Thursday, March 7th, 7:00pm, Student Center Room 202
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, 106 New Scotland Avenue, Albany
The Science of Meditation Dialogue between Lama Karma Drodhul and Dr. Galle Desbordes is the first collaborative event to result from a relationship between Karma Triyana Dharmachakra and the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences that has been taking shape over the last year.
The relationship began when Prof. Michael Pittman, Chair of the Department of Humanities and Communication at ACPHS, began bringing his Religious Studies students to KTD's Introduction to Meditation classes.
While on a visit to KTD with his students, Professor Pittman told us about his own interests in the religious dimensions of healing and how they had converged converged with the interests of his colleague Professor William Millington, Chair of the Pharmaceutical Sciences Department, in the cross-pollination of Eastern and Western approaches to healing.
At our invitation, Professor Millington came to KTD to attend Khenpo Ugyen Tenzin's 2012 teachings on Preparing for Death, Paltul Rinpoche's teachings on Basic Principles Of Tibetan Medicine, and our Introduction to Meditation class.
During our conversations with Professors Pittman and Millington, it became clear that there was more than enough overlap between their work at ACPHS and KTD's new initiatives in Pastoral Care; Children, Trauma, and Violence; and Educational Outreach to make collaboration between our two institutions natural.
The Science of Meditation Dialogue is the first such collaboration; we intend it to be followed by other public conversations on other issues between ACPHS faculty and representatives of KTD.
-- Jan Tarlin, KTD
