Undergraduate Courses
RLG375H Biohacking Breath (2020)
RLG371 Interdependence (2019)
CRR199H On Foot: A Cultural History of Walking (2017)
RLG401H Himalayan Borderlands (2017)
TBB199Y Food for Thought (2013-14)
RLG206Y Introduction to Buddhist Traditions (2003 | 2004 | 2006 | 2008 | 2014)
RLG236H Women and Asian Religions (2003)
RLG299Y Research Opportunity: Tibetan Medical History (2004)
RLG299Y Research Opportunity: Death and Dying in Buddhism (2006)
RLG371H Buddhism in East Asia (2004)
RLG372H Tibetan Buddhism (2004)
RLG373H Himalayan Buddhism (2016)
RLG492H Readings in Tibetan Buddhist Literature (2004 | 2006)
RLG494Y Independent Studies in Buddhism and Medicine (2004)
RLG261/494Y Classical Tibetan (2008-09, 2011, 2016-17, 2017-20)
Various independent study courses.
Graduate Courses
RLG3419H Teaching Buddhist Studies (2020)
RLG3454H The Kālacakra Tantra (2018)
RLG3490H Buddhist Auto/Biography (2016)
RLG404H/1200Y Method and Theory in the Study of Religion (2006 | 2007 | 2008)
RLG484H History and Historiography of Buddhism (2004 | 2014)
RLG492H/3454Y Readings in Tibetan Buddhist Literature (2004 | 2006 | 2015)
RLG3458H Rhetoric and Discipline in Buddhist Studies (2007)
RLG3456 Tantra in Tibet: The Gastrosemantics of Ritual (2009)
RLG3480 Religion and Magic in Asia (2010)
Theses Supervised
Doctoral Students (Active)
Thinley Gyatso, Buddhist hermeneutics
Kunga Sherab, Buddhist philosophy
Amber Moore, Newar Buddhism
Nick Field, Tibetan Dunhuang Buddhism
Andrew Erlich, Tibetan medical history
Barbara Hazelton, Tibetan epic literature
Ian Turner, Newar domestic life
Andrea Wollein, Newar Buddhism
Diane Fereig (University of Alberta), Tibetan yoga
MA Students (Active)
Tenzin Tsundue, Buddhism and psychology
Doctoral Students (Completed)
Jennifer Bright, Tibetan Buddhism and medicine
Sean Hillman, Medical ethics in South Asia
Matt King, Buddhist revivalism in Mongolia
Ben Wood, Cosmology and soteriology in Tibetan Buddhism
Sarah Richardson, Tibetan Buddhist art history
Usha Khosla, Buddha-nature in Indian Buddhism
MA Students (Completed)
Molly Mignault, Religion and waste in Himalayan India
Daigengna Duoer, Mongolian Buddhism
Annie Heckman, Tibetan Buddhism
Kunga Sherab, Buddhist philosophy
Nick Field, Tibetan Dunhuang Buddhism
Andrew Erlich, Tibetan medical history
Barbara Hazelton, Tibetan epic literature
Sean Hillman, End-of-life care in Buddhism
Helen Craigie, End-of-life practices in Buddhism
Matt King, Buddhist revivalism in Mongolia
Rory Lindsay, Indo-Tibetan Buddhist philosophy
Ryan Jones, Tibetan historical thinking
Creon Corea, Buddhism in Sri Lanka
Teaching Projects
Mapping Buddhist Sites
Mapping Buddhist Sites was run in a year-long Introduction to Buddhism course. Course development was sponsored by the U of T Arts & Science Student Experience Fund. Throughout this course, undergraduate Field Teams developed partnerships with diverse Toronto communities as they conducted research on Buddhist institutions and practices in the area. Students created a web portal..
Practicing Oral History
Inspired by Digital Humanities models of working collaboratively on research projects uniting students and community members, Matt Price (History) and Frances Garrett (Study of Religion) taught two undergraduate courses in the fall of 2011 that engaged students in the practice of oral history using a range of new media technologies. The two courses were designed..
Disposition: A Role-playing Game
This Introduction to Buddhism course was designed around a year-long role playing game called Disposition. Students began the year assigned a character (e.g., scholar, ritualist, farmer, trader, doctor), and as a class we imagined ourselves to be living together in a Buddhist village in the Himalayas. Periodically events would occur in the village (hailstorm, epidemic..
University of Toronto Outdoors
I have been involved in developing a new initiative called University of Toronto Outdoors, which aims to bring together instructors, students, and community members interested in engaging forms of teaching and learning that may be described as place-based, land-based, or expeditionary studies. This project is for those who teach and learn in courses and special..
Classical Tibetan Online
This year-long online course, in two modules, is available freely online at Nettle Tibetan. Students in the Nettle courses begin by learning fundamentals of basic grammar and key vocabulary, and move on to reading and translating texts in Classical Tibetan. Units teach content relevant to producing scholarship in Religious Studies, History, or Linguistics using sources in..
Interdependence
This course was a third-year undergraduate course taught in the fall of 2019. What follows here is a summary of some aspects of the course, taken from the syllabus. I discuss the course in its planning stage in this podcast interview, and you can listen to students discuss their experiences in the course six months..