sleepingfool
25-08-2007, 07:55 PM
Hi everyone,
I received this email from Mr Minh - a Berkeley alumni.
So I would like to forward it to you (I also got it lately today). If anyone interested in this event can reach the event's organizer to register for attendance by phone.
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Mr Victor: vtruong2@gmail.com <vtruong2@gmail.com>
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From Victor:
hi everyone,
The Berkeley Club of Vietnam is proud to host Prof. Lew Lancaster for
dinner on August 26 at 5:30pm.
Dr. Lancaster, Emeritus Professor of Buddhist Studies at UC-Berkeley,
is currently in town for a workshop at the Vietnam Buddhist University
We invite all our members and friends to join us and welcome Dr.
Lancaster to Vietnam. The dinner will also be a great chance for
prospective students to learn more about Berkeley from a distinguished
member of the faculty.
As this is only a few days away, please confirm your attendance by
email or phone 0906 997 883) as soon as possible.
Here are the event details:
Time: 5:30pm
Location: Cafe Central Pasteur, 127 Pasteur, Q3
Price: US$10
A profile of the professor is below.
Thanks,
Victor '02
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LEWIS LANCASTER (Buddhism; Tibetan)
Lewis Lancaster, a specialist in the canons of Buddhist texts, was the
first student to complete the Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies at the
University of Wisconsin. He taught at the University of California,
Berkeley, for 33 years, with five years as Chair. By means of a grant
from the National Geographic Society, he and a group of students and
faculty inventoried texts in monasteries among the Sherpa people in
the Himalayas. He then began to research the problems of converting
Buddhist texts from Pali and Chinese into computer format, which
resulted in major CD ROM databases. That computer experience then led
him to form an association of scholars called the Electronic Cultural
Atlas Initiative (ECAI), which is housed on the Berkeley campus and
has a thousand affiliates worldwide. He is now President at Hsilai
University in Rosemead.
ECAI uses time and space to enhance and preservation of human culture
via the creation of digital maps that display a wide range of cultural
material by using place and time as a common element and developing a
technical infrastructure that illustrates the vision of sharing
distributed data and using time enabled mapping tools.
.................................................. ..
I received this email from Mr Minh - a Berkeley alumni.
So I would like to forward it to you (I also got it lately today). If anyone interested in this event can reach the event's organizer to register for attendance by phone.
----------------------------------------------------
Mr Victor: vtruong2@gmail.com <vtruong2@gmail.com>
---------------------------------------------
From Victor:
hi everyone,
The Berkeley Club of Vietnam is proud to host Prof. Lew Lancaster for
dinner on August 26 at 5:30pm.
Dr. Lancaster, Emeritus Professor of Buddhist Studies at UC-Berkeley,
is currently in town for a workshop at the Vietnam Buddhist University
We invite all our members and friends to join us and welcome Dr.
Lancaster to Vietnam. The dinner will also be a great chance for
prospective students to learn more about Berkeley from a distinguished
member of the faculty.
As this is only a few days away, please confirm your attendance by
email or phone 0906 997 883) as soon as possible.
Here are the event details:
Time: 5:30pm
Location: Cafe Central Pasteur, 127 Pasteur, Q3
Price: US$10
A profile of the professor is below.
Thanks,
Victor '02
................................................
LEWIS LANCASTER (Buddhism; Tibetan)
Lewis Lancaster, a specialist in the canons of Buddhist texts, was the
first student to complete the Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies at the
University of Wisconsin. He taught at the University of California,
Berkeley, for 33 years, with five years as Chair. By means of a grant
from the National Geographic Society, he and a group of students and
faculty inventoried texts in monasteries among the Sherpa people in
the Himalayas. He then began to research the problems of converting
Buddhist texts from Pali and Chinese into computer format, which
resulted in major CD ROM databases. That computer experience then led
him to form an association of scholars called the Electronic Cultural
Atlas Initiative (ECAI), which is housed on the Berkeley campus and
has a thousand affiliates worldwide. He is now President at Hsilai
University in Rosemead.
ECAI uses time and space to enhance and preservation of human culture
via the creation of digital maps that display a wide range of cultural
material by using place and time as a common element and developing a
technical infrastructure that illustrates the vision of sharing
distributed data and using time enabled mapping tools.
.................................................. ..