Register for this webinar here. Please join us on Friday October 9, 2020, at 1:00 p.m., Pacific time, for our first 2020 Numata Lecture. The True Teaching? Japanese Buddhists and the Quasi-Sectarian Politics of Public Schooling Secularist legal arrangements place […]
Register for this webinar here. Please join us on Friday October 23, 2020, at 1:00 p.m., Pacific time, for our second 2020 Numata Lecture. Sculpture, Time, and Materiality in a Buddhist Cave Shrine This talk examines the dialogue between architecture […]
Views of the Human Beings in the Doctrines of the Buddhist Praxis 「仏教の修道論に見られる人間観」 Akira Yoshida, Associate Professor, Ryukoku University, Faculty of Economics How did the teaching of early Buddhism view human beings and their Buddhist praxis toward enlightenment in India? […]
Taitetsu Unno Memorial Lecture Featuring Kenneth Kenshin Tanaka Professor Emeritus, Musashino University, Tokyo Click here to register for this event. With generous support from the Unno family and in honor of the Seventh Cycle Memorial for Rev. Dr. Taitetsu Unno […]
IBS is proud to support the The 14th Annual John E. Boswell Lecture at The Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion with Lama Rod Owens: “Love and Rage: The Path to Liberation” In our present day, when a politics […]
Buddhism is both deeply personal and profoundly social. In the neutral tones of academic language, we might say that secular Buddhism, and secularized forms of Buddhist practice such as mindfulness, are simply adaptations to a new society. This picture is […]
Ōjōyōshū- A Collection on the Essentials Concerning Birth and Shinran Shōnins 「往生要集』と親鸞聖人」 Professor Bunei Takada, Ryukoku University, Faculty of Letters: Shin Buddhist Studies Ōjōyōshū - A Collection on the Essentials Concerning Birth is the important scripture in Shin Buddhist studies. […]
How can we engage in Buddhist pastoral care while addressing the pressing issues of our times? Join us Thursday, April 28, from 4-5pm Pacific Time for a panel with Rev. Blayne Higa, Rev. Jo Laurence, and Rev. Trent Thornley as […]
The Institute of Buddhist Studies is pleased to announce this year's Numata Lecture, Receiving and Giving: Buddhist Women Past, Present and Future. It will be held in conjunction with the annual Federation of Buddhist Women Association's (FBWA) meeting on Friday, October […]
The Institute of Buddhist Studies is pleased to announced the Taitetsu Unno Memorial lecture, to be delivered by Dr. Ruben Habito, and held on Friday March 31, from 4-6pm, both in person at the Jodo Shinshu Center and virtually. Dr. […]
