Tibet House Tour of the Collection of Holy Objects
led by Ganden Thurman
Please join Ganden Thurman, executive director of Tibet House US, who will give a tour of the holy objects housed at Tibet House while Ven. Gendun is visiting in the fall. Ganden will discuss how Tibetan Buddhist religious objects are considered sacred when they teach, point to, and inspire enlightenment (in any of its aspects) in the people encountering them as emanations and signs of enlightened beings such as those pictured at Tibet House and an infinite number of others around the world.
About the Tour Guide and Teacher
Ganden Thurman, Robert Thurman’s son, is the executive director of Tibet House US.
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.
