Highlights of the conference "New Paths in Teaching Buddhist Studies," The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies, University of Toronto, Canada, 21-23 February 2020.
- 0:20 Why do we think experiencing Buddhism means experiencing meditation?
- 0:24 Teaching Buddhism in a secular environment, multi-faith classroom
- 0:35 Universities are changing but pedagogy has not changed, nor have our canonical texts
- 0:50 Requirements to legally work as a spiritual care practitioner or as a registered psychotherapist in Canada
- 1:02 Some of my students can recite by heart the Heart Sūtra in English or Chinese
- 1:08 Understanding religion is necessary for understanding world current affairs
- 1:23 Buddhist artifacts, museum pieces
- 1:35 Visual in Buddhist studies turn opens new paths in scholarship
- 1:53 Senior professors keep their personal beliefs out of the classroom. Questions of personal faith are never discussed
- 2:07 Students of Buddhist studies want real world solutions to real problems
- 2:23 Students should understand it is necessary to address religious developments in China
- 2:35 Meditation and mindfulness is prescribed for the adult mentally physically well, depressed, sick and dying. Meditation and mindfulness is prescribed for soldiers, veterans, prisoners, athletes and elementary school children
- 2:53 Teachers connecting with students
- 3:09 Teaching Samatha in the classroom vs home
- 3:25 Dowel exercise allows participants to get a better sense of each other
- 4:22 Buddhist podcast "The Circled Square"
Ho Centre for Buddhist Studies
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