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The Human Condition

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The Human Condition
REL Distinguished Guest Lecture Series

Dr. Lewis Lancaster

Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley & UWest

The Human Condition

A Buddhist Perspective

This is the first of five lectures dealing with the major contemporary issues–including the aftermath of the COVID pandemic, personhood and abortion, modification of the human genome, cosmological technology, racism, and longevity–viewed from the potential contribution of Buddhist thought and practice.

Organized by the Department of Religious Studies. For more info, please email event@uwest.edu.

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