Supporting Resilience and Mental Health in the Age of AI, with Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

Doors will open at 6:00 PM and the event will start promptly at 7:00 PM. Seating choice is on a first come first-serve basis.

Supporting Resilience and Mental Health in the Age of AI is a unique opportunity to engage with Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche’s insights at the intersection of contemplative wisdom, mental health, and technological change. Co-hosted by the University of Toronto’s Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies, New College and the Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health Program, the event will speak to some of the most pressing challenges of our time.

About Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, is a widely respected Buddhist scholar and teacher from the Rimé (nonsectarian) lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Rinpoche is known for his modern, progressive, and sometimes provocative approach to teaching the dharma.Rinpoche was born in Bhutan and at the age of five, he was recognized by His Holiness Sakya Trizin as the reincarnation of a revered Tibetan master, Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö.As a child, Rinpoche began intensive Buddhist training in Sikkim and later continued his studies in India at Sakya College, where he was mentored by some of the most respected Tibetan Buddhist teachers of the 20th century. This rich education laid the foundation for his lifelong dedication to sharing the Buddha’s teachings.Today, Rinpoche guides hundreds of thousands of students in about 40 countries around the world. As an author, filmmaker, and benefactor, his many creative and philanthropic endeavours extend beyond traditional efforts through an ever-growing mandala of activities.

About the Moderator: 

Dr. Rory Lindsay is an assistant professor in the Department for the Study of Religion. He is also an editor at 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha and a university affiliate for the Buddhist Texts Translation Initiative at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His recent book Saving the Dead: Tibetan Funerary Rituals in the Tradition of the Sarvadurgatipariśodhana Tantra (Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde, 2024) examines the history of Tibetan funerary practices based on this tantra and the intersecting forms of agency—human, nonhuman, and material—that are described in its ritual manuals. His second book, coauthored with Tibetan scholar Khenpo Tashi Dorje, will examine the life and writings of the twentieth-century master Drayab Lodrö Gyaltsen.

This event is only open to University of Toronto students, staff and faculty.

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