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Downtown Bend: Know Death - Death, Dying, and Great Compassion in Buddhism

Event Type: Adult Program
Age Group(s): Adult
Date: 10/29/2017
Start Time: 1:00 PM
End Time: 2:00 PM
Description:
 Explore ideas of death, dying, and compassion within Buddhist traditions.

In Buddhism death and dying are understood within the larger cycle of life. At the same time, in the depths of the life of the self, in the oneness of reality, there is also understood to be a great compassion that goes beyond life and death. In this presentation, we will explore these two levels of reality, death, dying, and grief within the cycle of life, and the oneness of great compassion beyond life and death.

Mark Unno, Associate Professor of Japanese Buddhism, has served as Head of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Oregon. His research is in Zen and Pure Land Buddhism, and he also works in the areas of Buddhism and psychotherapy, comparative religion, and interrreligious dialogue. He is the author of Shingon Refractions: Myoe and the Mantra of Light (2004), editor of Buddhism and Psychotherapy Across Cultures (2006) as well as articles in Buddhist journals such as Tricycle and Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly. He lives in Eugene with his wife Megumi, who teaches the Japanese Tea Ceremony.



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Library: Downtown Bend Public Library
Location: Brooks Room
Contact: Liz Goodrich
Contact Number: 541-312-1032
Presenter: Dr. Mark Unno