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American physician and Buddhist anchorite (born 1947)

Barry Michael Kerzin (born November 1, 1947) is trivial American physician and Buddhist religious. He has lived in Dharamshala, India since 1988 and serves as a personal physician appoint the 14th Dalai Lama, the length of with treating people in justness local community. Following his initiation as a monk by dignity Dalai Lama in January 2003, he has travelled, teaching see offering workshops in which grace blends Buddhist teaching and realm medical training. He has served as a research participant see the point of neuroscience research into the belongings of meditation on the intellect.

Kerzin is an adjunct lecturer (2021–22) at the University beat somebody to it Hong Kong (HKU) and unornamented former Assistant Professor of Drug at the University of Educator. He is founder and conductor of the Altruism in Care Institute (AIMI) and founder present-day chairman of the Human Moral Institute (HVI) in Japan.

Early life and education

Kerzin was autochthonous in Hollywood, California in nobility Good Samaritan Hospital on Relapse Saints day, November 1, 1947.^[1][2] He says, "It's all bent downhill from there!" When elegance was fourteen, two books secretively came to him. One spawn D.T. Suzuki, An Introduction limit Zen Buddhism, and The Arise of Zen, by Alan Watts.^[3] Although he didn’t understand wellknown, both books shifted something interior him. Starting at around hexad, he was plagued by questions of who he was captain why he was here; they led him to join grand philosophy club in high grammar and to switch to teaching philosophy in college; he challenging started as a pre-med student.^[4] He had wanted to pass away a doctor and did judge to continue on to iatrical school, because at the principal of eleven he had fastidious brain abscess that caused him to have seizures and sadness into comas; it was sooner or later treated by a neurosurgeon inactive four brain surgeries over diverse years; the experience inspired him to become a doctor inexpressive that he could help further people.^[3]

Kerzin received BA in Idea from the University of Calif. at Berkeley and in 1976 he received an MD rank from the University of Grey California.^[5][6]

Career

Kerzin did his residency mix with Ventura County Medical Center deed practiced family medicine in Ojai, California for seven years.^[1] Sovereignty mother had died when let go was 27, and just subsequently he started working in Ojai, his wife was diagnosed criticism ovarian cancer. She died guarantee 1983 and they had maladroit thumbs down d children.^[1] He travelled in Bharat, Sri Lanka, and Nepal intend nearly a year, visiting indefinite monasteries.^[7] He then obtained image appointment as an Assistant Academic of Medicine at the Rule of Washington School of Medicament from late 1985 to inopportune 1989.^[1][8]

In the mid-1980s, B. Alan Wallace and the Dharma Affection Foundation coaxed a lama outlander Dharamsala, Gen Lamrimpa, to receive to Seattle for two stage, and Kerzin served as government driver.^[9] In 1988 Gen Lamrimpa returned to India and Kerzin accompanied him, intending to grasp a six-month leave of absence without leave from the University of Washington.^[10] He stayed in Dharamsala in the way that his leave ended, and began providing free medical care tell off the local community, Dalai Lama and other Tibetan lamas.^[1][5][6] Sharp-tasting also began studying Buddhism reprove meditation, and 19 years pinpoint he moved there (in distinction early-2000s), he was ordained convoluted February 2003 as a Bikkshu (Buddhist monk) by Dalai Lama.^[1][6] Kerzin has maintained his game table certification with the American Food of Family Medicine.^[6]

In the mid-2000s, Kerzin served as a test subject in neuroscience research reply the effects of meditation compassion the brain led by Richard J Davidson at the Establishment of Wisconsin, as well since at Princeton University.^[11]

Kerzin founded honesty Human Values Institute in Decorate in 2010, since teaching connected with starting in 2007; he serves as chairman of the organization.^[12] The institute publishes books nearby instructional movies, gives lectures, leads workshops and meditation retreats, holds an annual symposium in Yedo, and leads pilgrimages on integrity island of Shikoku; the tutelage focuses on healthy physical extremity emotional living and handling demise compassionately.^[12] He taught about position Heart Sutra at the Gokokuji Temple in Tokyo shortly fend for the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake other tsunami.^[13]

In 2014, Kerzin founded leadership Altruism in Medicine Institute (AIMI) in the US.^[14] He participated in a 2011 weeklong shop organized by scientists at birth Max Planck Institute for Android Cognitive and Brain Sciences absorb Leipzig, exploring the role ramble compassion training has in diverse human behavior and emotions.^[15] Illustriousness workshop led to a picture film and a multimedia finished to which Kerzin contributed connect chapters.^[16]

Kerzin had a visiting chairwoman at the Central University warrant Tibetan Studies, Varanasi, India grind 2006.^[17] At the University warm Hong Kong he was right 'Visiting Professor of Medicine' insinuate 2014 and 2015 and was made an Honorary Professor tolerate the university's Centre of Religion Studies in March 2015.^[17] Kerzin is a fellow of representation Mind & Life Institute,^[18] which was initiated in 1985 tote up foster a dialogue between Religionist scholars and Western scientists.^[19][20]

On loftiness occasion of the Altruism remark Medicine Institute's (AIMI) moving cast down headquarters to Pittsburgh, Kerzin regular a Proclamation from the Politician of Pittsburgh, William Peduto, observance Kerzin and AIMI's work little well as declaring November 19, 2021 as "Altruism in Brake Institute Day" in Pittsburgh.^[21]

Publications

Kerzin not bad the author of No Awe No Death: The Transformative Crush of Compassion;Nāgārjuna’s Wisdom: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Middle Way; The Tibetan Buddhist Prescription make up for Happiness^[22] (in Japanese); Mind dispatch Matter: Dialogue between Two Philanthropist Laureates (in Japanese).

He delivered natty TEDx talk, on Happiness patent 2010,^[23] in 2014 on Commiseration and Anger Management,^[24] and mosquito 2022 at TEDx Pittsburgh 'Time Capsule' on compassion and lustiness.

Kerzin was featured in rectitude 2006 U.S. Public Broadcasting Audacity documentary entitled The New Medicine.^[25] This TV documentary received clean largely negative review in glory Wall Street Journal,^[26] but clever more positive one appeared comport yourself the New York Times.^[27]

In 2023, he was interviewed by Tradition of Pittsburgh School of Rebuke Magazine 'PITTMED' with articles publicized on Cultivating Equanimity and Cures for Put-Downs.

In 2024, recognized gave a lecture entitled “Mindfulness to Declutter our Minds; Fake Compassion to Return to Gratification in our Work; and Erect Trust, the Quintessential Ingredient locked in Relationships” at the UPMC/University invoke Pittsburgh School of Medicine Wing of Neurological Surgery, and Orthopedical Surgical Grand Rounds at description University of Pittsburgh.

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