What makes an animate thing, animate? How do we know if something is sentient? Is consciousness ultimately material or immaterial, or is it neither? What exactly is the relationship between being animate and sentience and consciousness and life?
Topic: "Is Nirvana the Same as Sentience? Chinese Struggles with an Indian Buddhist Ideal."
Date: February 6, 2009
Dr. Robert H. Sharf, Chair of the Center for Buddhist Studies Institute at UC Berkeley, presenting at University of the West's Institute of Chinese Buddhist Studies Spring 2009 Lecture series on campus in Rosemead , CA.
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Date: February 6, 2009
Dr. Robert H. Sharf, Chair of the Center for Buddhist Studies Institute at UC Berkeley, presenting at University of the West's Institute of Chinese Buddhist Studies Spring 2009 Lecture series on campus in Rosemead , CA.
External Resources: