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Join us for a Maitri Bhavana Practice led by Daniele Bollini as a way for our worldwide community to come together to practice for the wellbeing of others each month. “Maitri Bhavana Second Sunday” includes a brief talk, a discussion period, and Maitri Bhavana practice. Maitri Bhavana is a regularly scheduled mahayana practice for the seriously ill, or for major global turmoil and disasters. It contains tonglen practice and may be done by anyone. If you would like to add the name of someone who is seriously ill to the maitri bhavana list so people can do practice for their wellbeing, please click here. You can also add the name of a current world event where there is turmoil, strife, and disaster and we will practice for those affected.
About the Teacher
Daniele Bollini was born in 1965 in Switzerland and discovered the teachings of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in 1981. He was Director of the Ticino Shambhala Center from 1990 until 2005, and for some years now has been a Co-Mentor for the Shambhala communities in Italy. He has been a Meditation Instructor since 1989, and a dharma teacher since 1990, and has taught, mainly in Swiss Italian and Italian areas. He has been working as translator of Shambhala liturgies, practices and texts into Italian for many years and attended several interreligious meetings in Rome representing the Shambhala lineage. He has been teaching Shambhala Training to teachers in the secondary schools of Cantone Ticino, in South Switzerland and is also teaching programs for Shambhala Online. After finishing his studies in classical archaeology in Fribourg in 1989, in 1990 he began to teach history, geography and Italian in a secondary school in Ticino. He is now active as an expert and consultant in History Didactic and teaches History Didactic at the local teachers’ university. He is a co-author of a two-volume book on Swiss history for secondary schools. He is married and has a 23-year-old daughter.