Yehan Numata Program Reading Group: "Immeasurable Joy: One Meditation of a Vaibhāṣikā Yogācāra"
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Speakers
Description
Yehan Numata Program in Buddhist Studies 2024-25
About the speaker
Henry Albery is currently a JSPS International Fellow hosted by the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia at The University of Tokyo. His research considers the emergence of Buddhist monasticism in the Indic Northwest (eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan) around the turn of the Common Era, with a present focus on the formation of the monastic legal codes and the emergence of new narrative genres, such as avadāna. He is also a project member of An English Translation of a Sanskrit Yoga Manual from Kučā, funded by The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation.
For questions and the reading group materials, please contact Christoph Emmrich at christoph.emmrich@utoronto.ca.
The speaker also delivers a lecture the following day, December 6, "Defining Avadāna and the Reformation of the Buddhist Canon".