“The Circled Square: Buddhist Studies in Higher Education” explores practices of effective teaching and learning in a diversity of higher education contexts.
Episodes
Monday Oct 26, 2020
Monday Oct 26, 2020
Description
Dr. Luther Obrock from the University of Toronto shares about teaching an undergraduate course on bodies and embodiment in early Indian Buddhist texts. He wants to use his course, a seminar, to help students understand how theories are not just modern constructions, but instead can also emerge from ancient religious texts. He leads his students through ways to mine data and information about how the writers of ancient Indian texts, themselves embodied, understood and spoke about their (gendered) bodies. From analyzing the representation of the "hyper-masculine" Buddha’s body, or the status of the female body as attested in literature by or about nuns, a theory, or an "imaginary relationship to a real problem" of the body, can emerge.
Quotes
"Let’s imagine these texts as coming from embodied people." Luther Obrock
"We can use the Buddhist texts as theory to think about our own positionality." Luther Obrock
Links and References
Dr. Luther Obrock
https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/historical-studies/people/obrock-luther
Therigatha
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/thig/index.html
John Powers, A Bull of a Man: Images of Masculinity, Sex, and the Boyd in Indian Buddhism
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674064034&content=reviews
Charles Hallisey, Therigatha: Selected Poems of the First Buddhist Women
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674427730
I.B. (Isaline Blew) Horner – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaline_Blew_Horner
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