[Reader-list] Invitation to a talk by Daniel Veidlinger on 18 January 2016 at CSDS

[Praveen Rai]

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

invites you to a talk





*Self, Selfies and Selflessness: *

The Internet and Buddhist Ontology

by *Daniel Veidlinger*





*Ravikant* will Chair

Monday, 18 January 2016, 4 pm
                              RSVP

CSDS Seminar Room,
                Tel: 011 23942199

29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054
                  Fax: 011 23943450

Please join us for tea at 3.30 pm
                              email: jaya at csds.in



The ephemeral nature of data in electronic media and the hybrid,
de-centered selves that users construct and experience in cyberspace
resonate with the Buddhist notion of *anātman* or no-self. This talk will
explore the unparalleled power of the Internet to problematize the
boundaries of the self and thereby highlight some key Buddhist ideas.



*Daniel Veidlinger* is a professor of comparative religion at California
State University, Chico with a focus on Asian religions and media studies.
He is the author of *Spreading the Dhamma: Writing, Orality and Textual
Transmission in Buddhist Northern Thailand* and has recently co-edited the
volume *The Pixel in the Lotus: Buddhism, the Internet and Digital Media*.
He is currently completing a book to be titled *From Indra’s Net to
Internet: Communication, Technology and the Evolution of Buddhism* that
examines the effects of changing media on Buddhism from the oral period of
ancient Magadha to the Internet of today.



*Ravikant* is Assistant Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing
Societies.

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Praveen Rai
Academic Secretary
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
29, Rajpur Road
Delhi - 110054
Phone: 91-11-23942199
http://www.csds.in/praveen.rai