Sunday Open Meditation: Dharma Talk with Mitra Dean Tyler Dewar

Sunday Open Meditation + A Dharma Talk by Mitra Tyler at Nalanda West

Sunday, 23 February 2025 10a-12p PT

Please join us for a dharma talk with Mitra Dean Tyler Dewar on Sunday, 23 February 2025. We hope to see you at Nalanda West or online!

Onsite and Online

Onsite participation at Nalanda West is heartily encouraged, but a zoom link is available for those who are not able to attend in person. Please register below to receive the online meeting information. A recording will be available for at least 2 weeks afterwards on the Resource Page. Please check your registration confirmation for login Resource Page details.

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Registration Confirmed: Dharma Talk with Mitra Dean Tyler Dewar (Su, 23 Feb 2025 @ 11a PT)

Schedule

10:00–11:00a Open Meditation (sitting & walking)
11:00a–12:00p Dharma Talk by Mitra Tyler
12:00–1:00p (optional) Lunch

Teacher

Mitra Tyler was born in Nova Scotia, Canada. He has been engaged in the study and practice of Buddhism since 1996, becoming a student of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche two years later. He began studying the Tibetan language in 1997, and became an oral interpreter and textual translator for Nitartha Institute and Nalandabodhi in 2000.

Tyler joined the faculty of Nitartha Institute in 2003 and was appointed as a senior teacher in Nalandabodhi in 2005. He has served as an oral interpreter for lineage-holding masters of the Kagyu and Nyingma traditions of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. Tyler enjoys teaching on such topics as the four immeasurables, and exploring how the great Buddhist forebears inspire and inform life in the 21st century.

A musician and singer, he has participated in the creation of several ‘melodized’ liturgies and ‘dharma songs.’ Tyler is the father of an amazing daughter and lives in Seattle, Washington.

About the “Mitra” title: In 2005, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche empowered a group of his long-time students to be senior teachers of Nalandabodhi. He gave each of them the title Mitra, which is drawn from the Sanskrit term Kalyanamitra, “spiritual friend.” The Mitras guide Nalandabodhi’s three paths of Study, Meditation, and Mindful Activity and teach throughout the world.