Tung Lin Kok Yuen 東 蓮 覺 苑
Perspectives on Buddhist Thought and Culture Series

2011-12 Programs

• Academic Conference: Buddhism and the Political Process
  April 13 - 15, 2012 at the University of Toronto Scarborough
  Click here for the Call for Proposals
• Public Lecture: Varieties of Modern Buddhism
  February 8, 2012 | 7:00pm | AA 160
• Public Lecture: Buddhism Under Pol Pot
  November 4, 2011 | 7:00pm | AA 160
• 2011/2012 TLKY Visiting Professor: Dr. Ian Harris (University of Cumbria)

2010-11 Programs

• Public Lecture: Planting Seeds: Growing Buddhist Bodies in a New Landscape
  November 3rd 2010
  Speaker: Prof. William Tuladhar-Douglas (TLKY Visiting Professor; University of Aberdeen).
• Scholar’s Workshop: How is This Place Buddhist? Buddhist Approaches to Constructed Landscapes
  November 5th-6th 2010
  Organized by Prof. William Tuladhar-Douglas (TLKY Visiting Professor; University of Aberdeen).
• Film event: Buddhism, Development, and New Documentary Filmmaking in Burma
  February 18th 2011
  An interactive event including screenings, workshops, lectures and discussions.
• Panel Discussion: Decoding Early Chinese Buddhist Art
  March 2 2011
  Speakers: Prof Li Qingquan (Harvard) and Youn-mi Kim (Yale).

2009-10 Programs

• Public Lecture: Buddhism and the Intellectual
  November 4th 2009
  Speaker: Pankaj Mishra
• Performance and Lecture: Japanese Shakuhachi Flute and Buddhism
  February 23rd 2010
  Artist: Debbie Danbrook
• Public Lecture: Food and Religion in Chinese History
  March 4th 2010
  Speaker: Prof. Joanna Waley-Cohen (NYU)
• The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Conference: Buddhism and Diaspora An International Conference at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC)
  May 14-16 2010
• Keynote/Public Lecture: "Buddhism: The Religion of Dispersion"
  May 14th 2010
  Speaker: Prof. Victor Hori (McGill)
  
• Keynote/Public Lecture: "Diaspora Buddhists Under a Scottish Nationalist Government"
  May 15th 2010
  Speaker: Prof. Will Tuladhar-Douglas
• Visiting Professor: Prof. Will Tuladhar-Douglas
  Fall 2010

2008-9 Programs

• Performance and Lecture: "Silence and Sound in Buddhist Ritual"
  November 4th 2008
  Speaker: Ethnomusicologist Jeffrey Cupchik.
  Artists: Ven. Pencho Rabgey, Rev. Shan Ping and members of the Cham Shan temple.
• Event: Graduate Workshop on the Tibetan Buddhist Concept of the Two Truths
  February 27th 2009
  Speaker: Prof. Jeffrey Hopkins (University of Virginia)
• Public Lecture: "Gender and Sexuality in Tibetan Buddhism"
  February 27th 2009
  Speaker: Prof. Jeffrey Hopkins (University of Virginia)
• Event: Buddhist Documentary Film Festival
  March 13th, 20th, 27th 2009
  Films screened with discussion periods following each: "Buddha’s Lost Children," "The Words of My Perfect Teacher," "Amongst White Clouds."
• Public Lecture: Time and Space: A Buddhist Perspective
  June 19th, 2009
  Speaker: Prof. Y Karunadasa (University of Kelaniya)
• Visiting Professor: Prof. Y Karunadasa (University of Kelaniya)
  May-June 2009
  Taught intensive summer course on Theravada Buddhism.

2007-8 Programs

• The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Conference: Visualizing and Performing Buddhist Worlds An International Conference at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC).
  November 2-4, 2007
  Speakers: 24 Academics from institutions across North America, Europe and Asia.
• Keynote/Public Lecture: "Buddhist Art as Mental Theater: How Was Repentance Pictured in Medieval China?"
  November 2nd 2007
  Speaker: Dr. Eugene Wang (Harvard)
• Keynote/Public Lecture: "Seeing and Believing: Changing Perceptions in Buddhist Visual Culture".
  November 3rd 2007
  Speaker: Dr. Phyllis Granoff (Yale)
• Art Exhibit: "Re-incarnations" (Hosted by Doris McCarthy Gallery). Contemporary Buddhist Art exhibit curated by Zheng Shengtian.
  November 1st-December 16th 2007
• Special Art Display: "The Reservoir," by artist Will Kwan.
  November 2nd-4th 2007