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Ticket Information

  • Free Admission

Dates

  • Thu 2 Feb 2017, 10:00am–4:00pm
  • Fri 3 Feb 2017, 10:00am–4:00pm
  • Sat 4 Feb 2017, 10:00am–4:00pm

Restrictions

All Ages

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Buddhism_Australia

The 6th International Conference Buddhism and Australia will be hosted by Edith Cowan University School of Arts and Humanities.

This year`s conference brings together 18 speakers from UK, Finland, India, Mongolia, Thailand, Bangladesh, Australia, China, South Korea, Nepal.

A diverse range of topics will be discussed including:

Buddhist View on Environment
Buddhism in Bangladesh
From Cover Girls to Monastic Banking
Lay and monastic economic ethics in pre-modern and contemporary Tibetan culture
What's a Buddhist to Do?
Explorations in Nihilism
Buddhagaya, the Light of Asia and Struggle for Spiritual Mastery
The Ten Kinds of Equanimity (Upekha)
A Critical Quest for the “Dharma Lineage” of Chin-Nikāya, the Buddhist Sangha Founded by Chinese Immigrant Monks in Thailand
Early Buddhist Critique of the Brahminical Theory of Varṇadharma and Svadharma

The speakers will expand on Negotiating Belief in a Tibetan Buddhist Forum, Buddhist Philosophy and Mindfulness, Need of value based education in the twenty-first century: Perspectives of Buddhism, What is Happiness, The Transmission of Buddhism in the West etc.

It is a great opportunity to engage with Buddhist history and philosophy and also meet and hear from Buddhists, monks, lay Buddhists and scholars in an inviting and relaxed setting.

Registration is essential. Please contact info@buddhismandaustralia.com for more information.

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