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In this presentation, viewing Buddhism from a self-knowledge standpoint, Professor of Philosophy Christopher W. Gowans (Fordham University) will examine a variety of Buddhist practices鈥攅thical, philosophical, and meditative鈥攁s these practices have been understood in the traditional 鈥減ath鈥� approaches (Buddhist practice as a path from suffering to an enlightened life of tranquility and compassion) and the rather different 鈥渆xploration鈥� approach that emerges in Chan and Zen Buddhism (Buddhist practice as expressing and exploring what it means not to be a self). Among Gowan’s publications is Self-Cultivation Philosophies in Ancient India, Greece, and China (Oxford University Press, 2021).