August 26, 2005
Tibetan monk to discuss compassion in education
 WORCESTER, MA-Tibetan Buddhist monk, scholar, and educator the Venerable Lobsang Phuntsok will present “Compassion in Education,” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 7, in Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts, 92 Downing St., Clark University.
Venerable Lobsang teaches Buddhism in the Worcester area and in metropolitan Boston. He is helping to build a school in a remote area of the Himalayas where the literacy rate is about 2 percent.
Venerable Lobsang was born in the province of Arunachal Pradesh in northeast India in 1971. At the age of seven he entered the Sera Je monastery in southern India, where he intensively studied Buddhist philosophy and practice. He also studied social and political science, Hindi and Sanskrit languages, and Tibetan sacred literature. In 1997, he was one of only ten people selected by the Tibetan government in exile to undertake an intensive English translation study and training course on Buddhist philosophy held in Dharamsala, India. After successful completion of his studies in 1998, he began teaching Buddhist philosophy in English translation in India, and subsequently in the United States and Canada.
In 2000, Venerable Lobsang first came to the US when he attended the Millennium World Peace Conference at the United Nations in New York City. He is currently the spiritual director for Jhamtse International, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to educating and nourishing hearts and minds in love, compassion, wisdom, and tolerance. He teaches Buddhist philosophy and practice at the Jhamtse Buddhist Center in Concord MA and the Chua Linh Son Buddhist Temple in Worcester, MA, and speaks at schools, universities, churches, and healthcare centers throughout the area.
This free public lecture is presented by the Office of Intercultural Affairs. For information, contact Amy Daly, at adaly@clarku.edu or (508) 793-7750.
Clark University is a private, co-educational liberal-arts research university with 2,000 undergraduate and 600 graduate students. For over a decade, Clark has been recognized by Rugg's Recommendations on Colleges as the No. 1 institution in the United States for undergraduate study in geography. Since its founding in 1887 as the first all-graduate school in the United States, Clark has challenged convention with innovative programs such as the International Studies Stream, the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the five-year BA/MA programs with the fifth year tuition-free for eligible students.
Jane Salerno
Assistant Director, Media Relations
Clark University
(508) 793-7554
jsalerno@clarku.edu
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