Buddhist Missionary Society Malaysia

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Seaport Buddhism: A Lecture by Prof Lewis Lancaster

You are invited to come join in this very interesting lecture by

Prof Lewis R Lancaster (Professor Emeritus, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley)

entitled

"Seaport Buddhism: A discussion of how Buddhism was tied to seaports as it spread"

Date: Feb 10, 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Buddhist Gem Fellowship (60A, Jalan 19/3,, 46300 Petaling Jaya, Malaysia)
This will be a very lecture which gives a very different perspective to the spread of Buddhism as we understand it, something different.

Join us in this interesting lecture by one a renowned Buddhist scholar

For the rest of the weeks schedule, check out below.

Feb-11	Saturday	8.00 pm	Klang (FGS) Talk: Discussing the growth and acceptance of Buddhism outside of Asia	FGS Klang
Feb-12	Sunday	8.00 pm	Evening: Talk in PJ 文教中心 Buddhist doctrine of "emptiness"	FGS PJ 文教中心
Feb-13	Monday	12noon	Talk at UTAR, Setapak: "The Great Circle" a description of the spread of Buddhism which included Malaysia.	UTAR Setapak

About Lewis Lancaster
Lewis Lancaster, a specialist in the canons of Buddhist texts, was the first student to complete the Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies at the University of Wisconsin. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley, for 33 years, with five years as Chair. By means of a grant from the National Geographic Society, he and a group of students and faculty inventoried texts in monasteries among the Sherpa people in the Himalayas. He then began to research the problems of converting Buddhist texts from Pali and Chinese into computer format, which resulted in major CD ROM databases. That computer experience then led him to form an association of scholars called the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, which is housed on the Berkeley campus and has a thousand affiliates worldwide. He is now President at Hsilai University in Rosemead.