Date	City
Wednesday 3/7/2007 7:00 pm	MIT – Ray and Maria Stata Center Room: 32-123 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Free Admission

A panel discussion about the insights of contemplative and meditative traditions, current research, and the role of contemplation in learning.

Contemplation has been recognized across time and culture as essential to the pursuit of knowledge and wisdom, yet it remains almost entirely absent from today's curriculum and pedagogy. Contemplative knowing is a missing link, one that affects student performance, character, and depth of understanding.

Father Thomas Keating OCSO, is the founder of the Centering Prayer Movement and Contemplative Outreach and former chair of the Monastic Inter-religious Dialogue. He is known as one of the world's most revered teachers of the contemplative dimensions of Christianity. He was Superior of St. Benedict's Monastery of Snowmass, and the Abbot of St. Joseph's Abbey.
www.centeringprayer.com/
frntpage.htm

Venerable Tenzin LS Priyadarshi received his ordination and studied under the guidance of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He has degrees in Philosophy and Physics, and a masters in Comparative Religion from Harvard. He is currently a Visiting Scholar and Buddhist Chaplain at MIT and the President of the Prajnopaya Foundation.
www.prajnopaya.org or www.imonk.org

The event is sponsored by: MIT Prajnopaya- The Buddhist Community at MIT, Residential Scholar's Program at Simmons Hall, Generous gift from William R. (1956) and Betsy P. Leitch, The Prajnopaya Foundation, The Impact Foundation, MIT Office of Religious Life, MIT LEF, LEM, Tech Catholic Community, MIT Dean of Student Life, MIT Residential Life Programs, MIT LEF - Large Event Funds, The MIT Fund, Dean Barbara Baker