{"id":1172,"date":"2011-11-22T21:45:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T05:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pacificasv.org\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2016-09-12T20:20:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T03:20:36","slug":"interfaith-conversations-what-is-buddhism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/2011\/11\/22\/interfaith-conversations-what-is-buddhism\/","title":{"rendered":"Interfaith Conversations: What is Buddhism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our distinguished speaker, John Bassounas, will be giving a talk on Buddhism.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Theme:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat is Buddhism?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker Bio:<\/strong><br \/>\nMr. Bassounas is originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and raised as Greek Orthodox Christian.<br \/>\nHe lived in Greece for three years:  7 years old to 10 years old.<br \/>\nHe holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in Electrical Engineering and master\u2019s in Computer Science.<br \/>\nHe has lived in Japan for three years and introduced to Shinnyo-en Buddhism in 1992<br \/>\nand been a member since then.<br \/>\nHe has joined the Shinnyo-en temple office in 1996 at the New York branch, in<br \/>\nWhite Plains, New York and transferred to the San Francisco temple in 2000.<br \/>\nHe has been in the Bay Area since then. He is currently living in San Mateo and<br \/>\nserving at the Shinnyo-en USA Head Temple in Redwood City, California.<br \/>\nHe is married with two children.<\/p>\n<p>Please come and join us for this wonderful and informative conversation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program:<br \/>\n<\/strong> Reception 6:30pm &#8211; 6:45pm<br \/>\nDinner: 6:45pm &#8211; 7:30pm<br \/>\nSpeech: 7:30pm &#8211; 8:00pm<br \/>\nQ&amp;A: 8:00pm &#8211; 8:15pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Address:<\/strong> Pacifica Burlingame Office<br \/>\n1310 Bayshore Hyw Suite 11&amp;12 Burlingame, CA 94010<\/p>\n<p>Free parking is available<\/p>\n<p>Tel: 408-646-0183<\/p>\n<p>We would appreciate seeing you at our foundation.<br \/>\nRSVP is also kindly requested. Event is free of charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Date:<\/b> December 10th, 2011 (Saturday); 6:30PM<br \/>\n<b>Address:<\/b> Pacifica Burlingame Office<br \/>\n1310 Bayshore Hyw Suite 11&amp;12 Burlingame, CA 94010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":1173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[538,535,530],"tags":[516],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conversations","category-norcal","category-peninsula-branch","tag-norcal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}