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Amanda Lucia Lecture

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Romanticizing the Premodern: Charting Indices of Indigenous and Asian Religions in Contemporary American Spirituality

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

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Aftershock: Post Earthquake Nepal

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Slide show and talk by documentary and fine art photographer, Kevin Bubriski. Kevin’s fine art photographs are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. He was recipient of Guggenheim, Fulbright and NEA fellowships. Sweta Gurung, Founder/Director–Himalayan Crossroads, and Adrian Smith (’97.5), will discuss their work in rural Nepal as well as Kathmandu Valley providing relief for village people displaced by the recent earthquakes.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Sean M. Smith Lecture: Science, Culture, and the Modern Mindfulness Movement: The Near and Far Enemies of Contemplative

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How should we understand the relation between Buddhist meditation and neuroscience and philosophy? This talk seeks to chart out a middle path between ‘Buddhist Neuro-Apologetics’ and cultural relativism—drawing upon Kant and two classical Indian Buddhist philosophers, Buddhaghosa and Santaraksita.

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McCardell Bicentennial Hall 220

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