Reality, Reason, Emptiness, and Compassion in Tibetan Buddhism

Instructor(s): Diego Hangartner

Program Description:

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In this online program over four two-hour sessions, participants will be introduced to a Tibetan understanding of reality, reason, emptiness, and compassion both from a theoretical and a practical perspective. 

Together, we will explore insights into the nature of reality cultivated through reasoning and then insights gained from the practice of meditation. We will use Indian sources and Tibetan interpretations to guide our exploration so that they can inform the meditation practice and application of compassion to our lives and our awakening.

About the Instructor(s):
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  Diego Hangartner

  Diego Hangartner has dedicated over thirty years to external scientific research and internal meditative exploration of the mind and consciousness.  He started as a pharmacologist specializing in psychopharmacology and addiction, always interested in what constitutes a healthy mind and how to cultivate it.  He spent many years at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in India, studying, translating, publishing several Tibetan works, and organizing several large events with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Europe. Diego was COO of Mind and Life Institute in the US and co-founder and director of Mind and Life Institute in Europe until 2015. Diego founded the “Institute of Mental Balance and Universal Ethics” (IMBUE), an interdisciplinary initiative to share his teaching more broadly and to develop and provide tools and programs that foster mental balance. He created and teaches “The Wheel of Mental Balance,” a methodology to cultivate a healthy and resilient mind.