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Buddhist Studies Workshop: The Play of Formulas in the Early Buddhist Discourses
via Zoom - Registration RequiredThe play of formulas is a new theory designed to explain the manner in which discourses (Suttas, Sūtras) were composed in the early Buddhist tradition, and especially so in the Dīgha- and Majjjhima- Nikāyas (the collections of the Buddha’s Long and Middle-length discourses). This theory combats the commonly accepted views in scholarship that texts are […]
Alaskan Volcanoes and Mediterranean History
via Zoom - Registration RequiredThis lecture will discuss current research on a previously unknown or not well understood short term driver of climate forcing/climate change in Mediterranean history, explosive volcanic eruptions. In particular, high north latitude volcanic eruptions would appear to be especially important, and by examining the sensitive annual flood of the Nile river, dependent on the East […]
