High Line Plinth: Lectures & Meditations – Healing Through Ritual

As part of the public programming for Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s High Line Plinth commission, The Light That Shines Through the Universe, the High Line presents a monthly lecture and guided meditation series at the Spur. Presented in partnership with the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, the series invites visitors to engage more deeply with themes central to Nguyen’s work. Each session features a lecture by a scholar, artist, or cultural leader, followed by a guided meditation led by an invited practitioner. The series is hosted by Tashi Chödrön, Himalayan Programs and Communities Ambassador at the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, who, in her two decades with the Rubin, has led meditation programs for over ten years and is the current host of the Rubin’s Mindfulness Meditation podcast. Through this combination of intellectual and contemplative practice, the series invites audiences to pause, reflect, and consider the artwork’s historical and philosophical themes through both thought and experience.

Healing Through Ritual — Saturday, June 13, 2026 (Rain date: Sunday, June 14, 2026)

Featuring a lecture by Lama Justin von Bujdoss, this session explores the role of ritual practice and meditation in transforming grief, loss, and violence into resilience and collective care. Drawing connections between Buddhist traditions and contemporary social justice work, the session considers how ceremony, blessing, meditation, and performed rituals can support processes of healing.

The lecture will be followed by a guided meditation by Jungwon Kim, a Zen practitioner of the Plum Village Tradition and the facilitator for Love Circle, a Brooklyn-based BIPOC sangha.

Bio:

Lama Justin von Bujdoss is an internationally renowned vajrayana Buddhist teacher. He is author of Modern Tantric Buddhism: Authenticity and Embodiment in Dharma Practice published by North Atlantic Books and a forthcoming title on his experiences with Dark Retreat to be published by Wisdom Publications. He is the founder of Yangti Yoga Retreat Center in Buckland, Massachusetts, where he specializes in leading people through dark retreats. He is passionate about helping to create the conditions for authentic embodied tantric Buddhist spiritual practice in the West.

Jungwon Kim is a Zen practitioner of the Plum Village Tradition. She is also the facilitator for Love Circle, a Brooklyn-based BIPOC sangha.

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