Emptiness and Dependent Arising
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Thursday, May 21
7:00pm – 9:00pm
We suffer needlessly because we do not see things as they
are. But in the Dharma things are shown to be empty. Is
emptiness some sort of mystical nothingness? Or just another
way to say that all things are connected? But in that case,
why call it "emptiness?" Emptiness seems to be a daunting
topic, but liberation depends on deep familiarity with
it. Here is a starting point.
All are welcome.
Guy Newland is Professor of Religion of the Department of
Philosophy and Religion at Central Michigan University,
where he has taught since 1988. He holds a Ph.D. in the
history of religions from the University of Virginia,
where he studied Tibetan Buddhism with Jeffrey
Hopkins. Newland has also studied with many Tibetan
scholars in the U.S. and India.
He is a translator and co-editor of the three-volume
translation The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment,
and is the author of several books on Tibetan Buddhism,
including The Two Truths,
Appearance and Reality,
and Introduction to Emptiness.
More recently he has translated and edited From Here to Enlightenment
by the Dalai Lama and founded the Central Michigan Sangha.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Newland
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