English Dharma Talk

Title:A Journey of Buddhism: Religion, Dharma and Contemporary Society

佛教之旅:宗教、佛法與當代社會

Speaker:Prof. Teng Wei Jen 鄧偉仁博士

Date:30th January 2016(Saturday)

Time:8pm~9.30pm

Venue:1st Floor,  SKY Hotel, Kota Kinabalu.

Contact persons:Ji Song +60 14 7379 569(5pm~8pm), Jing Ya+60 10 345 6000 (1pm~5pm)

Organizer:

Santavana Forest Hermitage

Co-organizers:

Pu Tuo Buddhist Temple

KK Tzer Ying Buddhism Research Society

Buddhist Missionary Society Malaysia

Prof. Teng is currently teaching at Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts, Taiwan. He completed his BA degree in Pali and Theravada Buddhism at University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka and an MA degree in Sanskrit Language at University of Poona, India. He then enrolled in the other MA program in the Religious Studies at University of Chicago, and lastly received his Ph.D. in the Religious Studies at Harvard University. Prof. Teng’s research interests include Buddhist Theory of Mind and Meditation, Intellectual History of Chinese Buddhism, and more recently the Problematic of Modernity in the Development of Contemporary Buddhism.

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