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.

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“Just amazing. Great people everywhere you look. Such a nice low key vibe.”

Jan Bidwell

“Deep in the Catskill Mountains exists a very special place—the Dewa Spa at Menla. On a snowy, late winter afternoon there is nothing better than a long deep soak in one of their tubs infused with the 5 Nectars bath blend. The tranquil sounds of this hidden valley can be heard through a cracked window—the Pantherkill Stream and the sweet symphony of our bird friends chattering about the upcoming spring. This is the perfect place to leave the world behind for as long as possible!”

Lisa Tucker

“The experience I’ve had as a volunteer here at Menla has been a unique one. I had recently experienced the loss of a number of friends, and of my father, before coming up for a retreat, and then coming back as a volunteer. Not only was the work I did up in these gorgeous mountains an amazingly cathartic experience, but the support I received from the community that exists here was unlike anything I had previously experienced.”

Reina de Beer

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