Special Thanks to Saramati (Dr. Alan Sponberg) for agreeing to sponsor our organization in 2001. Saramati is a part of the Liberal Studies Department and can be reached by email at sponberg@selway.umt.edu .

When asked "How do you perceive your role as this group's advisor, and how do you plan to interact with them?" Saramati responded:

"I will act as both an academic resource and as a spiritual advisor to the group - in the first instance in my capacity as Professor of Asian Philosophy and Religion and in the second in my capacity as an ordained member of the Western Buddhist Order."

We hope to have him on as advisor again in 2002.