BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//91㽶Ƶ - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:91㽶Ƶ X-ORIGINAL-URL: X-WR-CALDESC:Events for 91㽶Ƶ REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20270314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20271107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260416T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260416T203000 DTSTAMP:20260526T143243 CREATED:20260311T200647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260403T040400Z UID:10133-1776366000-1776371400@www.drbu.edu SUMMARY:Colloquium: What We Can Learn from Buddhist Debates over the Nature of Time DESCRIPTION:This talk will take as its focus the signature Sarvāstivāda-Vaibhāṣika doctrine that past\, present\, and future things all exist. The Sarvāstivāda theory of time anticipates\, in many respects\, “block-time” models of the universe that are popular among theoretical physicists today. In these models\, time is a dimension spread out like space\, and everything that ever was or will be has a fixed position within the block. The proposal in this talk is that the similarities between the early Buddhist theories and contemporary ones are neither coincidental nor insignificant: in both cases they are attempts to respond to puzzles concerning the nature of change\, causation\, and the “flow” and “direction” of time.\n \nAbout the Speaker\nRobert Sharf is D. H. Chen Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California\, Berkeley\, as well as Chair of Berkeley’s Numata Center for Buddhist Studies. He works primarily on medieval Chinese Buddhism but has also published in the areas of Japanese Buddhism\, Buddhist art and archaeology\, Buddhist modernism\, Buddhist philosophy\, and methodological issues in the study of religion. URL:/event/colloquium-what-we-can-learn-from-buddhist-debates-over-the-nature-of-time/ LOCATION:Sudhana Center\, 225 S Hope St\, Ukiah\, CA\, 95482\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium Lecture Series END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR