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Enjoy multimedia lectures and join discussions on concepts like desire, suffering, awakening, and redemption. Through an exploration of the poetry and philosophy of the “Ten Ox-Herding Pictures” classical Chinese artworks, students will gain new perspectives on life and the artistic process.

Stefan is an agnostic scholar who graduated from Komazawa University in Tokyo with a Japanese-language PhD thesis in Buddhist studies that explores the influence of classical Chinese Chan/Zen scripture on twentieth-century Japanese philosophy.
His writings focus on the intersection between religious doctrine, nationalist propaganda, and post-modern thought.

Session 1 — The Search Begins (尋牛)
Session 2 — Seeing the Traces (見跡)
Session 3 — Seeing the Ox (見牛)
Session 4 — Catching the Ox (得牛)
Session 5 — Taming the Ox (牧牛)
Session 6 — Riding the Ox Home (騎牛帰家)
Session 7 — The Ox Forgotten (忘牛存人)
Session 8 — Both Ox and Self Forgotten (人牛倶忘)
Session 9 — Returning to the Source (返本還源)
Session 10 — Entering the Marketplace (入鄽垂手)

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