Topic: “Traveling with Ven. Tanxu, Meeting with Ven. Lokto: Finding Modern China Through the Lives of Two Buddhist Monks”
Lecturer: Professor James Carter
Date: 2012.9.9 (Sunday), 2-4 pm
Place: Woo Ju Memorial Library, 2020 Route 301, Carmel, NY 10512
Professor James Carter, the author of last year Oxford University publication: “Heart of Buddha, Heart of China”, will be sharing his insights with his unique experiences about the spiritual practice in the development of China. Intended to write a scholarly work analysing the role of cultural and social transition, especially Buddhism, in China. He found Ven. Tanxu (倓虛大師), a fasinating figure represented millions of Chinese who shaped the history. While doing research on Ven. Tanxu (倓虛大師), he met Ven. Lokto, and started his journey in various monasteries in Harbin, Qingdao, Yingkou, Hong Kong, Ningbo and Tiantai–as well as New York– to conduct research……
Professor James Carter
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Topic: Karma in Yogacara (業與唯識)
Date: 2012.6.10 (Sun.) 2-4 pm
Speaker: Harvard University Professor Dan Lusthaus ( 哈佛大學教授悅家丹)
Place: Woo Ju Memorial Library
Prof. Dan Lusthaus, associate of the Department of South Asian Studies at Harvard University, specializes in Yogacara Buddhism, and is the author of the influential book Buddhist Phenomenology.A Philiosophical Investigation of Yogacara Buddhism and the Ch’eng Wei-shi Lun. Yogacara, a key component of Mahayana, emphasizes analysis and development of mind and consciousness. We are honored to have him visit us and introduce us this significant school and a few concepts of Karma associated with it. For more information, please visit his website – Yogācāra Buddhism Research Association.
Contact: (845) 225 -1819, ext 103; email: library@baus.org
Address: 2020 Route 301, Carmel, NY 10512Library
Hours: Saturday 1 – 5pm, Sunday 10 am – 4 pm
Work Wisely with the Life We Have
Date: 2012/4/8 (Sunday) 2–4pm
Place: Woo Ju Memorial Library
Speaker: Dr. Paul Fulton
For more than 40 years of practice in Buddhism and career in psychotherapy. How does Dr. Paul Fulton bring these two worlds together? What can we learn from him to work wisely and benefit ourselves and other beings?
Contact: library@baus.org; (845) 225-1819, ext 103
Dr. Fulton’s interest in Buddhist meditation and psychology began in his teens. At age 20 he received jukai initiation into Zen (taking refuge and receiving the precepts), and continues to practice Zen and vipassana. He earned a doctoral degree from Harvard University where he focused on comparative human development and the integration of Western and Buddhist psychology. In the mid-1990s he helped found the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy to train mental health professionals in the principles and practices of Buddhist psychology. He served as the president of IMP for 10 years, and was formerly a board member of the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. He has a private practice of psychotherapy in Newton, Massachusetts.
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Topic: “Putting Compassion in Action: the Dharma as a force for the greater good”
菩提長老 《慈心慈行: 佛法與公益》
Date: June 19 2011, Sunday, 2 pm
Place: Woo Ju Memorial Library
Speaker: Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi
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Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi is an American Buddhist monk since late 1972. He was the editor for theBuddhist Publication Society in Kandy, Sri Lanka, from 1984 until 2002. He has edited Ven. Nyanamoli’s translation of the Majjhima Nikaya (Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha), translated the Samyutta Nikaya (Connected Discourses of the Buddha), and compiled an anthology of suttas from the Pali Canon (In the Buddha’s Words). His works are studied across different continents. His understanding and teaching about Buddhism are appreciated by many Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. In recent years, he has turned his attention to the issue of world poverty.
In 2008, together with his students, they founded “Buddhist Global Relief” (BGR) to assist people throughout the world afflicted with chronic hunger. BGR has worked together with other organizations on many projects in South Asia, Central Asia, and Africa. Last year (2010), Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi, representing Buddhist Global Relief, attended a meeting at the White House to prepare a framework for interfaith collaboration on global development, health, and poverty alleviation.
In this talk, Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi will speak about various ways that people can express compassion and put it into action. In the end of the talk, he will also give a slide show presentation on the work of Buddhist Global Relief.
you are welcome to sign up for the class in advance.
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Fees: The program is open to the public without charge. Donations are welcome.
美國佛教會和如圖書館
The Buddhist Association of the United States – Woo Ju Memorial Library
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