Gelong Thubten (10:45 BST)

On October 8 in 2013, the Buddhist monk, Gelong Thubten woke to the shocking news that his spiritual teacher, mentor and closest friend, the leader of the Samye Ling monastery in Dumfriesshire, Akong Tulku Rinpoche, had been brutally murdered in Chengdu, China.

Thubten’s book Handbook for Hard Times describes his having to deal with the aftermath of the tragedy when ‘it felt as if my entire universe had come crashing down.’ To survive this trauma, he turned to Rinpoche’s own teachings - to embrace suffering rather than shy away from it. ‘We humans’ he writes ‘can send rockets to the moon but find it hard to deal with what goes on inside our heads and hearts.’

Thubten, one of Tibetan Buddhism’s leading monks, will show how a more sustainable happiness can emerge through the transformation of suffering, freeing us to achieve ‘Fearless Living’.

This transformational book follows on from the best-selling A Monk’s Guide to Happiness.

In conversation with Vivian French

A full meditation session will take place at 12:30 (limited numbers)

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