1. Welcome Speech - Dr. Jake Mitra

... and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls. We acknowledge the traditional West Australian indigenous Aboriginal communities and their Culture, as the original Australian residents, who migrated here around 40,000 ...

2. Welcome Speech - His Holiness the Most Venerable Phong Samaruks

... to discuss and share our knowledge on Buddhism for better understanding, to bring it into practice, to cultivate inner peace especially in Australia and Asian regions as well as in the world. As this conference ...

3. Welcome Speech - Peter Stuart

... Mongolia, please accept my welcome from Australia into your hearts. Sain baina uu xundet zochidoo, ta bukhniig Australid xureltsen irsend bi bayartai baina. Ta bukhenii end xureltsen irsen yils amjilttai ...

4. Welcome Speech. Roger Cook

... and Allar Ahtmann. In Western Australia we often observe the variety of cultures and ethnicities that make up our multicultural society. Multiculturalism, is however, more than the sum of people ...

5. Dr Ian Cook

... classical through modern to post-modern thought). While these continue to be important to him, he is also interested in Australian liberal thought; the effects on politics of the development and proliferation ...

6. Dr. Carola Roloff

... management accounting, annual financial statements, tax law, personal management, organizing and overseeing mid to large size projects Countries visited Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, ...

7. Ven. Freeman Trebilcock

Venerable Freeman Trebilcock (Thubten Gyaltsen) is a 23 year old Australian-born Buddhist monk. In 2000 at the age of just12 Freeman was ordained into the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism by Kyabje Lama ...

8. Ajahn Sujato

Ajahn Sujato (Anthony Best) is an Australian BuddhistMonk, a popular Dhamma and Meditation teacher, founder and Abbot of Santi Forest monastery Bhante Sujato was born in Perth and raised in a liberal ...

9. Ajahn Brahmavamso

... became the basis for monastic discipline in many Theravadan monasteries in Western countries. Coming to Australia The then Venerable Brahm was invited to Perth, Australia by the Buddhist Society of ...

10. Ajahn Brahmali

... monastic training as an anagarika (keeping the eight precepts) in England at Amaravati and Chithurst Buddhist Monasteries. After hearing the 'word of Brahm' he decided to travel to Australia to train ...

11. Adapting the Monastic Vinaya to Australian Society Ajahn Brahmāli

... e.g. in a car accident. Most people in Australia, myself included, would say you have a duty to help someone in a life-threatening situation, and that not to do so would be immoral. Thus the commentary ...

12. Tibetan Buddhism unbounded - The Zimwock Rinpoche lineage DrPauline Gallagher&Venerable Freeman Trebilcock

... Yet they have had quite a profound influence on all four main traditions of Tibetan Buddhism since the 16th century when the lineage began.   The 6th Zimwock Tulku Rinpoche came to Australia in ...

13. Buddhism and monastic communities in Germany Carola Roloff

What do ‘Australia’ and ‘Buddhism’ have to do with Buddhism and monastic communities in Germany? There were at least two German Buddhist monastics who not only influenced Buddhism in Germany, but also ...

14. Buddhist Linkages between India and Mongolia: Implications for Austral-Asian Region Dr. Sharad K. Soni

... will be called the “International Buddhist Confederation”. Thich Quang Ba, the abbot of Sakyamuni Buddhist Temple at Canberra (Australia) stressed that “The Buddhists all over the world, represented by ...

15. Buddhism in Indonesia, Past and Present Ven. Ditthisampanno

...  [1] Presented on International Conference “Buddhism and Australia 2012” that be held on February, 2nd - 4th 2012. in Murdoch University, Perth – Australia. [2] He is a Buddhist Lecturer ...

16. The Role and Impact of Vessantara Jātaka in the Lao PDR Ven Sayadej Vongsopha

...  submitted to Mahachulalongkorn Buddhist University, 2006. [1] Paper presented at the International Conference on Buddhism & Australia, 2-4 February, Perth, ...

17. Buddhism as an International Movement for Peace and Well-Being Dr. Ian Cook

... While Metraux suggest that SGI’s spread to Australia “ lead to the "deterritorializing and relativizing" of the movement from an inherently Japanese faith practiced mainly by Japanese, to a much more universal ...