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Climate Karma: Buddhist Responses to Climate Change

By Taigen Dan Leighton from Currents Fall 2014 Buddhist spiritual teachings offer rich paradigms for seeing our deep interconnectedness and integration with the natural world. These can serve as encouraging bases for responding to climate change and indeed to all environmental concerns. Numerous Buddhist scriptures express the sacred element found in all reality, understanding nature itself as a vital agent of liberation and healing. In this view, even supposedly nonsentient beings such as trees, flowers, and ponds have the capacity to expound the teaching of reality. The thirteenth century...
CurrentsFall 2014BuddhismTaigen Dan LeightonDogenZenclimate changeJoanna Macy
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Call for Papers, "Buddhist Ritual, Buddhist Culture" Graduate Student Symposium

IBS is pleased to announce a call for papers for the 3rd Annual Graduate Student Symposium at the Institute of Buddhist Studies.  The theme this year is Buddhist Ritual, Buddhist Culture.  Buddhist ritual practices are shaped by their location and are affected by the ritual objects. How does the material world determine the ways that Buddhism is practiced? How do Buddhists use ritual objects? In turn, how does Buddhism shape these objects and transform the physical world? What is the impact, for example, on the physical world as a result of religious pilgrimage or tourism? How do Buddhists...
BuddhismIBS | Institute of Buddhist StudiesConferenceSymposiumAsia
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And the Winner is … Ronald Y. Nakasone for the Sarlo Excellence in Teaching Award

     Ronald Y. Nakasone is a GTU Core Doctoral Faculty Member and Professor of Buddhist Art and Aesthetics at the Center for Art, Religion and Education.   This year the Sarlo Excellence in Teaching Award honors Ronald (Ron) Y. Nakasone as a teacher who embodies the values of interreligious sensitivity and commitment, interdisciplinary approach and content in teaching, sensitivity to ethnic and cultural diversity, and creative classroom pedagogical methods and performance. “I am a teacher, yes, but I see myself as a mentor,” says Nakasone, who...
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StubArts Culture and TechnologyRonald Y. NakasoneBuddhismExpert
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Buddhist Studies: New Avenues

by Tori Pinto, M.A. '11 Growing up Buddhist, I wanted to pursue a career that would allow me to better understand my own religious heritage, as well as contribute academically to the growing body of research on contemporary Japanese religion.  Until recently, Buddhism was studied almost entirely from texts, with almost no attention paid to how these texts were (or weren't) used in the real world.  We are moving into an exciting time for Buddhist Studies as more attention is being given to ritual, popular religion, folk and oral tradition, as well as visual and material culture.  My interest...
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AlumniVictoria PintoBuddhism

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