For the third event in our series Buddhism and Posthumanism: Questioning the Place of Humans in Multispecies Environments, Janet Gyatso will present her talk “Being with Animals: Buddhist Resources” and join Rory Lindsay and Frances Garrett for a conversation about our multi-species environment. Janet will also discuss her research on animal intelligence and Tibetan Buddhism.
This talk will explore what we can see when we pay close attention to animals, and what doing this can teach us about the value of the animal world. It will draw upon Buddhist notions of compassion and theories around meditation and other forms of self-cultivation. It will also touch on best practices with pets and other animals in our world today.
This event is co-sponsored by the Religion in the Public Sphere initiative of the Department for the Study of Religion in the University of Toronto. The series is organized by Rory Lindsay, Assistant Professor, and Frances Garrett, Associate Professor of Buddhist Studies in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto.
Lectures in the series on Zoom begin at 3:00 pm Eastern Time; registration is required.
Registration
You may register at any time to join a lecture. Your registration is valid for the whole series, and you may attend as many lectures as you like. You will automatically receive reminders for the lectures. Register here.
This event will also be live-streamed to our YouTube channel.
