Given for the OCBS by Dr. Alex Wynne.
All talks and pdf material Copyright Alex Wynne 2018.
After each week’s sound file you will find a pdf with the powerpoint for that lecture.
Buddhist India
A talk given by Dr. Alex Wynne for the OCBS on 20th November 2017. A pdf to accompany the talk is provided below.
All original material copyright Alex Wynne 2017.
Chronicle and epic, or the introductions to the Mahāvamsa and to the Mahābhārata: selected comparisons
A talk given by Dr. Nick Allen for the OCBS on 6 November 2017
Lecture and pdf: Copyright Nick Allen 2017.
Tantric Buddhist Gurus in Mediaeval Indian Royal Courts
Given for the OCBS by Dr Péter-Dániel Szántó on 5 June 2017.
Copyright Dr Péter-Dániel Szántó 2017.
New Discoveries about the Origins of the Buddhist Order of Nuns
A talk given by Richard Gombrich for the OCBS on 24 April 2017
Copyright Richard Gombrich April 2017
An Arabic Dhamma? – On Sri Lankan Theravadins in the Sultanate of Oman
Who can infer the existence of God from the concept of ‘product’? Genealogy of a Buddhist refutation.
Introduction to the Drukpa lineage – the yogic order of ‘divine madmen’
The ur-text of the Pali Tipiṭaka: some reflections based on new research into the manuscript tradition.
A lecture given by Dr. Alex Wynne for the OCBS on 26 October 2015.
Shadows of a former Self: the ‘True Self’ taught by the Tathāgatagarbha Literature
A lecture given by Dr. Chris Jones for the OCBS on 3 March 2015.
The imaginary mass murderer who owes his existence to ignorance of Pali.
A lecture given by Professor Richard Gombrich for the OCBS on 11 May 2015.
“Under the Walking Steps of the Ascetic”: Memory and Place-Making in the Japanese Pilgrimage of Katsuragi
A lecture given by Dr Tatsuma Padoan for the OCBS on 27 April 2015.
Buddhism and violence in the world today
A talk given by Prof Richard Gombrich for the OCBS on 28 April 2014.
Prof Gombrich has supplied this talk as a pdf.
You can read it by clicking here.
A possible Buddhist influence on Chinese political thought.
A talk given by Professor Timothy Barrett for the OCBS on 24 November, 2014.
The Syntax of Unreal Things: Madhyamaka, the Abhidharma, and Sanskrit Grammar
A talk given by Dr Mattia Salvini for the OCBS on 10 November, 2014.
The Globalization of Shin Buddhism
A talk given for the OCBS by Dr. Louella Matsunaga on 13 October 2014.
Reflections on the nature of, and attitudes to, becoming (bhava) in the Pali tradition
Asoka and the development of the Cakravartin image.
Given by Mr Charles Allen for the OCBS on 13th February 2012.
Copyright Mr Charles Allen 2012. (more…)
Previous Lectures Archive
Over the coming months we will be making all previously recorded lectures available through this site. Until then, please refer to the list below. If there is one in particular you would like to hear then please email steven.egan@ocbs.org to request it.