Larry Rosenberg, Date of Birth

    

Larry Rosenberg

American buddhist teacher

Date of Birth: 07-Dec-1932

Profession: teacher, psychologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Larry Rosenberg

  • Larry Rosenberg (born December 7, 1932) is an American Buddhist teacher who founded the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1985.
  • He is also a resident teacher there.
  • Rosenberg was a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago and Harvard Medical School.
  • In addition to teaching at the Insight Meditation Center in Cambridge, he is also a senior teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts.Rosenberg was born to Russian-Jewish immigrants and grew up in Coney Island in a working-class family.
  • His father, who had Marxist leanings, came from 14 generations of rabbis. Rosenberg got his BS at Brooklyn College and his Ph.D.
  • in social psychology from the University of Chicago, where he also subsequently taught.
  • He later became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard.
  • Disappointed with his experience with the academia, he turned to intensive Buddhist practice.
  • A major turning point that influenced this decision was his introduction to the teachings of Jiddu Krishnamurti and Vimala Thakar.
  • He received Zen training with Korean Master Seung Sahn and Japanese Master Katagiri Roshi for eight years before coming to Vipassana.
  • Anagarika Munindra was his first Vipassana teacher. His book Breath by Breath is a clear description of the practice of anapanasati (mindful breath meditation).
  • His emphasis on the breath as an object of meditation was, in part, inspired by his encounter with the Thai meditation teacher Buddhadasa.
  • Anapanasati also forms the basis of his teachings at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center.

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