Attending to the Body in Meditation: Cortical Dynamics in a Trial of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
on October 15, 2009
Dr. Catherine Kerr, Director of the Program in the Neuroscience of Meditation, Healing, and the Sense of Touch of the Osher Research Center of the Harvard Medical School
Yoga-Sutras of Patanjali
on March 8, 2009
Chip Hartranft, Director of the Arlington Center
Contemplative Inquiry: When Knowing Becomes Love
February 26, 2009
Professor Arthur Zajonc, Professor of Physics at AmherstArthur Zajonc, is the author of Catching the Light: The Entwined History of Light and Mind, several co-authored volumes including The Quantum Challenge, Goethe’s Way of Science, The New Physics and Cosmology: Dialogues with the Dalai Lama. His new work, Meditation As Contemplative Inquiry: When Knowing Becomes Love was published in November.
-Sponsored by Brown University, and the Contemplative Studies Initiative
An Evening of Classical Indian Music
December 11, 2008
Srivinas Reddy, Brown '98, Sitar
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, 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.
-Sponsored by Brown University, and the Contemplative Studies Initiative
Chinese Medicine: Ancient Principles and Modern Applications
on Thursday, October 30, 2008, 8-10p
Professor Heiner Fruehauf
Heiner Fruehauf, is a scholar and practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He received the Ph.D. in classical Chinese thought from the University of Chicago in 1990 where he studied the use of symbolism in the transmission of Han dynasty (202 BCE-220 CE) medical knowledge. He is currently writing a monograph on the classical foundations of the clinical profession of Chinese medicine. In addition to his academic research, Dr Fruehauf is a licensed practitioner of acupuncture and he is the founding professor of the School of Classical Chinese Medicine, at the National College of Natural Medicine in Portland, OR.
-Sponsored by the Contemplative Studies Scholarly Concentration Program of the Warren Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University, and the Contemplative Studies Initiative
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Do Buddhist Practices Offer a Science of Healing?: Thoughts on Contemporary Representations of Buddhist Philosophy and Meditation
on Thursday, October 16, 2008, 4-6p
David Gardiner, Associate Professor of Religion at Colorado College
(Co-sponsored by the Depts. of Religious Studies and East Asian Studies)
101 Years Old and Still Going Strong: The Tathagatha Zen of Roshi Joshu Sasaki
on Friday, October 10, 2008, 4-6p
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
on Friday, September 26, 2008, 4-6p
Zoketsu Norman Fischer, Former Abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center
Sudden and Gradual: Paradigms of Awakening in Chinese and Japanese Buddhism
on Thursday, September 18, 2008, 8-9p
Mark Unno, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Oregon
Mark Unno is a renowned scholar of Japanese Buddhism and Japanese Psychotherapy. He received the Ph.D. from Stanford and has taught at Carleton University and at Brown University. He is the author of Shingon Refractions: Myoe and the Mantra of Light (Wisdom: 2004) and the editor of Buddhism and Psychotherapy Across Cultures (Wisdom, 2006), as well as numerous article in scholarly journals. He is currently Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Oregon.
(Co-sponsored by the Depts. of Religious Studies and East Asian Studies)