Institute of Buddhist Studies
Buddhist studies, chaplaincy education, and ministerial training in Berkeley, California
Graduation & public Numata lecture today!
Info on today's commencement ceremony & public lecture can be found here : http://www.shin-ibs.edu/news-events/?p=560
Vesak : Buddha's birthday
Slideshow: how Buddha's birthday (vesak) is celebrated around the world : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2012/05/05/vesak-how-buddhas-birthda_...
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2012 Graduation Commencement Ceremony : News and Events
2012 Graduation Commencement Ceremony
May 18, 2012 10:00 am to 1:00 pm Help us celebrate our students and our community by attending the commencement ceremony for our 2010 graduates. The ceremony will be held in the Kodo of the Jodo Shinshu Center at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, May 18th. A light reception will follow.
The ceremony’s keynote address will be delivered by Prof. Franz Metcalf, a teacher at the California State University, Los Angeles, and author of numerous books applying Buddhist teachings to our everyday lives, including Just Add Buddha and Buddha in Your Backpack.
Prof. Metcalf’s talk, generously sponsored by the Numata Foundation is titled “Our Buddhadharma, Our Buddhist Dharma.” This address explores our evolving Buddhist dharma in two senses. That is, it tries to begin clarifying dharma in the sense of (a) what the Buddhadharma, as teaching, is; and (b) what our dharma, as duty, is toward that Buddhadharma. While the former is a bottomless pit of circularity into which scholars may sink their careers, and the latter is a deepening chasm of responsibilities into which practitioners may throw their lives, the sinking and the throwing need doing. Treading (and thereby perhaps obliterating) one line between scholarship and practice, this address attempts to trace a path on which scholars and graduates may walk together, down into the darkness.
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Green Tea Conversation - Earth, Tsunami, and Nuclear Crisis in Japan
Earth, Tsunami and Nuclear Crisis in Japan:
How Japanese religious communities
are reaching out to the sufferedJoin in a Green Tea Conversation with Dr. Chizuko Saito
Thursday, April 19, 12:00-1:30 PM
Pacific School of Religion, Mudd 100, 1798 Scenic Avenue, BerkeleyDr. Chizuko Saito is an associate professor at Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts in Kyoto. She received her Ph.D. in Religion and Psychology from the Graduate Theological Union in 2002. Her dissertation focus was bereavement and meaning reconstruction among senior Japanese immigrant women in the Bay Area.
She received her M.A. from Andover Newton Theological School, and her M.Th. and B.Th. from Doshisha University School of Theology in Kyoto.
Dr. Chizuko has previously served as an associate professor and chaplain at Niijima Gakuen Junior College in Gunma, Japan.
Bring your lunch. Tea will be provided. Free and open to the public.
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Today's the day! If you're in Berkeley, come to our grad student symposium at 1 o'clock!
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New Book: Arts of Contemplative Care
A new book is being published by Wisdom Publications, titled The Arts of Contemplative Care, which explores the budding field of Buddhist contemplative care.
Contemplative care, of course, is of particular importance to our community, our chaplaincy and ministerial students. And this forthcoming title features an essay by the Institute of Buddhist Studies' faculty member Daijaku Judith Kinst.
Rev. Daijaku Kinst, ordained in the Soto Zen tradition and a dharma successor in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, teaches graduate courses in Buddhist Studies, Contemplative Psychology, and Spiritual Direction and has an ongoing commitment to interfaith dialogue. She is the Institute's director for chaplaincy training.
Check out the book's Facebook page for updates on its release.
Spring Events at the Institute of Buddhist Studies
The Institute of Buddhist Studies is pleased to announce the following spring events. All events are free and open to the public and will be held at:
the Institute of Buddhist Studies, 2140 Durant Ave., Berkeley, CA 94704.
Graduate Student Symposium:
Second Annual Graduate Student symposium: “Globalization, Tourism, Modernization, and the Religions of Asia.”
The symposium will highlight work by graduate students, who will present a range of topics within the field of Religious Studies. Considerations will include religious tourism, cultural transformation of texts and practices, and modern and contemporary activities of Buddhists.
The event will take place on Friday March 16th from 1:00pm – 5:30pm, with a light reception to follow.
If you're on Facebook, RSVP on our event page. (The event is free and open to the public. No RSVP required!)
Spring 2012 Ryūkoku Lecture Series
True Teaching, Practice and Realization: its aim and the formation of Shinran's Pure Land Teaching
Presented by Professor Hisashi Tonouchi, Ryūkoku University
All lectures will be held at 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Thursday March 8: Features and Critiques of Hōnen's Pure Land Teaching
Thursday March 15: Birth through the nembutsu: Shinran's explications of practice and shinjin
Thursday March 22: The Jōgen Suppression and Shinran's admonition against self-power
Spring 2012 Numata Lecture:
Our spring 2012 Numata Lecture will feature noted Buddhist teacher and author, Franz Metcalf.
The lecture will be held on Friday April 27 at 3 p.m., and is also free and open to the publuc.
More details will be posted to our website here.
And check our News and Events blog for upcoming details regarding our 2012 commencent ceremony to honor our graduates.
Joan Halifax: Compassion and the true meaning of empathy
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Spring Events at the Institute
The Institute of Buddhist Studies is pleased to announce the following spring events.
Graduate Student Symposium:
Second Annual Graduate Student symposium: “Globalization, Tourism, Modernization, and the Religions of Asia.”
The symposium will highlight work by graduate students, who will present a range of topics within the field of Religious Studies. Considerations will include religious tourism, cultural transformation of texts and practices, and modern and contemporary activities of Buddhists.
The event will take place 1:00pm – 5:30pm, Friday March 16th at the Institute of Buddhist Studies, with a light reception to follow.
If you're on Facebook, RSVP on our event page. (The event is free and open to the public. No RSVP required!)
Spring 2012 Numata Lecture:
Our spring 2012 Numata Lecture will feature noted Buddhist teacher and author, Franz Metcalf.
The lecture will be held on Friday April 27 at 3 p.m., and is also free and open to the publuc.
More details will be posted to our website here.
And check our News and Events blog for upcoming details regarding our 2012 commencent ceremony to honor our graduates.
