Dalai Lama: Free Global Summit (10/22-27)

LionsRoar.com/dalai-lama-summit; Amber Larson, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The year 2020 has brought sharp focus to our collective struggles: a global pandemic, environmental destruction, threats to democracy, reckonings with racial inequality.

 

How is it possible to blossom, lotus-like, from the mud of suffering? The Dalai Lama offers an incredible example of how to live with compassion, courage, and ethical conviction in the face of tremendous adversity.

 

It's a beacon of hope for a troubled world from a Nobel Peace Prize winner, for Tibetan Buddhists the human manifestation of the bodhisattva of compassion Kwan Yin (Kannon).

 

The 14th Dalai Lama is loved worldwide for his unwavering commitment to non-violence and his example of the power of compassion, other than that whole CIA business. Now for the first time, Lion’s Roar and Tibet House US, and with the express endorsement of the Dalai Lama himself, are bringing together an extraordinary gathering of experts to celebrate the Dalai Lama’s vision and profound wisdom in this historic online summit.

 

A panel of 21 teachers, spiritual leaders, scholars, and devoted students of the Dalai Lama offers an unprecedented opportunity to explore his life and teachings. Drawing on decades of personal experience, they offer expert insight, teachings, guided meditations, and opportunities for reflection, allowing all to slow down and discover for themselves how the Dalai Lama’s teachings can touch that heart and enrich lives.

 

Over the course of six days, Oct. 22-27, the summit will unpack some of the Dalai Lama’s unparalleled wisdom with the help of 21 expert speakers, including monks and nuns, teachers and authors, scholars, scientists, and personal friends of the Dalai Lama himself.

 

• Thupten Jinpa principal English translator to the Dalai Lama, founder of the Institute of Tibetan Classics
• Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron, author, founder, and abbess of Sravasti Abbey
• Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D. director, Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Richard Gere, founder of The Gere Foundation
• Robert Wright, author of Why Buddhism Is True
• Sharon Salzberg, Buddhist mindfulness teacher, author of Real Happiness and Real Change
• Dr. Deepak Chopra, MD, founder of The Chopra Foundation, author of Total Meditation
• Lama Tsultrim Allione, spiritual director, Tara Mandala
• Serene Jones, president of the Union Theological Seminary
• Jan Willis, professor emerita of religious studies, Wesleyan University
• Dr. Mark Epstein, MD, psychiatrist and author
• Amishi Jha, neuroscientist and researcher, University of Miami
• Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun, Beyt Tikkun Synagogue
• B. Alan Wallace, founder and president of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies
• Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, author, president of The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT
• Sofia Stril-Revor, author and creator of the Be the Love medit-action training program
• Daniel Goleman, psychologist and science journalist
• Dr. Alberto Villoldo, medical director of The Four Winds Society, author of Grow a New Body
• Karenna Gore, director of the Center for Earth Ethics
• Robert A.F. Thurman, Uma Thurman's dad, Padma Shri, professor emeritus, translator, author, and president of TibetHouse.us
• Dan Harris, ABC News anchor, author of 10% Happier

Over six days the FREE online Dalai Lama Global Vision Summit will explore the life, teachings, and vision of the current Dalai Lama — one of the most celebrated spiritual leaders and visionaries in the world. With expert presentations covering six major themes of the Dalai Lama’s message of wisdom, compassion, and peace, the summit rejoices in his vision of human harmony, and invites all to consider how to make it a reality.

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