Dr. Seth Auster-Rosen received his PhD in Philosophy of Religions at the University of Chicago and has been attending teachings at Samye NY for ten years. His dissertation is a study and translation of two Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophical texts by the 8th Karmapa Mikyö Dorje on the nature of reality, what we can know about it, and how Madhyamaka philosophy is connected to Mahamudra meditation. Seth also has interests in ecology and the philosophy of technology. He is the Academic Director of the Samye Institute Summer Immersion program.