DLCC Essay Competition 2016

The Dalai Lama Centre for Compassion invites essays in or relating to ethics, by current students matriculated at the University of Oxford. The authors of the winning essays will be invited to a ceremony in Oxford at which prizes will be presented by Dalai Lama himself on 15^th April 2016 (venue to be confirmed). A first prize of £250 and two further prizes of £100 each will be awarded. High quality submissions may also be published on the DLCC website.

Authors may address any topic relating to ethics, approached from the perspective of any academic discipline. Essays concerning areas of special interest to the DLCC are especially encouraged. Suitable topics might include:

The role of compassion in ethics

The nature of compassion and/or other virtues

Compassion and technological innovation

The place of ethics in the twenty-first century

The relation between ethics and science

The relation between ethics and religion

The relation between ethics and politics

The relation between ethics and business

Submissions should be no longer than 2,500 words in length, and must be written by matriculated students studying at the University of Oxford. Authors are encouraged to make their writing accessible to a wide audience whilst maintaining high scholarly standards. Submissions should be sent by email to [email protected] no later than midnight on Friday 8^th April 2016. Authors of winning essays will be informed by 11^th April 2016.