Mindfulness Meditation
with Venerable Losang Gendun

At The Rubin Museum of Art

Thu Sep 19, 1–1:45pm EDT

IN-PERSON 

For centuries, Himalayan practitioners have harnessed meditation to quiet the mind, open the heart, calm the nervous system, and enhance focus. Mindfulness meditation provides a sanctuary from the world, allowing individuals to engage more consciously.

Catering to all levels, from beginners to experienced meditators, a 45-minute weekly in-person meditation program led by expert teachers is available. Each session is inspired by a different artwork from the Rubin Museum’s collection. The program, designed to fit into a lunch break, includes an opening talk, a 20-minute sitting meditation, and a closing discussion. Chairs are provided for participants’ comfort.

Sept 19th session will be led by Ven Losang Gendun.

Please review Rubin Museum of Art’s visitor guidelines, In The Museum.

Registration

To register via The Rubin Museum of Art, please click here.

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).

If you just wish to help sponsor the teachings or make additional donations, you can do so via this link using any card, PayPal or Venmo. Please remember to select “Ven. Losang Gendun – New York Visit 2026”. 
Please note that donation via this link is separate from and is not a registration. Please email us at registration@shantidevanyc.org if you need assistance.

​Food Offerings

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 or invite him out for lunch, 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 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.