Symposium Lecture Archive

A lecture by Paul Harrison.

Join us for a workshop exploring the art and complexity of translating the poetry of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, a pivotal figure in 19th-century Tibetan Buddhism.

Join us for a lecture over Zoom with Dr. Jeffery Long.

Join us for a talk and discussion led by Dr. Heinz-Dieter Meyer, with Dean Martin Verhoeven as the discussant.

Join us for a lecture with Doug Hansen.

Join us for a public lecture from Dr. Charles Egan, Professor of Chinese at San Francisco State University.

Robert M. Gimello studies E. Asian Buddhism, especially its medieval and early modern periods and its roots in Indian Mahāyāna. He focuses on Huáyán (The “Flower-Ornament” Tradition), Chán (Zen), and Mìjiāo (Esoterism), especially the relationships between doctrine and contemplative and liturgical practice.

Dr. Diane Perpich of Clemson University will give a lecture on Merleau-Ponty and his feminist readers addressing the question, what if we could not conceive selfhood and subjectivity without an account of the body?

Dr. Antonio Zirión Quijano of UNAM, Morelia will speak on the ethical character of Husserlian phenomenology.

Yan Hui, the disciple who appears more often in the Zhuangzi than in the Lunyu, occupies a unique space in the history of Chinese thought. This talk first looks at portrayals of Yan Hui in the pre-Qin and early imperial sources in which Yan Hui is central to certain themes across this literature. Then it turns to late imperial "Confucian," "Daoist," and "Buddhist" sources where the exegesis of Yan Hui stories about "enjoying one's abode" became sites for boundary-crossing in Song and Ming exegesis.

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