12/13/20: Sunday Morning Special Guest Speaker Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi
A Wider Approach to Buddhist Ethics: The Challenge of our Present Crisis
December 13, 2020 (9:30 AM - 12 PM ET) via Zoom
Under the critical conditions of our time, is the traditional approach to Buddhist ethics fully adequate? Or do we need a broader platform of ethical engagement, one rooted in Buddhist tradition but bold enough and flexible enough to face head-on the momentous moral challenges posed by our multifaceted contemporary crisis? These are some of the questions that our speaker, Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi, will explore in this talk.
ABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKER
Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi is an American Buddhist monk originally from New York City. He holds a PhD in philosophy from Claremont University (1972). After completing his university studies he traveled to Sri Lanka, where he received novice ordination in 1972 and full ordination in 1973, both under the Sri Lankan scholar-monk, Ven. Balangoda Ananda Maitreya (1896-1998). From 1984 until 2002 he was the editor for the Buddhist Publication Society in Kandy, and its president from 1988 until 2010.
Ven. Bodhi has many important publications to his credit, either as author, translator, or editor. These include The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha (Majjhima Nikaya, 1995), The Connected Discourses of the Buddha (Samyutta Nikaya, 2000), The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha (Anguttara Nikaya, 2012), The Buddha’s Teachings on Social and Communal Harmony (2015), and the Suttanipāta: An Ancient Collection of the Buddha’s Discourses (2017). (All from Wisdom Publications, Boston.)
