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The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies
School of Humanities & Sciences

Japanese Buddhism Lectures

Kuniyohi woodblock print of Benkei Pulling Bell of Miidera up Mt. Hiei

Utagawa Kuniyoshi's woodblock print of Benkei's Heroic Strength: Dragging the Bell of Mii Temple up Mt. Hiei

Lectures on Japanese Buddhism.

Past Events

March
12

Bryan D. Lowe: "A Temple in Every Village? Buddhism’s Spread in Seventh- through Ninth-Century Japan"

Tue March 12th 2024, 5:00pm
Location:
Stanford East Asian Library, Room 224
February
15

Reverend Shinryu Okuma: "The Charm of Singing Hymns (Baikaryu Eisanka) in Zen Buddhism"

Thu February 15th 2024, 5:00pm
Location:
Stanford East Asian Library, Room 224
November
16

Caleb Carter: "Numinous Ascents: Mountaineering, Nature, and Ethnospirituality in Modern Japan"

Thu November 16th 2023, 5:00pm
Location:
Stanford East Asian Library, Room 224
October
14

Paula K. R. Arai: "Blossoming in the Mud: Healing Practices of Japanese Buddhist Women"

Thu October 14th 2021, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Location:
70, 72A-1
October
17

Michael Como: "Roadways, Shrines, and Spirits in Ancient Japan"

Thu October 17th 2019, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location:
Bldg 70, Rm 72A
May
30

Halle O'Neal: "Word Embodied: Entangled Icons in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Art"

Thu May 30th 2019, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Location:
Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall
May
9

Fabio Rambelli: "Music as Dharma: A Buddhist Philosophy of Music in the Sutra of Kinnara King Druma and Its Impact on Japanese Court Music (Gagaku) and Buddhist Liturgical Dance (bugaku hōyō)"

Thu May 9th 2019, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Location:
Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall
May
7

The Zen Poetry of Dōgen and the Wanshi School of the Early Medieval Sōtō Sect

Mon May 7th 2018, 4:15pm - 5:45pm
Location:
East Asia Library, Room 224, 518 Memorial Way
March
1

Barbara Rossetti Ambros: "On Talking Terms with Mihotokesama: Material and Bodily Practices of a Jōdo Shin Healer"

Thu March 1st 2018, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Location:
LEVINTHAL HALL, STANFORD HUMANITIES CENTER
February
22

Heather Blair: "What Counts? Buddhism, Picturebooks, and Japanese Culture"

Thu February 22nd 2018, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Location:
STANFORD HUMANITIES CENTER, LEVINTHAL HALL
September
30

Max Moerman: "Cartography, Cosmology, and the Epistemology of Vision"

Wed September 30th 2015, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location:
STANFORD HUMANITIES CENTER, LEVINTHAL HALL
February
16

Tom Hare: "A Place for the Mind"

Thu February 16th 2012, 12:15pm
Location:
Building 70, Room 72A1