Stillness Flowing:
Emptiness in Tibetan Buddhism
with Venerable Losang Gendun
Tuesdays & Thursdays, Sep 15, 17, 22, 24, 29 & Oct 1, 7-9pm EDT
IN-PERSON & ONLINE
Join us as we seek to unlock the potential insights from one of Buddhism’s most profound ideas: emptiness. Emptiness can be both a delightful and elusive concept. Whether your exploration of emptiness is just beginning, or you are looking to grasp its many nuances, this course can benefit all students. Through a combination of guided meditation, contemplation, and accessible discussion, Venerable Gendun will share a variety of ways to understand emptiness and the rewards for doing so.
We will journey through the four major Buddhist philosophical schools recognised in the Tibetan tradition—Vaibhāṣika, Sautrāntika, Yogācāra, and Madhyamaka — discovering how each system progressively deepens our understanding of reality’s ultimate nature. We will also introduce the various grounds and paths that can be used to understand the relative contributions of each tradition and incorporate them on our own journey.
No philosophy degree required! By examining different views of emptiness, we can better understand how Buddhism developed through four major philosophical traditions and discover how these traditions successively deepen our understanding of reality’s ultimate nature. Discover how emptiness isn’t merely negation but the key to compassion, wisdom, and genuine presence in our complex modern world. As Venerable Gendun says: “to know oneself to be empty is to know oneself to be full of others.”
Sponsorship
Due to Ven. Gendun’s extended stay, our costs for hosting will be substantially higher than normal – anticipated to be around $5,000 for flights, housing, transportation, food and other miscellaneous expenses. We welcome your support to enable these precious teachings to happen. Any amount is greatly appreciated and very karmically beneficial!
If you plan to attend in-person or via Zoom, please donate using the registration process (Register button).
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Food Offerings
Important Note
This is an in-person and online event. For online, the events will be administered using Zoom.
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Registration
Suggested: $20 per session
Other offering options: free, $5, $10, $30
The suggested amount helps support teacher offerings and expenses, direct costs and rent. Shantideva member benefits will apply automatically if you have a membership in MindBody.
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Additional Materials
- Prayerbook (PDF)
If you are a registered student, you may access the course materials on our password protected page. Please refer to the confirmation email (or receipt email) for the page link and password. Please contact us at registration@shantidevanyc.org if you have questions about accessing this page.
Past teaching videos and audio from Ven. Gendun:
Discover Mindfulness with a Master (VIDEO)
The Art of Letting the Mind Rest (VIDEO)
Ven. Losang Gendun: Insight Meditation in the Tibetan Tradition (VIDEO)
Cultivating Emptiness & the Luminous Nature of Mind in a Fragmented World (VIDEO)
Venerable Losang Gendun: Bridging Traditions, Building Communities (#199) from Wisdom Podcast (LISTEN)
About the Teacher
Venerable Losang Gendun has spent nearly four decades in Buddhist practice, and has been living as a fully ordained gelong in the Tibetan tradition for the past twenty years. His training spans ten years of monastic study across France, India, Nepal, and Myanmar, and more than four years in solitary retreat in the Tibetan Mahayana and the Burmese Theravāda traditions.
For the past eighteen years he has taught Buddhist philosophy, psychology, and meditation worldwide within FPMT, serving the vision of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. In 2023, as a gesture of gratitude to his teachers, he founded The Buddha Project (TBP), offering long-term guidance for serious meditators. TBP webpages serve as the online learning platform for its core programs, the FPMT In-Depth Meditation Training and the FPMT Ngondro Lamrim Training.
