ENVIRONMENT TALK "Buddhist Awakening in the Middle of the Climate Crisis" Spiritual Ecology Lecture at Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate > 6pm on 26th November 2016

Dr. Deane Curtin

Time : 6:00 pm Add to Calendar 26/11/2016 18:00 26/11/2016 19:30 Asia/Kolkata ENVIRONMENT TALK "Buddhist Awakening in the Middle of the Climate Crisis" Spiritual Ecology Lecture Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/11/environment-talk-buddhist-awakening-in.html Lecture Room - 1, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY

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Venue : Lecture Room - 1, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description : ENVIRONMENT TALK "Buddhist Awakening in the Middle of the Climate Crisis" Spiritual Ecology Lecture.

Speaker: Dr. Deane Curtin, Hanson-Peterson Endowed Chair of Ethics and Professor of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College. He is the author of several books and many articles. His research now focuses on Buddhist social ethics and the ethics of climate change, supported by a Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship. He is based at Tibet House, Delhi.

This talk sketches out a Buddhist environmental ethic, the path of an eco-sattva. It then delves into Buddhist social ethics in search of practical advice on responding to planetary suffering. Questions include: what does the climate crisis look like from a Buddhist perspective? And, does the cultivation of traditional Buddhist “perfections” (such as patience as the antidote to anger) help us see what a practical Buddhist environmental ethic might look like? 

Collaboration: Tibet House

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