Upcoming Event:
An Evening of Classical Indian Music
On Thursday December 11, 2008, at TBA, in Smith-Buonano 106
Srinivas Reddy is an Indian-American sitarist, guitarist and composer. In 1998 he came under the tutelage of Pandit Partha Chatterjee, a direct disciple of the late sitar maestro Pandit Nikhil Banerjee. Since then Srinivas has rigorously trained with his teacher in the traditional guru-shishya style. Both here and abroad he continues to imbibe and practice the subtleties of the Hindustani musical tradition.
Srinivas is a professional concert sitarist and has given numerous recitals in the US and India. He is also an experienced teacher and educator. Srinivas holds a BA from Brown University and an MA from UC Berkeley, both in South Asian Studies. He has taught several college level courses on both South Asian literature and music.
Sameer Gupta will accompany Srinivas Reddy on the Tabla.
Founder of the critically acclaimed SF based Improvisational Ensemble The Supplicants, Sameer Gupta is an original musical voice in jazz, world, and fusion music. He has studied percussion for most of his life, beginning in Tokyo, Japan 1985, and since then has performed on drumset at Jazz at Lincoln Center, tabla at Asagiri Jam in Japan and various Jazz and World music festivals across the nation and abroad playing both tabla and drumset simultaneously.
Sameer began his studies of North Indian Classical Tabla in 2002, and has the honor of studying with tabla maestro Pandit Anindo Chatterjee. Sameer has the honor of being associated with many great artists including Marc Cary, Prasant Radhkrishnan, David Ewell, Pt. Chitresh Das, Parijat Desai, Stephen Kent, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Sekou Sundiata and numerous other fine artists.
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Professor Harold Roth, director of the Contemplative Studies Initiative, gave a lecture on "Against Cognitive Imperialism" at the Pacific School of Religion. He was interviewed on Pacifica Radio regarding the lecture and the Contemplative Studies Initiative. Click here to listen to the radio interview.
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Do Buddhist Practices Offer a Science of Healing?: Thoughts on Contemporary Representations of Buddhist Philosophy and Meditation
David Gardiner, Associate Professor of Religion at Colorado College
101 Years Old and Still Going Strong: The Tathagatha Zen of Roshi Joshu Sasaki
Seiju Bob Mammoser, Abbot of the Albuqerque Zen Center
Sailing Home: Using the Wisdom of Homer's Odyssey to Navigate Life's Perils and Pitfalls: A Talk and Book Signing
Zoketsu Norman Fischer, Former Abbot of the SF Zen Center
Sudden and Gradual: Paradigm of Awakening in Chinese and Japanese Buddhism
Prof. Mark Unno, Univ. of Oregon
To view videos of select past Contemplative Studies lectures, please visit our videos page. Past videos include:
Tibetan Medicine in Contemporary Nepal
Prof. Sienna Craig - Brown '95, Dartmouth College
A Cognitive Psychologist's Analysis of Contemplative Practice: Theoretical Information Processing Models of the Mind, Brain, and Meditation
Prof. David E. Meyer, University of Michigan
The Present Moment: Psychological and Buddhist Perspectives
Harvey B. Aronson, Ph.D., LCSW
Making Waves and Riding the Currents: Activism and the Practice of Wisdom.
Charles Halpern
Contemplative Dimensions to End of Life Care
Zen Master Soeng Hyang (Barbara Rhodes)
Deathbed Visions and Near-Death Experiences
Willoughby Britton, Ph.D.
Naada Yoga: Raga Music as Contemplative Practice
Srinivas Reddy
Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and
Fearlessness in the Presence of Death
Roshi Joan Halifax