![]() ![]() This lecture will explore how Religion, specifically Buddhism and Christianity, in dialogue with one another, may offer a vision and empowerment for healing our wounded selves and our wounded world. In the face of all this, Religion may offer a source of solace and security, with its doctrines of transcendence, including the promise of a better afterlife, thus tending to veer the attention of their adherents from the urgent tasks of our Earth community. There is also an increasing sense of a loss of meaning and hope for the future among the youth. Our global community today is in a critical moment of our history, with impending ecological destruction, violent conflicts between sectors of our human family that needlessly destroy many lives, a yawning gap between the multitudes of those living in poverty and the very few who are able to live in luxury. Ruben Habito will deliver a talk entitled “Beyond Transcendence Back to Earth: A Challenge to Religions in our Time of Global Crisis.” ![]() Ruben Habito, and held on Friday March 31, from 4-6pm, both in person at the Jodo Shinshu Center and virtually.ĭr. The Institute of Buddhist Studies is pleased to announced the Taitetsu Unno Memorial lecture, to be delivered by Dr. ![]()
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