University of Toronto/McMaster University • SCHEDULE • YEHAN NUMATA PROGRAM IN BUDDHIST STUDIES 2024-25
HENRY ALBERY (Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo)
LECTURE: Defining Avadāna and the Reformation of the Buddhist Canon
FRIDAY, December 6, 2024, 4-6pm, McMaster, University Hall 122 (HYBRID)
READING GROUP: “Immeasurable Joy: One Meditation of a Vaibhāṣikā Yogācāra”
THURSDAY, December 12, 2024, 4-6pm, UofT, JHB 614
DAIGENGNA DUOER (Boston University)
LECTURE in collaboration with the Department for the Study of Religion Lecture Series: Handing Over Xuanzang’s Bones to a Mongolian Lama in Taiwan: Relic Repatriation and Sino-Japanese Buddhist Diplomacy in the Cold War
THURSDAY, January 16, 2025, 4-6pm, UofT, JHB 614 (HYBRID)
READING GROUP: “Towards an Esoteric Pan-Asianist Buddhism: Solving the ‘Lama Problem’ at the Kōa Mikkyō Gakuin”
FRIDAY, January 17, 2025, 4-6pm, McMaster, University Hall 122
FRANCESCO SFERRA (L’Orientale, Università di Napoli)
READING GROUP: A Passage from the Sarvarahasyatantra and its Unpublished Commentary by Ratnākaraśānti
THURSDAY, January 23, 2025, 4-6pm, UofT, JHB 614
LECTURE: A Madhyamaka Path in Tantric Garb: An Enquiry on the Buddhology and the Early Doctrines of the Buddhist Tantric Cycle “The Wheel of Time”
FRIDAY, January 24, 2025, 4-6pm, McMaster, University Hall 122 (HYBRID)
MATTHEW KING (UC Riverside)
LECTURE: Where is the Mind in the Atom? Materializing the Moral Imagination in the Shadow of the Mind and Life Dialogues
THURSDAY, February 6, 2025, 4-6pm, UofT, JHB 614 (HYBRID)
READING GROUP: “The Contents are the Vessel: Snod Bcud beyond Nature”
FRIDAY, February 7, 2025, 4-6pm, McMaster, University Hall 122
ERIC GREENE (Yale University)
READING GROUP: “Inborn Nature (xing 性) and Instinctive Emotion (qing 情) in the Earliest Chinese Buddhist Texts”
THURSDAY, February 27, 2025, 4-6pm, UofT, JHB 614
LECTURE: Toward a More Perfect Future: Early Conceptions of the History of Buddhist Translation in China
FRIDAY, February 28, 2025, 4-6pm, McMaster, University Hall 122 (HYBRID)
PAULINA KOLATA (University of Copenhagen)
READING GROUP: “Managing Decay: Material Afterlives and Other Life Stories of Buddhist Objects”
THURSDAY, April 3, 2025, 4-6pm, UofT, JHB 614
LECTURE: Temple Troubles: Depopulation, Materiality, and Fragile Buddhist Temple Economies in Contemporary Japan
FRIDAY, April 4, 2025, 4-6pm, McMaster, University Hall 122 (HYBRID)
JOHN GUY (Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC)
LECTURE: Stūpa Archaeology and Buddhist Studies: A Case Study of the Piprahwa Relics and their Afterlife
THURSDAY, April 10, 2025, 4-6pm, UofT, JHB 614
READING GROUP: “Nāgas, Nidhis and Yakṣas. Reading the Early Religious Landscape of India”
FRIDAY, April 11, 2025, 4-6pm, McMaster, University Hall 122 (HYBRID)