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CSA Fall Lecture Series 2025

David DiValerio | The Three-Year, Three-Month Retreat in Globalized Tibetan Buddhism: Early Findings and Ongoing Questions

Event Details

Date
Thursday, September 18, 2025
Time
12 p.m.
Description
The communal three-year, three-month meditative retreat—during which a group of men or women remain sequestered from the world outside, doing ten or more hours of focused tantric practice each day—plays an increasingly vital role in the contemplative culture of Tibetan Buddhist communities all over the world. This is a trilingual fieldwork-based study of the communal three-year, three-month retreat.
Cost
Free
Accessibility

We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please call 608-262-4884 or email info@southasia.wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Reasonable effort will be made to support your request.

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