Description

Class Summary

Siddhartha Gotama, the Buddha, played a pivotal role in shaping human history and culture. This course will explore Gotama’s unique perspective on the human condition. His primary concern was with the causes and alleviation of the unavoidable stress of being a human. As with all religious and spiritual traditions, there are many expressions. However, within the many varieties of Buddhism in Asia and now worldwide, the core teachings of Gotama, called the dharma, can be found in all.

About the Instructor

Don Cornelius is a resident of the Lutheran Community at Telford. After graduating from Susquehanna University, he earned graduate degrees in religious studies and social work from Philadelphia’s Lutheran Seminary, Yale University, and Adelphi University. He has a doctoral degree in social work from the City University of New York. He is professor emeritus at Molloy University, Rockville Center, where he taught social work and Buddhist philosophy.