On Thursday, December 5 there will be a meeting of the LRCCS Interdisciplinary Workshop featuring a paper by Hughes Scholar Lang Chen entitled “Competition or Complementation: Youxi Chuandeng’s Construction of Tiantai Identity and Tiantai-Chan Relation,” with ALC Professor Benjamin Brose as discussant. The workshop will take place from 4-5:30pm in Room 447 in Weiser Hall. More information can be found on the event listing.

James Shaheen, editor at Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, recently interviewed Professors Donald Lopez and Jacqueline Stone about their newly published book, Two Buddhas Seated Side by Side: A Guide to the Lotus Sūtra. The podcast episode containing their conversation can be found here.

On Wednesday, November 20, Reiko Ohnuma of Dartmouth College will give a lecture entitled “Why Are Buddha Statues So Big? Space, Time, and Human Bodies in Buddhism.” This lecture is the inaugural lecture in memory of Luis Gómez. It will begin at 4:00 pm in the Rackham Amphitheatre. More information can be found on the event listing.

On Friday, November 15, Anthony Lovenheim Irwin of the University of Michigan will give a lecture entitled “Crafting Theravada Buddhism: Touch and Material in the lives of Thai Buddhists” as part of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture Series. It will begin at 12:00 pm in Weiser Hall, Room 110. More information can be found on the event listing.

On Tuesday, October 1, Miranda Brown, Professor of Chinese Studies in the University of Michigan’s Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, will give a lecture entitled “A Whiff of Nirvana: On Why Chinese Buddhists Were Not Vegans” as part of the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Noon Lecture Series. It will begin at 12:00 pm in Weiser Hall, Room 110. More information can be found on the event listing.

The University of Michigan Museum of Art will run a new exhibit, “The Six Senses of Buddhism, from March 23rd through June 30th, 2019. There will be a gallery talk and tour on March 31st from 2-3pm. More information can be found on the event listing.

On Wednesday, March 13 Professor Rebecca French of the University of Buffalo School of Law will give a lecture at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, entitled “Why Buddhism and Law Has Been Excluded from the Canon.” More information can be found on the event listing.

On Friday, April 5, Catherine Raymond, Associate Professor of Art History at Northern Illinois University, will give a lecture entitled “The Thousand Year Old Stolen Burmese Buddha Who Traveled The World And The Saga Of Its Return” as part of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies Friday Lecture Series. It will begin at 11:30 am in Weiser Hall, Room 110. More information can be found on the event listing.

On Friday, March 29, Jack Meng-Tat Chia, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley will give a lecture entitled “Neither Mahāyāna Nor Theravāda: Ashin Jinarakkhita and the Indonesian Buddhayāna Movement” as part of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies Friday Lecture Series. It will begin at 11:30 am in Weiser Hall, Room 110. More information can be found on the event listing.

A symposium on “De-Centering the Global Middle Ages” will be convened at the University of Michigan from February 8-9, 2019.  It will include a talk by James Benn (McMaster University) entitled “Buddhist Middle Ages in China?” See the symposium website or the event page for more details.