Justin Whitaker’s Visit to University of the West

by Danny Fisher

The author (right) with Justin Whitaker (left) at the office of the Buddhist Chaplaincy Program at University of the West in Rosemead, CA. Photo by Corrine E. Hinton.
My friend Justin Whitaker, of the great blog American Buddhist Perspective, was on the campus of University of the West (where I work) yesterday to deliver a lecture entitled “A Buddhist Reading Kant, a Kantian Reading the Buddha”. It was great to see Justin again–we roomed together at the American Academy of Religion’s 2008 Annual Meeting in Chicago–and he gave what I thought was a brilliant lecture. (I tend to be wary of attempts at systematic work in Buddhist Studies, but Justin may have turned me around on the whole thing!)

Luckily, our magnificent Extended Studies Coordinator Bil Owen was on hand to record Justin’s lecture for Open Campus–UWest’s free, open Buddhist Studies e-learning platform. Hopefully, it will posted soon, and I’ll be sure to point you all to it when that happens. In the meantime, you can check out other lectures at Open Campus from such Buddhist Studies luminaries as Lewis Lancaster, Robert Buswell, John McRae, and Robert Scharf. (I know I work for UWest and I’m biased, but really: Open Campus is way, way cool.)

Thanks, Justin! We were so glad to have you on campus to teach us!

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