Public Talk by Georges Dreyfus

The Department of Philosophy, the Center for Ethics of Science and Technology, Chulalongkorn University, and the Thousand Stars Foundation cordially invite the public to attend a lecture on

Learning to Philosophize the 'Tibetan' Way

by

Prof. Georges Dreyfus

Williams College, USA

March 10, 2008 at Room 708, Boromratchakumari Building, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University from 10 am to 12 noon.

Georges Dreyfus is a professor of religious studies at Williams College in Massachusetts, USA. He has a Ph.D. from Harvard and a Geshe Lharampa Degree, which is the highest monastic educational degree in Tibetan Buddhism. He is the author of many books such as "The Svatantrika-Prasangika Distinction," a book on Dharmakirti's philosophy and many others. The talk today will focus on how philosophy is done in a Tibetan monastery. This consists in the famous debates among the monks on finer points of the Buddhist teaching. The talk will focus on the anatomy of these debates and on how we could understand Buddhism better as a result.