{"id":151927,"date":"2025-09-12T15:17:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T22:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=151927"},"modified":"2025-09-12T15:17:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T22:17:34","slug":"invitation-existential-crisis-mindfulness-and-the-middle-path-to-social-action-by-asoka-bandarage-wednesday-17-september-at-6-30pm-uk-online-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/09\/12\/invitation-existential-crisis-mindfulness-and-the-middle-path-to-social-action-by-asoka-bandarage-wednesday-17-september-at-6-30pm-uk-online-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Invitation Existential Crisis, Mindfulness and the Middle Path to Social Action by Asoka Bandarage Wednesday 17 September at 6.30pm UK – online only"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asoka Bandarage<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
\"The   Please join us online to welcome Dr Asoka Bandarage who will be giving a public talk on Wednesday 17th September at 6.30pm UK time. Existential Crisis, Mindfulness and the Middle Path to Social Action
by Asoka Bandarage Dr Bandarage will deliver a public lecture for The Buddhist Society on Wednesday 17th September 6:30pm online through Zoom about the Buddhist Middle Way approach to the social issues and challenges in contemporary life.

Join the online talk through Zoom Wednesday 17th September at 6.30pm<\/strong>
https:\/\/thebuddhistsociety.zoom.us\/j\/81005223686<\/a>
Meeting ID: 810 0522 3686 Scholar and practitioner Asoka Bandarage<\/strong> has taught at Yale, Brandeis, Mount Holyoke (where she received tenure), Georgetown, and other universities and colleges in the U.S. and abroad. Her research interests include social philosophy and consciousness; environmental sustainability, human well-being and health, global political-economy, ethnicity, gender, population, social movements and South Asia. Prof. Bandarage is the author many books including: The Middle Path to Environment, Society and the Economy; Women, Population and Global Crisis: A Political-Economic Analysis <\/em>andotherpublications on political-economy, ecology as well as mindfulness and social action. She currently serves on the Advisory Boards of Critical Asian Studies<\/em>, and Interfaith Moral Action on Climate. Dr. Bandarage has been a student of vipassana meditation teacher S.N. Goenka and a hatha yoga practitioner and currently serves on the Advisory Boards of Critical Asian Studies and Interfaith Moral Action on Climate. www.bandarage.com<\/a>   Connect With Us: Meditation<\/a>   The Middle Way<\/a>   Membership<\/a>   Buddhism<\/a>   Donate<\/a>   Twitter<\/a> Contact Info: Phone: 020 7834 5858<\/a> Email: info@thebuddhistsociety.org<\/a> Website: www.thebuddhistsociety.org<\/a> The Buddhist Society, 58 Eccleston Square, London, SW1V 1PH
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