The Meditator’s Map: Illuminating Mind and Mental Factors
with Venerable Losang Gendun
Mondays, Sep 15, 22, 29, Oct 6, 7-8:30pm EDT
IN-PERSON & ONLINE
Join us for a four-week series exploring the Buddhist understanding of mind and mental factors—the building blocks of all our experience. These teachings offer a gateway into both meditative practice and deeper self-understanding.
Each Monday evening, we will delve into 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.
The evening teachings will be complemented by short, guided meditations on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, allowing you to integrate the material directly into your own contemplative practice. To learn more and register for the morning sessions, please visit: Cultivating Awareness: Express Meditations on Mind and Mental Factors.
Whether you are new to meditation or seeking to deepen your path, this series will offer both practical tools and inspiring perspective.
Sponsorship
Food Offerings
Important Note
This is an in-person and online event. For online, the events will be administered using Zoom*.
Please register below to reserve an in-person spot or to receive the Zoom meeting link. If you prefer to donate via PayPal, please choose the option during registration and then manually donate via the link in the receipt email. Please note that donating via PayPal alone is not a complete registration, and you will not be guaranteed an in-person spot or receive the Zoom link.
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*Zoom is an interactive video-conferencing tool that allows participants to see one another and ask questions. You will need a computer, a tablet or a smartphone with the Zoom application to attend. If you are using Zoom for the first time, please login earlier to allow any necessary installations on your device.
Registration / Schedule
Suggested: $20 per session
Other offering options: free, $5, $10, $30.
The suggested amount helps sustain Shantideva Center’s Dharma programs, covering essential expenses and allowing us the option of offering our teachings to everyone at no cost.
Shantideva member benefits will apply automatically if you have a membership in MindBody.
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Time zone: US Eastern Daylight Time (GMT/UTC-4)
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Additional Materials
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.
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.
