Dr Sonam Thakchoe is a former student of the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies (CIHTS), Sarnath, Varanasi, India. After nine-intensive years of training in the History of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy, he was awarded Shastri and Acharya Degrees along with Gold Medal Recognition.
Career Summary
He obtained his PhD in 2002 from the University of Tasmania, and is currently lecturing in the areas Buddhist Philosophy (Mahayana, Theravada, Zen), Chinese Philosophy (Confucianism and Taoism) and Indian (Orthodox and Heterodox Schools), Ethics and Philosophy of Nonviolence (Buddha, Gandhi, Martin Luther King). As the coordinator of the Tasmanian Buddhist Studies in India Exchange Program, Sonam takes a group of 15 Australian students every summer (Dec-Jan) for an intensive Summer Course at the CIHTS. There he teaches to the Tibetan students and assists the CIHTS in developing distance education program in the areas of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist philosophy. Being a keen follower of the Vipassana tradition, he teaches philosophy combined with the mindfulness-based meditation technique in the local schools, health clinics, Buddhist centers and also for the prison inmates.
Teaching
HPA 2/319 Buddhist Philosophy
HPA 2/3 Zen and Tao: EastAsian Philosophy
HPA 2/309 Meaning of Life
HPA 416 (Hons) Comparative Philosophy and Religion
HPA 2/393 Comparative Philosophy and Religion
HPA 2/397 Buddhism, Ethics and Nonviolence
HPA 2/376 Tasmanian Buddhist Studies in India Exchange Program
HPA2/321 Ideas and Faiths
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