Existential Crisis, Mindfulness and the Middle Path to Social Action by Asoka Bandarage 17/9/2025 скачать в хорошем качестве

Existential Crisis, Mindfulness and the Middle Path to Social Action by Asoka Bandarage 17/9/2025

Online talk hosted by The Buddhist Society www.thebuddhistsociety.org Dr Bandarage delivered a public lecture for The Buddhist Society on Wednesday 17th September online about the Buddhist Middle Way approach to the social issues and challenges in contemporary life. Scholar and practitioner Asoka Bandarage has taught at Yale, Brandeis, Mount Holyoke (where she received tenure), Georgetown, and other universities and colleges in the U.S. and abroad. Her research interests include social philosophy and consciousness; environmental sustainability, human well-being and health, global political-economy, ethnicity, gender, population, social movements and South Asia. Prof. Bandarage is the author many books including: The Middle Path to Environment, Society and the Economy; Women, Population and Global Crisis: A Political-Economic Analysis andotherpublications on political-economy, ecology as well as mindfulness and social action. She currently serves on the Advisory Boards of Critical Asian Studies, and Interfaith Moral Action on Climate. Dr. Bandarage has been a student of vipassana meditation teacher S.N. Goenka and a hatha yoga practitioner and currently serves on the Advisory Boards of Critical Asian Studies and Interfaith Moral Action on Climate. www.bandarage.com