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SUMMARY:"Where is the Mind in the Atom? Materializing the Moral Imagination in the Shadow of the Mind and Life Dialogues"
DESCRIPTION:Room 614\, Jackman Humanities Building (170 St George Street\, Toronto ON M5R 2M8)\nOr on Zoom (Find link here) \nYehan Numata Program Lecture with Dr Matt King \nWhat are the epistemic and institutional limits of brainhood as an anthropological figure of modernity? When the Tibetan refugee diaspora became a global stage for the Buddhism-science encounter during “the Decade of the Brain” (1990s)\, monastic critics working along the epistemic and institutional margins of the early Mind & Life Dialogues (1987-1995) sought to elaborately refuse “the closure principle” of exclusive materialism. Their previously unstudied efforts elaborately extended a four-century history of Inner Asian Buddhist engagements with European-derived naturalism\, and brought new bio-modern objects like “neurons” and “cells” into the disciplinary arenas of classical South and Inner Asian medicine\, tantric physiology\, and Mahāyā-na philosophy. \nKing argues that attention to this flush of materialist and moral thinking about the tyranny of the very small (“the microscopic sublime”) lends itself to several experimental projects in the critical Asian humanities: diversifying our sources for a global history of neurocultures\, refusing the chronic psychologization of Buddhist Studies\, and delinking from the category blindness of religion-science. \nMatthew W. King is Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of California\, Riverside. He currently serves as UCR’s Director of Asian Studies\, Co-Director of the Medical & Health Humanities\, and Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Health Humanities & Disability Justice Lab. A historian of Inner Asian Buddhism\, Matthew’s published work has explored scholastic thought along the Tibet-Mongol interface on such topics as the 13th-14th century Mongol Empire\, philology and tantric self-cultivation in the 18th-19th centuries\, literati cultures in the Qing Empire\, and biomedical modernity\, humanism\, and Orientalism amidst socialist state building in the 20th century. His first book\, Ocean of Milk\, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire (Columbia University Press\, 2019)\, won several awards\, including the American Academy of Religion’s 2020 award for Best Book in Textual Study. Other recent books include In the Forest of the Blind: The Eurasian Journey of Faxian’s Record of Buddhist Kingdoms (Columbia University Press\, 2022) and\, with Khenpo Kunga Sherab\, The Amazing Treasury of the Sakya Lineage (Simon & Schuster/Wisdom Publications\, 2024).
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LOCATION:170 St George St\, 170 St George St\, Toronto\, ON\, Canada
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