At VU University, a program in Buddhist Chaplaincy is being designed, for Buddhists who want to serve as religious leaders in prisons, hospitals, the army and congregations. But how to take care of ourselves? What is a healthy human being? Someone who always smiles like the Buddha?

This afternoon, three Buddhist educators show u show they see the human being struggle in daily life, how they see life could be, and how they hope to help people go from A to B. Also, two students in Religious Studies read a column about their aspirations understood in dialogue with Buddhist philosophy.

Our honored guests are:
Tenkei Coppens, a Zenmaster and founder of Zen River, an internationally oriented trainings-monastery that is recognized by the Japanese Soto school. Tenkei is one of the most appreciated Zen-masters in the Netherlands, for his gentleness, knowledge and wit. His monastery provides the largest Buddhist training institute in the Netherlands. Tenkei was educated in Zen practice and thought in the United States and Japan.
Alie Rozendal and Stef Lauwers will give us a grass-roots perspective from their work as a Buddhist Health Care Practitioner for the Dutch Department of Justice. They are the first generation of recognized Buddhist Health Care practitioners –previously these roles were fulfilled with Christian pastors, later extended by Muslims, and now also Hindus and Buddhists. We will see how they invent the job on the go.

Language: Dutch

More info:
http://www.godgeleerdheid.vu.nl/nl/onderzoek/instituten-en-centra/accord...