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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nFriday, January 12, 2024 4:00 pm to 6:00 
 pm \n Zoom / McMaster University \n University Hall 122 \n\nSpeakers \nLeo
 nard van der Kuijp (Harvard University) \n\nDescription: \nYehan Numata Pr
 ogram in Buddhist Studies 2023-24There is an idea that Buddhism shares wit
 h other major religions. This is the notion that there will be an “end-tim
 e.” In Buddhism everything is impermanent and, so the scriptures tell us\
 , the Buddha’s Teaching is no exception. The beginning of the “true religi
 on” is as rule calculated from the year of the nirvana or parinirvāṇa [or 
 the death] of the Buddha, that is, his A[\no]N[irvanae], roughly at the
  age of eighty. As there is no unanimity concerning the year in which he p
 assed away, there is also no consensus when this cataclysm was to take pl
 ace, and the literature gives several different time periods for the over
 all duration and gradual degeneration of his Teaching. The Tibetans opted 
 for one of these, namely for a period of five thousand years. The profoun
 d uncertainties surrounding the AN did not deter a good number of them to 
 calculate the year of the AN through a series of rather complex and convol
 uted computations that were based on the incomplete information that was f
 urnished by canonical sources, including the Kālacakra corpus. They drew 
 up elaborate horoscopes for the main events in his life, much like P.C. S
 engupta attempted to do now more than half a century ago. The method they 
 followed was to calculate these dates by doing a reverse computation, the
  Tibetan expressions for which are g.yen du log pa’i brtsis [or: g.yen log
  gi brtsis] and yar log gi rtsis. And they used the somewhat confusing dat
 a of the Kālacakra corpus and other canonical sources concerning the presu
 med dates of especially his conception, birth and passing. My lecture wil
 l provide some historical details about the results that these intrepid mo
 nks achieved, even if these proved to be hopelessly inaccurate though thr
 ough no fault of their own.LEONARD W.J. VAN DER KUIJP is Professor of Tibe
 tan and Himalayan Studies and chairs the Committee on I\ner Asian and Alta
 ic Studies. Best known for his studies of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist thought, 
 he is the author of numerous works. Van der Kuijp’s research focuses on In
 do-Tibetan Buddhist thought, Tibetan Buddhist intellectual history, Tibe
 tan cultural history, and premodern Sino-Tibetan and Tibeto-Mongol politi
 cal and religious relations. Van der Kuijp received his master’s degree at
  the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada, and his doctorate 
 at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He joined the faculty at Harvard i
 n 1995. He is the former chair of the Department of Sanskrit and Indian St
 udies (now the Department of South Asian Studies). In 2018, he was induct
 ed in the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Van der Kuijp wo
 rked at the Nepal Research Center, Kathmandu (1980-85), the Freie Univer
 sitāt, Berlin (1985-87), and the University of Washington, Seattle (198
 7-95). In 1999, he assisted E. Gene Smith in founding the Tibetan Buddhis
 t Resource Center (TBRC), now the Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC)
 . Zoom U of T (Passcode 143292) McMaster (Passcode 989442) Questions Email
  Christoph Emmrich \n\nSponsors \nUniversity of Toronto, McMaster Univers
 ity \n\nCategories \n Lecture \n\nAudiences \n U of T CommunityGraduate St
 udentsUndergraduate Students
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SUMMARY:Tibetan Adventures in Dating the Buddha's Nirvana
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 ing-buddhas-nirvana
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