Parliament of Worlds Religion 1993 Chicago IL

Author(s): Parliament of the World’s Religions
Publisher: USA Parliament of the Worlds Religions

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3
10:00 AM-12:00 PM Adams Ballroom
"Native American Holy Land, Sacred Sites, Religious Freedom"
Peterson Zah; Charlotte Black Elk; Susan Shown Harjo; Douglas Long; Burton Pretty On Top; Pete Catches Native Americans have endured 500 years of persecution for practicing their spirituality. The denial of religious freedom for traditional Indian people began with the first arrival of Europeans in North and South America. The final blow to the legal protection of religious freedom came in 1988 and 1990 when the U.S. Supreme Court held that the First Amendment does not protect sacred sites or the religious use of peyote by the Native American Church. These religious leaders will talk about the utmost importance of the Native American Religious Freedom Act.
Peterson Zah-Navajo, President of the Navajo Nation, President, the American Indian Religious Freedom Summit.
Charlotte Black Elk--Oglala-Pine Ridge, S.D., Advisor in the field of Oral Tradition verification, Environmental Ethics Movement, Land Return and Sacred Sites.
Susan Shown Harjo Cheyenne/Hodulgee Muscogee, President and Director of Morning Star Foundation, Vice President of Native's Children Survival, Poet, Writer, Mother.
Douglas Long-Wisconsin Winnebago, President, Native American Church of North America.
Burton Pretty On Top-Crow Nation; spiritual leader and pipe carrier. Pete Catches-(Petaga Whya Mani); Lakota spiritual leader.
10:00 AM-12:00 PM Grand Ballroom
"The Development of Socially Engaged Buddhism"
Jack Lawlor; Stephanie Kaza; Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne; Sulak Sivaraksa; Sr. Cao Ngoc Phuong; Ven. Preah Maha Ghosananda; Chatsumarn Kabilsingh
The program will begin with presentations about the religious basis of a socially engaged Buddhism, as evidenced in the life and discourses of the Buddha, and in Mahayana Buddhist teachings on the interdependence of all beings, love, and compassion. The manifestations of socially engaged Buddhism will be described as they have evolved over time in Asia and in the West (the formation, for example, of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship). Panelists represent the contemporary practice of socially engaged Buddhism in fields such as the environment, peace activism, refugee resettlement, community organizing. (Moderator: Jack Lawlor)
Jack Lawlor-President, Buddhist Council of the Midwest; Dharma teacher in the lineage of Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh; member, Board of Directors, Buddhist Peace Fellowship. Stephanie Kaza-Associate Professor of Environmental Studies with focus on environmental ethics and eco-feminism, University of Vermont; chair, Board of Directors, Buddhist Peace Fellowship; layordained student of Zen Buddhism; author, The Attentive Heart; Conversations with Trees.
Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne-lay Buddhist leader; founder and president of the Sarvodaya Movement in Sri Lanka; recipient, 1992 Niwano Peace Prize
Sulak Sivaraksa-attorney in his native Thailand; lay Buddhist practitioner; Founder, International Network of Engaged Buddhists. Sr. Cao Ngoc Phuong-Ordained Dharma Teacher in the Vietnamese
Zen lineage of Thich Nhat Hanh; refugee relief worker; peace activist. Ven. Preah Maha Ghosananda-Supreme Patriarch of Cambodian
Buddhism.
Chatsumarn Kabilsingh-Ph.D.; Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Major Presentations
10:00 AM-12:00 PM Parlor H
"Spirituality and Healing"
Richard Katz, Ph.D.; Mr. Danny Masqua; Sister Pascaline Coff; Geshe Sopa
Panel presentation by the Fetzer Institute, bringing together a group of spiritual practitioners to discuss how disease and healing have significance that reaches into spiritual dimensions, and methods for achieving healing in each of their own traditions. Richard Katz, Ph.D.-teaches at Saskatchewan Indian Federated College, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada; author of 3 books on spiritual healing: Nobody's Child; Boiling Energy: Community Healing Among the Kalahari Kung; and The Straight Path: A Story of Healing fro Fiji. Mr. Danny Masqua-Anishinabe (Saulteaux) Elder from the Keesekoose Reservation in Saskatchewan, Canada; traditional story teller and counselor as well as an Elder-in-Residence at the Indian Education Program, University of Saskatchewan.
Sister Pascaline Coff-O.S.B., Ph.D.; founder and director of Osage Monastery, Forest of Peace, a monastic Ashram in Sand Springs, Oklahoma; since 1976, has been involved in East-West interreligious and intermonastic dialogues.
Geshe Sopa-The Abbot of the monastery at Deer Park, near Madison, Wisconsin, and principle teacher of the Buddhist community there; Professor of Buddhist Studies in the department of South Asian Studies at UW, Madison; author of Cutting through Appearances.
10:00 AM-10:45 AM Red Lacquer Room
"Clues to Illumination in the Hindu, Buddhist, and Sufi Traditions"
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
The ultimate objective of those looking to spirituality for fulfilling their highest aspirations is awakening, sometimes described as a state of illumination. Pir Vilayat, whose guided meditations are based upon one's personal experience together with researching into the meditation prac tices of yogis, Buddhist monks, and Sufi dervishes, presents clues as to the kinds of disciplines, concentrations, and attunements that it takes to trigger a breakthrough in one's perspicacity and realization.
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan-Head of the Sufi Order founded in 1910 by Hazrat Inayat Khan. He is a well-known teacher of meditation, presenting seminars, camps and retreats around the world; training he gives integrates a broad spectrum of methods of meditation from many traditions; founder, Omega Institute for Holistic Studies and author of Introducing Spirituality into Counseling and Therapy, The Call of the Dervish, and a forthcoming manual of meditation.
10:00 AM-12:00 PM Salon I "The Great Circle Dance: Religion and the Religions"
David Steindl-Rast; John Lobell; Mimi Lobell; Bob Walter; Rebecca Armstrong; Roger Dell
This presentation further explores Campbell's perspective on Experience and Authority and Campbell's perspective on Light and Shadow with an emphasis on the cross-cultural aspects of Campbell's work and the role of art in religion.
David Steindl-Rast-OSB, Benedictine monk associated with the Camaldolese Benedictine community at Big Sur, California; advisor to MID, an author; leader in interfaith dialogue. John Lobell-Director of Membership of the Joseph Campbell Foundation and Professor of Architecture at the Pratt Institute. Bob Walter-Vice President and Director of the Joseph Campbell Foundation and editor of Joseph Campbell's Historical Atlas of World Mythology. Rebecca Armstrong-musician, storyteller, and founder of The Joseph Campbell Society in Chicago.
Roger Dell-Director of Museum Education at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art.
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