Tenzin Priyadarshi

Tenzin Priyadarshi YouTube Interview & Discussion

Tenzin Priyadarshi Audio Interview & Discussion

Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi 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. Born in India, he entered a Buddhist monastery under his own volition at the age of ten. He studied traditional Indo-Tibetan and Japanese Buddhism and was ordained by His Holiness The Dalai Lama, who is his spiritual mentor. While receiving traditional Buddhist training he also had a secular education, completing his graduate studies in Comparative Philosophy of Religion at Harvard in 2003. His keen interest in inter-religious conversation led to meetings with Popes John Paul II and Benedict, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and other religious leaders. He is also the Founding Director and President of the Prajnopaya Institute and Foundation, which offers innovative health, education and social welfare programs worldwide. He is a member of the MIT Board of Chaplains and serves as the Buddhist Chaplain to the Institute; he lectures internationally on a variety of subjects; and he serves on the Board of several academic, humanitarian, and religious organizations. Learn more about Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi here.