What We Can Expect When We Become a Buddha
with Ven. Losang Gendun
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Join us for an evening looking through the eye of the Buddha. Drawing on both the Pāli canon's account of the Buddha's awakening and its Mahāyāna understanding, we will first explore what the Buddha realized in the three watches of that famous night — the insight that so fundamentally transformed his view of the world and his lived experience. We will then consider what it might be like to have a completely purified mind, from which, by the power of omniscience, awakened activity pours effortlessly, the fruit of three countless eons cultivating impartial and unconditional care. We will round this off with how such activity is mapped in the celebrated Abhisamayālaṅkāra, the text revealed by Maitreya that underpins the Tibetan tradition's understanding of Awakening. Finally, we'll ask how this vision can inspire us, inform our practice, and shape how we engage a troubled world even in our not-yet-awakened state.
The evening will be accessible to practitioners of all levels and to the simply curious, with time for Q&A. |
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About Venerable Losang Gendun:
Venerable Losang Gendun has spent nearly four decades in Buddhist practice and has lived as a fully ordained Bhikshu in the Tibetan tradition for the past twenty years. Before taking robes, he worked across a wide range of fields — palliative care, technology, refugee organizations, and management — a breadth of human experience that continues to inform his teaching.
His formal training spans ten years of study in monasteries across France, India, Nepal, and Myanmar, complemented by more than four years in solitary retreat engaging deeply with Tibetan sutra and tantra, as well as the Burmese Theravāda Forest Tradition.
For the past eighteen years, Ven. Gendun has taught Buddhist philosophy, psychology, and meditation to students around the world. He serves the vision of H.H. the Dalai Lama and Lama Zopa Rinpoche as a teacher within the FPMT (Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition), and is a member of Mind & Life Europe, a multidisciplinary initiative bringing together scientists and contemplative practitioners to investigate the nature of mind and experience.
In 2023, Ven. Gendun founded The Buddha Project — a long-term initiative offering sustained guidance for serious meditators, fostering dialogue between Buddhist traditions, supporting scientific research into contemplative practice, and exploring the intersection of Dharma and the arts. Its core program is the four-year FPMT In-Depth Meditation Training.
Venerable Losang Gendun has spent nearly four decades in Buddhist practice and has lived as a fully ordained Bhikshu in the Tibetan tradition for the past twenty years. Before taking robes, he worked across a wide range of fields — palliative care, technology, refugee organizations, and management — a breadth of human experience that continues to inform his teaching.
His formal training spans ten years of study in monasteries across France, India, Nepal, and Myanmar, complemented by more than four years in solitary retreat engaging deeply with Tibetan sutra and tantra, as well as the Burmese Theravāda Forest Tradition.
For the past eighteen years, Ven. Gendun has taught Buddhist philosophy, psychology, and meditation to students around the world. He serves the vision of H.H. the Dalai Lama and Lama Zopa Rinpoche as a teacher within the FPMT (Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition), and is a member of Mind & Life Europe, a multidisciplinary initiative bringing together scientists and contemplative practitioners to investigate the nature of mind and experience.
In 2023, Ven. Gendun founded The Buddha Project — a long-term initiative offering sustained guidance for serious meditators, fostering dialogue between Buddhist traditions, supporting scientific research into contemplative practice, and exploring the intersection of Dharma and the arts. Its core program is the four-year FPMT In-Depth Meditation Training.