Who, Then, Is My Neighbor? An Ethics of InterrelatednessTUESDAY, OCT. 9, 2007
Jan Willis, guest lecture
Jan Willis, Ph.D. in Indic and Buddhist Studies, Columbia University, is professor of religion and Walter A. Crowell Professor of the Social Sciences at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. She has studied with Tibetan Buddhists in India, Nepal, Switzerland, and the United States for more than three decades, and has taught courses in Buddhism for more than 25 years. She is the author of The Diamond Light: An Introduction to Tibetan Buddhist Meditation (1972), On Knowing Reality: The Tattvartha Chapter of Asanga's Bodhisattvabhumi (1979), Enlightened Beings: Life Stories from the Ganden Oral Tradition (1995), and is the editor of Feminine Ground: Essays on Women and Tibet (1989). Her latest published project was the memoir, Dreaming Me: An African American Woman's Spiritual Journey, published by Riverhead Books in 2001. In December of 2000, TIME Magazine named Willis one of six "spiritual innovators for the new millennium."
Location: Schneebeck Concert Hall
Time: 7 p.m.
Doors open at 6 p.m., limited seating, first come, first served
Sponsored by Swope Endowed Lectureship on Ethics, Religion, Faith, and Values | 
