The Southern Asian Art Council 

and 

The East Asian Art Council

look forward to welcoming you to

Expressions of the Inexpressible: The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism

Monday, January 27 at 7 PM

LACMA | Brown Auditorium

Please RSVP by January 24 to saac@lacma.org or 323 857-6528.

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Classical Mindfulness:

Enhancing Modern Mindfulness-Based 

Therapies

Wednesday, January 29, 2014, 1-5 pm

314 Royce Hall

1:00                   Welcome and Opening Remarks by Robert Buswell, PhD (UCLA Department of

                            Languages and Cultures and the Center for Buddhist Studies)

1:10-1:55         B. Alan Wallace, PhD (Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies),

                              The Role of Samatha in Traditional Buddhist Practice

1:55-2:40         Clifford D. Saron, PhD (Center for Mind and Brain and MIND Institute at the

                            University of California, Davis),

                            Training the Mind, Opening the Heart: Findings from the Longitudinal

                             Study of Intensive Samatha Meditation

3:00-3:45         Wendy Hasenkamp, PhD (Mind & Life Institute)

                            Investigating Mind Wandering and Attention during Focused Meditation

3:45-4:30         Lobsang Rapgay, PhD (UCLA Department of Psychiatry),

                            A Review of MBSR and a Discussion on the Relevance of Classical

                            Mindfulness

4:30-5:00 Open Q&A (there will also be a brief Q&A session after each presentation)

Pay Per Space Parking available in Lot 5

More info at  http://www.international.ucla.edu/buddhist

Please RSVP at http://web.international.ucla.edu/buddhist/events/10311