Raymond Lam

BA (Class I Hons) (UQ)

Teaching

Mahayana Buddhism.

Academia

Mahayana Buddhology, Buddhist ethics, philosophy of religion, spirituality and personal development.

Research Interests

Archetypes of compassion and salvation in the Pure Land tradition.

List of Publications

(forthcoming 2010) “Luiz Costa Lima Discussion Paper: The Consecration and Problem of the Individual and Self, and Freedom through ‘Spiritual Law’” in Crossroads: An interdisciplinary journal for the study of history, philosophy, religion and classics

(forthcoming January 2010) “Love and Enlightenment: The Narrative of Jyotis in the Skill-in-Means Sutra and Sexuality in Buddhist Care” in Crossroads: An interdisciplinary journal for the study of history, philosophy, religion and classics

“The Role of the Good Friend in the Gandavyuha Sutra,” in Bodhi Journal. 14^th Issue, December 2009: Buddhism and Self-Cultivation

“The problem of Evil and Theodicy: A Non-Classical Approach through the Philosophy of the Gospels” in Emergent Australasian Philosophers. Issue 2, July 2009, 1 – 23 (available in PDF)

“Renewing Self-Knowledge through the Essayist Autobiography: Montaigne’s Philosophy of Humanity in the Essays” in Emergent Australasian Philosophers. Issue 1, November 2008, 1 – 16 (available in PDF)

“Mahayana Buddhist Ethics as Imperatively Religious: A Hermeneutical Study of the Avatamsaka Sutra”, in Crossroads: An interdisciplinary journal for the study of history, philosophy, religion and classics. Volume 3, Issue 1: 2008 Short Essay Competition: Undergraduate Section – 1st Place, 67 – 72 (available in PDF)

UQ Honours Research

RELN6001: Individual Honours Study Unit 1 – The Contemplative Dimensions of Detachment and Solitude in Thomas Merton and Shantideva: A New Dialogue in Experiential Monastic Convergences

RELN6000/6003: A Dialogue Between Thomas Merton’s Agape and Shāntideva’s Karuna: Some Moral Dimensions of a Catholic and Mahayana Exchange

Other activities and service

Weekly English columnist for Buddhist Door (http://mingkok.buddhistdoor.com/en/section/4171).

Masters Teaching Assistant (Jan 2010 - June 2010) for Mahayana Buddhism (BCST6002) at the Centre of Buddhist Studies, University of Hong Kong.

Winner (with Emily Pitcher and Chloe Forsyth) of the 2009 UQ Library Excellence Award. The award recognises the excellent work produced by UQ students and acknowledges how Library resources are used to support teaching and learning.

Guest Lecturer for course RELN2310: Religion and Violence (University of Queensland). Week 11: Buddhism and Violence. (14/10/2009)