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Shinnyo-en Visiting Professor Lectures

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2019 Shinnyo Lantern Floating Hawaii Ceremony. Photo credit: Shinnyo-en Foundation

Lectures by Shinnyo-en Visiting Professors.

Past Events

April
18

Michael Radich: “The Mahāparinirvāṇa-mahāsūtra in the Religion of Sixth-Century China, as Glimpsed through 'Sengchou's' Cave at Xiaonanhai”

Thu April 18th 2019, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Location:
Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall
May
4

Tim H. Barrett: "A Possible Buddhist Influence on Chinese Political Thought"

Fri May 4th 2018, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location:
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center
March
16

Jens-Uwe Hartmann: "Monks and Merchants: How to spread Buddhism"

Thu March 16th 2017, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location:
Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall
May
12

Paul Groner: "What Did It Mean to Be Ordained in Medieval Japanese Tendai?"

Thu May 12th 2016, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location:
Hartley Conference Center, Mitchell Earth Science Building
May
28

Peter N. Gregory: "Zongmi's Strategy for Reconciling Meditative Practice and Textual Study"

Thu May 28th 2015, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center
February
27

Funayama Toru: "'Thusness' (zhenru): A Case of the Sinicized Interpretation of Buddhist Terms"

Thu February 27th 2014, 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Location:
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center
March
3

Luis Gómez: "Spirituality and Mental Health: Traditional and Contemporary Buddhist Views"

Sun March 3rd 2013, 1:00pm
Location:
Main Worship Hall
Shinnyo-en USA Head Temple
3910 Bret Hart Drive
Redwood City, CA 94061
May
16

Jinhua Chen: "When and How the Marginal Became Central: Borderland Complex in East Asian Buddhism"

Wed May 16th 2012, 7:30pm
Location:
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center
April
15

T. Griffith Foulk: "Nirvana"

Fri April 15th 2011, 4:30pm
Location:
Worship Hall Shinnyo-en USA Head Temple
3910 Bret Harte Drive, Redwood City
May
20

Robert Gimello: “Visions of Otherworldly Splendor: The Aesthetic of zhuāngyán 莊嚴 and Buddhist Views of the Anagogical Value of Sumptuous Art”

Thu May 20th 2010, 5:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall Room 113
April
22

John McRae: "Critiquing The Critique of Buddhist 'Enlightenment Experience' "

Wed April 22nd 2009, 7:30pm
Location:
Building 260
Piggy Hall, Room 113
Stanford University