Beyond Afflictions: Christianity and Buddhism on the Bonds of Suffering

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About the Speakers

Geshe Tenzin Namdak

Resident teacher of Jamyang Buddhist London Centre, and part-time tutor at the University of Oxford’s Department for Continuing Education, where he teaches Buddhist Mind Science. He first worked as an environmental researcher, having graduated with a bachelor of science degree in hydrology. He took ordination from His Holiness the Dalai Lama before engaging in his formal studies in Buddhist philosophy and psychology at Sera Jey Monastic University. He completed the entire twenty-year geshe program at Sera Jey and the traditional one-year Vajrayāna study program at Gyüme Tantric College.  As a translator, he contributed to Freedom through Correct Knowing (2022). He teaches worldwide and regularly engages in science and Buddhist philosophy dialogues.

Fr Reginald Mary Chua OP

Fr Reginald grew up in Perth, Western Australia, before moving to Sydney to study philosophy at Sydney University, gaining an MPhil in philosophy. During this time, he met Dominican friars on campus, leading him to join the Australian Province of the Dominican Order in 2014. This led to pastoral and theological training in Melbourne, including a study of St Thomas Aquinas’s understanding of the concept of identity in Trinitarian theology. After being ordained a priest Fr Reginald served as a chaplain in Sydney at the University of Notre Dame Australia, where he also taught philosophy. He is currently undertaking a DPhil in philosophy at Oxford, taking a deeper look at the concept of identity through the work of the Catholic philosopher Peter Geach. He continues to have a particular interest in interreligious dialogue as well as dialogue between scholastic philosophy and Chinese philosophy, including Chinese Buddhism.

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