{"id":5357,"date":"2014-02-10T11:45:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T16:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/?p=12513"},"modified":"2014-02-10T11:45:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T16:45:12","slug":"the-annual-edgar-and-dorothy-davidson-lecture-dr-steven-collins-pali-buddhist-practices-of-the-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/first-year-seminars\/2014\/the-annual-edgar-and-dorothy-davidson-lecture-dr-steven-collins-pali-buddhist-practices-of-the-self\/","title":{"rendered":"The Annual Edgar and Dorothy Davidson Lecture: Dr. Steven Collins \u2013 Pali Buddhist Practices of the Self"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 499px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12514\" alt=\"Davidson Lecture \" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-content\/uploads\/Davidson-Lecture-1.png\" width=\"499\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Davidson Lecture<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Please join the College of the Humanities (Religious Studies) for a free public lecture by one of the world\u2019s foremost Pali scholars.<\/p>\n<p>In this lecture, Dr. Steven Collins situates Buddhist meditation in the larger context of spiritual practices and technologies of the self.\u00a0 He begins by noting that \u201cthe denial that there is an eternal, unchanging self does not invalidate ordinary language talk about self; \u2018practices of the self\u2019 refers to an area of mental\/physical focus, not to an item of metaphysics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Collins is the Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He specializes in the social and cultural history of Buddhism in premodern and modern South and Southeast Asia, and in Pali language and literature.\u00a0 Among numerous other works in the field of Pali Buddhist Studies, Prof. Collins is the author of <i>Selfless Persons: imagery and thought in Theravada Buddhism<\/i>, Cambridge University Press, 1982, and <i>Nirvana: concept, imagery, narrative<\/i>. Cambridge University Press, 2010.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12515\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 199px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12515\" alt=\"Dr. Steven Collins \" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-content\/uploads\/Davidson-Lecture-2.png\" width=\"199\" height=\"299\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Steven Collins<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b><i>Thursday March 6, 2014, 7:00 pm<br \/>\n303 Paterson Hall<br \/>\nReception to follow<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><i>Sponsored by the Edgar and Dorothy Davidson Fund in Religious Studies<\/i><\/b><i><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join the College of the Humanities (Religious Studies) for a free public lecture by one of the world&rsquo;s foremost Pali scholars. 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