Hangartner, D.
| English Phonetics | Diego Hangartner |
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| Website: | https://www.diegohangartner.org/person |
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Biographical Information
Diego Hangartner graduated from the ETH as a pharmacist, specialized in psychotropic drugs, and worked in the field of addiction.
After working with an aid project in Nepal, he lived in Dharamsala, India (home of the Dalai Lama) for 11 years. There he studied in Tibetan for 7 years at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics (IBD). He has completed several long exams in silence, interpreting for lamas in various languages and translating texts from Tibetan (Shantideva's Instructions on the Path to Happiness). After he returned to Europe in 2003, he was the project manager of large events with H.H. the Dalai Lama (The Dalai Lama in Switzerland 2005 and The Dalai Lama in Hamburg 2007). As a long-term meditator, he was involved in various neuroscientific research projects.
He has been associated with the Mind and Life Institute since the 1990s: from 2008-2012 as COO of the Mind and Life Institute, USA; Co-founder and from 2008-14 Managing Director of Mind and Life Europe.
In 2015 he decided to found the Institute of Mental Balance and Universal Ethics (IMBUE), an initiative to research and teach practical applications of techniques for mental balance. He is the director and principal teacher of the institute. (Adapted from Source Jan 8, 2021)
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