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Dhammapada Part II (On-Campus One-Day Retreat)

Saturday, May 12, 2012, 10:30am-4:30pm

Cultivating Patience (On-Campus One-Day Retreat)

Saturday, March 3, 2012, 10am-4pm

Retreat on Dhammapada

(On-Campus One-Day Retreat)

Saturday, November 19, 2011, 10am-4pm

Field Trip to Leverett Peace Stupa

Wake Up to Life

(Mindfulness Seminar)

Thursday, October 20, 2011, 6pm-7:30pm

(Dedication ceremony of the new temple)

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Joyful Living

(On-Campus One-Day Retreat: live webcast teachings with the Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi)

Saturday, September 24, 2011, 1pm-3pm and 5pm-8pm

On-Campus Meditation Retreat: “Buddha Nature” 

Taught by the Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi

Saturday, May 7, 2011

12:30pm-2:30pm and 4:30-7pm

Introduction to Zazen

Rev. Ichigaku Nagira

Thursday, September 2, 6pm-7pm

Venue: MIT Chapel

A one time opportunity to learn about Zen Meditation from one of the bests. Rev. Ichigaku Nagira is the disciplinarian monk of Myoshinji Temple (Headquarters for Rinzai Zen) in Kyoto, Japan. He oversees the training of novices at Myoshinji and Hanazono (affiliated university).

Open to: the general public

Finding Peace and Happiness Within

A Talk by His Holiness Chhetsang Rinpoche

Friday, September 3 at 7PM

Venue: MIT Building 10, Room 250 (10-250) 

Prajnopaya is pleased to present one of its Spiritual Patrons, His Holiness Chhetsang Rinpoche the 37th Drikung Kyabgon, the co-head of the Drikung Kagyu order of Tibetan Buddhism. He resides at JangChub Ling in Dehra Dun, Northern India. In 1985 Drikung Kyabgon founded the Drikung Kagyu Institute, an education center, which emphasizes both traditional monastic education and contemporary training. The Institute has started a research project collecting all the Drikung Kagyu texts and the latest project is a Computer Library, where documentation materials on the ways of living, philosophy and religious thought of the peoples of the Himalayas are to be centrally registered. There is also a meditation retreat center nearby.

His Holiness Chetsang Rinpoche was born in 1947 in Lhasa. In 1969, he was a student in Chinese schools and later worked in communes in Central Tibet. The latter became an invaluable experience for learning about the Tibetan spiritual and temporal condition in a changed society.

One Day Retreat: Introduction to Mantra and Visualization Practices

With Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi

Saturday, August 28, 2010, 10:30am-4pm

Sand Mandala Workshop

Friday, May 7, 2010, 4:30pm-7pm

Venue: W79, Simmons Dining Hall

MIT Community Only

Cost: Free



Mandala @ MIT invites the MIT community to join us for some fun and food. Bring out the artist in you- create new designs and play with colors. Watch Werner Herzog’s “Wheel of Time” to inspire you. People will be encouraged to work in teams.

Indian food will be served following the workshop.

Retreat: The Foundation of All Good Qualities 

with Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi

Saturday, April 17, 2010, 10:30am-4pm

From Me to We: A New Look at Resilience and Well-Being 

A Talk by Daniel Siegel

Friday, March 19, 7:30pm-9pm

Dan Siegel received his medical degree from Harvard University and completed his postgraduate medical education at UCLA with training in pediatrics and child, adolescent and adult psychiatry. He served as a National Institute of Mental Health Research Fellow at UCLA, studying family interactions with an emphasis on how attachment experiences influence emotions, behavior, autobiographical memory and narrative. An award-winning educator, Dan Siegel is currently a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he is a Co-Investigator at the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development (cbd.ucla.edu) and is Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center (marc.ucla.edu).

Retreat: Foundations of Buddhism 

with Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi

Saturday, February 27, 2010, 10:30am-4pm

Retreat: Parting from the Four Attachments, written by Drakpa Gyaltsen

with Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi

Saturday, January 23, 2010, 10:30am-4pm

Venue: MIT Student Center, Twenty Chimneys (room W20-306)



Retreat: Introduction to the Mind-Only School

Saturday, February 21, 2009 (10:30am-4pm)

Venue: 60 Hartwell Rd., Carlisle, MA

See the calendar for details.

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Meditations on Dependent Origination

October 3, 2009, 10:30am – 4:30pm

Venue: MIT Student Center, Twenty Chimneys (room W20-306)

The Attention Revolution

A multimethod inquiry into meditation, cognition, emotion, and motivation

Speakers: Cilfford Saron and B. Alan Wallace

September 11, 2009 at 6PM

Venue: Simmons Hall MPR (229 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139)

Clifford Saron, Ph.D. is currently an Assistant Research Scientist at the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California at Davis (http://mindbrain.ucdavis.edu), and faculty member of the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute.

Alan Wallace, Ph.D. a scholar and practitioner of Buddhism since 1970, has taught Buddhist theory and meditation throughout Europe and America since 1976. Having devoted fourteen years to training as a Tibetan Buddhist monk, ordained by H. H. the Dalai Lama, he went on to earn an undergraduate degree in physics and the philosophy of science at Amherst College and a doctorate in religious studies at Stanford.

Cultivating Emotional Balance

A two-day workshop with Alan Wallace

Saturday & Sunday, September 12 & 13, 2009 (10AM-5PM)

Location: MIT (room W20-407)



In this workshop Dr. Alan Wallace will present methods drawn from the Buddhist contemplative tradition and modern psychology for cultivating emotional balance. Such practices are based on the distinction between hedonic pleasure, which is aroused by pleasant stimuli, and genuine happiness, which stems from what we bring to the world rather than what we get from it. In Buddhist practice, mental balance is cultivated on the basis of an ethical way of life, and it is developed within the broader context of conative, attentional, and cognitive balance. Central to such mental training is the development of attentional and metacognitive skills, which are indispensable for cultivating emotional balance.

Biosketch of B. Alan Wallace:

B. Alan Wallace began his studies of Tibetan Buddhism in 1970 in Germany and was ordained as a Buddhist monk by H. H. the Dalai Lama in 1975. He has taught Buddhist meditation and philosophy worldwide since 1976 and has served as interpreter for numerous Tibetan scholars and contemplatives, including the Dalai Lama. After earning his undergraduate degree in physics and the philosophy of science at from Amherst College in 1987, he went on to earn his Ph.D. in religious studies at Stanford University. He is now the founder and president of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies.

His books include, Open Mind, Open Heart, The Mystery of Christ, Invitation to Love, Intimacy with God, The Human Condition, The Better Part, and the Fruits and Gifts of the Spirit

Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. is founder and former executive director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society and Professor of Medicine Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is also the founder and former director of the Stress Reduction Clinic, where mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) originated. He is the author of Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness; Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life; co-author, with his wife Myla, of Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting; and author of Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness. He received his Ph.D. in molecular biology from MIT in 1971 in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate, Salvador Luria. His research since 1979 has focused on mind/body interactions for healing and on the clinical applications and cost-effectiveness of mindfulness meditation training for people with chronic pain and stress-related disorders, including a work-site study of the effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) on the brain and how it processes emotions, particularly under stress, and on the immune system (in collaboration with Dr. Richard Davidson). He has trained groups of judges, business leaders, lawyers, Catholic priests, and Olympic athletes (the 1984 Olympic Men’s Rowing Team) in mindfulness, as well as directed multi-year programs in the inner city and in the Massachusetts state prison system.

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