14-26 August 2010 - Pali Summer School with Prof Richard Gombrich

Cost £475

The Society for the Wider Understanding of the Buddhist Tradition (So-Wide) offers an intensive Pali course this summer, 14-26 August inclusive.

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1 -14 September 2010 - Meditation in Yogacara Buddhism with Prof Florin Deleanu

Cost £40

The course will offer an introduction to the formation and early history of the meditative path of spiritual cultivation in the Yogacara tradition (also known as Yogacara-VijÒanavada or Cittamatra), one of the major Mahayana schools in the Indian Buddhism. We shall first survey some of the earlier Sravakayana and Mahayana ideas which influenced the formation of the Yogacara path of spiritual cultivation. Then we shall focus on this path as it appears depicted in some of the key texts of the school, such as the Bodhisattvabhumi, Sa.dhinirmocanasutra, Mahayanasutrala.kara, Madhyantavibhagabha.ya, Mahayanasa.graha, etc. Throughout the course, attention will also be paid to the basic Yogacara doctrines which are closely connected to its spiritual praxis.

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March 4-5, 2010 at University of Oxford, Department of Physiology, Sherrington Room

Cosponsored by Physiology Department and Oriental Institute of the University of Oxford, Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies, and Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies

Denis Noble: "Systems Biology and the Concept of No-Self (anātman)"

Laurent Nottale: "Particules d'espace" & "Développement Humain Et Loi Log-Périodique"

Charles Auffray: Systems Biology and Relativity

Mark G. Williams: Mindfulness In Clinical Psychology, Mindfulness, Depression and Modes of Mind & Mindfulness and Psychological Process

Michel Bitbol: Buddhism and Physics: Interdependence, from classical causality to quantum entanglement

Full conference schedule

March 11th (Thursday: week 8)

5.00pm

Florey Room, Wolfson College, Linton Road, Oxford, OX2 6UD

OCBS/Wolfson College Buddhist Studies Seminar