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Gelong Thubten

Buddhist monk & best-selling author

Gelong Thubten
Gelong Thubten, a Buddhist monk and best-selling author, teaches meditation and mindfulness worldwide, including for companies like Google and universities such as Oxford, as well as the UN.
Gelong Thubten is a UK-based Buddhist monk, meditation teacher, and best-selling author of A Monk’s Guide to Happiness. With over 26 years of monastic experience, including six years in intensive meditation retreats, Thubten has become one of the UK’s most influential mindfulness instructors. He has trained global leaders and actors like Benedict Cumberbatch, lectured at Oxford and the UN, and taught meditation at schools, hospitals, and corporations like Google. His teachings focus on compassion and forgiveness, empowering individuals to live more mindful and connected lives.

Trainer credentials

  • Was a meditation consultant on the set of Marvel's movie, Dr. Strange, where he trained Benedict Cumberbatch and Tilda Swinton in meditation techniques while they were filming.

  • Been teaching and coaching thousands of people for over 20 years with clients such as Google, LinkedIn, Deloitte, Lloyds Bank, Deutsche Bank, Siemens, Accenture, and Clifford Chance.

  • Keynote speaker for many large events such as Wisdom 2.0 Europe, Me-Convention (Mercedes Benz), which was Europe’s first SXSW Festival, LinkedIn’s Talent Connect event in Los Angeles, Fifteen Seconds Festival (Austria and US), WOMAD Festival, Oxford Literary Festival, Gibraltar Literary Festival, Hay Literary Festival, and Tech Open Air, Berlin.

  • Author of best-selling books “A Monk’s Guide to Happiness” and “How to be Human,” which he co-authored with Ruby Wax and Ash Ranpura.

"The heart is kind. Underneath the stress is the wish to be happy. That wish is kindness."

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