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1. SUMMER PROGRAM> Woodenfish HBMLP July 1st to 28th 2016 - Your Summer in a Chinese Buddhist Monastery
2. WORKSHOP> Nirvana Sutra Workshop
3. CALL FOR INTEREST> Material for Indica et Buddhica Scholiast

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SUMMER PROGRAM> Woodenfish HBMLP July 1st to 28th 2016 - Your Summer in a Chinese Buddhist Monastery

by Guttorm Norberg Gundersen

Dear friends and colleagues,

On behalf of Dr. Venerable Yifa it is my great pleasure to announce the 2016 Woodenfish Humanistic Buddhist Monastic Life Program (HBMLP). Established in 2002, Woodenfish has provided more that 1000 students from all over the world with a unique opportunity to experience Chinese Buddhism first hand - no Chinese language skill needed!

Now we ask for your help with spreading the word. We would greatly appreciate if you could help up spread the words to your students in class. It is a great program for students that are particularily interested in Asia and Asian religions. Perhaps it can be combined with a special project paper? If you have an office on campus that informs the students about activities for the summer, we would love to get in touch with them too. 

You can download the poster here: http://tinyurl.com/o2evq6u

Thank you,

Guttorm Norberg Gundersen, Woodenfish HBMLP 2016 Coordinator

Woodenfish Project

Humanistic Buddhist Monastic Life Program

July 1st to 28th, 2016

Taiyuan and Mt. Wutai, Shanxi Province, China

·         Join this life-changing journey through Chinese Buddhism

·         Spend your summer exploring yourself and the world around you in a Buddhist monastery in China

·         Meditation, Taiji, Dharma talks, academic lectures, discussions, tea ceremony, calligraphy and much more

·         Visit the sacred Mt. Wutai, home of Bodhisattva Manjusri, and the largest nunnery in China, Pushou Monastery

·         Room and board is covered by scholarchip. We only charge a uniform-fee of $250 for the whole month!

·         Earn college credits that transfer to your institution

·         Rolling Application Deadline: April 30, 2015. Apply today!

The Woodenfish Foundation has since 2002 provided 1,000+ international participants with unique and authentic first-hand experiences of Chinese Buddhist Monasticism. This summer you can take part in the adventure!

Read more on our website: www.woodenfish.org/hbmlp2016

Woodenfish HBMLP provides international participants interested in the study of Buddhism and Chinese culture first-hand experience with the lifestyle, training, and rituals of contemporary Chinese Buddhist monasticism. The participants cultivates their mind through meditation, monastic discipline and mindfulness in all activities. The program includes academic lectures and discussions on Buddhist history and doctrine giving the students the appropriate framework for the experience. Workshops and performances in traditional arts like tea ceremony, calligraphy, kongfu and taiji will also be featured. The program is concluded with a week-long silent meditation retreat.

All activities will be conducted in English, or English translation will be provided. No prior knowledge of Chinese language is required.

We accept applications from people regardless of religious background, race and country of origin. Applicants from diverse academic disciplines and religious backgrounds are encouraged to apply. While a majority of participants are working toward an undergraduate or graduate degree, we encourage anyone with an interest in Buddhism to apply. Most of our participants are between 18 and 35 years of age.

Rolling Application Deadline: April 30, 2015

Applications will be reviewed on a ROLLING BASIS, and decisions will be made within two to three weeks after the submission of one’s application. Selection is very competitive, and applicants are highly encouraged to apply early to have a better chance of admission.

For more information about the program and application procedures, please see woodenfish.org/hbmlp2016

Contact us at hbmlp@woodenfish.org

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/419952574881258/

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WORKSHOP> Nirvana Sutra Workshop

by Mark Blum

Nirvana Sutra Workshop

Announcement published by Mark Blum on Monday, January 4, 2016

Type: 

Workshop

Date: 

January 7, 2016 to January 8, 2016

Location: 

California, United States

Subject Fields: 

Chinese History / Studies, Japanese History / Studies, Korean History / Studies, Religious Studies and Theology, South Asian History / Studies

The Centers for Japanese Studies and Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and the Program in Indian Philosophy and Buddhist Studies at the University of Tokyo are co-sponsoring a workshop on the formation and influence of the Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra, also known as the Mahāparinirvāṇ Mahāasūtra and the Nirvāṇa Sūtra, in India, China, Korea, and Japan. This will take place on Jan. 7-8, 2016, on the U.C. Berkeley campus at the Geballe Room of the Townsend Center, and is free and open to the public. The aim of the workshop is to produce a volume for undergraduate teaching centering on the issues raised by the sutra, such as but not limited to tathāgatagarbha, vinaya, heresy, and the linguistic ambiguity of such terms as "buddha-nature."
THURSDAY
9:30-9:45AM    Mark Blum:                  Welcome Remarks, book proposal idea
9:45-10:00       Shimoda Masahiro:      Welcome Remarks, introductory comments on the workshop; introduce Robert Grochowski
10:00-10:30     Shinsō Itō read by Robert Grochowski:  Shinnyo-en and the Nirvāṇa Sūtra
10:30-10:45                 break
10:45-11:30     Suzuki Takayasu:         “The Influence of the MMPNS in India”
11:30-12:00      Michael Radich read by Paul Harrison: “The Mahāparinirvāṇa-mahāsūtra as ‘Our First’ Source for Tathāgatagarbha, and Implications for the Inception of the Doctrine”
12:15-1:15                   Lunch
1:15-2:00         Habata Hiromi:             “The Conflict with the opponent traced in the Mahāparinirvāṇa-mahāsūtra: sautrāntika and icchantika.”
2:00-2:40         Chis Jones:                   “The Tathāgatagarbha as 'True Self' in the Mahāparinirvāṇa-mahāsūtra, and its place in the wider Mahāyāna”
2:40-3:15         Shimoda, Harrison, Sasaki, Habata:     Discussion on contextualizing the MMPNS within Indian Buddhism
3:15-3:30                     break
3:30-4:15         Kanno Hiroshi:  “Some Perspectives on the Mahāyana Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra in China during the Northern/Southern and Sui Dynasties: Focusing on the System of Doctrinal Classifications”
4:15-5:00         Nishimoto Teruma:      “Sanjie-jiao: A Heresy Created by the Nirvana Sutra”

FRIDAY
9:30-10:15AM  Shimoda Masahiro:      “Wŏnhyo’s commentary on the Nirvana-sutra (Tae yŏlban-gyŏng chong’yo)”
10:15-10:45     Paul Groner:     “The Precepts and Their Interpretation in the Nirvana-sutra”
10:45-11:00                 break
11:00-11:45     Jacqueline Stone:          “Curing the Incurable:  Nichiren’s Use of the Nirvana Sutra”
11:45-12:30     Mark Blum:      “Does Tathāgatagarbha Define Other-Power? The Impact of the Nirvana Sutra upon the Formation of Pure Land Buddhism”
12:45-1:45                   Lunch
1:45-2:45         Nishimoto, Kanno, Groner, Stone, Blum, Wendi Adamek:     Discussion on contextualizing the MMPNS within East Asian Buddhism
2:30-3:00         Nagasaki Kiyonori:      “The SAT database and the future of digital humanities.”
3:00-3:15                     break
3:15-4:00         Mark Blum, Masahiro Shimoda:          Discussion of book proposal: Readings of the Nirvana Sutra

Contact Email: 

mblum@berkeley.edu

URL: 

http://cjs090.wix.com/2016sutraworkshop

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CALL FOR INTEREST> Material for Indica et Buddhica Scholiast

by Richard Mahoney

Dear colleagues,

Scholiast is a bibliographic resource for Buddhist studies

researchers. It provides data on books and journals and currently

holds 189,317 records:

 Scholiast update - Jan 2016

 http://indica-et-buddhica.org/scholia-scholiast/updates/scholiast-update-january-2016

If you edit a journal containing Buddhist studies material and would

like to see your publication included could you please get in touch:

  r.mahoney@indica-et-buddhica.org

Kind regards,

 Richard

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M: +64-21-064-0216  T: +64-3-312-1699

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