84000 Associate Editor Dr. Jeremy Manheim is teaching a Buddhist philosophy seminar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, guiding students through Kangyur and Tengyur texts as they investigate the nature and causes of suffering.
Dr. Jeremy Manheim's course will open with The Sūtra of the Wheel of Dharma (Toh 337) from the 84000 Reading Room, inviting students to reflect on the nature of suffering before examining its possible causes — whether belief in a self, subject–object duality, conceptuality, or other sources of error.
Throughout the semester, students deepen this inquiry by alternating between close readings of Kangyur and Tengyur texts and philosophical analysis of the arguments they contain.
Dr. Jeremy S. Manheim specializes in Buddhist philosophy, drawing on his background in both contemporary philosophy and Indo-Tibetan Buddhist texts. Dr. Manheim spent nine years studying in a Tibetan monastery in India through the traditional methods of memorization and debate before returning to the University of Wisconsin for doctoral research, where he now teaches in the Philosophy Department alongside his editorial work at 84000.
