HCBSS FORUM
2009-10

Exploring the Buddha Fields

a program on the pure lands of Buddhism
co-sponsored by:
HCBSS
and
Religious Studies
with the support of:
the Hwei Tai Fund for Buddhist Studies
and
the TT & WF Chao Fund for Buddhist Studies

Autumn term:

public lecture:
Luis Gómez
University of Michigan, emeritus
“Imagining Paradises: Invoking Blissful Abodes”
Thursday, November 5
5:15 p.m.
Encina Hall West, Room 208
Winter term:
class:
Paul Harrison
RELIGST 251A/351A. Buddhist Visions of Paradise
Mon, Wed 4:15 PM-5:05 PM
260-008

Faculty-student seminar:
Daniel Stevenson
University of Kansas
"Pure Land Buddhism in the Song Dynasty"
Saturday, March 6-Sunday, March 7
attendance by invitation
Spring term:

public lecture:
Yamabe Nobuyoshi
Tokyo Nōgyō Daigaku
"How Was the Pure Land Painted in Dunhuang?
Rethinking the Connection between the Amitāyus Visualization Sūtra
and the Transformation Tableaux"
Thursday, May 6
5:15 p.m.
Encina Hall West, Room 208

colloquium talk:
Fredric Kotas
HCBSS research fellow
"The Hagiography of Japanese Pure Land Buddhism"
Thursday, May 27
12:00 noon
70-72A1