Pu Yin Buddhist Studies Lecture Series

The Center for Buddhist Studies is glad to announce four lectures of the Pu Yin Buddhist Studies Lecture Series in spring 2018 at the University of Arizona. Professor Albert Welter will give the inaugural lecture on Hangzhou Buddhism. The rest of the three lectures will focus on Chinese Buddhism, American Buddhism, and the concept of Regional Religious System (RRS) in Buddhist studies respectively. All the lectures will be presented in English and open to the public. Please mark your calendar for these events. The Pu Yin Buddhist Studies Lecture Series is sponsored by the Pu Yin Educational Center. For more details, see the link: https://cbs.arizona.edu/news/pu-yin-buddhist-studies-lecture-series

The Inaugural Lecture

A NEW LOOK AT OLD TRADITION: REIMAGINING EAST ASIAN BUDDHISM THROUGH HANGZHOU

The Hangzhou region, centered in the city of Hangzhou, has long been one of the most important cultural hubs in China, and has had a wide-ranging impact on Chinese culture and Buddhism. The study of Buddhism, however, has been conducted from Indo-centric agendas that have long served to marginalize East Asian Buddhism, including the Hangzhou regions contributions. Seen from the vantage point of Hangzhou, East Asian Buddhism assumes a central role in the interregional spread of religion and culture. The advent and dissemination of indigenous forms of Buddhism conceived in the Hangzhou region precipitated cultural advances that have resonated down to the present.

Prof. Albert Welter, Head, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Arizona
Date:  January 30, 2018


The Lecture Series:

Donations to the Centre of the World: The Chinese Inscriptions from Bodhgaya

Dr. Max Deeg | Professor of Buddhist Studies, Cardiff University 
April 9 (Tuesday), 2024

Hybrid event (In-person/Zoom)


TEACHING BUDDHISM THROUGH CALLIGRAPHY

Dr. Chia-lin Pao Tao, Professor Emerita, The University of Arizona
Date: April 13, 2023

The lecture is available on our Youtube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax6se_q_8Z4


BODY AS IMAGE: NAVIGATING REPRESENTATIONS THROUGH BUDDHIST EXEGESIS

Dr. Rae Erin Dachille, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies and East Asian Studies, University of Arizona, author of Searching for the Body: A Contemporary Perspective on Tibetan Buddhist Tantra
Date: October 31, 2022


TRUTH IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER: SEDUCTIVE WRITING AND THE BIRTH OF CHAN (ZEN) BUDDHISM IN THE TANG DYNASTY

Dr. Alan Cole, Independent scholar
Date: November 3, 2021


PERFECTION OF WISDOM AND THE CORONATION SACRIFICE: EMPTINESS AS POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Prof. Joseph Walser, Department of Religion, Tufts University
Date: September 29, 2021


THE IMPORTANCE OF IMPORTS: CHAN MASTER YIN YUAN (JP. INGEN) AND THE LEGACY OF HIS IMPORTED CHINESE MATERIAL CULTURE IN JAPAN

Prof. Patricia Graham, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas
Date: April 11, 2019


BEAUTY, VIOLENCE, AND THE BUDDHA’S RELICS: READING THE MATERIAL RHETORIC OF THE GREAT STUPA 

Dr. Caleb Simmons, Department of Religious Studies, University of Arizona
Date: April 4, 2019


THE PRACTICE OF SOLITUDE

Stephen Batchelor, contemporary Buddhist teacher and author of several books, best known for his secular or agnostic approach to Buddhism.
Date: March 9, 2019


SU SHI’S BUDDHIST AND TAOIST BELIEFS AND WORSHIP 蘇軾的佛道信仰和崇拜

Dr. Waifang Xu
Date: Feb. 27, 2019


MATERIAL PRACTICE AND METAMORPHOSIS OF A SIGN: EARLY BUDDHSIT STUPA AND THE ORIGIN OF MAHAYANA BUDDHSIM

Prof. Lars Fogelin, School of Anthropology, University of Arizona
Date: January 30, 2019


BUDDHISM AS A REGIONAL RELIGIOUS SYSTEM

Prof. Karl Ryavec, Professor of World Heritage at the University of California, Merced
Date:  March 15, 2018


SAN FRANCISCO ZEN CENTER AND AMERICAN BUDDHISM

Norman Fischer (Former Co-abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center)
Date: February 16, 2018


THE IDEA, HISTORY, AND INFLUENCE OF MASTER JINGHUI’S LIVING CHAN IN CONTEMPORARY CHINESE BUDDHISM
當代中國佛教的一個側面:淨慧法師及其生活禪的理念、歷史及影響

Prof. Yaling Chu (Associate Professor at Shijiazhuang College, Visiting Scholar at the Center for Buddhist Studies)
Date:  February 9, 2018