Buddhism and Social Justice
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Program Description:
Speaking from her personal experience, Jan Willis, Professor of Religious Studies Emerita at Wesleyan University, explores the crucial practice of nonviolence—the heart of selfless and loving engagement with others for long-lasting social and societal change. Dr. Willis brings her almost fifty years of Buddhist study and practice to this discussion of Buddhism and social justice.
Speaking from her personal experience, Jan Willis, Professor of Religious Studies Emerita at Wesleyan University, explores the crucial practice of nonviolence—the heart of selfless and loving engagement with others for long-lasting social and societal change. Dr. Willis brings her almost fifty years of Buddhist study and practice to this discussion of Buddhism and social justice.
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About Dr. Jan Willis:
Jan Willis’s distinguished career as a scholar and teacher of Buddhism spans over fifty years, including thirty-six years at Wesleyan University. She comes from Birmingham, Alabama where she marched with Dr. King in 1963. She first met Tibetan Buddhists in India and Nepal when she was nineteen. While traveling through Asia during the early 1970s, she became a student of Lama Thubten Yeshe, who encouraged her academic pursuits. She went on to earn degrees in philosophy and Indic and Buddhist Studies from Cornell and Columbia Universities and has published widely on Tibetan Buddhism, women and Buddhism, race and Buddhism, meditation, and hagiography. In 2000 Time magazine named Willis one of six “spiritual innovators for the new millennium.”
She is the author of The Diamond Light: An Introduction to Tibetan Buddhist Meditation; On Knowing Reality: The Tattvartha Chapter of Asanga’s Bodhisattvabhumi; Enlightened Beings: Life Stories from the Ganden Oral Tradition; Dreaming Me: Black, Baptist, and Buddhist—One Woman's Spiritual Journey; and the editor of Feminine Ground: Essays on Women and Tibet.
Jan Willis’s distinguished career as a scholar and teacher of Buddhism spans over fifty years, including thirty-six years at Wesleyan University. She comes from Birmingham, Alabama where she marched with Dr. King in 1963. She first met Tibetan Buddhists in India and Nepal when she was nineteen. While traveling through Asia during the early 1970s, she became a student of Lama Thubten Yeshe, who encouraged her academic pursuits. She went on to earn degrees in philosophy and Indic and Buddhist Studies from Cornell and Columbia Universities and has published widely on Tibetan Buddhism, women and Buddhism, race and Buddhism, meditation, and hagiography. In 2000 Time magazine named Willis one of six “spiritual innovators for the new millennium.”
She is the author of The Diamond Light: An Introduction to Tibetan Buddhist Meditation; On Knowing Reality: The Tattvartha Chapter of Asanga’s Bodhisattvabhumi; Enlightened Beings: Life Stories from the Ganden Oral Tradition; Dreaming Me: Black, Baptist, and Buddhist—One Woman's Spiritual Journey; and the editor of Feminine Ground: Essays on Women and Tibet.
Registration:
Advanced registration is required.
We offer all Dharma teachings and center events on a “dana” basis. This means we’re grateful for your generosity but there is no required cost to attend and no one is turned away for lack of funds.
Suggested donation amounts are provided, and we welcome you to offer what you can to help us sustain our programming and make the dharma and events like this possible. And of course, ordained sangha (ordained nuns and monks) are always welcome free of charge.
If you're not donating at this time but would like to attend, please email [email protected].
Advanced registration is required.
We offer all Dharma teachings and center events on a “dana” basis. This means we’re grateful for your generosity but there is no required cost to attend and no one is turned away for lack of funds.
Suggested donation amounts are provided, and we welcome you to offer what you can to help us sustain our programming and make the dharma and events like this possible. And of course, ordained sangha (ordained nuns and monks) are always welcome free of charge.
If you're not donating at this time but would like to attend, please email [email protected].