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Mangalam Research Center has been host to various seminars, symposiums, panel discussions and talks throughout our history and will continue to provide opportunities for conversation about Buddhist Studies to fulfill the vision of research, translation and ultimately transmission of Dharma to the West.
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Resisting Settler Colonialism as Buddhist Allies to Indigenous Peoples - Natalie Avalos
Contemporary Indigenous movements for sovereignty, like Standing Rock in 2016, have highlighted the ongoing violence settler colonialism perpetuates against lands and peoples. In this talk, I'll discuss how Buddhists can draw from Buddhist teachings and shared land-based ethics to stand in solidarity with Native and Indigenous peoples. By connecting the dots between settler ideologies, the dispossession of peoples/lands, and ecological harm, I'll outline the ways Buddhist praxis can facilitate decolonial praxis. This will give us an opportunity to explore how Buddhist scholars and practitioners may use this period of quarantine and intersecting crises to mobilize in the service of ecological wellness and collective liberation.
Tomer Persico on the Jewish Meditation Tradition: Past and Present
Dr. Tomer Persico is a research fellow and Scholar in Residence of the Shalom Hartman Institute based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Koret Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies at U.C. Berkeley.
Why does traditional Theravada meditation look like tantra?
Recovering pre-modern technologies of transformation. A talk and conversation with Dr. Kate Crosby