Public Talk and Panel Discussion: "What is Mind?"
| Location: | The Great Hall, University of Sydney |
| Date: | Mar. 11th 6:30 pm |
| Price: | Buy online: $25 / $20 concession At the door: $30 / $25 concession |
The 2010 Sydney event in the Great Hall at the University of Sydney will pose the question "what is mind?" to Lama Ole Nydahl and a panel of internationally recognised leaders representing the views of psychology, philosophy and medicine. It will be facilitated by a master of ceremonies who will field questions from the audience and encourage healthy debate.
Lama Ole will complete the program with a lecture on Buddhism following the panel session.
Doors open at 5:45 pm and the panel discussion will start at 6:30 sharp.
Tickets may be purchased at the door.
Lama Ole Nydahl
Almost every day Lama Ole is in a different city, passing on Buddha's teachings. Since he and his wife Hannah met the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa while honeymooning in Nepal in 1968, they have dedicated their lives to Buddhism. They spent three years in the Himalayas as Karmapa's personal students receiving Buddhist teachings and developing the needed experience in meditation.
Other than passing on vivid and authentic Buddhist teachings (always with a touch of dry Danish humour) in his frequent lectures, Lama Ole also gives longer meditation courses to teach the timeless practical methods of Diamond Way Buddhism, such as the foundational practices or Phowa, a meditation which is very useful at the moment of death. Since the death of the 16th Karmapa in 1981, Lama Ole Nydahl has kept the Diamond Way Centres of the Karma Kagyu Lineage around the world together. There are now over 600 centres in 44 countries worldwide, with thousands of friends meditating and studying in America, England, Australia and Canada, with active and energetic groups in South America, Russia, and all over Europe. Lama Ole continues to work with the centres under the spiritual guidance of the 17th Karmapa, Thaye Dorje.
Learn more about Lama Ole Nydahl
The Panelists
Adjunct Professor Tim Sharp
With three degrees in psychology (including a Masters and a PhD) Tim Sharp is one of the most qualified and experienced executive coach / consultant in Australia today. In 2008 he was appointed to the UTS Business School (ranked as the best Business School for teaching in Australia) as Adjunct Professor and May 2008 he was the recipient of a Future Summit Leadership Award which provides the opportunity "for outstanding leaders of our generation to be recognised for their achievements and to contribute to a vision for Australia's future".
Professor Marc Cohen MD
Prof Cohen is one of Australia’s foremost pioneers of complementary medicine (CM) in the academic arena by making significant impacts on education, research, clinical practice and policy.
He’s a registered medical practitioner (with honours), and Bachelor of Medical Science Degree (with honours) from Monash University. He also has a PhD in Traditional Chinese Medicine and a second PhD in biomedical engineering and has a Fellowship of the Australian Medical Acupuncture Society as well as a Fellowship of the International College of Acupuncture and Electrotherapeutics.
Currently he’s the Foundation Professor of Complementary Medicine at RMIT University, a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education at Monash University and an Expert Advisor to the Therapeutic Goods Administration’s (TGA) Complementary Medicine Evaluation Committee (CMEC).
Dr. Raymond Younis
Ray was educated at the universities of Sydney BA (Hons), MA(Hons) and Oxford (DPhil) and has taught philosophy, literature and cultural studies since 1984 at the universities of Sydney, NSW, Macquarie, Oxford, as well as speaking at over 40 international conferences. He is the recipient of a number of awards and citations for teaching excellence, including the Vice Chancellor’s Certificate of Appreciation from the University of Sydney, “for Eight Years of Teaching Excellence”.
He is one of the founding members of the Australasian Association of the Philosophy of Religion. His book, “On the Ethical Life”, was published recently; he has co-edited 3 other volumes and contributed to numerous other books and journals. He was a film critic for 11 years and is an experienced wine consultant. He also strongly suspects he was conceived during a late night screening of “The Wild Bunch”!
Discussion facilitated by Ros Childs
Ros Childs has presented the ABC’s national lunchtime news program – The Midday Report - for the last five years. She has also fulfilled a number of roles within the ABC, including finance correspondent at “The 7.30 Report,” as well as fronting live rolling coverage of the US presidential election results.
Before re-locating to Australia, Ros was a newsreader on the UK’s national commercial news provider, ITN, and worked as their business correspondent. Before that, she presented on CNBC Europe.
Ros was born in Wales, and now lives on the Northern Beaches with her Australian husband and two children.
The Venue
Over the past 150 years the Great Hall has been used for a wide variety of events including conferring of degrees, musical and dramatic productions, banquets, public lectures, book launches, balls, exams, commemoration, memorial services, antique fair, Chancellor's Committee annual book sale and so much more.
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