• First Zolla Study Seminar 2012 , co-promoted by the A.I.R.E.Z. and Il FIORE Foundation on “Passion of Truth in Elémire Zolla’s Thought”, papers by F. CARDINI, A. GIOVANARDI, S. GIVONE, Don A. JACOPOZZI, G. MARCHIANÒ. Chairing person: G. BEVERINI DEL SANTO.
  Wednesday February 29,
  3-6 p.m, Sala degli Specchi, Palazzo Vivarelli Colonna, via Ghibellina, 30 Florence.

• Second Zolla Study Seminar , promoted by the A.I.R.E.Z., Montepulciano, with the special participation of GESHE TENZIN WANGYAL RIMPOCHE speaking on “ The Essence of Dzogchen Meditation in the Native Bön Tradition of Tibet ”. Translation by Andrew Lukianowicz.
  Thursday March 15,
  4.30 pm.,Conference Hall, Palazzo Cervini, Banca Popolare Etruria e Lazio, via Voltaia nel Corso, Montepulciano (old town).

Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rimpoche: a Profile

A Lama in the Bön tradition, he is founder and director of the Lingmincha Institute (Charlottesville, Virginia, USA), an organization dedicated to the study and practice of the Dzogchen esoteric tradition. He teaches widely in America and Europe where many meditation centres have been established in his line. Starting from Wonders of the Natural Mind , prefaced by H.H. the Dalai Lama (A. Lukianowicz ed.,Station Hill, New York 1993), a number of books have been authored by him and are available in translation.