The World Of the Buddha from Tibet to Kalamazoo
Frank Jaimson PhD and Paula Jaimson PhD
Saturday July 9, 1:30 pm -3:30PM
Lakeshore Interfaith Institute 6676 122nd Ave. Ganges Mi
Buddhism has become, possibly, the most popular of the Asian religions
to have come to the West . One of the reasons for this, is that Buddhism became
a missionary faith soon after its beginning, in the 5th century BCE, in
India. Exponents of the Noble Eightfold Path were sent out in all directions
by the newly converted Emperor of all India, King Asoka . The emperor himself
personally and through royal delagations, spread the ideas of nonviolence,
toleration and universal salvation for all races and classes, throughout
the Indian empire and beyond even as far as Egypt. Hundreds of monuments,
called Rock Edicts, expounding the essentials of Buddhism, can be found yet
today as far as Afganistan. Alexander the Great, attempting to unify the
world through conquest. got as far as India and there met and conversed with
Buddhist sages, sending some of them back to Macedonia as teachers. Buddhism
reached China, Japan and Tibet not long after this and found its way to Indonesia
and Malaysia as well.
Frank and Paula Jaimson host a meditation group in Kalamazoo and are
very active members of the West Michigan Buddhist Community. Both have been
faculty at Western Michigan U and together they have produced many films
on different aspects of Buddhism, traveling for this purpose to India, Viet
Nam, Japan and Tibet . They will address our group just after having returned
from their fourth visit to the Mountain Kingdom, where they have made a film
about the Tibetan and Nepalese Buddhist communities . info 269 543 3951
suggested donation 20.00