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Politics and Buddhism

Politics and Buddhism will be the focus of “The Socio-Political Geography of Buddhism in Contemporary Societies,” on Saturday, January 12 at UCLA’s Royce Hall Room 314.

Saturday, January 12, 2002
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095

The conference, sponsored by the Center for Buddhist Studies, will feature experts on China, Japan, Burma and minority communities of the China-Burma border. Following the presentations will be a screening of “To the Land of Bliss,” a 2001 documentary on Chinese Buddhists under the People’s Republic of China. The film's creator describes the film as "a window into a vibrant Buddhist world that has remained unknown to many within and outside of China."

Presentations: 10:00 - 2:40 p.m.

Film: 3:00 p.m.

For full details see http://www.isop.ucla.edu/buddhist/conferences.htm or call (310) 206-4928.

10:00-11:10 Sara Davis, UCLA Visiting Scholar: Burma/China: State Development and Popular Buddhist Revival on the China-Burma Borders

11:10-12:20 Patrick Pranke, Middlebury College: Burma: Buddhist Eschatology and Samgha-State Relations

1:30-2:40 Helen Hardacre, Harvard University: Japan: After Aum: Religion and Civil Society in Japan

3:00-4:30 Wenjie Qin, Harvard University: China: Documentary "To the Land of Bliss" (2001)

Cost: free and open to the public

For more information please contact

Melissa E. Birchard
Tel: (310) 206-8235

www.isop.ucla.edu/buddhist/conferences.htm