Public Lectures
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April 13, 2012
Jeff Wilson, University of Waterloo
“Dixie Buddhism: Regionalism in American Buddhism”
March 30, 2012
Robert Ford Campany, Vanderbilt
University
“The Incredible Vanishing Religion: Glimmers of Buddhist Imagination from Early Medieval
China”
March 29, 2012
Yasuo Deguchi, Kyoto University
“Last Nishitani on Emotion and Action”
March 2, 2012
Hank Glassman, Haverford College
“The Cult of Jizō, a Buddhist Deity, in Medieval Japan”
October 24, 2011
Sara McClintock, Emory University
“Aesthetic Shock and Ethical Formation in Buddhist Narrative Literature”
April 7, 2011
Guy Newland, Central Michigan University
“Betraying Emptiness: Translating Tibetan Retextualization of Madhyamaka Philosophy”
April 4, 2011
Karma Lekshe Tsomo,
University of San Diego
“Buddhism and Gender Identity”
March 26, 2011
Venerable Amy Miller, Milarepa Center, Barnet,
VT
“The Meditator’s Life”
March 21 and 22, 2011
Catherine Anraku Hondorp,
Zen Center, Northampton, MA
“An Introduction to Zen Meditation”
November 11, 2010
Tom Tillemans, University of Lausanne
“Madhyamaka Buddhist Ethics”
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October 26 and November 2, 2010
Geshe Lobsang Tsetan, Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center, Washington, NJ
“Dependent Origination”
“Emptiness”
April 23–25, 2010
Smith College hosted a three-day symposium, featuring more than 20 scholars (PDF) from America and Europe, entitled “Madhyamaka and Methodology: A Symposium on Buddhist Theory and Method.”
April 20, 2010
Smith College hosted a poetry reading by Ko Un, author of more than 135 volumes of poetry, fiction, essays, translations, and drama. Ko Un has twice won the prestigious Korean Literature Prize and is frequently mentioned as a favorite for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
November 4, 2009
Sandy Gentei Stewart, Abbot of North
Carolina Zen Center
“Zen Practice and Zen in America”
October 20 and 27, 2009
Geshe Lobsang Tsetan, Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center, Washington, NJ
“Compassion”
“Wisdom”
September 27, 2009
Robert Kennedy, Jesuit priest and Zen teacher
“When God Disappears”
April 22, 2009
Sarah Horton, Macalester
College
“Reflections on Living Buddhist Statues in Modern and Medieval Japan”
March 27–29, 2009
Smith College, the Five College Buddhist Studies faculty, and the Manjushri Institute of Buddhist Studies hosted more than 20 specialists in history, religion, anthropology and art for a conference called “Buddhism in Mongolia: Rebirth and Transformation.”
November 14, 2008
John Powers, Australian National
University
“Representation of Tibetan Identity in the Context of the Olympics”
October 23, 2008
Geshe Damcho Gyaltsen, Director, Institute of Buddhist Dialectics, Dharamsala “Education and Spirituality: A Tibetan Buddhist Perspective”
October 21 and 28, 2008
Geshe Lobsang Tsetan, Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center, Washington, NJ
“Compassion and Selflessness”
“Wisdom and Emptiness”
October 1–18, 2008
Joan Bredin-Price mounted an exhibition of 10 large paintings of the Dhyani Buddhas.
February 29, 2008
Robert
E. Buswell, Jr., UCLA
“Reflections on the Commentarial Genre in Korean Buddhist Literature”
October 16, 23, 25, and 30, 2007
Geshe Lobsang Tsetan, Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center, Washington, NJ
“Compassion and Selflessness”
“Lam Rim (Stages of the Path) by Tsong Khapa, part 1”
“Lam Rim (Stages of the Path) by Tsong Khapa, part 2”
“Wisdom and Emptiness”
