Lecture on the Lotus Sutra at University of Mississippi at Oxford (April 3, 2017)

I was glad to be invited by the Department of Philosophy and Religion at University of Mississippi at Oxford to deliver a public lecture on the Lotus Sutra. Ole Miss has a beautiful campus. Oxford is famous because William Faulkner, the Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature (1949), lived at Rowan Oak, which I had a chance to visit during my short stay.

Here is the information about the talk:

Title: The Lotus Sutra and Religious Imagination

Abstract: The Lotus Sutra is one of the most influential scriptures in the Buddhist world. However, interpretations about its meaning vary considerably. Some regard it as profound religious teaching, or sophisticated philosophy and some dismiss it as superstitious. In this talk, Dr. Wu attempts to approach the Lotus Sutra from the perspective of religious imagination, a neglected but potentially powerful category in religious studies, to gain new insights into this scripture.