with Ven. Losang Gendun

Wednesday, November 4
7:00pm – 9:00pm PST (Pacific Standard Time)

in-person and online
Local students are encouraged to attend in-person.

Program Category: Meditation

There is a particular relief that comes when the mind's relentless activity begins to settle — when the ongoing commentary, the weight of "me and my story," and the momentum of habitual reactivity quiet even slightly. One's first clear experience of that release — simple, ordinary, unmistakable — is where practice really begins.

But release doesn't happen by accident. This evening focuses on the practicalities: how to sit, how to work with a range of topics and methods, and how to recognize and gently dismantle the conditions that keep the mind restless. Central to this is learning to work through seeing and knowing rather than effortful doing — a shift that changes everything.

The teaching is suitable for practitioners at any level who want a clearer understanding of how to navigate their own minds, and thereby their lived experience. It will also offer orientation within the immense diversity of Tibetan Buddhist practices — how to understand what they share, and how to adapt them to your needs as a meditator on a path of liberation.

Venerable Losang Gendun has spent nearly four decades in Buddhist practice and has lived as a fully ordained Bhikshu in the Tibetan tradition for the past twenty years. Before taking robes, he worked across a wide range of fields — palliative care, technology, refugee organizations, and management — a breadth of human experience that continues to inform his teaching.

His formal training spans ten years of study in monasteries across France, India, Nepal, and Myanmar, complemented by more than four years in solitary retreat engaging deeply with Tibetan sutra and tantra, as well as the Burmese Theravāda Forest Tradition.

For the past eighteen years, Ven. Gendun has taught Buddhist philosophy, psychology, and meditation to students around the world. He serves the vision of H.H. the Dalai Lama and Lama Zopa Rinpoche as a teacher within the FPMT (Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition), and is a member of Mind & Life Europe, a multidisciplinary initiative bringing together scientists and contemplative practitioners to investigate the nature of mind and experience.

In 2023, Ven. Gendun founded The Buddha Project — a long-term initiative offering sustained guidance for serious meditators, fostering dialogue between Buddhist traditions, supporting scientific research into contemplative practice, and exploring the intersection of Dharma and the arts. Its core program is the four-year FPMT In-Depth Meditation Training.