List of events for the 1999–2000 academic year

Date
Monday November 1st 1999, 5:15PM
Amitabha, the Buddha of the Western Pure Land

Events Archive 1999–2000
 

Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies (SCBS) Lectures

November 1, 1999
Jan Nattier
Indiana University
Arhats in the Pure Land: A New Look at the Sravaka Vehicle in Early Mahayana Sutras

January 28, 2000
Valerie Hansen
Yale University
Tracing the Route of Buddhism Along the Silk Road

April 7, 2000
Neil McMullin
Toronto University
Options in an Age of Degenerating Expectations: Genshin's Ōjōyōshū and Passed-over Court Bureaucrats

April 11, 2000
Paul Harrison
University of Canterbury
Buddhist Visions of Perfection: Interpreting the Earliest Sources of the Sukhavati Tradition
Evans-Wentz Lecture. Co-sponsored by Department of Religious Studies

April 21, 2000
Dale Wright
Occidental College
Impermanence and Historicity in the Buddhist Thought of Enlightenment

 

SCBS Conferences

October 23–24, 1999
Dogen Zen and Its Relevance for Our Time
Co-sponsored by Sotoshu and Eiheiji

October 25–26, 1999
Sōtō Zen
Co-sponsored by Sotoshu

April 29, 2000
The Buddhist Experience: Facets of a Religion
Green Gulch Farm. Co-sponsored by Continuing Studies

 

SCBS Colloquium

Ritual and Iconography in Japanese Buddhism
Co-sponsored by Center for East Asian Studies

February 11, 2000
Jacqueline Stone
Princeton University
Right Thoughts at the Last Moment: Buddhist Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan

March 3, 2000
Allan Grapard
University of California, Santa Barbara
Toward an Iconography of Japanese Landscape

March 13, 2000
Mimi Yiengpruksawan
Yale University
Monkey Magic, or How the Frolicking Animals Scroll Makes Mischief with Art Historians

March 15, 2000
Fabio Rambelli
Williams College
Serpents, Women, and the Ambiguities of Salvation: The Theme of the Naga Girl in Japanese Buddhism

 

New Thoughts on Old Tibet
Co-sponsored by Stanford Friends of Tibet and Bay Area Tibetan Studies Association

January 31, 2000
Matthew Kapstein
University of Chicago
Hagiography and Historical Truth in Twelfth-Century Tibet

February 14, 2000
Donald Lopez
University of Michigan
A Tibetan Critique of Colonialism

March 8, 2000
Janet Gyatso
Amherst College
Juicing the Other: A Comparative Study of the Female Partner in Tibetan Tantra and Medicine

April 28, 2000
Anne Klein
Rice University
Easily Deluded, Easily Freed: Bon Dzogchen in Prose and Poetry

May 22, 2000
Elizabeth Napper
Tibetan Nuns Project
Changing Roles of Nuns in Tibetan Society

 

ARC Lecture Series

Fall 1999

Chinese Healing Arts, Culture, and Politics 
Co-sponsored by SCBS and Center for East Asian Studies

Winter and Spring 2000
Indian Ritual and Iconography
Co-sponsored by SCBS and Society for Art and Cultural Heritage of India

Spring 2000
The Silk Road
Co-sponsored by SCBS and Inner Asia/Silk Road Group

Spring 2000
From Partition to Ayodhya Demolition
Co-sponsored by SCBS and South Asia Initiative

Summer 2000
The Golden Age of Chinese Archeology 
Co-sponsored by SCBS, Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford Staffers, and Asian Staff Forum

 

ARC Conference

October 9–10, 1999

Early Indian Religions: Interactions
Evans-Wentz Conference. Co-sponsored by Department of Religious Studies

 

 

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