Compassion - Bridging Practice and Science - page 501

Diego received his Pharm.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology in Zurich, specializing in psychotherapeutic and
psychoactive substances. After encountering Buddhism, he then
spent 11 years in Dharamsala, India, where he learned and then
studied in Tibetan Language for 7 years at the Institute of
Buddhist Dialectics. During those years, he completed several
long retreats, and worked as a translator and interpreter. After
returning to Europe, he taught widely, worked as the General
Secretary and Project Manager of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s
visits to Switzerland 2005 and to Hamburg 2007. He then joined
the Mind and Life Institute in the USA as the Director of Program,
Research and International, and until 2012 worked as the Chief
Operating Officer. Presently he is the Mind and Life Europe
Director of Operations and Advancement, based in Zurich, and is
a member of the Mind and Life Research Advisory Council. Diego
is particularly interested in the practical aspects of cultivating
compassion, mental balance, and how to actualize that - beyond
the theoretical frameworks.
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