Institute of Buddhist Studies Podcast
Monthly Archive: Episodes from March 2009
Episode posted: 26 March 2009
Speaker & format: David Gray, Video
Tagged as: tantra, Vajrayana
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In celebration of the recent publication of As Long As Space Endures: Essays on the Kalacakra Tantra in Honor of H.H. the Dalai Lama, David Gray of Santa Clara University delivered a lecture on this important work and the Kalacakra Tranta.
The Kalacakra Tantra—Kalacakra means “wheel of time”—is a tradition of Buddhist theory and practice whose root text treats a fantastic expanse of knowledge ranging from observations of the cosmos to investigations of meditative states and vital bodily energies.
For more information on As Long As Space Endures, please visit the publisher’s website.
Originally recorded March 20, 2009
© 2009 David Gray
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Episode posted: 03 March 2009
Speaker & format: Judith Simmer-Brown, Video
Tagged as: Buddhism, Dharma, Women
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In the summer of 2008, the Institute of Buddhist Studies, in conjunction with the Tri-State Denver Buddhist Temple, hosted a conference on Women in American Buddhism: Blending Tradition, Community, and Family. Dr. Judith Simmer-Brown of Naropa University delivered the keynote address.
In her Keynote Address, Dr. Simmer-Brown discusses the obstacles and opportunities women have as women in the Dharma.
For more information on this confernece, see the full Denver video page here
Originally recorded August 29, 2008
© 2008 Judith Simmer-Brown
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Episode posted: 03 March 2009
Speaker & format: Carl Bielefeld, Video
Tagged as: Dogen, Zen
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Lecture by Prof. Carl Bielefeld
Zen is famous for its celebration of nature, but there are few premodern texts that explicitly address the Zen view of the natural world. This talk will look at one such text, by the famed thirteenth-century Zen master Dogen, and explore the several ways in which nature and culture are woven together in the Buddhist landscape.
Originally recorded March 11, 2008
© 2008, Carl Bielfeld
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Episode posted: 03 March 2009
Speaker & format: David Matsumoto, Video
Tagged as: 2008 Winter Symposium, Shin Buddhism
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In the final presentation from our 2008 IBS Winter Symposium, Dr. David Matsumoto analyzes the thinking of philosopher Jacques Derrida through Shinshu philosophy — and Shin philosophy through Derrida!
Originally recorded February 28, 2008
© 2008 David Matsumoto
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Episode posted: 03 March 2009
Speaker & format: Mark Blum, Video
Tagged as: 2008 Winter Symposium, Shin Buddhism
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Next in our continuing series of presentation from the 2008 IBS Winter Symposium, Rev. Mark Blum gives a spirited paper on the “problem of evil” from a Buddhist/Western philosophical perspective. His argument is based in part on an interpretation of akunin shoki, or “evil persons” in Shinshu thought.
Originally recorded February 28, 2008
© 2008 Mark Blum
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