CEBB Mendjila, Lama Padma Samten

Yuthok Nyinthig and Sowa Rigpa with Lama Samten and Dr. Nida Chenagtsang

Yuthok Nyinthig and Sowa Rigpa
with Lama Samten welcomes Dr. Nida Chenagtsang (online)
April 19 (Sunday), from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM (BRT) | 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM (UTC)
CEBB Mendjila and Online

We are happy to invite everyone to this online conversation on April 19 (Sunday) at 2:00 PM (BRT). Our host, Lama Padma Samten, will welcome Dr. Nida Chenagtsang, who will be joining online, for a conversation on the Tibetan Buddhist lineage connected to medicine — Yuthok Nyingthig — and the ancestral Tibetan medical wisdom — Sowa Rigpa.

The conversation will include simultaneous translation into Portuguese by Renata Guedes, a student of Dr. Nida.

Lama Padma Samten holds a degree in Physics from UFRGS, where he taught at the university for 20 years. An environmental activist, he founded CEBB (Centro de Estudos Budistas Bodisatva) in 1986 and left his academic career to dedicate himself to spirituality. In 1996, he was ordained as a Buddhist Lama by his teacher, Chagdud Rinpoche, a Tibetan master and founder of the Temple in Três Coroas. Today, Lama Padma Samten devotes himself to science, spirituality, and the ecological movement.

Guest

Dr. Nida Chenagtsang is a renowned Tibetan physician, scholar, and master of the Yuthok Nyingthig lineage, the unique spiritual healing tradition of Sowa Rigpa (Traditional Tibetan Medicine). Born in Amdo, in northeastern Tibet, he began his medical training at a local Sowa Rigpa hospital before graduating from the Tibetan Medical University of Lhasa in 1996.

Alongside his medical studies, he devoted himself to Vajrayana Buddhism, receiving transmissions and training from esteemed masters of all schools, with a particular focus on the Longchen Nyingthig, Dudjom Tersar, and Yuthok Nyingthig traditions.

A renowned poet in his youth, he has published numerous books and articles on Sowa Rigpa and Yuthok Nyingthig, as well as innovative research on ancestral Tibetan healing practices, gaining international recognition in both the East and the West.

As the founder and academic director of the Sowa Rigpa Institute, he has been teaching worldwide for over 25 years and continues to share the wisdom of Tibetan Medicine, preserving and promoting its profound healing traditions for future generations.

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