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Program Description: Join us for an evening looking through the eye of the Buddha. Drawing on both the Pāli canon's account of the Buddha's awakening and its Mahāyāna understanding, we will first explore what the Buddha realized in the three watches of that famous night — the insight that so fundamentally transformed his view of the world and his lived experience.
We'll then consider what it might be like to have a completely purified mind, from which, by the power of omniscience, awakened activity pours effortlessly, the fruit of three countless eons cultivating impartial and unconditional care. We'll round this off with how such activity is mapped in the celebrated Abhisamayālaṅkāra, the text revealed by Maitreya that underpins the Tibetan tradition's understanding of Awakening.
Finally, we'll ask how this vision can inspire us, inform our practice, and shape how we engage a troubled world even in our not-yet-awakened state.
The evening will be accessible to practitioners of all levels and to the simply curious, with time for Q&A.
Presenter Bio: Venerable Losang Gendun has spent nearly four decades in Buddhist practice, living as a fully ordained Bhikshu in the Tibetan tradition for the past twenty years. His training spans ten years of monastic study across France, India, Nepal, and Myanmar, and more than four years in solitary retreat in both Tibetan and Burmese Theravāda traditions. For the past eighteen years he has taught Buddhist philosophy, psychology, and meditation worldwide within the FPMT, serving the vision of H.H. the Dalai Lama and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. In 2023 he founded The Buddha Project, offering long-term guidance for serious meditators and fostering dialogue between Buddhist traditions, contemplative science, and the arts. Its core program is the four-year FPMT In-Depth Meditation Training.
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