"The Somaesthetics of Hara Breathing in Zen Buddhist Meditation" Lecture with Dr. Geoff Ashton

Wednesday Night Lecture Series, September 20th 2023.
Professor Geoff Ashton is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco. He has conducted research in Sanskrit, Thai, and Spanish, at numerous institutions of higher learning outside of the United States (twice as a Fulbright scholar), including Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India), Deccan College (Pune, India), the Jñāna-Pravaha Institute (Varanasi, India), Chiang Mai University (Chiang Mai, Thailand), Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok, Thailand), and La Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Madrid, Spain). He has authored numerous articles, book chapters, and essays on Indian Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Comparative Ethics, and Comparative Aesthetics. He is currently revising a manuscript on philosophy of nature in Indian philosophy. Another research project centers around the interrelation between meditative practice in Zen Buddhism and the phenomenology of gravity. Geoff Ashton is also a priest and dharma successor in the Chosei lineage of Zen.