Standing Ovation for Doctor Elena Antonova at Kings College London Neuroscience Event
Dr Antonova's inaugural conference presented cutting-edge UK research into the Neuroscience of Mindfulness and its clinical applications to physical and mental conditions. This highly informative two-day event attracted multi-disciplinary participants and featured absorbing contributions by Entertainer Ruby Wax, BBC Arts Correspondent David Sillito and many eminent medical researchers (listed below) including Dr Antonova herself.
Dr Antonova presented her latest British Academy and Templeton Foundation funded research into neural responses to mindfulness using Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Psychophysiology. She is a speaker at the forthcoming Mind and Life European Symposium in Berlin in October, she is co-organising the Mind and Life Summer Research Institute in August 2014 and she is a programme leader for the new MSc in Mindfulness and Neuroscience at Kings College London.
Further stimulating presentations were given by: Dr Tamara Russell, Dr Nicole De Zoysa, Dr Jane Hutton, Dr Louise Johns, Dr Thornsten Barnhofer, Prof Paul Chadwick, Dr Emma Lawrence, Dr Siobhan Lynch, Dr Katherine Rimes and Oleksandr Demchenko. London Independent Photography Exhibition
Neuroscience and Mindfulness event at Kings College Hospital
Over the next couple of days, Gerry is attending the Mindfulness and Neuroscience Event at Kings College Hospital in Denmark Hill as part of Darshana Photo Art's Isolates of Valid Perception project.
Elements of the event are hosted by Entertainer Ruby Wax, BBC Arts Correspondent David Sllito and a range of eminent medical researchers led by the inspiring Dr Lena Antonova, a neuroscientist from Moscow based in London. Principle production has commenced on the New Film about Akong Rinpoche
Akong: A Remarkable Life
Watch this space for the launch of the principal production phase of the new documentary film about Dr Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche. Here and There
We would certainly be mistaken in concluding that here does not exist at all; and we would be wise to acknowledge that my here and your here exist only in dependence on relational factors and conditions. Similarly, our sense of self persists only in relationship to each other. While there is no doubt that I exist and you exist; it is beyond question that in many important respects I only exist because you exist. Because neither of us can make a legitimate claim to be the centre of our universe, it makes perfect sense to respect all other living beings as much as ourselves. (See Geshe Tashi Tsering, 'The Awakening Mind' (2008), p71) New Film About Akong Rinpoche: Coming Soon
Akong Tulku Rinpoche, born in Kham in Eastern Tibet in 1941, was quickly recognized as a reincarnate lama and enthroned as the Abbot of Drolma Lhakhang Monastery at the age of only four years. In 1959, tensions between China and Tibet reached breaking point and Akong was forced to undertake a dangerous journey across the Himalayas on foot to India aged nineteen.
From the party of over two hundred Tibetans that set off, only fifteen survived the grueling ten-month ordeal. When they reached their destination,
In 1963, Akong arrived in the UK with Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. In order to support their studies in English at Oxford University, he worked as an orderly at the Radcliffe Infirmary. In 1967, Akong founded the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the West - Kagyu Samye Ling in the borders of Scotland. Throughout its astonishing history, Samye Ling has attracted the world's most accomplished Buddhist teachers including HH the 14th Dalai Lama, HH the 16th Karmapa, and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.
Today at 72 years of age, Akong Rinpoche continues to lead an active life supervising his countless projects that reach out to thousands of people in
Researching and interviewing are already well under way on the film. Thus far the project has been self-funding. However, moving into the principle phase of production, a significant budget is required in order to gather crucial footage from around Europe, Asia and Africa. We the filmmakers will shortly be inviting you to become involved in the project by helping us to preserve this important story for generations to come.
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