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Join Susie Lee, new media artist and entrepreneur, and Ven. Geshe Thumpten Dorjee, Tibetan Buddhist monk and professor at the University of Arkansas, for a lively virtual conversation on impermanence, co-existence, and enthusiasm. This discussion explores how interdependence shapes the complex relationships between our physical and digital spaces, and how humanity dwells within them.
ABOUT SUSIE LEE
Susie Lee is an artist learning how to shape things through time—objects, relationships, technology. The journey began in clay, then expanded to interactive technologies, video portraits, start ups, and parenting. With empathy, curiosity, and attentiveness, she founded a feminist dating app, revealed individuals at the end of life and oil workers in the fracking fields, and is now a single mother of a four year old and the co-founder of Catapult, a start up that helps people tell video stories.
ABOUT VEN. GESHE THUMPTEN DORJEE
Ven. Geshe Thupten Dorjee is an ordained Tibetan Buddhist monk whose 25 years of intensive study in the Drepung Loseling Monastery University in South India culminated in the advanced Geshe Lharampa Degree, the same degree held by H.H. The Dalai Lama. After earning the highest degree awarded in the Gelugpa University, Geshe-La continued his education at the prestigious Gyuto Tantric Monastery University, where after another three years of training he received the Geshe Ngarampa Degree, a degree held by few in all of North America. For the next several years, Geshe-La toured throughout the world with Mystical Arts of Tibet, continued academic studies in the West, began setting up Dharma centers in North America, such as Fairhope Tibetan Society in Alabama, Tibetan Culture Institute in Arkansas, and Thupten Cholling Dharma Center in Utah, and has taught at various universities in USA and Canada.
After teaching philosophy for 15 years, he is currently Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas, where his popularity among the students and recognition by his peers has earned him the Outstanding Faculty Award, the Teacher of the Year, and, more recently, the John A. White Award for Faculty-Student Collaboration for work on the Text Project, an ongoing program where select students and faculty from the University travel to India to preserve the rich living tradition of elder Tibetans in Exile Today.
Sponsored by Northern Trust.
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Join Susie Lee, new media artist and entrepreneur, and Ven. Geshe Thumpten Dorjee, Tibetan Buddhist monk and professor at the University of Arkansas, for a lively virtual conversation on impermanence, co-existence, and enthusiasm. This discussion explores how interdependence shapes the complex relationships between our physical and digital spaces, and how humanity dwells within them.
ABOUT SUSIE LEE
Susie Lee is an artist learning how to shape things through time—objects, relationships, technology. The journey began in clay, then expanded to interactive technologies, video portraits, start ups, and parenting. With empathy, curiosity, and attentiveness, she founded a feminist dating app, revealed individuals at the end of life and oil workers in the fracking fields, and is now a single mother of a four year old and the co-founder of Catapult, a start up that helps people tell video stories.
ABOUT VEN. GESHE THUMPTEN DORJEE
Ven. Geshe Thupten Dorjee is an ordained Tibetan Buddhist monk whose 25 years of intensive study in the Drepung Loseling Monastery University in South India culminated in the advanced Geshe Lharampa Degree, the same degree held by H.H. The Dalai Lama. After earning the highest degree awarded in the Gelugpa University, Geshe-La continued his education at the prestigious Gyuto Tantric Monastery University, where after another three years of training he received the Geshe Ngarampa Degree, a degree held by few in all of North America. For the next several years, Geshe-La toured throughout the world with Mystical Arts of Tibet, continued academic studies in the West, began setting up Dharma centers in North America, such as Fairhope Tibetan Society in Alabama, Tibetan Culture Institute in Arkansas, and Thupten Cholling Dharma Center in Utah, and has taught at various universities in USA and Canada.
After teaching philosophy for 15 years, he is currently Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas, where his popularity among the students and recognition by his peers has earned him the Outstanding Faculty Award, the Teacher of the Year, and, more recently, the John A. White Award for Faculty-Student Collaboration for work on the Text Project, an ongoing program where select students and faculty from the University travel to India to preserve the rich living tradition of elder Tibetans in Exile Today.
Sponsored by Northern Trust.
Learn more about this event: crystalbridges.org/calendar/april-educator-speaker-series
Visit our website: CrystalBridges.org
Sign up for eNews: bit.ly/CrystalBridges-eNews
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Facebook: Facebook.com/CrystalBridgesMuseum
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Twitter: Twitter.com/CrystalBridges
LinkedIn: LinkedIn.com/company/Crystal-Bridges-Museum-of-American-Art
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