Lecture and Discussions with Dr. Daniel Cozort

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Tibetan Buddhist Chenrezig Sand Mandala Healing and Compassion in Challenging Times, on display at the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery until November 16, 2024.

Monday, October 21, at 7:00 p.m. in Griffiths Room 123

“Mandala: Imagining a Better World” lecture

Tuesday, October 22, at 11:00 a.m. & 3:00 p.m. in the Art Gallery

Informal discussions

The event is free and open to the public.

Dr. Daniel Cozort retired from Dickinson College (Pennsylvania) in 2021 after thirty-six years of college teaching. He offered courses in Buddhism and Hinduism but also at times taught about mind-body medicine, romantic love, methods for the study of religion, religion and human evolution, and British culture and society. He directed study abroad programs in south India and Norwich, England.

His work with Jeffrey Hopkins at the University of Virginia led to three books (Highest Yoga Tantra, Unique Tenets of the Middle Way Consequence School, and Buddhist Philosophy). He was one of the translators of Tsongkhapa’s Great Exposition of the Stages of the Path and participated in the UMA translation project. He published a booklet and produced a film on the Vajrabhairava sand mandala, curated and wrote the catalogue for a tantric art exhibit, and wrote several book chapters on Buddhist ethics. In 2006 he became editor of the Journal of Buddhist Ethics, which he continued to do until 2019 (he continues as technical editor). In 2018 he edited the Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Ethics. He also founded a Conference on Buddhist Ethics that meets biennially. He was a founder of a Unitarian Universalist congregation and a Buddhist meditation center (led by a Sri Lankan monk). He lives with his wife in Ithaca, New York, giving occasional tours of Namgyal Monastery.