Tuesday, 9/27. "Islamic Identity in Central Asia." Edige Magauin (Hoover). 12:00 noon, 40-41J. CREEES.

Sunday, 10/2. Gandhi Jayanti. 6:00 p.m., Roble Parlor. Hindu Students Council.

Monday, 10/3. "Tibet: The Lost Mystery" and "Tibet: The Bamboo Curtain Falls." Film screening. 7:00 p.m., 380-380Y. Tibetan Culture and Buddhism in Exile Film Series. For information: kdiehl@stanford.edu.

Wednesday, 10/5. "Japan through the Looking Glass." Alan MacFarlane (Cambridge). 4:15 p.m., Philippines Conference Room, Encina Hall, 3rd Floor. CEAS Faculty Colloquium.

Wednesday, 10/5. "Peace, Non-Violence and Human Rights." Panel discussion, with Tenzin Tethong (ARC/Tibet) and Chris McKenna (Tibet Justice Center). 6:30 p.m., Cubberly Auditorium. Stanford Friends of Tibet Lecture Series.

Thursday, 10/6. "Justifying Islamic Pluralism: Reflections from Indonesia and France." John Bowen (Washington University, St. Louis). 8:00 p.m., Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall. Muslims Debating Difference and Globalization Lecture and Seminar Series. Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies.

Friday, 10/7. "How to Study Islam as Religion and in Society." John Bowen (Washington University, St. Louis). Seminar. 12:00 noon, Okimoto Room, 3rd Floor, Encina Hall. Muslims Debating Difference and Globalization Lecture and Seminar Series. Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies.

Saturday, 10/8. "The Art of Calligraphy (sho)." Nobuhisa Katagawa and Sanae Takano. Lecture and demonstration. 10:00 a.m., Arrillaga Alumni Center. Admission: $10 public; $5 students. Seating limited. Reservations: kate523@stanford.edu, 723-3363. CEAS.

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Monday, 10/10. "On Teaching Comparative Atrocities: Representations of Hiroshima and the Holocost." Alan Tansman (UC, Berkeley). 12 noon, Encina Hall E008. CEAS/SSFJS Japan Luncheon Series.

Monday, 10/10. "Uncle Swami: Patriotism of the Bottom Line." Vijay Prashad (Trinity College). Dinner and discussion. 7:00 p.m., 200-307. Asian Americas Workshop. Stanford Humanities Center. Contact: Beth Lew <bethlew@stanford.edu>.

Monday, 10/10. "Kundun." Film screening. 7:00 p.m., 380-380Y. Tibetan Culture and Buddhism in Exile Film Series. VPUE, Stanford Friends of Tibet, and ARC/Tibet. For information: kdiehl@stanford.edu.

Wednesday, 10/12. "Impermanence, Empathy and Compassion." Arjia Rinpoche (Tibetan Center for Compassion and Wisdom). 6:30 p.m., Bechtel International House (NEW VENUE). Stanford Friends of Tibet Lecture Series.

Saturday, 10/15. "Divination, Sacrifice, and Knowledge in Early China." Mark Csikszentmihalyi (Wisconsin). "The Magic Word: Did Chinese Buddhists Believe in Their Spells?" James Robson (Michigan). 2:00 p.m., Stanford Humanities Center. Knowledge and Belief conference. Stanford Humanities Center.

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Monday, 10/17. "Shadow Circus: The CIA in Tibet" and "Tibet in Exile." Film screening. 7:00 p.m., 380-380Y. Tibetan Culture and Buddhism in Exile Film Series. VPUE, Stanford Friends of Tibet, and ARC/Tibet. For information: kdiehl@stanford.edu.

Monday, 10/17. "'Acting on Her Own Behalf': Women, Marriage, and Legal Personhood in Islamic Law." Kecia Ali (Harvard Divinity School and Brandeis University). 8:00 p.m., Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall. Muslims Debating Difference and Globalization Lecture and Seminar Series. Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies.

Tuesday, 10/18. "Women, Slaves, and Marriage in an Early Hanafi Polemical Text, the Kitab al-Hujjah." Kecia Ali (Harvard Divinity School and Brandeis University). Seminar. 12:00 noon, Encina Hall West, Room 202. Muslims Debating Difference and Globalization Lecture and Seminar Series. Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies.

Tuesday, 10/18. Conversation with Narendra Jadhav, author of Untouchables: My Family's Triumphant Journey Out of the Caste System in Modern India. 4:15 p.m., 200-205. Guest lecture, Religious Studies 119, "Gandhi and Nonviolence" (Prof. Hess). Open to the public. Religious Studies and ARC/South Asia. For information, contact: lionda@stanford.edu.

Tuesday, 10/18. "Untouchables: My Family's Triumphant Journey Out of the Caste System in Modern India." Narendra Jadhav (author). Book reading and discussion. 6:00 p.m., Stanford Bookstore alcove. Stanford Bookstore and ARC/South Asia.

Wednesday, 10/19. "Apologies of the Patriarchs: Why Zen Masters Don't Fly." Carl Bielefeldt (Religious Studies). 4:15 p.m., 200-303. CEAS Faculty Colloquium.

Wednesday, 10/19. "Tibetan Culture." Performance and exhibition. 6:30 p.m., Muncer Auditorium, Beckman Center, 279 Campus Drive West (NEW VENUE). Stanford Friends of Tibet Lecture Series.

Wednesday, 10/19-Sunday, 10/23. United Nations Association Film Festival. Cubberly Auditorium and Annenberg Auditorium. Stanford Film Society and UN Association Midpenisula Chapter.

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Monday, 10/24. "Red Flag Over Tibet" and "Tibet's Stolen Child." Film screening. 7:00 p.m., 380-380Y. Tibetan Culture and Buddhism in Exile Film Series. VPUE, Stanford Friends of Tibet, and ARC/Tibet. For information: kdiehl@stanford.edu.

Tuesday, 10/25. "Can Japanese Buddhism Survive? The Resurgence of Traditional Temples Amidst Contemporary Problems." Noriyuki Ueda (Tokyo Institute of Technology). 12:00 noon, Encina West, Room 208. Refreshments served. SCBS/ARC Fellows Colloquium.

Tuesday, 10/25. "Mudra: The Poetry of Expression. Bharatanatyam classical Indian dance, lecture and demonstration by Malavika Sarukkai. 7:00 p.m., Graduate Community Center, Havana Room, 750 Escondido Road. Stanford India Association, Noopur, Sanskriti, Drama, VPUE, and ARC/South Asia.

Wednesday, 10/26. "The Composite Body in Early China." Mark Lewis (History). 4:15 p.m., 200-303. CEAS Faculty Colloquium.

Wednesday, 10/26. "Tibetan Medicine." Dr. Tsondue Gyatso. 6:30 p.m., 380-380Y (NEW VENUE). Stanford Friends of Tibet Lecture Series.

Thursday, 10/27. Medical seminar with Dr. Tsondue Gyatso (physician). 5:45 p.m. MSOB-303, Medical school. Dinner provided. Stanford Integrative Medicine Interest Group. For information, contact hetty@stanford.edu.

Friday, 10/28. "SumiScapes: Brushed by the Landscape of Sumi-e." Drue Kataoka (artist). And "Gender, Power, Space in a 'Modern' Tibet." Jennifer Chertow (Anthropology). 3:30 p.m., 550-553, Center for Integrated Facility Engineering. "CIFE Friday Talk: Art and Anthropology Through the Lens of Engineering." Refreshments served. RSVP: ju.gao@stanford.edu.

Saturday, 10/29. Berkeley-Stanford Buddhist Studies Graduate Student Colloquium. 11:00 a.m., Slide Ranch, 2025 Shoreline Highway, Muir Beach. Berkeley-Stanford Buddhist Studies Colloquium. SCBS and Berkeley Group in Buddhist Studies.

Sunday, 10/30. "Satya: A Prayer for the Enemy" and "The Reincarnation of Khensur Rinpoche." Film screening. 7:00 p.m., 380-380Y. Tibetan Culture and Buddhism in Exile Film Series. VPUE, Stanford Friends of Tibet, and ARC/Tibet. For information: kdiehl@stanford.edu.

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Monday, 10/31. "Opera in the City: Theatrical Performance and Urbanite Aesthetics in Beijing, 1770-1870." Andrea Goldman (Maryland). 12 noon, Okimoto Conference Room, Encina Hall, 3rd Floor East. CEAS China Brown Bag Series.

Wednesday, 11/2. "Chinese Painting Studies Narratives." Richard Vinograd (Art History). 4:15 p.m., 200-303. CEAS Faculty Colloquium.

Wednesday, 11/2. "Introduction to Tibetan Medicine and Urine Analysis Demonstration." Dr. Yangdron Kalzang (Tibetan Wellness and Healing Center). 6:00 p.m., M106, Medical School. Center for Education in Family and Community Medicine and ARC/Tibet.

Thursday, 11/3. "Portraits of Horses and Lions at the Ming Court." Roderick Whitfield (SOAS, emeritus). 7:30 p.m., Cummings Art Building, 002. Silkroad Foundation, CREEES, CEAS, and Art.

Friday, 11/4. H.H. the Dalai Lama. "Meditation and Teaching." 9:30 a.m., Maples Pavilion. Office for Religious Life. TICKETS SOLD OUT. Webcast on the Internet.

Friday, 11/4. Reception for H.H. the Dalai Lama. 12:00 noon. By invitation. ARC/Tibet.

Friday, 11/4. "The Heart of Nonviolence: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama." 1:15 p.m., Memorial Church. Aurora Forum and Office for Religious Life. TICKETS SOLD OUT. Webcast on the Internet.

Saturday, 11/5. "Craving, Suffering, and Choice: Spiritual and Scientific Exploration of Human Experience." Symposium with HH. the Dalai Lama. 10:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Memorial Auditorium. School of Medicine. TICKETS SOLD OUT. Webcast on the Internet.

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Monday, 11/7. "On Spirits and Finance in Thailand." Alan Klima (UC Davis). Footage screening. 3:30 p.m., 200-305 (NEW VENUE). CASA Colloquium.

Monday, 11/7. "Cry of the Snow Lion." Film screening. 7:00 p.m., 380-380Y. Tibetan Culture and Buddhism in Exile Film Series. VPUE, Stanford Friends of Tibet, and ARC/Tibet. For information: kdiehl@stanford.edu.

Tuesday, 11/8. "Romance and Riddle: Buddhist Literature of Siam." Peter Skilling (Fragile Palm Leaves Foundation, Bangkok). 4:15 p.m., Encina West, Room 208. BSBS.

Thursday, 11/10. "The Dalai Lama and His Visit to Stanford." Michael Zimmermann and Carl Bielefeldt (Religious Studies). 12:15 p.m., 70-72A1. Religious Studies and SCBS.

Saturday, 11/12-12/3. "Monks and Nomads: A Long Journey to Tibet." Tibet photo exhibit created for the Stanford Dalai Lama reception by Vassi Koutsaftis. Smith-Andersen Editions, 440 Pepper Avenue, Palo Alto.

Sunday, 11/13. "Silent Waters" (Sabiha Sumar). Film screening. 1:30 p.m., Roxie Cinema, 3117 16th Street, San Francisco. San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival and ARC/South Asia.

Sunday, 11/13. "No More Tears, Sister" (Helene Klowdawsky). Film screening. 5:30 p.m., Roxie Cinema, 3117 16th Street, San Francisco. San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival and ARC/South Asia.

Sunday, 11/13. "Festival of Lights." Performances. 7:00 p.m., Kresge Auditorium. Sanskriti and SIA.

Sunday, 11/13. "Ganges: River to Heaven" (Gayle Ferraro). Film screening. 7:30 p.m., Roxie Cinema, 3117 16th Street, San Francisco. San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival and ARC/South Asia.

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Monday, 11/14. "Chu Religion: Death, Ritual and Imagination in Early China." Guolong Lai (Florida). 12 noon, Okimoto Conference Room, Encina Hall, 3rd Floor East. CEAS China Brown Bag Series.

Monday, 11/14. "Seeds of Tibet: Voices of Children in Exile," "Tashi Jong: A Traditional Tibetan Community in Exile," and "The Cup." Film screening. 7:00 p.m., 380-380Y. Tibetan Culture and Buddhism in Exile Film Series. VPUE, Stanford Friends of Tibet, and ARC/Tibet. For information: kdiehl@stanford.edu.

Monday, 11/14-Thursday, 11/17. EAST Fest. Programs in Asian culture. EAST House, Governor's Corner.

Thursday, 11/17. "Gujarat" and "Lesser Humans" by Stalin K (Drishti Media Collective, Ahmedabad). Film screenings with the director. 6:00 p.m., 200-02. APARC and ARC/South Asia.

Thursday, 11/17. "Zoroastrianism and World Religions." Farang Mehr (Boston University, emeritus). 7:00 p.m., 200-02. Reception follows. Lectures in Zoroastrian Studies. ARC and Iranian Studies.

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Saturday, 11/26. Open House for "Monks and Nomads: A Long Journey to Tibet." Tibet photo exhibit created for the Stanford Dalai Lama reception by Vassi Koutsaftis. 2:00-4:00 p.m., Smith-Andersen Editions, 440 Pepper Avenue, Palo Alto.

Monday, 11/28. "Shadow Over Tibet" and "Home to Tibet." Film screening. 7:00 p.m., 380-380Y. Tibetan Culture and Buddhism in Exile Film Series. VPUE, Stanford Friends of Tibet, and ARC/Tibet. For information: kdiehl@stanford.edu.

Wednesday, 11/30. "Seeing like a Pilgrim? The Alpine Imaginary in Early Modern Japanese Maps." Karen Wigen (History). 4:15 p.m., 200-303. CEAS Faculty Colloquium.

Saturday, 12/3-Sunday, 12-18. "Journey to the West on the Silk Road." Photo exhibition and lecture series. Tzu Chi Foundation, World Affairs Council of Northern California, and ARC.

Monday, 12/5. "We're No Monks." Film screening. 7:00 p.m., 380-380Y. Tibetan Culture and Buddhism in Exile Film Series. VPUE, Stanford Friends of Tibet, and ARC/Tibet. For information: kdiehl@stanford.edu.

Thursday, 12/8. Antique Tibetan Furniture. Gallery tour of the Hayward collection with curator John Listopad. 12:00 p.m., Asia Gallery, Cantor Arts Center. ARC/Tibet and Cantor.

Wednesday, 12/14-Sunday, 3/26. "Flaming Red Cloth: Color and Design in the Weaving of the Iban of Borneo." Exhibition. Cantor.

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Tuesday, 1/17. "Who Spoke the Qur'an?" Tariq Jaffer (Boston University). 4:15 p.m., 60-61A. Lectures in Islamic Studies. Religious Studies.

Wednesday, 1/18. "Al-Ghazali the Reviver." Ken Garden (Georgetown). 4:15 p.m., 60-61G. Lectures in Islamic Studies. Religious Studies.

Monday, 1/23-Friday, 1/27. South Asian Awareness Week. Sanskriti.

Monday, 1/23. Tibetan conversation. Pasang Sherpa. 12:00 noon, Encina West, 208. ARC/Tibet.

Monday, 1/23. "Ascension or Delusion? A Contested Islamic Account of Traveling to Heaven." Scott Kugle (Leiden). 4:15 p.m., 60-61A. Lectures in Islamic Studies. Religious Studies.

Tuesday, 1/24. "Tibetan Art: Wisdom and Perception." Robert Clark (ARC/Tibet). 7:00 p.m., 60-61H. Lecture series. ARC/Tibet.

Wednesday, 1/25. "Change of Reasons within a Legal Tradition." Behnem Sadeghi (Princeton). 4:15 p.m., 60-61G. Lectures in Islamic Studies. Religious Studies.

Wednesday, 1/25. Beginning Tibetan. Pasang Sherpa. 7:00 p.m. ARC/Tibet. CLASS FULL.

Friday, 1/27. Tibetan conversation. Pasang Sherpa. 12:00 noon, Encina West, 208. ARC/Tibet.

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Monday, 1/30. Tibetan conversation. Pasang Sherpa. 12:00 noon, Encina West, 208. ARC/Tibet.

Tuesday, 1/31. "Tibetan Art: Wisdom and Perception." Robert Clark (ARC/Tibet). 7:00 p.m., 60-61H. Lecture series. ARC/Tibet.

Wednesday, 2/1. Tibetan conversation. Pasang Sherpa. 12:00 noon, 70-71E. ARC/Tibet.

Wednesday, 2/1. Beginning Tibetan. Pasang Sherpa. 7:00 p.m. ARC/Tibet.

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Friday, 2/3. "Transnational Political Islam: Religion, Ideology and Power." Azza Karam (United Nations). 3:30 p.m., 320-105. Coalition for Justice in the Middle East.

Monday, 2/6. Tibetan conversation. Pasang Sherpa. 12:00 noon, Encina West, 208. ARC/Tibet.

Monday, 2/6. "The Illumination of the Hidden Meaning: Tsongkhapa and the Art of Interpretation." David Gray (Santa Clara). 7:00 p.m., 200-02. ARC/Tibet Lectures in Tibetan Studies and ARC/SCBS Fellows Colloquium.

Tuesday, 2/7. "Tibetan Art: Wisdom and Perception." Robert Clark (ARC/Tibet). 7:00 p.m., 60-61H. Lecture series. ARC/Tibet.

Wednesday, 2/8. Tibetan conversation. Pasang Sherpa. 12:00 noon, 70-71E. ARC/Tibet.

Wednesday, 2/8. Beginning Tibetan. Pasang Sherpa. 7:00 p.m. ARC/Tibet.

Thursday, 2/9-Saturday, 2/11. "Beyond Borders: Demystifying the Korean Image through the Media Arts." Film festival, with screenings, interviews, and symposium. APARC and Asian Languages.

Thursday, 2/9. "From Zuo zhuan to Lienü zhuan: Defining Female Virtue in Early China." Yiqun Zhou (Valparaiso University). 5:00 p.m., 50-51P. Lectures on Early China. Asian Languages.

Thursday, 2/9. "Murder, Take One." Film screening. 7:00 p.m., Cubberly Auditorium. "Beyond Borders: Demystifying the Korean Image through the Media Arts."

Friday, 2/10. "Globalization and Contemporary Korean Cinema." Academic symposium. 3:00-5:00 p.m., Encina Hall, 3rd Floor, Okimoto Conference Room. "Beyond Borders: Demystifying the Korean Image through the Media Arts."

Friday, 2/10. "Incestuous Ancestries: The Family Origins of Gautama Siddhartha and a Comparison with the Stories of Abraham and Sarah in Genesis 12 and 20." Jonathan Silk (UCLA). 4:15 p.m., 60-61G. SCBS.

Friday, 2/10. "Duelist." Film screening, with director Myung-se Lee. 7:00 p.m., Cubberly Auditorium. "Beyond Borders: Demystifying the Korean Image through the Media Arts."

Saturday, 2/11-Saturday, 2/18. South Asian music. Stanford Pan-Asian Music Festival.

Saturday, 2/11-Sunday, 2/12. "Sufi Music: South Asian Qawwali and Debates on Music in Islam." Conference. Cambell Recital Hall and Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center. Stanford Pan-Asian Music Festival.

Saturday, 2/11. "Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War." Film screening, with director Je-Gyu Kang. 5:00 p.m., Cubberly Auditorium. "Beyond Borders: Demystifying the Korean Image through the Media Arts."

Saturday, 2/11. "The Rockstar and the Mullahs." Film screening with Salman Ahmad. 7:00 p.m., Campbell Recital Hall. Stanford Pan-Asian Music Festival.

Sunday, 2/12. Farid Ayaz Qawwal. Qawwali concert. 7:30 p.m., Dinkelspiel Auditorium. Pre-concert talk at 6:30 p.m. Stanford Pan-Asian Music Festival.

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Monday, 2/13. "Bridging Gaps: A New History of Ming Literature." Kang-i Sung Chan (Yale). 12:00 noon, Philippines Room, Encina Hall, 3rd Floor. CEAS.

Monday, 2/13. "Recentering Islam: Pakistani Women, The Social Life of Mosques." Lalaie Ameeriar (CASA). 12:00 noon, 110,1110. CASA Brown Bag Forum.

Monday, 2/13. Tibetan conversation. Pasang Sherpa. 12:00 noon, Encina West, 208. ARC/Tibet.

Monday, 2/13. Sufi Rock with Salman Ahmad of Junoon. 7:30 p.m., Dinkelspiel Auditorium. Stanford Pan-Asian Music Festival.

Tuesday, 2/14. "Tibetan Art: Wisdom and Perception." Robert Clark (ARC/Tibet). 7:00 p.m., 60-61H. Lecture series. ARC/Tibet.

Tuesday, 2/14. A Tribute to A.R. Rahman. 7:30 p.m., Dinkelspiel Auditorium. Stanford Pan-Asian Music Festival.

Wednesday, 2/15. Tibetan conversation. Pasang Sherpa. 12:00 noon, 70-71E. ARC/Tibet.

Wednesday, 2/15. Beginning Tibetan. Pasang Sherpa. 7:00 p.m. ARC/Tibet.

Thursday, 2/16. "Sogdians Are Everywhere: Recent Archaeological Discoveries." Albert Dien (Asian Languages, emeritus). 7:30 p.m., 260-113. CEAS and CREEES.

Thursday, 2/16. Kartik Seshadri. Lecture and demonstration of Hindustani classical music. 7:30 p.m., Campbell Recital Hall. Stanford Pan-Asian Music Festival.

Friday, 2/17. Korean language online databases. Mikyung Kang (East Asia Library). Information session. 2:00 p.m., 280C Language Lab Class Room, Meyer Library, 2nd floor.

Friday, 2/17. "Poems and Things: On the Problem of Literary Significance in Medieval China." Jack Chen (Wellesley). 5:00 p.m., 50-51P. Lectures on Early China. Asian Languages.

Friday, 2/17. Sitar concert. Kartik Seshadri with Swapan Chaudhuri. 8:00 p.m., Dinkelspiel Auditorium. Pre-concert talk at 7:00 p.m. Stanford Pan-Asian Music Festival and Stanford Lively Arts.

Saturday, 2/18. Morning Ragas. Carnatic classic vocal music by Sanjay Subrahmanyam. 9:30 a.m., Dinkelspiel Auditorium. Refreshments served. Stanford Pan-Asian Music Festival.

Saturday, 2/18. "Songs of the Five Rivers" by Naresh Sohal. Stanford Symphony Orchestra concert. 8:00 p.m., Dinkelspiel Auditorium. Stanford Pan-Asian Music Festival.

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Monday, 2/20. Tibetan conversation. Pasang Sherpa. 12:00 noon, Encina West, 208. ARC/Tibet.

Tuesday, 2/21. "Tibetan Art: Wisdom and Perception." Robert Clark (ARC/Tibet). 7:00 p.m., 60-61H. Lecture series. ARC/Tibet.

Wednesday, 2/22. Tibetan conversation. Pasang Sherpa. 12:00 noon, 70-71E. ARC/Tibet.

Wednesday, 2/22. Beginning Tibetan. Pasang Sherpa. 7:00 p.m. ARC/Tibet.

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Monday, 2/27. Tibetan conversation. Pasang Sherpa. 12:00 noon, Encina West, 208. ARC/Tibet.

Monday, 2/27. International Initiative Open House II. Faculty working groups. 3:00 p.m., Bechtel Conference Center, Encina Hall. FSI.

Tuesday, 2/28. "Tibetan Art: Wisdom and Perception." Robert Clark (ARC/Tibet). 7:00 p.m., 60-61H. Lecture series. ARC/Tibet.

Wednesday, 3/1. Tibetan conversation. Pasang Sherpa. 12:00 noon, 70-71E. ARC/Tibet.

Wednesday, 3/1. Beginning Tibetan. Pasang Sherpa. 7:00 p.m. ARC/Tibet.

Thursday, 3/2. Tibet briefing. Tenzin Tethong (ARC). Time and location to be announced. ARC/Tibet. CANCELLED.

Friday, 3/3. "Arraying the Ancestors: Personal Naming Conventions and the Construction of Lineage in Western Zhou China." David Sena (Texas). 5:00 p.m., 50-51P. Lectures on Early China. Asian Languages.

Friday, 3/3. "Buddhism More than Religion: The Gifts of the Tibetans." Robert Thurman (Columbia). 7:00 p.m., 200-02. ARC/Tibet Lectures in Tibetan Studies.

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Sunday, 3/5. Losar (Tibetan New Year) Celebration. Cultural program and dinner. 5:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m., Roble Hall Parlor. $5 students (with I.D.), $8 advance, $10 at the door. Stanford Friends of Tibet.

Monday, 3/6. Tibetan conversation. Pasang Sherpa. 12:00 noon, Encina West, 208. ARC/Tibet.

Monday, 3/6. "Beginning with Couplets." Stephen Owen (Harvard). 12:00 noon, Philippines Room, Encina Hall, 3rd Floor. CEAS

Tuesday, 3/7. "Tibetan Art: Wisdom and Perception." Robert Clark (ARC/Tibet). 7:00 p.m., 60-61H. Lecture series. ARC/Tibet.

Wednesday, 3/8. Tibetan conversation. Pasang Sherpa. 12:00 noon, 70-71E. ARC/Tibet.

Wednesday, 3/8. "Chinese Bronze Age Ritual Vessels." Zedi Jiang (ARC) and John Listopad (Sonoma State). 4:15 p.m., 60-61G. ARC/SCBS Fellows Colloquium.

Wednesday, 3/8. Beginning Tibetan. Pasang Sherpa. 7:00 p.m. ARC/Tibet.

Friday, 3/10. "Family Matters: Kinship Bonds and Buddhist History in Tibet." Bryan Cuevas (Florida State). 7:00 p.m., 200-30. ARC/Tibet Lectures in Tibetan Studies and Berkeley-Stanford Buddhist Studies Colloquium.

Monday, 3/13. Tibetan conversation. Pasang Sherpa. 12:00 noon, Encina West, 208. ARC/Tibet.

Monday, 3/13. "Zarathustra: The Man and the Message." Stanley Insler (Yale). 7:00 p.m., 200-02. Lectures in Zoroastrian Studies. ARC and Iranian Studies.

Tuesday, 3/14. "Tibetan Art: Wisdom and Perception." Robert Clark (ARC/Tibet). 7:00 p.m., 60-61H. Lecture series. ARC/Tibet.

Wednesday, 3/15. "Consciousness, Self and Intermediate State: Some Problems in Theravada Buddhism." Mudagamuwe Maithrimurthi (Leipzig). 4:15 p.m., 60-61G. Berkeley-Stanford Buddhist Studies Colloquium.

Wednesday, 3/15. Tibetan conversation. Pasang Sherpa. 12:00 noon, 70-71E. ARC/Tibet.

Wednesday, 3/15. Beginning Tibetan. Pasang Sherpa. 7:00 p.m. ARC/Tibet.

Wednesday, 3/15-16. "Stories for the Dead." Stan Lai, director. Theatrical performance. 7:00 p.m., Roble Studio Theater 25. Institute for Diversity in the Arts.

Friday, 3/17. "The Tibetan Village Project." Tamdin Wangdu (Tibetan Village Project). 5:30 p.m., 60-61G. ARC/Tibet.

Friday, 3/24. "The Role of the Panchen Lama in Tibetan Buddhism." Khen Rinpoche Geshe Lobzang Tsetan (Abbot, Tashilhunpo Monastery). 7:00 p.m., Tressider, Oak Lounge East. Refreshments served. ARC/Tibet and Buddhism in the Modern World.

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Friday, 4/7. "Buddhism in Korea: Its History and Downfall." Nami Kim (ARC research fellow). 12:00 noon, Encina West, 208. ARC/SCBS Fellows Colloquium.

Monday, 4/10. Oliver Freiberger (Texas). "What Makes Holy Scriptures Holy? Rethinking the Idea of a Buddhist Canon." 4:15 p.m., Encina Hall West, Room 208. Berkeley-Stanford Buddhist Studies Colloquium.

Tuesday, 4/18. B.S. Prakash (Consul General of India) “India's National and Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization” CISAC Conference Room, Encina Hall, 2nd Floor, 4:15-5:30 p.m. Buffet reception to follow.

Wednesday, 4/19. Duan Qingbo (Head of Survey and Excavation Team, Qin Shihuang Burial Mound), Xu Tianjin (Beijing University, Head of Survey and Excavation Team, Zhouyuan Western Zhou Archaeological Sites, Shaanxi), Wang Zhongli (Senior Researcher, Qin Shihuang Terracotta Army Museum), Zhao Liguang (Director, "Forest of Steles" Museum, Xi'an). "Current archaeology in Shaanxi, China. " Archeology Conference Room, Building 500, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM. In Chinese with English interpretation. Sponsored by Stanford Archaeology Center

Saturday, 4/22. Chan E. Park, Associate Professor, Korean Language, Literature & Performance Studies, Ohio State University. "Korean Traditional Music Today: P'ansori" 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Campbell Recital Hall, Braun Music Center. A special event sponsored by the Stanford Center for East Asian Studies.

Tuesday, 4/25. Lothar von Falkenhausen (UCLA). LECTURE SERIES SPEAKER : "Archaeology in China". 5:00 p.m., Building 500, Archaeology Center Conference Room. Archaeology Research Workshop.

Thursday, 4/27. Lothar von Falkenhausen (UCLA). Workshop. 5:00 p.m., Building 500, Archaeology Center Conference Room. Archaeology Research Workshop.

Tuesday, 5/2. Dr. Jiang Bo (Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences). "Heaven Altar and Imperial Ancestral Temple: Ritual Facilities of the Ming-Qing Empire." 5:00-6:30 p.m., Building 500, Archaeology Center Conference Room. Archaeology Research Workshop.

Thursday, 5/4. "Why Do Caves Need Murals? Symbolic Cosmos in Cave Shrines at Dunhuang." Eugene Wang (Harvard). 7:30 PM, Building 420 Room 041, Jordan Hall, Department of Psychology. Co-sponsored by Center for East Asian Studies , Department of Art and Art History, Silk Road Foundation, and Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies.

Thursday, 5/4. "The Bhagvad-Gita from the 8th century to the Present." Linda Hess (Stanford). 6:00-7:30pm. Building 60, Room 61-A.

Monday, 5/8. "The CIA in Tibet," with Bruce Walker, Roger McCarthy, Kenneth Knaus, and Mikel Dunham. Panel discussion with former CIA operatives of the 1950s, plus briefing on Maoist rebels in Nepal/Tibetan refugees today. Bechtel Conference Room, Encina Hall (1st Floor.) 7-9p.m. Buffet reception to follow.

Wednesday, 5/10. Buddhism and Social Change in the Black Community. A panel discussion with African-American Buddhists. 7:00-8:30 p.m., Building 60, Room 61A (Next to Memorial Church).

Thursday, 5/11. "Revelations of Zarathushtra: Poetry of Mysteries and Mysteries of Poetry." 7:00 p.m., location to be announced. Lectures in Zoroastrian Studies. ARC and Iranian Studies.

Monday, 5/15. The 37th Annual Evans-Wentz Lecture in Asian Philosophy, Religion, and Ethics, "Climate Change and Religious Response:  The Case of Early Medieval China." Professor T.H. Barrett (SOAS, London.) 4:15-5:45 PM, Building 460, Terrace Room, Room 426.

Monday, 5/22. Sangmu Oh (ARC Research Fellow). "Laozi and Confucianism: A Look at the Guodian Text." 12:00-1:00 p.m., Encina Hall West, Room 208 (near Hoover Tower). ARC Fellows Talk. Lunch Provided.

Monday, 5/22. Anthony Barbieri-Low (University of Pittsburgh) "Artisans in Early Imperial China" 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM. Philippines Conference Room, Encina Hall, 3rd Floor.

Monday, 5/22. Jennifer Chertow (Ph.D. Dissertation Writer) "Embodying the Chinese Nation: Childbirth in Contemporary Tibet" CASA Brown Bag and Colloquium. 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM. Colloquium Room, Bldg. 110,  Rm. 111O.

Wednesday, 5/24. The East Asia Library will be presenting a workshop on how to navigate 9 major Chinese electronic databases both online and on DVD. 12:00pm-2:00pm at SSRC Multimedia Room 121A.

Friday, 5/26. Jason Josephson. "When Buddhism Became a Religion ." 12:00-1:00 p.m., Encina Hall West, Room 208 (near Hoover Tower).

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