BUDDHISM AND SCIENCE AGENDA 

A Weekend of Dialog on Mind, Emotions, and Techniques for Dealing with Anger from the Viewpoints of Science and Religion

 

November 23, 2019, Saturday

9:00 am         Registration

                        Hosts: Tashi and Chime

10:00 am       Welcome and introductions

                        Mr. Phuntsok Rabten

10:30 am       Dealing with Enemies: Study of Virupa’s “Matchless Compassion” from Freeing Heart and Mind written His Holiness the Sakya Trichen

Khenpo Jamyang Tenzin – Abbot of Tsechen Dongag Choeling, Mundgod, India.

Noon              Lunch

2:00 pm         A Psychological Perspective on the Mind and Emotions             

Professor David Bosch Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology, Psychology Department, New York University

3:30                Tea

3:30 pm         A Buddhist Perspective on the Mind and Emotions

Khenpo Jamyang Tenzin – Abbot of Tsechen Dongag Choeling, Mundgod, India.

4:30 pm         Discussion

Moderator: David Marnier

5:30                Dinner

7:00                Meditation on Virupa’s “Matchless Compassion”   

Khenpo Jamyang Tenzin – Abbot of Tsechen Dongag Choeling, Mundgod, India.

 

November 24: Sunday

8:30 am          Breakfast

10:00 am       Western Therapeutic Approaches to Dealing with Anger

 Dr. Pilar Jennings, Psychoanalyst and Author, Columbia University

11:00              Tea

11:30              Buddhist Approaches to Dealing with Anger

  Dr. Chodrungma Kunga Chodron, Tsechen Kunchab Ling

12:30              Discussion

1:30                Lunch

2:30                Meditation on Virupa’s “Matchless Compassion”

Khenpo Jamyang Tenzin – Abbot of Tsechen Dongag Choeling, Mundgod, India.

3:30                Concluding remarks

Mr. Phuntsok Rabten

4:00                Adjournment.