Dr. Barry Kerzin

American physician and Buddhist monk

Dr. Barry Kerzin is an American physician and Buddhist monk. He serves as a personal physician to the 14th Dalai Lama, along with treating people in the local community.

He has written Tibetan Buddhist Prescription for Happiness, and with the Dalai Lama and Professor Tonagawa, Mind and Matter: Dialogue between Two Nobel Laureates. He has also written Nagarjuna’s Wisdom: A Guide to Practice, Compassion-Bridging Practice and Science and No Fear No Death: The Transformative Power of Compassion.

Barry Kerzin is an ADJUNCT PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington Tacoma, a Visiting Professor at Central University of Tibetan Studies in Varanasi, India, an Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), and a former Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington.

Barry is a fellow at the Mind and Life Institute and consults for the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig on compassion training. He is the founder and president of the Altruism in Medicine Institute (AIMI) and the founder and chairman of the Human Values Institute (HVI) in Japan.

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“Handling grief with kindness, forgiveness, love and compassion, makes life easier”

Dr. Barry Kerzin, physician, buddhist monk and speaker at The Wellbeing Summit for Social Change, shares tools for us all to lead happier lives and to be more thorough in our healing of grief.

Part of his work centres around “emotional hygiene” without suppression, giving people practical methods to transform anger into tolerance and patience, and to recognise jealousy and transform it into admiration and appreciation.

Listen to Dr. Barry’s full story to learn about his belief that the key for social changemakers to lead healthier lives and to have more impact in their work is to “move beyond empathy to compassion.”