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Tibetan Studies Initiative
a program of
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Art historian Luczanits visits winter term
Tibetan studies will be bolstered winter term by visiting professor Christian Luczanits, a specialist in the Buddhist art of the western Himalaya. Dr. Luczanits will offer courses on the buddha image and the art of Gandhara, as well as public talks on the history and meaning of the Tibetan mandala and on the early history of the famous Alchi monastery in Ladakh.
Dr. Luczanits, a graduate of Vienna, is the author of Buddhist Sculpture in Clay: Early Western Himalayan Art, Late 10th to Early 13th Centuries (2004). |
coming spring 2010
van der Kuijp to give Evans-Wentz lecture |
Distinguished Tibet scholar Leonard van der Kuijp will deliver the XXXVth annual Evans-Wentz Lecture in Oriental Philosophies, Religions, and Ethics. Van der Kuijp, a graduate of Hamburg, is professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies at Harvard, where he chairs the department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies. Best known for his studies of Buddhist epistemology, he is the author of numerous works on Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism.
The lecture, entitled "Buddhist Tantras On their Origins," is scheduled for Thursday, April 15. The Evans-Wentz Lectureship is a program of the department of Religious Studies, administered by HCBSS. |
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Lectures on Tibetan Buddhism 2009-10 |
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elsewhere of interest at Stanford
| HCBSS & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
Reginald Ray
Naropa
"The Path of Desire:
Tantric Saints in Indian Buddhism"
Thursday, November 12
5:15 p.m.
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center
co-sponsored by
Stanford Humanities Center
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Pakchok Rinpoche
"Meditation and Impermanence"
Tuesday, October 6,
2:30 p.m.
Old Union, 3rd Floor, Sanctuary
for more information, email jfouse@stanford.edu
co-sponsored by
the Buddhist Community at Stanford
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Conference
Defining Compassion, Empathy and Altruism
Scientific, Economic, Philosophical
and Contemplative Perspectives
March 3-5, 2009
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AURORA FORUM
AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY
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