List of events for academic year 2002–2003

Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies (SCBS) Lectures
 

October 18, 2002
Manabe Shunsho 
Hosen Gakuen Gaigaku
Japanese Esoteric Buddhism and Mandala Art

January 13, 2003
Ajarn Sulak Sivaraksa
Sathirakoses–Nagapradeepa Foundation
The Buddhist Response(s) to 9/11
Co-sponsored by SLE

March 4, 2003
Mimi Yiengpruksawan
Yale University
The Eyes of Michinaga in the Light of Buddha: A Japanese Case Study in Art and Illumination
Co-sponsored by SSFJS

April 22, 2003
Hiroki Kikuchi
Historiographical Institute, Tokyo
Revaluating the Genkô-shakusho in Buddhism of the Kamakura Period
Co-sponsored by SSFJS

April 22, 2003
Kojiro Hirose
National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka
Reconsidering Japanese Religious History: The Aum Incident and Blind Culture in Modern Japan
Co-sponsored by SSFJS

May 2, 2003
Rinchen Khando Choegyal and Elizabeth Napper
Tibetan Nuns Project
Women of Spirit: The Tibetan Nuns Project 
Co-sponsored by Tibetan Nuns Project and Dalai Lama Foundation

May 8, 2003
John Strong
Bates College
Buddhist Relics in Comparative Perspective
Evans-Wentz Lecture. Co-sponsored by Department of Religious Studies

 

SCBS Faculty/Graduate Seminar / Hwei Tai Seminars in Buddhist Studies 2002-03

March 3–7, 2003
Mimi Yiengpruksawan
Yale University
Bringing Out Buddha: Iconographies and Iconologies of Buddhist Practice
Co-sponsored by Department of Art, SSFJS, and Department of Religious Studies

 

SCBS Conferences

May 15, 2003
Norman Fisher, Michael McClure, Leslie Scalapino
Practitioners of Reality: A Symposium on Poetry and Buddhism
Co-sponsored by Stanford Humanities Center Workshop on Contemporary Poetry & Politics

 

SCBS/Asian, Religion, and Cultures (ARC) Fellows Colloquium

November 13, 2002
Okajima Hidetaka
Aichi Gakuin Daigaku
Religious Consciousness in Contemporary Japan

November 20, 2002
Richard Payne
Institute of Buddhist Studies
Indian Philosophy of Language as Background to Japanese Tantric Practice

December 4, 2002
David Nivison
Philosophy, Asian Languages, & Relisious Studies

Shao Dongfang
Fo Guang University

Jiang Zudi
Intel, ARC Fellow
Debates on the Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Project

May 1, 2003
Bernard Faure
Columbia University
From Womb to Cosmos: The Gods of Destiny in Asian Religions
Co-sponsored by Department of Religious Studies

 

SCBS/ARC Graduate Colloquium

November 11, 2002

Julius Tsai
Religious Studies, Stanford University
Videos from the Field: Taoist Ritual in Taiwan
Co-sponsored by Department of Religious Studies

February 5, 2003
Noa Gal
Oxford University
Some Remarks on the Theravadin Notion of Causation

February 19, 2003
Tad Cook
Religious Studies, Stanford University
Pivots of Meaning in the Teaching of the Way: Buddha-Taoist Palimpsests c. 700 CE

April 30, 2003
Sarah Fremerman
Religious Studies, Stanford University
Making Wishes Comes True: Japanese Transformations of Nyoirin Kannon

 

ARC Lectures

November 3, 2002

Al Dien
Emeritus, Asian Languages, Stanford University
Life and Arts Along the Silk Road
Co-sponsored by Stanford Lively Arts

November 25, 2002

Lakshmi Kannan
Tamil Author
Reading from her poetry and prose

January 27, 2003

Farhad Azad
Society of Afghan Professionals
Afghanistan: A Cultural Journey

February 10, 2003

Hafez Modirzadeh
San Jose State University
Ancestral Echoes of the Persian Musical Diaspora: World Connections in Iranian Musical History

May 21, 2003
Kazuya Ishii
Fulbright Fellow, Economics
Religious and Economic Views of Mahatma Gandhi

 

ARC Performance

November 2, 2002
Melody of China

Music of the Silk Road
Co-sponsored by Center for East Asian Studies, Center for Russian, European & Eurasian Studies, Stanford Lively Arts, and Inner Asia Sikroad Study Group

 

ARC Film Series

May 30–June 1, 2003
Beyond Bollywood: New Indian Cinema

Co-sponsored by South Asian American Films & Arts Association

 

ARC Tour