralism in Chinese History. CEAS.

Thursday, 5/19. Japanese Buddhist Goma Fire Ritual. Performed by V.K. Keisho Leary (Bukkyo Dendo). 7:00 p.m., East House. CSP.

Monday, 5/23. Sayoko Sakakibara (Tokyo). "The Three Sacred Countries: The Medieval Japanese View of India, China, and Japan." 5:00 p.m., Stanford Humanities Center. Sacred Geographies Workshop.