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Mind and Life XVIII - Attention, Memory and Mind
Mind and Life XVIII - Attention, Memory and Mind

Venue: His Holiness's Residence, Dharamsala, India
Date: 6-10 April 2009
Duration: 9 sessions (each approx. 2 hours)
Languages: English, Tibetan

The discussions during Mind and Life XVIII primarily focus on the subjective phenomenology, information-processing operations, and neural mechanisms of attention, memory and conscious awareness from both scientific and Buddhist perspectives.

Shantideva's Guide and Kamalashila's Middling Stages of Meditation
Shantideva's Guide and Kamalashila's Middling Stages of Meditation

Venue: Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Date: 20-23 July 2008
Duration: 7 Sessions (each approx. 2 hours)
Languages: English

His Holiness gives teachings on Shantideva's Guide to a Bodhisattva's Way of Life and Kamalashila's Middling Stages of Meditation.

Ethics in Secular Education
Ethics in Secular Education

Venue: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Date: 30 April 2009
Duration: 1:45
Languages: English

His Holiness gives a talk on developing ethics through secular education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Bodh Gaya Teachings 2010
Bodh Gaya Teachings 2010

Venue: Bodh Gaya, India
Date: 5-8 January 2010
Duration: 10 session approximately 2 hours each
Languages: English, Chinese, Tibetan

His Holiness gives five-day teachings on Nagarjuna's In Praise of the Transcendental (jigten ley depar toepa), Atisha's Lamp of the Path to Enlightenment (jangchup lamdron), Longchen Rinpoche's Mind In Comfort and Ease (semnyid nyelso) & Tsongkhapa's Short Version of the Stages of the Path To Enlightenment (lamrim dhuedhon) from January 5th to 8th, 2010.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama interviewed by Ann Curry of NBC News
His Holiness the Dalai Lama interviewed by Ann Curry of NBC News

Venue: His Holiness's Residence, Dharamsala, India
Date: 10 January 2009
Duration: 1:19
Languages: English

His Holiness the Dalai Lama is interviewed by Ann Curry of NBC News at his residence in Dharamsala, India

His Holiness Meets with Members of the Indian Federation of Working Journalists
His Holiness Meets with Members of the Indian Federation of Working Journalists

Venue: Main Temple, Dharamsala, India
Date: 28 November 2009
Duration: 0:50
Languages: English

His Holiness the Dalai Lama gives a short statement and then takes questions from members of the Indian Federation of Working Journalists.

Praise to Dependent Arising and The Three Principal Paths
Praise to Dependent Arising and The Three Principal Paths

Venue: Main Temple, Dharamsala, India
Date: 24-25 November 2009
Duration: 3 Sessions (each approx. 2 hours)
Languages: English / Tibetan / Russian

His Holiness the Dalai Lama gives teachings on the Tsongkhapa's Praise to Dependent Arising and Atisha's the Three Principal Paths. Day 2 afternoon is a question and answer session in Tibetan and Russian languages only.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama Meets with Three Nobel Laureates
His Holiness the Dalai Lama Meets with Three Nobel Laureates

Venue: His Holiness's Residence, Dharamsala, India
Date: 27 October 2009
Duration: 1:07
Languages: English

His Holiness the Dalai Lama in conversation with three Nobel Peace Laureates at his residence in Dharamsala, India. Participants include Mairead Corrigan Maquire of Northern Ireland (1976), Jody Williams of the USA (1997) and Shirin Ebadi of Iran (2003).

The Four Noble Truths
The Four Noble Truths

Venue: Main Temple, Dharamsala, India
Date: 20 - 22 October 2009
Duration: 5 sessions (each approximately 2 hours)
Languages: English / Chinese / Tibetan

His Holiness gives teachings on The Four Noble Truths (denpa shi) at the request of a group of Southeast Asian Buddhists at the Main Tibetan Temple

Mind and Life XIV - Dialogues on
Mind and Life XIV - Dialogues on "The Universe in a Single Atom"

Venue: His Holiness's Residence, Dharamsala, India
Date: 9-12 April 2007
Duration: 8 Sessions (each approx. 2 hours)
Languages: English / Tibetan

In addition to being a scientific autobiography, the Dalai Lama's book "The Universe in a Single Atom: the Convergence of Science and Spirituality" highlights those issues he feels are most important in the "convergence of science and spirituality." These issues and questions form the focus of the Mind and Life XIV meeting, and become the foundation on which a group of scientists develop a deep dialogue with the Dalai Lama and other Buddhist scholar-practitioners.

 

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