Dharma Talk: Don't forget to breathe!

Speaker: Venerable Dr. Huifeng

PhD (University of Hong Kong, HKSAR), MBS (Master of Buddhist Studies) (University of Hong Kong, HKSAR), BE (Mechanical) (University of Auckland, New Zealand) 

Date: 3 August 2014 (Sunday)

Time: 1:00pm~3:00pm

Venue: Fo Guang Shan Melbourne

89 Somerville Road, Yarraville, VIC 3013.

About the Speaker:

Ven. Dr. Huifeng is originally from New Zealand.  Having been introduced to Buddhism at a young age, he committed himself to full time Buddhist practice in the late 1990s, studying at several of Fo Guang Shan Monastery’s Buddhist Colleges and Universities, receiving full ordination in 2004.  From 2006 to 2011 he studied first a Masters and then a PhD degree at the University of Hong Kong, with his PhD dissertation entitled “Chiasmus in the Early Prajñāpāramitā: Literary Parallelism Connecting Criticism & Hermeneutics in an Early Mahāyāna Sūtra”.  Presently he is an Assistant Professor at Fo Guang University, Ilan, Taiwan, teaching at the Department of Buddhist Studies.  His areas of academic focus include Indian Buddhism, in particular early Mahāyāna sūtra and śāstra, translation and hermeneutics, and practices of contemporary Taiwanese Buddhism. 

Current Roles

·         2013-present Vice-Abbot (Fo Guang Shan Monastery, Taiwan)

·         2011-present Assistant Professor (Fo Guang University, Taiwan)