The College and Nanjing University jointly host an academic seminar entitled “Protecting the Spiritual Environment and Humanistic Concern: The relation between body and mind, self-cultivation, and practice in daily life in the tradition of East Asian thought”. About 200 people participate in this seminar. Master Sheng Yen also makes a keynote speech entitled “The Humanistic Characteristics of Chan and Chan Culture”. Master Sheng Yen and Zhang Yi-bin, vice president of Nanjing University, sign two agreements entitled “Dharma Drum Lecture Series in Humanities at Nanjing University” and “Dharma Drum Humanities Scholarship at Nanjing University” respectively