Express Meditations: Vitamins for Happiness
with Venerable Losang Gendun

Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, Sep 13, 16, 18, 20, 23, 25, 27, 30, Oct 2, 4 & 7, 7:30–8am EDT

ONLINE

Note: Registration will be available soon.

Venerable Gendun will lead 30-min meditations online every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for approximately one month. (See our schedule for more details.)

Learn how to settle the mind, experience greater joy, and develop a more regular meditation practice, under the guidance of an extremely skilled meditation teacher.

Important Note

This is an online-only event that is administered using Zoom.

After registering, the system automatically sends a confirmation and/or a receipt email that contains the Zoom meeting link and/or other instructions. If you don’t immediately receive the system email(s) or you have any other questions, please contact us at registration@shantidevanyc.org.

*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

Open: $108, $75, $50, $21, $10, $5, free

Your generosity makes it possible for us to share the Dharma and continue working together for the benefit of all sentient beings.

Shantideva Center may publish recorded sessions in the public domain (e.g., on YouTube). By registering for this event, you are agreeing to give your consent to this process. To protect your privacy, we recommend being conscious about any personal information you share during the sessions. To further enhance anonymity, you may want to consider turning off video or naming yourself using abbreviations.

Register

Time zone: US Eastern Daylight Time (GMT/UTC-4)

For questions regarding registration, please email registration@shantidevanyc.org for assistance.

Recordings

Available soon.

Sponsorship

“According to the Tengyur, Buddha said:

For any sentient being, who during the period of my teachings

Makes charity well (even if the material is the size of hair), 

For 80,000 eons will experience the great result of great enjoyment;” 

– Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Due to Ven. Gendun’s extended stay, our costs for hosting will be higher than normal – anticipated to be around $5,000 for housing, transportation, and food (plus additional for teacher offerings). 

We welcome your support to enable these precious teachings to happen. Any amount is greatly appreciated and very karmically beneficial!  Here is a teaching by Lama Zopa Rinpoche about the immense benefits of offering to the Sangha.

You can sponsor using PayPal or any card by clicking the donate button or this link. Please remember to select “New York Visit 2024”.

Cook a Meal​

In observance of the Vinaya (the monastic code of discipline), Ven. Gendun generally does not prepare his own meals and welcomes food offerings.

If you are inspired to cook a meal for him, please contact cookameal@shantidevanyc.org to coordinate details. Otherwise, you can contribute to sponsorship, which will be a wonderful offering!

Dana for the Teacher

Shantideva Center makes offerings to our teachers and facilitators using the funds collected through registration. You can give additional support to the teacher or facilitator and create a stronger karmic connection by offering dana. Please make sure to select the teacher’s or facilitator’s name in the dropdown menu. Dana offered is passed entirely to them, but please note that it is not tax-deductible.

About the Teacher

Venerable Losang Gendun has practiced Buddhism for nearly four decades and has been a Bhikshu (Buddhist monk) in the Tibetan tradition for the past 18 years. Until his ordination he worked in diverse areas such as palliative care, tech, refugee organizations, and commercial management. He studied Buddhist philosophy and practice for 10 years in monasteries in France, India, Nepal and Myanmar, before spending over four years in retreat, training in Tibetan sutra and tantra, as well as in the Burmese Theravada Forest Tradition. For the past 15 years, Ven. Gendun has been teaching Buddhist philosophy, psychology, and meditation across the world. He is a member of Mind & Life Europe, a multidisciplinary laboratory of researchers and contemplative practitioners for investigating the nature of experience. He is the interreligious canon of the Peace Cathedral in Tbilisi Georgia and is at home in a Mevlavi Sufi Dergah in Istabul. In 2023 Ven. Gendun founded The Buddha Project for the long-term guidance of Buddhist meditators, scientific research, art projects and intercontemplative social engagement.