
Buddhist scholar Peter Gregory will give a dharma talk about The Goddess, Chapter 7 of the Vimalakirti Sutra.
There will be two periods of zazen beginning at 9:30am, and dharma talk at 11am.
This event follows our Saturday workshop with Peter Gregory, The Miracle of Vimalakirti.
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Peter N. Gregory was drawn to a career in Buddhist studies through his practice of Zen under Maezumi Rōshi and a desire to be able to read Zen texts in the original. He received his doctorate in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University in 1981. After teaching in the Program for the Study of Religion at the University of Illinois for fifteen years (1984-99), he joined the faculty at Smith College as the Jill Ker Conway Professor of Religion and East Asian Studies, where he taught for another fifteen years (1999-2014). He also served as the President and Executive Director of the Kuroda Institute for the Study of Buddhism and Human Values for thirty years (1984-2014). His research has focused on medieval Chinese Buddhism, especially the Chan and Huayan traditions during the Tang and Song dynasties, on which he has written or edited seven books, including Tsung-mi and the Sinification of Buddhism (1991). He retired in 2014 and moved to rural Vermont. He is currently completing an annotated translation and study of Zongmi’s Comprehensive Preface to the Collected Writings on the Origins of Chan, a ninth-century Chinese Buddhist text that details the historical and doctrinal origins of the Chan tradition in China. In his own life he has always striven to find the proper balance between study and practice. |
Image: Vimalakirti and the Doctrine of Nonduality, 1308
