Join us for Lehigh Valley Buddhist Group’s first ever Sangha gathering. For this auspicious occasion the Venerable Lama Losang Samten will lead the Sangha in meditation and a teaching. Attendance at this time is in-person only.

Venerable Lama Losang Samten has been sharing teachings of loving-kindness, joy and compassion, as well as the path to enlightenment for almost 30 years. Losang lived and studied over 20 years in the Namgyal Monastery (the monastery of His Holiness the Dalai Lama) earning the highest degree attainable at the monastery, equivalent to a doctoral degree in the West. He also became a Master of Ritual Dance and Sand Mandalas and was the Personal Attendant to His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama prior to moving to the United States in 1988. Ven. Losang Samten is one of the Mandala Masters who created the first public sand mandala in the West in 1988. Samten is the spiritual director of several Buddhist Centers in North America, with a home base residing in Philadelphia. To learn more please visit his website: http://www.losangsamten.com/

* Sangha is a Sanskrit word used to describe a community that comes together to practice and study Buddhism.

Address: Unity of Lehigh Valley 26 N 3rd St, Emmaus, PA 18049