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Buddhist Contemplation, Science, and Secular Society: A Dialog with Khenpo Tsultrim Lodro

Buddhist Contemplation, Science, and Secular Society: A Dialog with Khenpo Tsultrim Lodro

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Khenpo Tsultrim Lodro will visit U.Va. Grounds the week of April 15 - 21. He will be giving a public talk entitled, "Buddhist Contemplation, Science, and Secular Society: A Dialog wth Khenpo Tsultrim Lodro". The dialog will be in conversation with Professor David Germano, director of CSC. The talk will be on Monday, April 20th, 5:30-7:00 pm in Minor Hall 125 at the University of Virginia. Khenpo will speak in Tibetan, which will be translated into English.

Bio:

Khenpo Tsultrim Lodrö was born in 1962 in Drango County in Sichuan Province’s Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. In 1984 he received monastic ordination at the world-renowned Larung Five Sciences Buddhist Institute (Larung Gar) in Serthar, becoming a disciple of the preeminent spiritual master, Chogyel Yeshe Norbu Jigme Phunstok. After many years dedicated to the study of the five main sutric treatises and tantric scripture, he was awarded the title of Khenpo in recognition of his scholarship.

For more than twenty years he has overseen monastic education at Larung Gar, producing successive generations of accomplished students. During the 1990s, he gave a series of dharma teachings in Singapore, Malaysia, and Taiwan. Over the past decade, Khenpo has concentrated efforts in Tibetan areas, promoting environmental awareness, education, vegetarianism, and the importance of protecting living beings and abstaining from taking life. At the same time, he has sought to deepen the broader Tibetan community’s understanding of basic dharma, and to this end has travelled widely giving teachings to lay audiences. Placing great importance on the promotion of Tibetan culture, Khenpo has founded libraries and schools. Notably, he has also coordinated a team of language specialists and scholars representing all Tibetan regions to collaborate on the compilation of a trilingual (Tibetan-Chinese-English) dictionary of new vocabulary terms.
 
Two volumes have been published in the past five years:
  • Chinese-Tibetan-English Illustrated Dictionary of New Daily Vocabulary
  • Chinese-Tibetan-English Dictionary of New Daily Vocabulary
Over the last ten years, Khenpo has been committed to deepening his understanding of western science and philosophy, and is utilising contemporary methods to disseminate Buddhist culture. Khenpo has published extensively on Buddhism in both Tibetan and Chinese languages. His Tibetan publications include four volumes of collected writings, and his Chinese monographs include the Wisdom Light series, Stories of Transmigration, Buddhism: Superstition or Wisdom?, The Secret Code for Unlocking Tibetan Buddhism, and Tibetan Buddhism: Lifting the Veil of Mystery.