On February 24, 2019, 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ hosted the Second Annual Student Symposium which featured seventeen students from all the undergraduate and graduate programs.?
The event featured the following panels:
- Opening
- Cultivating Transformation
- Change Yourself
- Change the World
- The True Inner, Good Advisor
- Explorations in Interpretation
Each student presented a paper?with topics spanning the four major strands of study at 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ: Buddhist, Chinese, Indian, and Western Classics. After presenting, students answered audience questions. Students introduced concepts expounded in Buddhist primary texts such as?Hiri-ottappa, or conscience and concern, detailed in Pali suttas and explored the ¡°Good and Wise Advisor,¡± introduced in the?Sixth Patriarch’s Dharma Jewel Platform Sutra. In the Explorations in Interpretation panel, a student illuminated the subtleties of language by exploring the ¡°finger pointing to the moon¡± analogy. The last presenter ended by leading the audience in singing a poetic song after exploring philosopher Martin Heidegger¡¯s remarks on language.
