Recent Courses
A representative selection of recent graduate course-offerings relating to Buddhist studies includes the following courses taught in the last several years:
"Tibetan Auto/biography" [PDF], taught by Prof. Wedemeyer, spring 2004, winter 2009"Issues in Indian Esoteric Buddhism" [PDF], taught by Prof. Wedemeyer, winter 2005, spring 2007
"Buddhist Esoteric Verse," taught by Prof. Kapstein, spring 2005
"Ritual in South Asian Buddhism" [PDF], taught by Prof. Wedemeyer, spring 2005
"The Twenty Verses of Vasubandhu" [PDF], a seminar on the Vimsatika jointly taught by Professors Arnold, Kapstein, and Wedemeyer, winter, 2006
"Imagining Death: Buddhism and the Medieval West," taught by Prof. Kapstein, winter 2006
"Mahayana Sutra Literature" [PDF], taught by Prof. Wedemeyer, autumn 2006
"Buddhist Epistemology: The Philosophy of Dharmakirti," taught by Prof. Arnold, spring 2006
"Gender & Modernity in Thai Buddhism," taught by Prof. Collins, winter 2007
"Readings in Buddhist Philosophical Texts," taught by Prof. Kapstein, winter 2007
"Consciousness in Indian Buddhist Philosophy" [PDF], taught by Prof. Arnold, winter 2007
"Dunhuang Visual Culture: Traditions and Interactions," taught by Prof. Hung, winter 2007
"Sources and Methods of Chinese Buddhist Studies," taught by Prof. Copp, autumn 2007
"Madhyamaka," taught by Prof. Arnold, winter 2008
"Readings in Chinese Buddhist Texts," taught by Prof. Copp, winter 2008
"The Ethnography of Lived Religion: Animism, Polytheism, Humanity," taught by Prof. Collins, winter 2008
"Introduction to Buddhism," taught by Prof. Collins, autumn 2008
First- and Second-year Pali, taught by Prof. Collins, 2008-09 academic year (and in previous years as well)
"Sources and Methods in the Study of Daoism," taught by Prof. Copp, autumn 2008
"Esoteric Buddhism in Tang China: Yixing's Commentary on the Mahavairocana Sutra," taught by Prof. Copp, winter 2009
"Yogacara," taught by Prof. Arnold, winter 2009
"Buddhist Thought in Tibet," taught by Prof. Kapstein, winter 2009
Nirvana and other Buddhist Felicities, taught by Prof. Collins, summer 2009
