Current Schedule

Upcoming Seminars

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The Fall 2009 Schedule will be posted here shortly

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This list will be periodically updated to reflect new speakers, meeting times, and dates.

Thanks to funding from Columbia University Seminars, all lectures are free and open to the public. Meetings are held in Rm. 101 in the Department of Religion at Columbia University (located at 80 Claremont Avenue).

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Past Seminars

April 30, 2009
Fredrick M. Smith
University of Iowa
"Indian Buddhist Sociolinguistics and Buddhist Notions of Possession: A Fragment from the Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa"

April 16, 2009
Jongmyung Kim
Academy of Korean Studies; visiting scholar at UCLA
"Buddhist World Heritage Properties in Korea: Thoughts and Significance"

April 9, 2009
Imre Hamar
Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest); visiting Fulbright scholar at Stanford
"The Interpretation of Yogacara Philosophy in Huayan Buddhism"

April 2, 2009
John McRae
Komazawa University
"Rethinking the Rhetoric of Meditative Experience in Chinese Buddhism"

Feb. 19, 2009
Paul Copp
University of Chicago
"Amulets of the Wish-Fulfilling Spell and Their Traditions"

Oct. 16, 2008
Bhikku Vipasama
The Original Buddhism Meditation Society
"The Law of Dependent Origination and the Buddhist View of Life and Death"

Oct. 9, 2008
Oliver Freiberger
University of Texas at Austin
"Controversies on Asceticism in Early Buddhism"

Oct. 2, 2008
George Clonos
Yale University
"Negotiating a Rocky Road: Mount Omine Shugendo and the Okugake Route"

May 1, 2008
Pochi Huang
National Cheng-Chi University, Taiwan
"The Destiny of Theracada Buddhism in Sri Lanka and Burma"

April 3, 2008
Mark Blum
SUNY Albany
"Environmentalism, Buddhism, and Transcendentalism"

Feb. 28, 2008
Charles Hallisey
Harvard Divinity School
"The 'Golden Rule' and Moral Formation in South Asian Buddhism"

Jan. 31, 2008
Marcus Bingenheimer
Chung-hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies, Dharma Drum Mountain, Taiwan
"Concerning Buddhist Modernism: Historiography, Technology and Environmentalism"

Dec. 13, 2007
David Dilworth
SUNY Stonybrook
"The Yogacara and Hua-yen Infrastructure of Dogen's Shobogenzo"

Nov. 15, 2007
Yu Xin
Fudan University, China
"From Turfan to Nara: Figurines Discovered Along the Silk Road"