Buddhism for thinkers to meet beginning mid-September
Dr. Chang-Seong Hong, Philosophy, invites you to join him and discuss together the 10 articles he has been writing on Buddhist philosophy. The topics of these articles are as follows:
BUDDHISM FOR THINKERS
1. Non-self : an analytic approach
2. Dependent arising = emptiness
3. Anti-essentialism: the exclusion of the other
4. The concept of enlightenment
5. Enlightenment: gradual or sudden?
6. Enlightenment and compassion
7. Transmigration and liberation
8. A verbal teaching of the non-verbal truth of zen
9. Zen and the paradox of enlightenment
10. Zen and the private language argument
This discussion group will meet every Wednesday from 5:15 to 6:30 p.m. for 10 weeks (one article per week) from mid-September until late November. Please let Dr. Hong know at cshong@mnstate.edu if you have any questions and/or if you want to join this group.