Goodman Lecture Series Archives - Khyentse Foundation

Ann Shaftel

maryann — Thu, 22 May 2025 14:42:07 +0000

This richly illustrated presentation shares 55 years of Buddhist sacred art conservation in museums, monasteries, and their communities.

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Professor Jiang Wu

maryann — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 15:46:00 +0000

This lecture centers on the recent translation of Professor Jiang Wu’s monograph, offering a comprehensive examination of the complex history and reinvention of the Chan Buddhist tradition in 17th-century China.

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Dr. Catherine Dalton

maryann — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 16:27:43 +0000

In this talk, Catherine explores how integrating the study of Buddhism and the translation of its texts with committed experiential training can lead to a more effective and fulfilling approach to both learning and translation.

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Dr. Lata Deokar

maryann — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 14:41:17 +0000

This talk discusses how ancient Buddhist authors approached words and their meanings, how they documented meanings, and whether they did conventional lexicography or did away with it.

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Tung-Ming Chao

maryann — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 13:00:44 +0000

This lecture primarily introduces the key philosophical characteristics and points of two major Buddhist schools during the Sui and Tang dynasties in China: Tiantai Buddhism and the Faxiang (Chinese Yogācāra) School.

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Professor Shenghai Li

maryann — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 19:51:48 +0000

These texts show how the Buddhist intelligentsia in late Indian Buddhism might have reflected on aesthetics and may reveal something about an emerging Buddhist approach.

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Professor Georgios T. Halkias

maryann — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 19:15:11 +0000

This talk will draw from the contents of the last imperial catalogue of Buddhist works in Tibetan translation, the dkar chag ’phang thang ma, to shed light on the formation and contents of the earliest Tibetan canons.

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Dr. Sangseraima Ujeed

maryann — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 16:29:44 +0000

This talk takes a tour through these monasteries and temples to shed light on the interplay between Buddhism and the state, which led to the proliferation of institutionalized Buddhism in Mongolian lands, and on the impact these processes had on the disintegration of a unified Mongol state.

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Albert Welter

maryann — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 16:24:35 +0000

Zen enthralled the world throughout much of the twentieth century, and Zen studies became a major academic discipline in its wake.

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Professor Yao Zhihua

maryann — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 21:29:17 +0000

In this talk I will classify the different conceptions of emptiness in various Buddhist philosophical schools.

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