Practice Sessions: Exploring the Dharma and Relic Blessings for Healing, Wisdom, and Compassion
with Venerable Losang Gendun
Practice Sessions: Exploring the Dharma
Curious about the dharma? Want to deepen your practice? Bring your questions, doubts, and curiosities to our session. Through meditation, discussion, and community connection, you’ll cultivate a deeper understanding of the dharma and its application in daily life. Venerable Gendun will offer guidance and insights to help you develop a consistent meditation practice and deepen your understanding of Buddhist concepts.
All are welcome, regardless of experience. Whether you’re new to Buddhism or a seasoned practitioner, these sessions offer a precious opportunity to learn from a highly experienced teacher.
Join us to explore the dharma, connect with like-minded friends, and build a supportive community. We look forward to sharing this experience with you!
Relic Blessings for Healing, Wisdom, and Compassion
Come receive blessings from Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s precious relic on October 5 from 5-6pm. All people and pets are welcome! Relics can promote healing, spiritual realization, and the development of a good heart.
In the Buddhist tradition, relics are left behind for the sake of sentient beings by masters who have developed high spiritual realizations within their mental continuum through great compassion.
Shantideva and other FPMT Centers were gifted this year with a precious relic of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. This relic pill is made from Rinpoche’s white and red bodhicitta and contains sacred substances including mani pills blessed by HH Dalai Lama, substances from HE Ling Rinpoche’s estate, water from sacred sites in Nepal, Bhutan, India and Tibet, and Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s inner offering, medicinal substances, and water blessed with mantra.
This relic can benefit others even though Lama Zopa Rinpoche has now passed away.
Venerable Losang Gendun will facilitate this event. Learn more about relics
About the Teacher
Venerable Losang Gendun has dedicated nearly four decades to practicing Buddhism and has served as a Bhikshu (Buddhist monk) in the Tibetan tradition for the past 18 years. Prior to his ordination, he worked in diverse fields such as palliative care, technology, refugee organizations, and commercial management. His extensive training includes ten years of studying Buddhist philosophy and practice in monasteries across France, India, Nepal, and Myanmar. Additionally, he spent over four years in retreat, immersing himself in Tibetan sutra and tantra, as well as the Burmese Theravada Forest Tradition.
For the last 15 years, Ven. Gendun has been a dedicated teacher, sharing his knowledge of Buddhist philosophy, psychology, and meditation worldwide. He serves the aspirations of H.H. the Dalai Lama and Lama Zopa Rinpoche as part of the FPMT (Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition). Ven. Gendun is also a member of Mind & Life Europe, a multidisciplinary laboratory that brings together researchers and contemplative practitioners to explore the nature of experience.
Beyond his Buddhist affiliations, Ven. Gendun serves as an interreligious canon at the Peace Cathedral in Tbilisi, Georgia, and feels at home at a Mevlavi Sufi dargah in Istanbul. In 2023, he founded The Buddha Project, which engages in long-term guidance for Buddhist meditators, scientific research, art projects, and intercontemplative social engagement.
