Parliament of Worlds Religion 2009 Melbourne Australia

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

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PROGRAM DE
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
11:30am-1:00pm INTERRELIGIOUS SESSION
LUNCHTIME PROGRAMMING 1:00-2:30pm
Furthering Global Human Thriving through Interreligious and Interdisciplinary Discourse, Continued Room 214
Rajendra Damodara Yenkannamoole is the founder of the Vasudeva Kriya Yoga and hails from a small village in South India. He has Master's degrees in Chemical Engineering as well as Business Administration and currently resides in Melbourne. Rajendra met his Guru, Sri Paramhans Swami Maheshwaranandji, in 1996. In 2008 and 2009. he organised seminars on sustainable living through Yoga in Melbourne by bringing together various Yoga and Naturopath Schools on a single platform. Venerable Miao You is a resident teacher of the Nan Tien Temple, Wollongong region of New South Wales. A disciple of the renowned Master Hsing-Yun of the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Order, she has been sharing and promoting the teachings of Humanistic Buddhism for nearly ten years in Australia. Before joining the Buddhist Order, she was a teacher and has a degree in Early Childhood Education from Macquarie University Dr Tong Yun Kai, DBA, MBE, is the President of the Confucian Academy and Managing Director of four companies. In 2005, he was granted the World Peace Award by World Religion Federation in Japan and was awarded by US President Bush the President's Award for Educational Excellence as an outstanding Confucian Scholar In 2009, the Lincoln Memorial Foundation for Peace awarded him the World Peace Grand Prize. He has received 170 honorary titles from institutions around the world Dr TV Muralivallabhan is a Reader in Economics. His areas of interest are sustainable development, eco-spirituality and environmental education. He authored a book on sustainable development and many articles on these topics. He has presented papers in 25 international conferences on various aspects of sustainable development and successfully completed the Kailash-Manasarovar Trek in 2005 in Tibet.
This interdisciplinary program will focus on the critical issues of providing health care, especially to those in impoverished areas. Providing effective and sustainable health care requires attention to a complex interplay of factors that reach far beyond the building of ctinics, training of health care professionals and dispensing of medications. Good health care stems from effective partnerships among a variety of people and institutions. Panel members will provide data on basic conditions of sanitation, safe water supply and child nutrition as well as the role that interethnic conflict and interreligious differences play in supporting or impeding an environment conducive to healthy living. This lunch hour session is the continuation of a three hour program. For a complete list of speakers. please see the 11:30am listing.
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