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The Buddha's Enlightenment for the Well-Being of Humanity
31 May – 02 June 2012

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Buddhist Wisdom and Reconciliation

Buddhist Wisdom and Enviroment

Buddhist Wisdom and Human Transformation

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The Buddha's Enlightenment for the Well-Being of Humanity
 

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Phra Bhavanavitayt, Santidhamma Forest Hermitage (Watpah Santidhamma)

Name : Ven. Phra Bhavanaviteht (Luangpor Khemadhammo) O.B.E.

Email Address : lpkhem@foresthermitage.org.uk

Education : Phra Bhavanaviteht trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech & Drama in London and at Drama Centre, London.

Buddhist Projects/Experiences : Phra Bhavanaviteht is the Abbot of Wat Pah Santidhamma, The Forest Hermitage in Warwickshire. He has been active in prison chaplaincy and the Buddhist chaplain to a number of prisons in England over the past 35 years. He is the Spiritual Director of Angulimala, the Buddhist Prison Chaplaincy Organisation that he and others founded in 1985. He sits on the Prison Service's Chaplaincy Council and is the Buddhist Adviser to H.M. Prison Service and NOMS (the National Offender Management Service). He is also Chairman of TBSUK (Theravada Buddhist Sangha in the UK). He sits on the SACRE (Standing Advisery Council for Religious Education) in both Warwickshire and Coventry and has led Warwick University Buddhist Society for a number of years.

Phra Bhavanavitayt, Santidhamma Forest Hermitage (Watpah Santidhamma)
United Kingdom

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Ven Sheng Kai

Email : sgkai@vip.tom.com

Education: He studied in Buddhist Academy of China, Nanjing University, attained MPhil (Nanjing University) in 2002, PhD (Nanjing University) in 2005, and finished Postdoctoral study in Tsinghua University in 2007.

Current Position: He was the Associate professor of Philosophy Department of Nanjing University in 2008. Now, he is the Associate professor of Philosophy Department of Tsinghua University, Executive director of the Buddhist Association of China, the Graduate Teacher of Buddhist Academy of Putuo Mount, Zhejiang Province.

Experience : He is the author of following books: (1.)The Buddhist Ritual of China, (2) Study on the Confessional Ritual of Chinese Buddhism, (3) The Buddhist Confessional Thought, (4) Study on the School of Mahayana-samuparigraha-sastra.
He specializes in Buddhist Confession, Buddhist Pure Land Thought, Yogacara Buddism and Tathagatagarbha Buddhism.

Ven Sheng Kai
China

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Dr. Art-Ong Jumsai Na Ayudhya

Education :
B.A. (Hons), M.A. in Mechanical Sciences, Cambridge University, UK
Ph.D. in Communications, Imperial College of Science and Technology, U.K.
Ph.D. in Education, Faculty of Education, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.

Past Experiences :
Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University
Deputy Dean of Students Affairs
Director of the Institute of Scientific and Technological Research of Thailand
Member of Parliament (Elected three times) Secretary to the Foreign Minister

Present :
Chief Administrator of Sathya Sai School
Director of the Institute of Sathya Sai Education
Visiting Professor on Human Values Education many Universities.
Give seminars and training for teachers in many countries around the world.

Special Experience : Participated in NASA's Viking Space Project in the sub-system design of the automatic landing device.

Awards : Top Scientist of the year 1984 (Best invention that is of benefit for the country)

Publications :
1991 Handbook for Teachers in Education in Human Values
1997 The Five Human Values and Human Excellence
1997 Integration of Human Values in Mathematics and Sciences

Dr. Art-Ong Jumsai Na Ayudhya
Thailand