Khyentse Foundation has created a lecture series named in honor of our late board member Steven D. Goodman. The first of many will feature noted Buddhist scholar Donald S. Lopez, Jr., introduced by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche.
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Donald S. Lopez, Jr. is the Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at the University of Michigan. His talk, “Reason and Revelation in Buddhism” will take place on Saturday, June 12, 2021 (10:00 EDT; 16:00 CET; 19:30 IST; 22:00 CST).
The official announcement:
Khyentse Foundation is pleased to announce the Goodman Lectures. Beginning in June 2021, every month we will feature a lecture from one of the many Buddhist studies programs the foundation partners with at universities in Asia, Europe, and North America.
The lectures, delivered by leading scholars in the field, are intended to create a bridge between academic and nonacademic audiences, presenting bold ideas and innovative research in an accessible format.
All lectures will be freely available online.
The Goodman Lectures are organized in honor of long-time Khyentse Foundation friend and advisor Professor Steven D. Goodman. During his many years of service to different academic institutions and Buddhist communities, Prof. Goodman’s wisdom and humor buoyed his students and colleagues. His commitment to making the fruits of Buddhist studies available to a broad audience was unshakeable.
The Goodman Lectures are inspired by Steven’s enduring vision of making academic talks sponsored by Khyentse Foundation available online to all. Don’t miss this opportunity to listen to some of the brightest minds in Buddhist studies today.
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Steven D. Goodman, PhD, (1945–2020) was a founding board member of Buddhist Film Foundation. He was for many years Research and Program Director of Asian and Comparative Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He lectured and taught Buddhist philosophy and comparative religion at the University of California at Berkeley and Santa Barbara, Rice University, the Graduate Theological Union, Nyingma Institute, and Naropa Institute, and was the recipient of a Rockefeller Fellowship at Rice University Center for Cultural Studies. He was the co-editor of Tibetan Buddhism: Reason and Revelation, a source book for the study of Tibetan philosophical and visionary literature (SUNY Press, 1992), and author of “Transforming the Causes of Suffering” in Mindfulness in Meaningful Work (Parallax Press, 1994). His book, The Buddhist Psychology of Awakening, was published by Shambhala in July 2020.
Khyentse Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in 2001 by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche to support all traditions of Buddhist study and practice. Since 2001, the foundation has supported individuals and institutions in more than 30 countries and has directly affected the lives of people around the world. Khyentse Foundation activities include major text preservation and translation projects, support for traditional monastic colleges in Asia, a worldwide scholarship and awards program, academic development of Buddhist studies in major universities, training and development for Buddhist leaders and teachers, Buddhist education for children, support for individual study and retreats, and more.
