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University of Trinity College
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What does it mean to become human in a religiously plural and rapidly changing world? Religious traditions have long understood human existence not simply as a given but as a task—a process of cultivation, transformation, awakening, liberation, or becoming. Humanistic Buddhism brings particular attention to this process by locating Buddhist awakening within everyday human life and emphasizing wisdom, compassion, ethical cultivation, and responsibility for others.
This conference explores human becoming as a shared question for Humanistic Buddhism, comparative theology, and interreligious dialogue. How might Buddhist understandings of Buddha-nature, awakening, compassion, interdependence, and non duality illuminate what it means to become fully human? How might Christian and other religious accounts of personhood, transformation, and flourishing enrich or challenge Buddhist perspectives?
The theme also invites reflection on the conditions under which human becoming takes place today. Religious pluralism increasingly brings traditions into sustained encounter, while migration, ecological crisis, social polarization, and artificial intelligence are reshaping understandings of human identity and responsibility. What resources can religious traditions offer for navigating these transformations? Can comparative theology itself become a practice of transformation, in which encountering religious difference changes not only what we understand but also who we become?
Bringing together scholars, theologians, monastics, practitioners, and emerging researchers from around the world, the conference seeks to develop Humanistic Buddhism and comparative theology as resources for understanding human becoming in a multi faith future.
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