Center for Buddhist Studies 2014-2015 Events
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Sunday, July 19, 2015, 10:00am - 6:00pm
Is There Buddhism Without Rebirth?
A Day-Long Public Talk With Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche
(With Chinese Translation)
Wheeler Auditorium, University of California, Berkeley
Co-sponsored by the Center for Buddhist Studies in partnership with Khyentse Foundation and Siddhartha's Intent - Western Door
NOTE: REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Fee: $20
For more information on how to register please visit: http://www.siddharthasintent.org/teachings-2/teaching-schedule-of-dzongs...
PROGRAM
9:00 a.m. Registration
10:00 a.m. Program Begins
1:15-2:30 p.m. Lunch Break
2:30-6:00 p.m. Program Continues
(There will be breaks throughout the day.)
In classrooms and dharma centers alike, westerners encountering Buddhism for the first time must come to terms with the widespread Buddhist belief in rebirth. For many, death represents the ultimate unknown, the ultimate lesson in impermanence. Why then, they ask themselves, should they believe Buddhism's answer to this perplexing question, any more than the answers of other religions that teach eternal salvation in heaven or damnation in hell? Does rebirth fall into the category of "cultural trappings," such as sexist views of women, certain ritual forms, and belief in traditional Indian cosmology — cultural accretions that can be dismissed as extraneous to the "core teachings" of Buddhism?
Many westerners view belief in reincarnation as simply irrelevant to their engagement in Buddhism. Yet for centuries, Buddhist texts have been filled with warnings about heretics who deny the existence of rebirth and the ethical ramifications of such views. How are we to understand such warnings? And if we discard all such "cultural trappings" as irrelevant to what is essential about Buddhism, what is left of a religion that teaches the lack of any independent essence?
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche is a Buddhist scholar and teacher. He is the head of Dzongsar Khamje College in Sichuan, China; Dzongsar Khyentse Chokyi Lodro Institute in Chauntra and Deer Park Institute in Bir, India; and Chokyi Gyatso Institute in Dewathang, Bhutan. Rinpoche has also established centers in Australia, North America and the Far East and is a sought-after teacher of Buddhism all over the world. Khyentse Rinpoche was trained in Buddhist studies from a very young age and is a prominent scholar of the Tibetan Rimey (nonsectarian) tradition, following the heritage of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo and other Rimey masters.
Rinpoche attended Sakya College in India and studied with some of the greatest contemporary masters, particularly HH Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. He is the author of the best sellers What Makes You Not a Buddhist and Not for Happiness. His commentaries on Chandrakirti's Madhyamakavatara: Introduction to the Middle Way and on Arya Maitreya's Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra: Buddha Nature are studied and appreciated by Buddhist students the world over. Rinpoche served as an advisor to filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci on Little Buddhaand wrote and directed the films The Cup, Travelers & Magicians, and Vara: A Blessing.
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Event Contact: Linda Page at linda@siddharthasintent.org
中文連絡人: 張台生 taisonzhang@gmail.com
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柏克萊加州大學佛學研究中心
欽哲基金會
悉達多本願會（美西）
共同主辦
沒有來生的佛教存在嗎
宗薩蔣揚欽哲仁波切
全日公開講座（現場中文翻譯）
2015 年7月19日（週日）
9:00am 註冊
10:00am 講座開始
1:15-2:30pm 午餐休息
2:30-6:00pm 講座
（講座之間會有短休時間）
註冊費用：$20
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沒有來生的佛教存在嗎
當西方人初次接觸到佛教，無論是在課堂上或是在佛教中心，他們都必須面對佛教普遍對「來生」的信仰。對很多人而言，死亡代表了終極的未知，是無常的終極課題。他們會自問：對這個令人迷惑的問題，為何他們要相信佛教所提供的答案，而不去相信其他宗教所教導的天堂永恆的救贖、或地獄的懲罰？來生、轉世是否是屬於所謂「文化裝飾物」，一如對女性的歧視、某些特殊形式的儀式、以及相信傳統印度天文曆法一樣，都是文化衍生出來的東西，都不屬於佛教的「核心教法」，因此是否是多餘的、是可以拋棄的?
許多西方人認為相不相信轉世，基本上跟信仰佛教沒有任何關係。然而，許多世紀以來，佛教經典對於否認來生的謬見，以及這種觀點所會導致的倫理分歧，不斷地提出警告。我們應該如何了解這種警告？如果我們拋棄所有這些跟佛教精要無關的「文化裝飾物」的話，那麼對於教導萬有皆無自性的宗教，還有什麼東西剩下?
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中文連絡人: 張台生 taisonzhang@gmail.com
Thursday, May 7, 2015, 5 pm
Dignāga's Investigation of the Percept: A Tale of Five Commentaries
Jay Garfield, Yale-NUS College, Singapore
3335 Dwinelle Hall
A team of scholars has been editing, studying and translating Dignāga's Ālambanaparīkṣā and its Indian, Tibetan and Chinese commentaries. This talk will focus on the Indian and Tibetan side of that project and on some of the intriguing developments in the understanding of this short text in its extended commentarial tradition.
Jay Garfield is Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Professor of Humanities and Head of Studies in Philosophy at Yale-NUS College, Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore, Recurrent Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Smith College, Professor of Philosophy at Melbourne University and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the Central University of Tibetan Studies.
Garfield's most recent books include Engaging Buddhism: Why it Matters to Philosophy (Oxford 2015), Madhyamaka and Yogācāra: Allies or Rivals? (edited, with Jan Westerhoff, Oxford 2015) and The Moon Points Back: Buddhism, Logic and Analytic Philosophy(edited, with Yasuo Deguchi, Graham Priest and Koji Tanaka Oxford, 2015.
Thursday, April 30, 2015, noon
The Buddha's Golden Footsteps and Burmese National Identity
Don Stadtner, Co-curator, "Buddhist Art of Myanmar," Asia Society, New York
180 Doe Library
Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Buddhist Studies, Center for Southeast Asia Studies
Myanmar's long international isolation has in recent years shown signs of change. Seizing opportunities for engagement, diplomatic overtures have been complemented by cultural initiatives, including a pathbreaking exhibition, "Buddhist Art of Myanmar," at the Asia Society, NY, an exhibition which includes works never before seen in the West.
Don Stadtner, an art historian and co-curator of the exhibition, will present a talk on Buddhist footprints, offering context for an important work in the exhibition, a cloth painting featuring the Buddha's footprint. A key foundation myth for Burmese in Upper Burma centers on the Buddha impressing two footprints in stone, one for a hermit and another for a snake-king. The site of the two footprints, known as the Shwesettaw, near Magwe, is a major pilgrimage destination for common folk and top military leaders alike.
The myth's first extant recording dates to the early sixteenth century, but the myth itself drew upon much earlier Pali commentaries; by contrast, altogether different foundation legends evolved among the Mon by the 15th century in Lower Burma. Sri Lanka and Thailand also developed myths surrounding the Buddha's footprint but revealing differences emerge.
The image is from the exhibition "Buddhist Art of Myanmar," Asia Society, New York.
Friday-Saturday, April 17-18, 2015
When Modernity Hits Hard: Redefining Buddhism in Meiji-Taisho-Early Shōwa Japan
Speakers:
• Mark Blum, UC Berkeley
• Melissa Curley, University of Iowa
• Jessica Main, University of British Columbia
• John Maraldo, Indiana University
• Ama Michihiro, University of Alaska Anchorage
• Yoshinaga Shin'ichi, Maizuru National College of Technology
• George Tanabe, University of HawaiÊ»i
Moderators:
• Jim Heisig, Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture
• Richard Jaffe, Duke University
Jodo Shinshu Center, 2140 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704
Co-sponsors: Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Buddhist Studies, Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai
This conference aims to present new research on the turbulent period between the Meiji Restoration and the onset of full-scale warfare in 1931 when the central government of Japan expressed open hostility toward Buddhism for the first time since its introduction in the 6th century. These papers explore various efforts made in response to powerful pressures to redefine Buddhism's place in a redefined Japanese society.
Event Contact: cjs-events@berkeley.edu, 510‑642‑3415
Thursday, April 9, 2015, 5 pm
2015 Numata Lecture
Contradictions in Textual Narrations and Confusion in Visual Art: Revisiting the Seven Weeks after the Enlightenment of the Buddha
Osmund Bopearachchi, Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies, UC Berkeley
180 Doe Library
The aim of this talk is to discuss an important relief belonging to the Andhra school of art recently discovered in Sri Lanka, adding to the growing body of archaeological evidence indicating brisk exchanges between the Buddhists of Sri Lanka and their co-religionists in the Krishna valley. The relief depicts the events that took place during the first seven weeks immediately following the Sambodhi of the Buddha Gautama. Looking at its style, and the fact that is was carved out of hard limestone, it is quite possible that it was made in Andhra and brought to the island by a pious trader or a monk, or sculpted on the island by an Andhra artist. In spite of its bad state of preservation most of the scenes can be identified, enabling us to answer many questions regarding the apparent contradictions between the literary evidence and visual representation. According to the Mahāvastu and the Lalitavistara, the Buddha spent seven weeks after his enlightenment near the Bodhi tree, yet four weeks according to the Vinaya-Piṭaka. Sri Lankan artists of the later periods, particularly in mural painting, preferred to depict the seven-week account and the sculpture under discussion, dating to the 4th or the 5th century C.E., is the oldest document confirming the popularity of this version on the island. Furthermore, the "seven weeks" motif depicted in this relief follows the chronological order given in the Nidānakathā and Mahābodhi-Vaṁsa of the Pāli tradition.
Osmund Bopearachchi currently serves as the Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and is Emeritus Director of Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS-ENS, Paris). Osmund Bopearachchi holds a B.A. from the University of Kelaniya (Sri Lanka), and B.A. honors, (M.A.), M.Phil., Ph.D. from the Paris I‑Sorbonne University, and a Higher Doctorate (Habilitation) from the Paris IV-Sorbonne University.
As the Trung Lam Visiting Scholar in Central Asian Art and Archaeology at the University of California, Berkeley, Prof. Bopearachchi is working on a new catalogue of Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coins, as well as the publication of a selection of hitherto unknown masterpieces of Buddhist art from Gandhāra and Greater Gandhāra dispersed in museums and private collections in Japan, Europe, Canada and United States of America.
For the last twenty years, he has been the director of the Sri Lanka-French Archaeological Mission, and has recently launched a joint project focusing on Sri Lanka's role in ancient maritime trade in the Indian Ocean. In collaboration with the Department of Archaeology (Sri Lanka), the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (Texas A & M University), the University of California at Berkeley, and the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris (CNRS), he is currently excavating the most ancient shipwreck in the Indian Ocean dating back to the 2nd century B.C.E.
Osmund Bopearachchi has authored ten books, edited six volumes, and published 150 articles in international journals.
Thursday, April 2, 2015, 5 pm
Mulling over Mantras: Views from Story Literature and Philosophers
Phyllis Granoff, Yale University
Stories of Esoteric Buddhist Rituals: Examples from the Shasekishū
Koichi Shinohara, Yale University
180 Doe Library
Mulling over Mantras: Views from Story Literature and Philosophers
In this paper I explore how certain tantric rituals, particularly mantra recitation and mandala rituals, were viewed in stories and philosophical literature. It is well known that in Sanskrit literature a certain group of Tantric practitioners were seen as lascivious drunkards. These practitioners belong to the more extreme end of Tantric practice. But what about the average individuals who might have made use of tantric rituals? What did they think about mantra recitation or mandala rites? I turn to more stories to answer this question. The stories I have chosen suggest that there was a pervasive anxiety about all these ritual technologies. Often humorous and always bordering on the fantastic, the stories tell us that tantric practices made people nervous for a host of reasons. In the second part of the paper I look at a philosopher's concern about these ritual technologies. The century Jain philosopher Amṛtacandra found in mantras a particular challenge to his understanding of the relationship of the soul to the material world. Mulling over mantras, people in medieval India found much to ponder.
Stories of Esoteric Buddhist Rituals: Examples from the Shasekishū
Sources preserved in Chinese translation enable us to trace how Esoteric Buddhist rituals evolved from the recitation of spells to include image worship and finally maṇḍala initiations that eventually incorporated elaborate visualization practices. Anxiety over the ritual's efficacy drove this evolution. Ritual manuals, often secret, and stories about Esoteric masters follow different narrative strategies. But the anxiety revealed in the ritual manuals with their need to demonstrate the efficacy of their rituals shaped the formation of these stories as well. The paper illustrates this pattern with a few examples taken from the Japanese story collection Shasekishū compiled by Mujū (1226–1312).
Saturday, March 21, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
The Sixth International Ryūkoku Symposium on Buddhism and Japanese Culture
Speakers:
• Yukio Kusaka, Professor of the Department of Japanese Literature,
Ryukoku University
• Sei Noro, Lecturer of the Department of Buddhist Studies, Ryukoku
University
• Jijun Yoshida, Adjunct Lecturer of the Department of Buddhist Studies,
Ryukoku University
• Takahiko Kameyama, Former Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Institute of
Buddhist Studies
• "Tatsuo" Florian Saile, Buddhist Studies Graduate Student, UC Berkeley;
Koufukuji Temple Monk
• Mark Blum, Buddhist Studies and Shinjo Ito Distinguished Professor in
Japanese Studies, UC Berkeley
Jodo Shinshu Center, 2140 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704
Sponsored by the Center for Japanese Studies, Institute of Buddhist Studies, Ryukoku University
SCHEDULE
Each talk will last 50 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of Q&A
Morning Session | 9:00AM-12:00PM (will be conducted in Japanese)
1. 真宗の唱道勧化本について
日下幸男氏（龍谷大学文学部教授）
Revealing the Teachings: Popular Sermons (shōdō kange bon 唱道勧化本) in Shin Buddhism
Yukio Kusaka
(Professor of the Department of Japanese Literature, Ryukoku University)
2. 日本華厳における「論義」について
野呂 靖氏（龍谷大学文学部専任講師）
"Doctrinal Debate" (rongi 論義) in Kegon School
Sei Noro
(Lecturer of the Department of Buddhist Studies, Ryukoku University)
3. 初期日本天台における他宗との論争
吉田慈順氏（龍谷大学文学部非常勤講師）
Early Tendai Buddhist Disputes with Other Schools
Jijun Yoshida
(Adjunct Lecturer of the Department of Buddhist Studies, Ryukoku University)
BREAK
Afternoon Session | 2:00-5:00PM (will be conducted in English)
4. 中世真言密教における「信」
亀山隆彦氏（前IBS博士研究員）
The Significance of "Faith" in Medieval Shingon Buddhism
Takahiko Kameyama
(Ex-Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Institute of Buddhist Studies)
5. 日本中世の法相教学の展開―法相論義における「一乗」の解釈を中心として―
The One or the Three, the One and the Three, and/or the One as the Three: Observations on the Evolution of the Relationship between the 'Single Vehicle' and the 'Three Vehicles' in Medieval Japanese Hossō Thought
"Tatsuo" Florian Saile
(Buddhist Studies Graduate Student, UC Berkeley; Koufukuji Temple Monk)
6. 講演: Contextualizing Posthumous Kaimyō Ritual in Japan: Indian and Chinese Precedents for Renaming the Dead.
Mark Blum
(Buddhist Studies and Shinjo Ito Distinguished Professor in Japanese Studies, UC Berkeley)
Event Contact: cjs-events@berkeley.edu, 510‑642‑3415
Wednesday, March 11, 2015, 5-7 pm
Transactional Reality and the Regimes of Truth
Sara McClintock, Department of Religion, Emory University
Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion and the Center for Buddhist Studies
Thursday, February 12, 2015, 5 pm
Creative Buddhas, Gnosticism, and Pure Lands in Tibet: The Great Perfection Seminal Heart Tradition from the Unimpeded Sound Tantra to Longchenpa
2015 Khyentse Lecture
David Germano, Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia
Toll Room, Alumni House
Co-sponsored by the Khyentse Foundation
The Great Perfection (rdzogs chen) is historically one of the most creative developments to emerge in Tibetan Buddhism and Bön religious traditions. In the Buddhist forms, the classical history runs from the ninth to thirteenth centuries and culminates in the fourteen century corpus of Longchenpa. A dramatic transformation occurred from the eleventh century onwards with the emergence of the Seminal Heart (snying thig) form of the Great Perfection with the radically innovative Unimpeded Sound Tantra (sgra thal 'gyur). The external markers of this transformation are clear: contemplative and ritual practices abound in a tradition previously marked by their absence, a plethora of new tantric themes, a complex set of new narrative traditions, and a systematic philosophical discourse ranging over a broad array of topics. These developments were elaborated in a body of visionary revelations in the twelfth century and then systematized in the fourteenth century writings of Longchenpa. This talk will examine the inner dynamic of this transformation and argue that at its heart is a model of divine creation modeled upon the efflorescence of pure lands from a divine Buddha's primordial gnosis (ye shes, jñāna). These innovations, while extensive and intrinsically Tibetan in character, are clearly just as deeply grounded in the minutiae of Indian Buddhist thought, practice, and narrative, and constitute probably the most interesting strand in the larger Tibetan fashioning of a philosophical tantra movement. We will look at nine different contexts — cosmogony through eschatology — in which this model is apparent.
Thursday, January 29, 2015, 5 pm
The Phralak-Phralam, "a Previous Lifetime of the Buddha": the Lao Ramayana at Vat Oub Mong and Vat Kang Tha (Vientiane), and Vat Keng (Vang Vieng)
Alan Potkin, Northern Illinois University
180 Doe Library
Alan Potkin holds a Ph. D. (1989) from U.C. Berkeley's College of Environmental Design. In 1995, he founded the Digital Conservation Facility, Laos (DCFL) which has been affiliated since 2003 with Northern Illinois University, where he is now based. The focus of his work has always been on hypermedia and navigable visualization — especially virtual reality imaging — in ecological and cultural conservation; thence publishing the findings and outcomes as interactive eBooks. His projects in South and Southeast Asia have ranged from evaluating impacts of pharonic dams in the Mekong and Ganges-Brahmaputra basins; to devising aesthetic release regimes for waterfalls in the Sri Lanka tea country being exploited for hydropower; to surveying Theravada Buddhist landscapes, sites, and temple art while archiving waterfront urbanization in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand. The complete and faithful recent replication — by DCFL, in cooperation with the Faculty of Fine Arts, in 2012 — of the demolished Phralak-Phralam (or Rama Jataka) murals at Vat Oub Mong, in Vientiane will be leading topic of this presentation.
Friday, November 14, 2014, 3:00 – 6:30 pm
Buddhist Modernisms
2014 Toshihide Numata Book Award Presentation and Symposium
Jodo Shinshu Center, 2140 Durant Avenue, Berkeley
The Toshihide Numata Book Award in Buddhism is awarded on an annual basis to an outstanding book or books in the area of Buddhist studies. The selection is made by an annually appointed outside committee.
2014 Award Winners:
Erik Braun, Professor of Religious Studies at The University of Oklahoma, for The Birth of Insight: Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw (University of Chicago Press, 2013).
John K. Nelson, Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco, for Experimental Buddhism: Innovation and Activism in Contemporary Japan (University of Hawaii Press, 2013).
Schedule of Events:
3:10 – 3:20: Introduction and Award Presentation
3:20 – 4:50: Keynotes
Erik Braun, University of Oklahoma
Shifting Dharmascapes: Transformations of Buddhist Meditation in Contemporary Burma and the U.S.
John K. Nelson, University of San Francisco
Experimental Buddhisms in Global Contexts and Conflicts
4:50 – 5:15: Coffee/Tea break
5:15 – 7:00: Symposium
Patrick Pranke, University of Louisville
Ledi Sayadaw and the Weikza-lam: The Other Path to Liberation
Richard Jaffe, Duke University
Buddhist Modernism and the Transformation of Lay-Clerical Relations
Alexander von Rospatt, University of California, Berkeley
Nepalese Buddhism and its Abrupt Encounter with Modernity
Followed by a panel discussion with award winners.
Monday, October 27, 2014, 12:00
IEAS Residential Research Fellows Brownbag Series
Power and Compassion: Negotiating Religion and State in Tenth-Century Tibet
Jacob Dalton, East Asian Languages and Cultures
IEAS Conference Room
180 Doe Library
Introduced by Alan Tansman, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley
The government of the Dalai Lamas was widely understood to have followed the Tibetan ideal of "the union of religion and state" (chos srid zung 'brel). This talk looks at an early precursor to this Buddhist political theory in the legal writings of the late-tenth-century Tibetan king, Yeshe Ö. Thanks to the recent discovery of an early biography of this pivotal figure, we may now get a surprisingly nuanced picture of his careful negotiations between Buddhism and the secular. What we find is a complex and highly ambivalent relationship, one whose contours are more clearly discerned in light of certain parallels in the negotiations between church and state in medieval Europe.
Cosponsored by the Center for Buddhist Studies and Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
Free and open to the public • Wheelchair accessible
Thursday, September 25, 2014, 5 pm
The Meditation-Tradition of Interpreting the Maitreya-Works: Taking Yogācāra and Buddha-Nature as a Basis of Mahāmudrā Pith Instructions
Klaus-Dieter Mathes, Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna
180 DOE Library
Based on an analysis of new material from the collected works of the Kadampa school (bKa´ gdams bka´ ´bum), this presentation will show how the Eighth Abbot of sNar thang sKyo ston sMon lam Tshul khrims (1219-1299) endorsed the meditation tradition of the Maitreya works. From a doctrinal point of view he avoids the ontological commitments of the Jo nang pas, however, and comes close to ‘Gos Lo tsā ba gZhon nu dpal’ s (1381-1481) mahāmudrā-interpretation of the Ratnagotra-vibhāga.
Dr. Klaus-Dieter Mathes is the Chair of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna. His current research deals with Tibetan Madhyamaka, Yogācāra and the interpretations of Buddha nature in the 15th and 16th centuries. Before coming to Vienna in February 2010 he worked with Prof. Dr. Harunaga Isaacson in a project supported by the German Research Council (DFG) on the Indian origins of Mahāmudrā and the history of its reception in Tibet.
Thursday, September 11, 2014, 5 pm
A Gesar Bard's Tale
Directed by Donagh Coleman and Lharigtso
Film screening (Tibetan with English subtitles)
370 Dwinelle Hall
"A Gesar Bard's Tale" tells the story of visionary 'Babrun' singer Dawa Drakpa in the aftermath of the Yushu earthquake. This cinematic feature documentary delves deep into the mythical world of Gesar, as well as giving unprecedented access to today's fast-modernizing Tibet, and the earthquake zone of Yushu — which has been totally off-limits to western media.
The film screening will be followed by a discussion with filmmaker Donagh Coleman