Type of event
Seminar
Date & Time:
April 23, 2026 (Thursday)
6:00 – 7:00 PM ET
Room 422
485 Broadway, Harvard University
Encoding Compassion: Humanistic Buddhism, Dictionaries, and Interreligious Knowledge Structures
Excerpt
This lecture explores the Fo Guang Dictionary of Buddhism as a Humanistic Buddhist knowledge structure that encodes compassion through translation and digital organization. By examining how Buddhist concepts are defined and relationally linked, it asks how dictionaries can function as ethical infrastructures for interreligious understanding in a divided world.
Speaker Bio
Ven. Miao Guang
Deputy Chancellor, FGS Institute of Humanistic Buddhism
Director, Fo Guang Dictionary Translation Project
Event Information
- April 23rd (Thursday)
- 6:00 – 7:00 PM ET
- This is an in-person event.
Please note
Advanced RSVP required.
Type of event
Seminar
Date & Time:
April 23, 2026 (Thursday)
6:00 – 7:00 PM ET
Room 422
485 Broadway, Harvard University
