Academic Year Event Archive, 2003-2004

Relics, Monuments, and Realpolitik: Constructing Pan-Asian Buddhism in an Age of Empires

Center for Buddhist Studies Colloquium Series with RICHARD JAFFE
Friday, October 24, 2003
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Retreat Practices in Buddhist China, late Qing to the Present

Center for Buddhist Studies Colloquium Series with RAOUL BIRNBAUM
Friday, October 31, 2003
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

The 16th Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture: Long-haired Monks? A Portrait of Two Chinese Buddhist Masters and its Many Contexts

Raoul Birnbaum, Professor and Rebele Chair in History of Art and Visual Culture at UC Santa Cruz, will be the featured speaker at the 16th Annual Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Art.
Saturday, November 01, 2003
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

"Esoteric" Buddhism and the Polemics of Superiority in Medieval Sinitic Buddhism

Center for Buddhist Studies Colloquium Series with RICHARD MCBRIDE
Wednesday, November 12, 2003
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Some Reflections on Buddhist Studies in Japan

Center for Buddhist Studies Colloquium Series with MASAHIRO SHIMODA
Friday, November 21, 2003
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

The Senior Scrolls: A New Collection of Gandharan Manuscripts of the Second Century A.D.

Center for Buddhist Studies Colloquium Series with RICHARD SALOMOM
Friday, January 16, 2004
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

The Moment of Death in Daoxuan's Vinaya Commentary and Biographical Collection

Center for Buddhist Studies Colloquium Series with KOICHI SHINOHARA
Friday, January 23, 2004
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

The Karma of Questioning: Buddhist Studies in the Form of Philosophy

Center for Buddhist Studies Colloquium Series with DALE WRIGHT
Friday, February 27, 2004
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Catholics vs. Communists in Rural China: The Tunliu Rebellion & Faction Warfare in Shanxi, 1946-47

Minh-Hoang Ngo challenges the conventional interpretation of peasant resistance
Wednesday, March 10, 2004
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM

Is there such a thing as Tantric Theravada Buddhism?

Center for Buddhist Studies Colloquium Series with KATE CROSBY
Monday, April 19, 2004
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

"Buddhist Psychology"? Much Less and Much More

Center for Buddhist Studies Colloquium Series with LUIS GOMEZ
Friday, April 23, 2004
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

The Spread of Buddhist Scholasticism in Northwest India

Center for Buddhist Studies Colloquium with Charles Willemen
Friday, April 30, 2004
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

West of Bamiyan: New Discoveries in Afghanistan

Center for Buddhist Studies Colloquium Series - MEIJI YAMADA
Monday, May 24, 2004
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM