JOHN DAVID HUGHES BIODATA Updated 16/01/2000 Date of Birth: 9 September 1930. Place of Birth: Mentone, Victoria, Australia. Nationality: Australian.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

Primary Schooling: 6 years.
At various primary schools.

SECONDARY SCHOOLING:

5 years Mordialloc High School.
University of Melbourne School Leaving Certificate.
1. English
2. Mathematics 1
3. Physics
4. Chemistry
5. French

Awarded: December 1946
Awarded: Commonwealth Secondary Scholarship.

TERTIARY QUALIFICATIONS:

SWINBURNE COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY:

Diploma of Applied Chemistry
Awarded: 1 January 1973

EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF VICTORIA:

Trained Technical teacher's Certificate
Awarded: 3 May 1973

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY: ARTS (EDUCATION) DEGREE.

Not fully completed.
Curriculum Design (CT231), 1978.
Introduction to Educational Research (ED301), 1978.
Introduction to Educational Research (EED301), 1979.
Curriculum Design and Development 1 (ECT231), 1979.
Curriculum Design and Development 2 (ECT431), 1980.
Sociology of Education Parts A & B (EED421), 1980.
Curriculum Design and Development 3, 1981.
et al.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY:

Graduate Diploma in Adult and Industrial Education
Awarded: 28 May 1994

OTHER EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

City & Guilds London Institute.

Dyeing of Textiles, Final, 1949.
Dyeing of Wool, Intermediate, 1948.
Dyeing of Wool, Final, 1949.
Dyeing of Cotton, Intermediate, 1950.
Dyeing of Cotton, Final, 1953.
Dyeing of Silk & Rayon, Intermediate, 1950.
Technology of Textiles & Dyes, Exemption.

ROYAL MELBOURNE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY:

Mathematics IV C
Awarded: 16/12/1970

BOARD OF EXAMINERS OF PATENT ATTORNEYS (AUSTRALIA)

Subjects passed:

Patent Law of Australia and the Practice of the Patent Office.
Trade Marks Law of Australia and Practice of the Trade Marks Office.
Designs Law of Australia and the Practice of the Designs Office.
Preparation of Specifications.
Interpretation and Criticism of Specifications.
Patent and Trade Marks Law and Practice of Countries other than Australia.
Founder & Secretary (5 years) of Australian Manufacturers Patents, Industrial Designs, Trademark & Copyright Association. (AMPICTA)
Awarded: Life Membership of AMPICTA.


JOHN DAVID HUGHES FAMILY BACKGROUND

John Hughes' ancestors were renowned for being civic minded and always engaged in the life of the Australian community. They attended private schools and were well educated in their day and age and were benefactors to many persons.

His great grandfather on his mother's side was Lord Mayor of Launceston in Tasmania, and built many of the public buildings in that city, in Melbourne and in South Africa. His son (the father of John Hughes' mother) had six children.

John Hughes' grandfather on his father's side was Mayor of Highett in Victoria and won the King's Rifle Award near the turn of the century. His factory built the bodywork of many early Australian motor cars.

His grandmother on his mother's side was civic minded and was Life Member of Prince Henry's Hospital Committee in Melbourne, Victoria. Most of his family were builders, master cabinet makers and engineers.

Two uncles served in the Australian Army; one in World War 1 and the other in World War 2.

John David Hughes is a fourth generation Australian. John has three daughters; Jocelyn Hughes B.Bus.(Marketing), Rani Hughes, Celeste Hughes.

Mother's Name: Jean Gladys Hughes
Father's Name: Keith Albert Hughes

Both parents are deceased and John Hughes arranged pujas for both of them prior to their passing away.

EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEE SERVICE

Committee Member and later Chairman of the Boronia Teacher Education Centre. The Centre was funded by the Education Department of Victoria.

In this role, he devised human resource development methods and means which would the cultural changes needed for Primary, Secondary & technical School teachers to operate in an information society.

CHARITABLE ORGANISATION SERVICE

President of the Sherbrooke Auxiliary of Multiple Sclerosis
for 5 years.

John lectures on Buddha Dharma for the local Venturers in the Scouting Association. He is authorised to sign their qualifications in this area as part of the Queen's Scout Award.

PAINTER & CALLIGRAPHER

John is a Ch'an Master painter and has exhibited his pieces in many group shows. John plans to have a definitive exhibition of his landscape paintings next year.

PUBLICATIONS:

Thesis:
Information Age Organisational Development Using Five Trusts
Accepted by Deakin University - Graduate Diploma of Industrial and Adult Education.

PUBLICATIONS - Buddhist Studies.

AUSTRALIAN SCHOOLS COMMISSION FINAL REPORT.

.....Reduction of racial prejudice.

In 1977, John undertook a major project funded by the Australian School's Commission. Over the next three years, he researched and documented the sociology of several multicultural Australian Buddhist Organisations.

The mechanisms used by such bodies of cultural difference to reduce their racial prejudice was documented and modelled.
PRINCIPAL JOURNALS - RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

Over The last 16 years, The Buddha Dhyana Dana Review, ISSN 0818-8254 - incorporating the Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd Newsletter and the Ch'an Academy Newsletter, .

Also The Brooking Street Bugle ISSN 1321 - 1463 (61 issues)
John is Editor of both Journals. .

TRANSLATION OF LAOTIAN WORK TO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

The Way You Are Looking For - A Manual Of Insight Meditation
By Phra Ajarn Chanhphy Manivong 1994 ISBN 0 646 13764 6

INTERNATIONAL GOOD WILL VISITS AND CONFERENCES ATTENDED

International Buddhist Leaders and Scholars Conference,
Sri Lanka, 1984
Buddhist Association of China visit, 1983, funded by the Australia-China Council Delegate to the WFB Conference, Taiwan,1992
Atisa Dipankar Srijnan 1000th Birth Anniversary,Bangladesh, 1983
Visit to many Buddhist organisations in Bangladesh, 1992
Next Conference: Bangkok WFB November, 1994

INTERNATIONAL CONSULTATIVE FUNCTION FOR BUDDHIST MEDITATION TEACHERS

John has helped many Buddhist Monks, Scholars & Meditation Masters, using English as a second language, educated in Asian countries to become proficient in the English language.
His studies in philology means he can render key Pali and Sanskrit canonical words and phrases into comprehensible English, that can be understood in the context of a multicultural Australia.

This service assists the propagation of Buddha Dharma in Australia and overseas.

John Hughes in this lifetime was able to recollect the Buddha's Teaching by himself because of past causes in former times. John is a Buddhist Meditation Master and has guided many persons to realise each for himself or herself the true nature of Buddha's Teaching.

John lives as a layman in this life, but holds Bodhisattva Vows. He founded to The Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd , A.C.N.005 701 806 on 9 September 1986, which John founded has been visited by many of the Chief Monks of Asian countries. Many of his Students have taken Robes for up to three months.

PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS

John D. Hughes & Associates Pty. Limited A.C.N. 006 571 839

Manager of a Professional Business - Training for cultural change needed for workers to alter their "old-fashioned" industrial development notions towards those needed in post industrial societies business concepts.

Implicit in the commercial training packages are concepts of Morality.

These Industrial Training Packages are marketed under the name of WINNERS GAIN GROUND

Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd. Honorary Life Member awarded 26 July 1986.

Award given by Aburkhil Janakalyan Samiti - Bangladesh (A Regional Centre of the WFBY in Bangladesh), 1992.

Vice President for the World Fellowship of Buddhists as of November 1998.

Awarded a Peace Prize on 25 January 2000 by the Visuddhananda Peace Foundation, (in Memory of His Holiness the Late 24th Mahasanghanayaka Visuddhananda Mahathero). Sudarshan Vihar, East Guzara, Guzara Noapara, Raozan, Chittagong, Bangladesh.

FORMER MEMBERSHIPS & ASSOCIATIONS

Associate Member of the Institute of Patent Attorneys of Australia.
Associate Member of the International Association for Protection of Industrial Property.
Associate Member of the Life Writers Association of Australia.

HOBBY:

Developing a private geological and fossil museum.