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SUMMARY:Oblate Talk on February 15\, 2026
DESCRIPTION:Brother Nicholas Koss\, O.S.B.\, will present on “The History of the Benedictines in China\,” at 3 p.m. Sunday\, February 15. He is a native of Beaver County\, Pennsylvania\, but has spent much of his life and monastic career in Asia. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from Saint Vincent College and studied Chinese at Chabanel Language Institute in Taiwan\, then studied for the Master of Arts and Ph.D. in comparative literature from Indiana University in Bloomington. In 1981 he began teaching in the English department at Fu Jen University\, and also served as dean and director of the Graduate Institute of Comparative Literature. After reaching the mandatory age for retirement from full-time teaching in Taiwan\, he was invited to teach full-time at Peking University in the Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture\, a position he held until 2019. He then returned to Taipei and taches part-time at Fu Jen. Since 2021\, he has been teaching courses related to China in the spring semester at Saint Vincent College.
URL:https://svaoblates.org/event/oblate-talk-on-february-15-2026/
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