Tenzin Priyadarshi

The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi Rinpoche is the Founding President and CEO of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a non-partisan collaborative think tank focused on interdisciplinary research and programs related to the development of human and global ethics. He is a Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Fellow. Venerable Tenzin is member of the MIT Board of Chaplains and also serves as the Buddhist Chaplain to the Institute. Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi is also the Founding Director and President of the Prajnopaya Institute and Foundation, Vishwa Shanti Stupa (World Peace Pagoda) in New Delhi and Sarnath, India and served as Director of ethics initiative at the MIT Media Lab and was a Director’s Fellow there. He was a 2018 Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

Upcoming Programs by Tenzin Priyadarshi

“I have many words but I will use this: streams. This whole valley is full of incredible streams. I came as a part of YTTP retreat this past weekend and loved how the valley of Menla just belonged to each and everyone one of us, together and alone at the same time, I stayed at Dragon house and loved how at home you are made feel though no one really is there guiding you, you are your own guide. I will remember this stay for a long time, the 2 days will last a life time. I hope to return one day. Thank you!”

Lucie T

“My favorite retreat center in the East coast. A real abode of the Dharma.”

Nitzan Blouin

“Menla offers integrative healing—merging Tibetan, Ayurvedic and other holistic traditions—along with fresh clean air, hikes and perhaps the most authentic Tibetan treatment therapies this side of Lhasa.”

Rona Berg, Organic Spa

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