Double Nobel Peace Prize Nominee To Speak At Chaminade

Community website by MBC/Ernest Abrams. Call 808-739-9797 for advertising/sponsorship#KaimukiHawaii Community website by MBC/Ernest Abrams. Call 808-739-9797 for advertising/sponsorship#KaimukiHawaii

Kaimuki, Hawaii
Event Calendar Item
Double Nobel Peace Prize Nominee To Speak At Chaminade
Tweet
Type: Special Event
Date: Saturday - 4/18/2009
Time: See notes
Location:
3140 Waialae Avenue
Honolulu, Hawaii 96816
View Map
Cost:

DOUBLE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE NOMINEE
TO SPEAK AT CHAMINADE
-- “Need and Greed: Buddhist-Christian Social Justice Concerns” featuring Sulak Sivaraska--

View appreciation quotes regarding Sulak including quotes from the Dalai Lama

The Reverend Yoshiaki Fujitani Interfaith Program celebrates its fifth anniversary with the return visit of Sulak Sivaraska. Sivaraska will present a free, public lecture titled "Need and Greed: Buddhist-Christian Social Justice Concerns" on Saturday, April 18, from 4 to 5:30 p.m., in the Mystical Rose Oratory at Chaminade University, 3140 Waialae Avenue, Honolulu 96816. Dr. David Coleman, Chaminade dean of humanities and fine arts and professor of religious studies, will respond. Afterwards Sivaraska will sign copies of his just-released book, The Wisdom of Sustainability: Buddhist Economics for the 21st Century.

Following the book signing, there will be a fundraising reception and dinner from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Ching Conference Center, 2nd floor of Eiben Hall, across from the Mystical Rose Oratory. Reservations by April 7th are required for the reception and dinner. The cost is $50, of which $20 is tax-deductible, and includes a signed copy of Sivaraska’s newest book together with a handicraft made by Thai villagers.

Please make check payable to Chaminade University of Honolulu with reference to the Reverend Yoshiaki Fujitani Interfaith Program, and mail to: Dr. Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel c/o Chaminade University of Honolulu; 3140 Waialae Avenue, Henry Hall 206; Honolulu, HI 96816.

Sulak Sivaraska’s wide-ranging work includes founding the International Network of Engaged Buddhists and dozens of other grassroots organizations, and authoring more than 100 books in Thai and English. He was nominated twice for the Nobel Peace Prize and, in 1995, received the Right Livelihood Award, known as the alternative Nobel Peace Prize. (Please see attached quotes on Sivarask.)

Celebrating more than 50 years of educating students for life, service and successful careers, Chaminade University offers programs of study grounded in the liberal arts with day, evening, online and accelerated courses. The main campus is located in Ka’imuki at 3140 Waialae Ave., Honolulu, HI 96816, with 10 satellite locations around Oahu. For more information, visit the Chaminade Web site at www.chaminade.edu or call (808) 735-4711.

Back to the top

Appreciation for Sulak Sivaraska

“Although material advances have contributed enormously to human welfare, they cannot create lasting happiness by themselves. I believe Sulak and I share a conviction that if we are to solve human problems, economic and technological development must be accompanied by an inner spiritual growth. And if we succeed in fulfilling both these goals, we will surely create a happier and more peaceful world.”
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama

“By the pivotal nature of his work, which bridges the artificial divides of North and South, Buddhist and non-Buddhist, self and other, bringing a healthy mix of universalism, and concern for local culture, and by the exemplary courage he has manifested in “speaking truth to power”, Sulak Sivaraska has made, and continues to make, a major contribution to peace and justice in his native Thailand, as well as in the world as a whole.”
- Mairead Maguire

“Sulak offers a clear picture of what is going on, and he does so as a participant, not just an observer. He is a teacher and an organizer, a bodhisattva who devotes all his energies as to helping others.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh

“In the entire world I know of no one who understands the situation more clearly and acts more effectively and consistently to bring the resources of a great religious tradition to bear on the critical issues of our time than Sulak Sivaraska. I wish I could point to equally effective Christian leaders. I cannot. But perhaps we Christians can be inspired by him and learn from him, and can find the strength to act creatively.”
- John B. Cobb Jr.

“With the crash of the economy, the question of alternatives to the current economic model has become extremely urgent�Sulak Sivaraska has been in the forefront of developing a thoroughgoing critique of consumerism.”
- Walden Bello

Questions? Ready for an appointment?

Like Our Facebook

Kaimuki, Hawaii Event Calendar Item

Kaimuki, Hawaii
Event Calendar Item