Date: Mar 28, 29, Apr 1 (Tue, Wed, Sat)
Time: 7.30–9.30PM on Mar 28-29, 9AM-12PM on Apr 1
Venue: The Buddhist Library
Fee: $20
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About this course

In this short course taking place over two evenings and a morning, Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi will teach the great Buddhist philosopher Nagurjuna’s exposition on Bodhicitta, the mind aimed at awakening. In particular, Venerable will be teaching the text “A Commentary on the Awakening Mind, ” which can be viewed here.

Details

All three sessions are part of the course. For avoidance of doubt, the class timings are as such:

About Ven Tenzin Priyadarshi

Venerable Tenzin Priyardashi

The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi is President & CEO of The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a center dedicated to inquiry, dialogue, and education on the ethical and humane dimensions of life. The Center is a collaborative and nonpartisan think tank, and its programs emphasize responsibility and examine meaningfulness and moral purpose between individuals, organizations, and societies. Six Nobel Peace Laureates serve as The Center’s founding members and its programs run in several countries and are expanding.

Venerable Tenzin’s unusual background encompasses entering a Buddhist monastery at the age of ten and receiving graduate education at Harvard University with degrees ranging from Philosophy to Physics to International Relations. He is a Tribeca Disruptive Fellow and a 2018 Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

Venerable Tenzin serves on the boards of number of academic, humanitarian, and religious organizations. He is the recipient of several recognitions and awards, and received Harvard’s Distinguished Alumni Honors for his visionary contributions to humanity.