Lecture Series - Michaelmas 2011

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We have some interesting topics coming up in the Michaelmas Term OCBS Lecture Series.

All lectures will be held in Balliol College Lecture Room XXIII

Mondays at 5.30 p.m.

click here for a pdf poster of the Lecture Series

10 October

David Geary: "Rebuilding the Navel of the Earth: Buddhist Pilgrimage and  Transnational Religious Networks in BodhGayā"

 

17 October


Dr David Burton: "Emptiness in Mahayana Buddhist Philosophy: Interpretations and Comparisons."

 

 

24 October


Dr Stephen Berkwitz: "Moralism and Colonialism in Sinhala Buddhist Poetry."

 

 

31 October

 

NO LECTURE

 

 

7 November

 

Please click here for details of a special lecture in London on this day as part of Asian Art in London.

 

Programme Change for this date

14 November


Dr Yu-Shuang Yao: "The Essence and Appeal of Engaged Buddhism in Contemporary Taiwan".

 


21 November


Bruno Galasek: "Narrative Transmission in the Suttas of the Majjhima Nikāya"

 


28 November


Prof. John Taber: "Dharmakīrti and the Mīmāṃsakas in  Conflict."

 

The OCBS would like to thank Dr Thet Thet Nwe for her generous donation to assist with the Lecture Series.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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