JONATHAN SILK (Leiden University) LECTURE: Dreaming Dharma’s Decline: The Ten Dreams of King Krikin and Other Prophetic Dream Texts THURSDAY, October 19, 2017, 4-6pm, UTSG, JHB 100 READING GROUP: Prophetic Dream Texts. Sources and Translations FRIDAY, October 20, 2017, 4-6pm, McMaster, University Hall 122 PHILLIP BLOOM (Chinese Garden at the Huntington Library, Art Collection, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino) READING GROUP: Ghosts in the Mists: The Visual and the Visualized in Chinese Buddhist Art, ca. 1178. THURSDAY, November 2, 2017, 4-6 pm, McMaster, University Hall 122 LECTURE: Born in the Latter Days of the Dharma: Ecology and Eternity in a Song-Dynasty Buddhist Monastery FRIDAY, November 3, 2017, 3-5 pm, UTM, IB 345 GUDRUN BÜHNEMANN (University of Wisconsin Madison) READING GROUP: Excerpts from Śākyamuni’s Return Journey to Lumbinī (lumbinīyātrā): A Study of a Popular Theme in Newar Buddhist Art and Literature THURSDAY, November 30, 2017, 3-5 pm, UTSG, JHB 319 LECTURE: On the Modern Practice of Maṇḍala Meditation FRIDAY, December 1, 2017, 4-6 pm, McMaster, University Hall 122 JULIA CASSANITI (Washington State University) READING GROUP: Hot Hearts, Cold Hearts: Afect and Mental Health in Northern Thai Approaches to Change THURSDAY, January 25, 2018, 4-6 pm, McMaster, University Hall 122 LECTURE: Out of Time: Mindfulness and Temporality in Theravāda Asia FRIDAY, January 26, 2018, 2018, 3-5 pm, UTSG, JHB 317 MEGAN BRYSON (University of Tennessee Knoxville) READING GROUP: Inviting the Yakṣa of Great Peace: Text and Image in the Dali-Kingdom THURSDAY, March 8, 2018, 3-5 pm, UTSG, JHB 317 LECTURE: Imagined Networks: Esoteric Buddhism in the Dali Kingdom (937-1253) FRIDAY, March 9, 2018, 4-6 pm, McMaster, University Hall 122 BRANDON DOTSON (Georgetown University) LECTURE: Buddhism and Tibetan Imperial Law in Dunhuang THURSDAY, April 5, 2018, 4-6 pm, McMaster, University Hall 122 READING GROUP: The Horse and the Grass-Grazing Man: Domestication, Food, and Alterity in Early Tibetan Cosmologies of the Land of the Dead FRIDAY, April 6, 2018, 3-5 pm, UTSG, JHB 317 For reading group materials and questions please contact [email protected] University of Toronto / McMaster University NUMATA BUDDHIST STUDIES PROGRAM 2016 – 17 LEWIS LANCASTER (University of California KANOˉ KAZUO (Koyasan University) Berkeley / University of the West) LECTURE: Papers and Leaves — Legacy of Indian LECTURE: Maritime Buddhism: The Spread of Buddhism Buddhists in Tibet and Tibetan Translators in India from India to China THURSDAY, March 2, 2017, 3 – 5 pm, THURSDAY, October 13, 2016, 3 – 5 pm, UTSG, JHB 317 UTSG, JHB 317 READING GROUP: Two Sanskrit Formulas of Buddha-nature — Reconsidering the Background ASUKA SANGO (Carleton College) of the Term tathaˉgatagarbha LECTURE: The Love of Fame and the Desire for FRIDAY, March 3, 2017, 4 – 6 pm, Enlightenment: Life of the Scholar Monk in Medieval Japan McMaster, University Hall 122 THURSDAY, December 1, 2016, 3 – 5 pm, UTSG, JHB 317 KAMMIE TAKAHASHI (Muhlenberg College) READING GROUP: The Emperor Dreamed of Golden Light READING GROUP: Birds and Fishes: View and Method Lectures in Heian Japan (794 – 1185) in the Mahaˉyoga Texts of Buddhaguhya FRIDAY, December 2, 2016, 4 – 6 pm, THURSDAY, March 23, 2017, 3 – 5 pm, McMaster, University Hall 122 UTSG, JHB 317 LECTURE: Pronouncing Praxis and Doing Doxography: ERIK BRAUN (University of Virginia) Exploring the Functions of Genre in Early Tibetan Tantra READING GROUP: The Birth of Insight. Excerpts FRIDAY, March 24, 2017, 4 – 6 pm, McMaster, University Hall 122 THURSDAY, January 26, 2017, 3 – 5 pm, UTSG, JHB 317 ERICK WHITE (Cornell University) LECTURE: Crossing Meditative Imaginaries: Insight Practice and Mindfulness in Burma and America LECTURE: Spirit Possession as Buddhist Vocation: Debates over Piety, Devotion and Charisma FRIDAY, January 27, 2017, 4 – 6 pm, in Modern Thai Buddhism McMaster, University Hall 122 THURSDAY, March 30, 2017, 3 – 5 pm, UTSG, JHB 317 READING GROUP: Contemporary Buddhism and Magic FRIDAY, March 31, 2017, 4 – 6 pm, McMaster, University Hall 122 For reading group materials and questions please contact [email protected] University of Toronto/McMaster University NUMATA BUDDHIST STUDIES PROGRAM 2015 –16 STUART YOUNG (Bucknell University) Lecture: Constructing Indian Identity in Medieval China Thursday, December 3, 2015, 2-4pm, UofT, JHB 214 Reading Group: “Bald-headed Destroyers of Living Things: Vinaya Jurisprudence, Mahayana Compassion, and Lay-Monastic Distinctions in Medieval China” Friday, December 4, 2015, 4-6pm, McMaster University, University Hall 122 COSTANTINO MORETTI (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Sorbonne) Reading Group: “Preta Categories in a 6th Century Buddhist Summa Theologica” Thursday, February 11, 2016, 3-5pm, UofT, JHB 214 Lecture: Preventive Morality and “Last Resort” Buddhist Devotion in Chinese Medieval Apocrypha Friday, February 12, 2016, 4-6pm, McMaster University, University Hall 122 JOSÉ CABEZÓN (University of California, Santa Barbara) Reading Group: “Reading a Buddhist Sūtra: The Ārya Dharmaskandha Mahāyāna Sūtra“ Thursday, February 25, 2016, 3-5pm, UofT, JHB 214 Lecture: An Indigenous Buddhist Theory of Gender Friday, February 26, 2016, 4-6pm, McMaster University, University Hall 122 JOWITA KRAMER (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) Lecture: Sthiramati as Author and Commentator Thursday, March 17, 2016, 3-5pm, UofT, JHB 214 Reading Group: “Innovation and the Role of Intertextuality in the Pañcaskandhaka and Related Yogācāra Works” Friday, March 18, 2016, 4-6pm, McMaster University, University Hall 122 LEVI MCLAUGHLIN (North Carolina State University) Lecture: Soka Gakkai: Buddhism and Romantic Heroism in Modern Japan Thursday, April 7, 2016, 3-5pm, UofT, JHB 214 Reading Group: “A Brief History of Soka Gakkai: From Intellectual Collective to Mass Movement“ Friday, April 8, 2016, 4-6pm, McMaster University, University Hall 122 For reading group materials and questions please contact [email protected] LUCIA DOLCE (School of Oriental and African Studies) LECTURE: Of Monks and Embryos: Tantric Practices and the Ritualization of Buddhist Embryology in Mediaeval Japan THURSDAY, September 18, 2014, 3-5 pm, UTSG, JHB 317 READING GROUP: Taimitsu Rituals in Medieval Japan: Sectarian Competition and the Dynamics of Tantric Performance FRIDAY, September 19, 2014, 4-6 pm, McMaster, University Hall 122 ANNABELLA PITKIN (Barnard College, Columbia University) READING GROUP: The ‘Age of Faith’ and the ‘Age of Knowledge’: Secularism, Devotion and Modern Tibetan Miracle Narratives THURSDAY, November 6, 2014, 3-5 pm, UTSG, JHB 317 LECTURE: Miracles, Magic and Modernity: Modes of Tibetan Buddhist Power and their Interpretations FRIDAY, November 7, 2014, 4-6 pm, McMaster, University Hall 122 CARL YAMAMOTO (Towson University) READING GROUP: Mastering Space, Time, Symbol: Lama Zhang and the Buddhist Hegemonization of Central Tibet THURSDAY, January 15, 2015, 3-5 pm, UTSG, JHB 317 LECTURE: Orphan Texts: Making Sense of Genre Anomalies in Lama Zhang FRIDAY, January 16, 2015, 4-6 pm, McMaster, University Hall 122 SHI HUIFENG (Fo Guang University) READING GROUP: Literary Parallelism. Connecting Criticism and Hermeneutics in an Early Mahāyāna Sūtra THURSDAY, January 22, 2015, 3-5 pm, UTSG, JHB 317 LECTURE: Chiasmus in Buddhist Literature: Theory and Case Studies FRIDAY, January 23, 2015, 4-6 pm, McMaster, University Hall 122 VINCENT TOURNIER (School of Oriental and African Studies) LECTURE: Self-ordination in an Indian Monastic Code THURSDAY, February 12, 2015, 3-5 pm, UTSG, JHB 317 READING GROUP: The Mahāvastu and the Vinayapiṭaka of the Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottaravādin FRIDAY, February 13, 2015, 4-6 pm, McMaster, University Hall 122 LORI MEEKS (University of Southern California Dornsife) LECTURE: A ‘Wondrous Gift’ For Women?: The Blood Bowl Sutra in Buddhist Commentaries from Early Modern Japan THURSDAY, March 5, 2015, 2:30-4:30 pm, UTM, Faculty Club, DV3140 READING GROUP: Changing Views of Nunhood in Kamakura-Period Japan: The Case of Kenreimon’in FRIDAY, March 6, 2015, 4-6 pm, McMaster, University Hall 122 DOMINIC STEAVU (University of California Santa Barbara) LECTURE: Material Culture and Technology in East Asian Esoteric Buddhism THURSDAY, March 12, 2015, 2:30-4:30 pm, UTM, Faculty Club, DV3140 READING GROUP: Buddhist Medicine and the Affairs of the Heart FRIDAY, March 13, 2015, 4-6 pm, McMaster, University Hall 122 For reading group materials and questions please contact [email protected] University of Toronto / McMaster University NUMATA BUDDHIST STUDIES PROGRAM 2013-14 JUSTIN McDANIEL (University of Pennsylvania) READING GROUP (CO-SPONSORED BY THE ASIAN INSTITUTE’S CENTRE FOR SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES): The Bird in the Corner of the Picture. Some Problems with the Use of Buddhist Texts to Study the Buddhist Ornamental Art of Thailand THURSDAY, September 19, 2013, 3-5 pm, UTSG, JHB 317 LECTURE: Architects of Buddhist Leisure FRIDAY, September 20, 2013, 4-6 pm, McMaster, University Hall 122 RUPERT GETHIN (Bristol University) READING GROUP: The Good, the Bad and the Undetermined: Reflections on the Theravada, Sarvastivada, and Yogacara Listing of Dharmas THURSDAY, October 31, 2013, 4-6 pm, McMaster, University Hall 122 LECTURE: The Quest for the Historical Buddha and the Path to Enlightenment FRIDAY, November 1, 2013, 3-5 pm, UTSG, JHB 317 ALEXANDER VON ROSPATT (University of California Berkeley) READING GROUP: The Sacred Origins of the Svayambhucaitya and the Nepal Valley. Foreign Speculation