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The Teacher: His Holiness the Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang + Zoran Josipovic

The head of the Drikung Kagyu lineage recounts the trials of his early life and the challenges of surviving the Cultural Revolution and offers some advice on the mindset required to overcome adversity.

The Drikung Kyabgön Chetsang was born in 1946 into an aristocratic family in Lhasa. His formal enthronement took place on the eve of the first Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950. In 1956, at the 11 years old, Rinpoche gave his first public teaching and transmission. Subsequently he was enrolled at the Nyima Changra monastic college of Drikung, but was forced to endure months of Communist indoctrinations during the Tibetan uprising of 1959. Unable to flee like many other Tibetans, he was assigned to a commune in the countryside, enduring back-breaking physical labor.

Zoran Josipovic is a research associate and adjunct faculty at NYU, where he researches the effects of contemplative practices on the brain organization. He is also a founding director of Nonduality Institute, a center for theory and practice of nonduality.











When: Fri., Feb. 21, 2014 at 7:00 pm
Where: Rubin Museum of Art
150 W. 17th St.
212-620-5000
Price: $25; $22.50 members
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The head of the Drikung Kagyu lineage recounts the trials of his early life and the challenges of surviving the Cultural Revolution and offers some advice on the mindset required to overcome adversity.

The Drikung Kyabgön Chetsang was born in 1946 into an aristocratic family in Lhasa. His formal enthronement took place on the eve of the first Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950. In 1956, at the 11 years old, Rinpoche gave his first public teaching and transmission. Subsequently he was enrolled at the Nyima Changra monastic college of Drikung, but was forced to endure months of Communist indoctrinations during the Tibetan uprising of 1959. Unable to flee like many other Tibetans, he was assigned to a commune in the countryside, enduring back-breaking physical labor.

Zoran Josipovic is a research associate and adjunct faculty at NYU, where he researches the effects of contemplative practices on the brain organization. He is also a founding director of Nonduality Institute, a center for theory and practice of nonduality.

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