Undergraduate Courses
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)
RLG494Y Classical Tibetan I (2008-09, 2011, 2016-17, 2017-18)
Various independent study courses.
Graduate Courses
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
MA Students (Active)
Daigengna Duoer, Mongolian Buddhism
Doctoral Students (Active)
Annie Heckman, Tibetan Buddhism
Kunga Sherab, Buddhist philosophy
Larissa Fardelos, Bengali tantra
Nick Field, Tibetan and Chinese Dunhuang Buddhism
Andrew Erlich, Indian/Tibetan Buddhist tantra
Barbara Hazelton, Tibetan epic literature
Sean Hillman, Medical ethics in South Asia
MA Students (Completed)
Annie Heckman, Tibetan Buddhism
Kunga Sherab, Buddhist philosophy
Nick Field, Tibetan and Chinese Dunhuang Buddhism
Andrew Erlich, Indian/Tibetan Buddhist tantra
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,
Doctoral Students (Completed)
Jennifer Bright, Tibetan Buddhism and medicine
Matt King, Buddhist revivalism in Mongolia
Ben Wood, Cosmology and soteriology in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism
Sarah Richardson, Tibetan Buddhist art history
Usha Khosla, Buddha-nature in Indian Buddhism
Teaching Projects
Classical Tibetan Online
This year-long course is organized around a task-based language teaching (TBLT) model, with students moving through weekly modules focused on project-based tasks to be solved by the learning community as language skills develop. Students will begin by learning the Tibetan script, fundamentals of basic grammar and key vocabulary, and move on to reading and translating..
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..