Cultivating Awareness:
Express Meditations on Mind and Mental Factors
with Venerable Losang Gendun
Explore the Buddhist understanding of mind and mental factors—the building blocks of all our experience—through these short, guided meditations, designed to complement the four-week series The Meditator’s Map: Illuminating Mind and Mental Factors. These Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning meditations allow you to integrate the material explored in the Monday evening teachings directly into your own contemplative practice.
Witness firsthand how consciousness arises moment by moment, shaped by ever-changing mental factors such as attention, intention, mindfulness, and feeling. By learning to recognize these inner processes, we gain the possibility to transform them—fostering clarity, emotional balance, and genuine insight.
Understanding the mind in this way is not only foundational for meditation; it is also the first step toward realizing emptiness and developing a more compassionate, wise relationship with ourselves and others.
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.
