Book launch

Buddhism and Ireland (Laurence Cox)

Public talk by Professor Brian Bocking

“Forgotten but not gone:

recognising Ireland’s Buddhist heritage in colonial Asia”

Brian Bocking is Head of Asian Studies and Professor of the Study of Religions at UCC. Author of many works on Buddhism, Japanese religion and the academic study of religions, he is currently carrying out research on the forgotten 'Irish Buddhist' U Dhammaloka (?1856-?1914), a pioneer Western Buddhist monk celebrated throughout South / East Asia in the early 1900s, and the Irish Japanologist and pioneer London Buddhist missionary Charles J W Pfoundes (1840-1907).

M. Uí Cadhain lecture theatreArts Block 2041bTrinity College Dublin

Thursday 26 September, 7 pm

Admission free – all welcome

Hosted by the MPhil in Race, Ethnicity, Conflict, Dept of Sociology, TCD

http://www.tcd.ie/sociology/ethnicracialstudies/

For more on the book: http://dhammalokaproject.wordpress.com