Schedule:
Friday August 7th: 6pm – 8pm EST
Saturday August 8th: 10am – 1pm EST & 2:30pm – 5pm EST
Sunday August 9th: 9:30am – 11:30am EST & 12pm – 3pm EST & 3:30pm – 5pm EST
Teachers:
Dr. Pilar Jennings
Dr. Pilar Jennings is a psychoanalyst based in New York City with a focus on the clinical applications of Buddhist meditation practice. She has been working with patients and their families in private practice and through the Harlem Family Institute since 2000. Dr. Jennings has been a Buddhist practitioner for the past 40 years and is a teacher of Tibetan Buddhism and Buddhist studies for clinicians. She is a Visiting Lecturer at Union Theological Seminary; Columbia University; and a faculty member of the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science. She is the author of Mixing Minds (Wisdom 2010) and To Heal a Wounded Heart (Shambhala 2017), a psychoanalytic memoir about her entry into psychoanalytic work as a Buddhist clinician. Additional publications have included “East of Ego: The Intersection of Narcissism and Buddhist Meditation Practice,” “I’ve Been Waiting for you: Reflections on Analytic Pain,” and “Imagery and Trauma: The Psyche’s Push for Healing.”
Khenpo Pema Wangdak
In 1982 Khenpo Pema Wangdak was sent to the West by His Holiness the Sakya Trizin, as the first of the younger generation of Tibetan teachers in America from the Sakya lineage. In 1989 Lama Pema founded the Vikramasila Foundation, encompassing Palden Sakya Centers in New York City, Woodstock, NY, Philmont, NY, Englewood, NJ, Springfield, VT, Portland, ME, and Dayton OH. The Palden Sakya Centers offer courses in Tibetan Buddhist studies and meditation. Lama Pema is the creator of “Bur Yig”–Tibetan Braille, and the founder of Pema Ts’al (English for Lotus Grove) Schools in Mundgod, India (for Tibetan lay children); Pokara, Nepal (monastic schools for boys); and Pema Ts’al School in New York City, with a curriculum modeled on that of Sakya College, India. Khenpo Pema was recognized with the title of “Khenpo” by His Holiness Sakya Trizin in 2007. He received the distinguished “Ellis Island Medal of Honor” award by the National Ethical Coalition of Organizations in May, 2009 at Ellis Island for his humanitarian work around the world. Khenpo Pema is the first Tibetan ever to have received such an award.