Date: Tue 8 Apr 2025, 7.30pm – 9:00pm
Venue: Buddhist Library
Speaker: Prof. Mark Siderits
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About this Programme
We are delighted to have Professor Mark Siderits give this Dharma talk on Tuesday 8 Apr 2025. Professor Siderits is Professor of Philosophy and inaugural Mee Toh Foundation Visiting Professor in Buddhist Studies at the National University of Singapore.
Talk Synopsis
Buddhist practice is said to include extending feelings of loving kindness to all sentient beings—including those we might think of as our worst enemies. Why? This lecture will explore connections between the cultivation of loving kindness and two core Buddhist tenets: that there is no self, and that our ordinary ways of living our lives inevitably lead to suffering.
About Prof. Mark Siderits
Professor Mark Siderits was trained in Asian and Western philosophy at the University of Hawaii and Yale University. He has taught both Asian and Western philosophy, for many years at Illinois State University, and most recently as Professor of philosophy at Seoul National University. He is currently the Mee Toh Foundation Visiting Professor in Buddhist Studies at the National University of Singapore, and is the first person to hold that position.
Much of Prof Siderits’ work aims at building bridges between the classical Indian tradition and contemporary philosophy, by using insights from one tradition to cast light on problems arising in the other.
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