BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//91㽶Ƶ - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:91㽶Ƶ X-ORIGINAL-URL: X-WR-CALDESC:Events for 91㽶Ƶ REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241114T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241114T203000 DTSTAMP:20260526T143259 CREATED:20241102T232108Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241103T215934Z UID:8351-1731610800-1731616200@www.drbu.edu SUMMARY:The Lived Practice of Harmony: Vedānta\, the Life of Sri Ramakrishna\, and Religious Pluralism DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 14\, 2024\n7:00-8:30PM (Pacific Time)\nOn Zoom: Click here to Register for the Zoom Link \nThis lecture will explore the life\, the religious practices\, and the philosophy of Sri Ramakrishna\, and the relevance of Ramakrishna to inter-religious relations in the contemporary world. Living in nineteenth-century Bengal\, Sri Ramakrishna is known for having practiced a wide array of spiritual disciplines drawn from multiple traditions. He practiced each of these disciplines until he had an experience of samadhi\, or complete absorption in the ideal of that particular tradition. After these experiences\, he concluded that many paths can lead to the experience of ultimate reality. His close disciple\, Swami Vivekananda\, carried this teaching to the world\, establishing the Ramakrishna Order and Ramakrishna Mission in India and the Vedanta Societies in the West. The relevance of Ramakrishna’s ideal of dharma samanvaya\, or the harmony of religions is urgent in today’s world. \nJeffery D. Long is the Carl W. Zeigler Professor of Religion\, Philosophy\, and Asian Studies at Elizabethtown College\, in Pennsylvania\, where he has taught since receiving his doctoral degree from the University of Chicago Divinity School in the year 2000. He has written many books and articles\, including Jainism: An Introduction (Bloomsbury\, 2013) and Discovering Indian Philosophy (Bloomsbury\, 2024). In 2022\, his book\, Hinduism in America: A Convergence of Worlds (Bloomsbury\, 2020)\, received the Rajinder and Jyoti Gandhi Award for Excellence in Philosophy\, Theology\, and Critical Reflection. He has spoken at the United Nations and appears in a PBS documentary on the life of Swami Vivekananda. \nSymposium webpage: /symposium\nFor inquiries\, please email:  symposium@drbu.edu URL:/event/the-lived-practice-of-harmony-vedanta-the-life-of-sri-ramakrishna-and-religious-pluralism/ CATEGORIES:Colloquium Lecture Series END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR