Join us for a guest meditation led by Karin Meyers

Join us for a guest lecture by Karin Meyers, where she will discuss:

The Buddha’s "Heart practices" (the brahmavihāras) of Loving-kindness, Compassion, Sympathetic Joy, and Equanimity

Karin Meyers teaches in the Dept. of Philosophy and Religion at American University. With a PhD from the University of Chicago, she served for seven years on the faculty of Kathmandu University's Rangjung Yeshe Institute’s Centre for Buddhist Studies, and as Academic Director of Mangalam Research Center in Berkeley, CA. Her scholarly work focuses on cross-cultural and interdisciplinary inquiry into fundamental ontological, epistemological, and ethical questions with an emphasis on South Asian Buddhist perspectives. She has published articles on intention, free will, and contemplative practice in Buddhism, as well as on methods in comparative philosophy and the ecological crisis.

Karin is currently editing two books for Mangalam Press, The Imagination and Imaginal Worlds in the Mirror of Buddhism based on a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute that she co-directed in 2022, and an introductory Classical Sanskrit textbook designed for students of Buddhism (Svayaṃbhūvyakāraṇam by Mattia Salvini).

In June 2025 she will be co-directing her second National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, on "Buddhist Perspectives on Nature in an Age of Global Climate Change." She has practiced meditation in Theravāda, Tibetan, and Zen Buddhist traditions.

General Admission: $20
Student tickets: $10 with promo code STUDENT