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 […]

Hong’s edited Korean-language essays accepted for publication

Chang-Seong Hong, Philosophy, collected and edited six Korean-language essays on Buddhism written by six different authors and had the article accepted for publication in Seoul Korea. He titled this collection “Twelve Letters and Six Essays” and wrote its “Introduction.” The collection will appear in Buddhist Review, a Korean-language Buddhist magazine, in December 2014. Hong contributed his own essay for this […]

Chang-Seong Hong presents Buddhist lecture March 10

Chang-Seong Hong, Philosophy, will present alecture on “Empty Persons and Morality–A Buddhist Approach” Thursday, March 10 at 4 p.m. in Center for Business CB 105. Please notice the time change: it’s 4 p.m., not 7 p.m. as previously scheduled. Hong’s lecture is a part of the 2010-2011 MSUM Deans’ Lecture Series.