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Name : Donald K. Swearer
Email Address : dswearer@hds.harvard.edu
Current Position : Distinguished Visiting Fellow Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School
Education :
Princeton University, Ph.D., 1967; M.A., 1965; A.B., 1956
Yale University Divinity School, S.T.M., 1963; B.D., 1962
Buddhist Projects/Experiences :
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Buddhism, Harvard Divinity School, 2004-2010
Editorial positions:
Consulting Editor, Buddhist-Christian Studies, 1981-present.
Editorial Board, Curzon Press, Critical Studies in Buddhism, 2000-present
Advisory Board, The Chulalongkorn Journal of Buddhist Studies, 2002-present
Regional Associate Editor, World Fellowship of Buddhists Review, 2003-present
Advisory Board, Journal of the World Buddhist University, 2006-present |
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His Buddhist name THICH TAM DUC, passport name NGUYEN XUAN KINH, born on June 07, 1953 in Thûa Thiên, Vietnam.
In Vietnam he completed his high school in 1972, B.A. in Buddhist Studies in 1988 and M.A. in History in 1991.
Then in Delhi University, India he completed his M.A. in Buddhist Studies in 1993, Ph. D. in Buddhist Studies in 1997 with the thesis "Thien of Vietnamese Buddhism under the Tran Dynasty", Diploma in Pali language in 1998, Diploma in Chinese Language in 1998, and Ph.D. in Philosophy in 2003 with the thesis "Philosophy of the Saddharmapundarika-sutra".
After returning back to Vietnam in 2003 he is now a member of The Dharma Executive Council, Vietnam Buddhist Sangha, Vice Rector of Vietnam Buddhist Research Institute and Vice Rector & Lecturer of Vietnam Buddhist University in Hochiminh City.
In Vietnam he has a number of writings in magazines, electronic newspapers or in worshops and conferences.
He has attended International Conferences since 2004 in India, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, New Zealand, Australia, and the Philippines.
Especially, he is invited by the United Nations to speak at the UN Headquarters in New York, USA on the occasion of Vesak 2011 on May 16, 2011 with the paper "Conflict and Illusions".
He published the book "Buddhist Solutions" in Hanoi, 2008. And another book "The Ekayana Philosophy of the Saddharmapundarika-sutra" is being published by him in Delhi, India, this year 2012. |
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Vietnam
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Thailand
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Professor Damien Keown
Education : Damien Keown took a BA degree in Religious Studies at Lancaster University before completing a doctoral thesis at the Oriental Institute, Oxford in 1986.
Buddhist Projects/Experiences : Damien Keown is Emeritus Professor of Buddhist Ethics at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. His main research interests are theoretical and applied aspects of Buddhist ethics, with particular reference to contemporary issues. He is the author of many books and articles and in 1994 he founded The Journal of Budddhist Ethics with Charles S. Prebish, with whom he also co-founded the Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism Series, and co-edited the Routledge Encyclopedia of Buddhism. |
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