Buddhist Ethics Symposium

Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy

Mark Wells received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Bowling Green State University in 2014. Before coming to Northeastern, he held visiting positions at The College of Wooster and Mt. Holyoke College. In his philosophical work, he focuses on the ways in…

Associate Director, Ethics Institute

Amod Lele received his PhD from the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University in 2007. He has taught in the philosophy department at Boston University and the religion departments at Colorado College and Stonehill College, and publishe…

Director of Studies, Barre Center for Buddhist Studies

William Edelglass is Director of Studies at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. Previously, he was Professor of Philosophy at Marlboro College in Vermont. He has also been a visiting professor in India at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics, the Central University for Higher Tibetan Studies, and the Indian Institute of Technology—Bombay.

Alexis Brown received her PhD from the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University, her MTS in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School, and her MA in English from Middlebury College. She has taught at Harvard Divinity School, Brandeis University, Mount Holyoke College, and is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Wellesley College. Her research and teaching focus on Buddhist literature, Pali language, and the intersections of Buddhist ethics, animals, and environmentalism. Her current scholarship examines the ethically formative capacities of Buddhist novels and the role of narrative in moral cultivation.

Damchö Diana Finnegan is the founder of Comunidad Dharmadatta and its main teacher. She ordained as a Buddhist nun in 1999. While devoting time to retreat during winter and summer breaks, she completed a graduate program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studying Sanskrit, Tibetan and interdisciplinary studies of Asian culture and history. Her PhD thesis was on gender and ethics in Sanskrit and Tibetan narratives about Buddha’s direct female disciples. She has served as a board member of Maitripa College, a Buddhist college in Portland, Oregon, since its founding in 2005.

Rick Repetti is Full Professor of Philosophy at CUNY/Kingsborough, Fellow of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, APPA certified Philosophical Counselor, certified Cognitive Behavioral Therapist, certified Life Coach, and certified Mindfulness Instructor, trained in Gestalt Psychotherapy, author of several peer-reviewed articles, chapters, and books on meditation, mental freedom, and free will, practitioner and instructor in meditation and yoga since 1976, and 4th degree blackball in Shotokan karate.