08.30 – 09.00
Registration
09.00 – 09.45
Keynote Speech:
Visualizing Ultimate Happiness in Thai Buddhism: Nibbāna in the Picture Books of the Three Worlds
Barend Jan Terwiel
– Professor Emeritus
09.45 – 10.00
Refreshments
10.00 – 11.30
HAPPINESS IN BUDDHISM I : BUDDHISM IN A WESTERN WORLD
Convener: Hwang Soonil
– Dongguk University
Wisdom as a Therapeutic Tool for Happiness and Well-being: Towards the Profanization of a Central Buddhist Concept?
Michael Zimmermann
– Hamburg University
Buddhist Modernism and Neuroscience: From a Perspective of Sustainable Buddhist Happiness
Sujung Kim
– DePauw University
Happiness and the ‘Old Meditation’
Andrew Skilton
– King’s College
11.30 – 13.00
Lunch break
13.00 – 15.00
HAPPINESS IN BUDDHISM II : BUDDHISM IN ASIA
Convener: Hwang Soonil
– Dongguk University
Happiness and Nirvāṇa in Buddhism
Venerable Guang Xing
– The University of Hong Kong
Real Happiness in Mindful Relationships and Harmonious Action
Venerable Misan
– Joong-ang Sangha University
Secular Happiness and Ultimate Happiness in the Story of the Monk Josin’s Dream of the Samguk Yusa
Venerable Chongdok C. H. Park
– Joong-ang Sangha University
Awakening Happiness Within: the Buddhist Path to Education
Alka Singh
– Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia
15.00 – 15.30
Refreshments
15.30 – 16.15
Closing speech:
Sustainable Happiness or No More Unsatisfactoriness
Hwang Soonil
– Dongguk University