The Dalai Lama Center For Ethics and Transformative Values announced today the site inauguration for its new South Asia Hub in Hyderabad, India.
The ground breaking ceremony will be officiated by His Holiness theXIVth Dalai Lama along with Kalvakuntla Chandrasekhar Rao, Honorable Chief Minister of Telangana and Kalvakuntla Taraka Rama Rao, Minister of MA&UD and IT, will be held onFebruary 12 of 2017. As part of this visit, His Holiness will also deliver apublic talk on “Ethics, Values and Wellbeing” at the HITEX Open Arena in Hyderabad.
“We are truly excited to launch the South Asia Hub as a strategic site for designing and disseminating programs that are most relevant to the issues pressing humanity and its leadership in current times,” said The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, the Center’s President and CEO “an open and dependable infrastructure is key to support this mission on a global scale.”
Since its inception 2009 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Center has been a driving force in fostering individual and organizational ethics and value-driven leadership across diverse institutional frameworks. Acting as an interdisciplinary think-tank and training institution for educators, business and technology executives, civil servants and young students, it promotes an innovative non-prescriptive pedagogy for ethics learning.
Leaders from eight countries across North and Latin America, South Asia and Central Africa have participated in The Center’s ethics- and values-based Transformative Leadership programs.Its Ethics Initiative public forums have brought together hundreds of thought-leaders and practitioners from diverse fields including food security, climate change and innovative measures in health care. Some of these conversations have reached over a million viewers online. Over a thousand public schools educators have been trained through the Transformative Teachers program, focusing on developing responsibility and moral purpose in the youth.
“We are honored that The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values chose Hyderabad for its South Asia Hub,” says K.T Rama Rao, Minister for MA &UD and IT, “in light of the rapid transformations impacting India and the whole region, it is urgent to prepare present and future leaders for the work of serving their communities”.
The Center has delivered several ethics- and values-based leadership and training programs across India since 2010, working in rural areas as well as with government and business organizations.The new facility will provide a venue for training programs, interdisciplinary research and open dialogues, supporting The Center’s mission to examine and emphasize responsibility, meaningfulness and moral purpose in individuals, organizations, and societies.
