Meditation

On November 10, 2011, Roger Haight, SJ, scholar-in-residence at Union Theological Seminary, explained how the worldview of Ignatius Loyola shapes a particular approach to and understanding of Christian meditation. The lecture was the second in the series...

Swami Tyagananda made a presentation on February 14 as part of the Center for the Study of World Religions' "Intellectual Worlds of Meditation" series. Swami Tyagananda is a Hindu monk (sannyasi) of the Ramakrishna Order and head of the Order's branch in...

On February 10, 2014, Mark Nathan, Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies at the University of Buffalo, was a guest speaker at the Center for the Study of World Religions. Professor Nathan spoke about Buddhist propaganda in modern Korea.

Sung-bae Park, the founder and director of the Center for Korean Studies at Stony Brook University, delivered this year's Ahnkook Fund for Korean Buddhism Lecture.Many Korean Zen Buddhists are now crying out for help. They seem to be in the throes of a...

Thomas Coburn, President Emeritus at Naropa University and Visiting Scholar at Brown University, delivered this presentation on September 26, 2012 as part of the CSWR series "The Intellectual Worlds of Meditation."

This panel discussion, the last of the semester in the CSWR series Intellectual Worlds of Meditation, featured four HDS students: Leslie Hubbard, a first year MTS Buddhist studies student, former Buddhist nun in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, and...