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The global lockdown forced us to switch our programs online. Many of our science leaders had never taken lessons online before the pandemic, but they have adapted remarkably to this change.
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Thirty three nuns from five different nunneries receiving 3-years of support and training.
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by Christopher Impey - May 28, 2019
Astronomical and cosmological questions get an airing in India’s Sikkim province in a program started 20 years ago by the Dalai Lama.
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Remembering the solar eclipse as its lunar twin sweeps over India, a Buddhist nunnery is teaching itself to think of science while looking at a cosmic event.
by Priyadarshi Sen - January 10, 2019
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My Earth, My Responsibility
World of Your Senses
The Secrets of Particles: In production, coming in 2020
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"I usually tell people we should be 21st century Buddhist. Not just faith and devotion, but, investigate, 'what is Buddhist teaching?' ... Buddhist should be 21st century Buddhists and should have more knowledge and scientific views."
“The great benefit of science is that it can contribute tremendously to the alleviation of suffering at the physical level, but it is only through the cultivation of the qualities of the human heart and the transformation of our attitudes that we can begin to address and overcome our mental suffering.”
Leadership institutes have been organized around batches of cohorts that attend several institutes and take on projects such as making exhibitions, publishing a journal, (more..)
Community spaces dedicated for exploring scientific knowledge, and engaging in inquiry and discourse with scientists. (more..)
Enough nuns in India have now been involved with science to establish an all-nuns leadership program. (more..)
JULY
2020
Teacher Fellowship Goes Online
Our nine teacher fellows transitioned to online training in July, starting with four days of two-hourly meetings. Scott Stambach and Jim Lane, experts in teacher training, mentor the teachers. The fellows meet every other week for 70-minute sessions.
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JUNE 21
2020
Enjoying an Eclipse in Lockdown
On June 21, 2020, nuns of the Jangchup Choeling, Dolmaling, Geden Choeling, Jamyang Choeling, and Jangsemling nunneries gathered on their terraces and gardens to view the solar eclipse. Amongst them were nuns who had decided to tap into the excitement of the eclipse, and made the safe viewing equipment being used.
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Summer
2020
Nun’s Leadership Journey Continues Online
When COVID-19 made gathering physically impossible, we switched to meeting online. Our first ever all-nun Leadership Cohort, which began in September 2019, was soon doing many other firsts: first Zoom calls, first Google classroom lessons, first time making slides and interacting online.
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MARCH 2
2020
Nun Science Leadership – Spring Meeting
Tanya Baker from the National Writing Project led the one week meeting with 31 nuns representing 5 different nunneries. The nuns participated in activities that furthered their nascent leadership projects.
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FEB 10-18
2020
Maker Week with Loseling School
The Loseling Science and Meditation Center organized a one-week maker workshop open house that saw participation from 70 monk school students from the Loseling School and 20 nuns from Jangchup Choeling Nunnery.
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JAN 11-13
2020
Teacher Fellows – 3-Day Winter Meeting at Pondicherry
Our winter meeting with our eight teacher fellows provided a rich opportunity for the fellows to share videos from their classroom, discuss common dilemmas, and review new and effective teaching practices they tried in the previous months.
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DEC 26
2019
Gomang Exhibition and Dialogue on Environment, Science and Buddhism
A self-selected team of monks studying science through the Gomang science center put on a exhibition on the environment. The home-grown exhibits explored scales from particles to ecosystems, to earth systems, and climate change.
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DEC 26
2019
Solar Eclipse Festivals
Five different teams, four monasteries and one nunnery and a total of 35 monastic science leaders and over 100 other monastics, led a solar eclipse festivals that reached over 3,000 monastics and about 500 laity.
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JUNE 16
2020
The Conversation
What Buddhism and science can teach each other – and us – about the universe
These are trying times. A global recession sparked by the coronavirus pandemic, and widespread civil unrest, have created a combustible mix of angst – stressors that heighten the risk for long-term health woes.
MARCH 10
2020
The Neuroethics Blog
Neuroethics with Tibetan Buddhist Monastics
As I write this, I am sitting in my room at Jangchub Choeling, a Tibetan Buddhist nunnery in Mundgod, India.
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FEB 21
2020
Mindfulness
Inter-brain Synchronization in the Practice of Tibetan Monastic Debate
Although mindfulness meditation is the familiar and researched form of mental training derived from Buddhism, it represents but one form of practice.
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JAN 10
2019
Outlook Magazine (online)
‘Interplay Between Science And Dharma': Buddhist Nuns Encounter Solar Eclipse In New Way
Remembering the solar eclipse as its lunar twin sweeps over India, a Buddhist nunnery is teaching itself to think of science while looking at a cosmic event.
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MAY 28
2019
Scientific American
Tibetan Monks Meet Science near the Roof of the World Astronomical and cosmological questions get an airing.
Astronomical and cosmological questions get an airing in India’s Sikkim province in a program started 20 years ago by the Dalai Lama.
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OCT 10
2018
The Wire
Scientists and Buddhists Discuss Physics, Reality at Three-Day Conference
It was on the back of this aspect of Buddhism, at least Tibetan Buddhism, that the ‘Science for Monks’ workshops and conferences have been organized, according to Bryce Johnson
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