{2020–2024}
past events
online & onsite @ anywhere
July 18–28, 2024
dimore vuote: dagli elementi al senza-segno (animitta)
onsite @ Fara in Sabina, Italy
August 17, 2024
working with the three unwholesome roots: a practical approach
online @ Sati Center for Buddhist Studies, Redwood City, CA, USA
August 18, 2024
le tre radici non salutari: insegnamenti, meditazione, dialogo
online @ Āgama Research Group Italia & Fondazione Maitreya, Rome, Italy Italy
October 2024
Upāyikā Āgama Research Group project
onsite @ Department of Buddhist Studies, Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts, Taiwan
October 25, 2024
my scholar-friend Stefano
online & onsite, King in the Discernment of Subtleties (察微王): the intellectual legacy of Stefano Zacchetti (1968-2020) @ Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Venice, Italy
November 1, 2024
the four immeasurables or divine abidings in early Buddhist meditation
online @ Centre for the Study of Chan Buddhism and Human Civilization, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, PRC
November 26, 2024
‘sofferenza’ e ‘compassione’ tra salvezza, liberazione, fede e ideologia: prospettive storico-religiose sul cammino spirituale nel cristianesimo & nel buddhismo (with F.co Javier S. Fermín)
online @ Āgama Research Group Italia, Italy
December 15, 2024
i quattro stati illimitati o dimore divine nel buddhismo antico: insegnamenti, meditazione, dialogo
online @ Āgama Research Group Italia, Italy & Fondazione Maitreya, Rome, Italy
January 15–April 22, 2025
seminar in Buddhism and Buddhist texts
visiting professor in Buddhist Studies (spring semester 2025), onsite, Thursdays 14.00-17.00 @ University of California at Berkeley, USA
March 12, 2025
the Theravāda bhikkhunī revival and the bhikkhu-saṅgha: legal and existential dissonances, institutional betrayal
onsite, 17.00–18.30 pm @ Stanford University, CA, USA
March 22, 2025
Dhamma and meditation practice Q&A session
onsite, 19.00–21.00 pm Pacific time @ North Berkeley, CA, USA
April 2–3, 2025
reading seminar
onsite @ University of California at Berkeley, CA, USA
April 3, 2025
mapping the path, mapping the fruits: meditation, attainments, legitimization, subjectivity, and neuroscience: from early Buddhism via Theravāda to postmodern practitioners—a case study on ‘fruition’ and ‘cessation’ (with Cliff Saron)
onsite, 17:00–18:30 pm, 10 Stephens Hall, Institute for South Asia Studies @ University of California at Berkeley, CA, USA
April 5, 2025
Dhamma session w/Babasaeb Ambdekar’s group
onsite, 16:00–18:00 pm @ private venue, East Bay, CA, USA
April 8, 2025
early Buddhist teachings on the construction of meaning and subjective experience
onsite, 18:00–19:30 pm @ Mangalam Research Center for Buddhist Languages, Berkeley, CA, USA
April 21, 2025
the re-establishment of the Theravāda bhikkhunī-saṅgha: its multiple dimensions in real life
onsite guest talk @ University of California at Berkeley, CA, USA
April 25, 2025
Buddhism 2075: shaping the identity of European Buddhism | European Buddhist Union 50th anniversary
onsite @ European Buddhist Union, Vienna, Austria
May 2, 2025
mindfulness & buddhismo antico: teoria e pratica (with Fabio Giommi & Antonella Commellato)
onsite @ Barza d’Ispra, Associazione Italiana Mindfulness, Milan, Italy
May 7, 2025
conversation with Ajahn Kovilo & Ajahn Nisabho
18:00–19.30 pm Pacific time, online @ Clear Mountain Monastery Project, Seattle, WA, USA
May 18, 2025
insegnamenti del buddhismo antico su non-sé (anattā) e costruzione dell’identità: un approccio pratico all’autenticità personale e sincerità relazionale
9:00 am–12.00 pm Central European time, online @ Āgama Research Group Italia & Fondazione Maitreya, Rome, Italy
May 24, 2025
conversation on “la risonanza della compassione: incontro dell’altro e cura nel buddhismo antico” (with Andrea Libero Carbone)
onsite @ Vesakh Unione Buddhista Italiana, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano, Italy
May 25, 2025
‘costruzione dell’identità e costruzione di senso secondo il buddhismo antico’, workshop La costruzione dell’identità. Psicoterapia, costruttivismo, scienze cognitive a confronto con la (cosiddetta) ‘Buddhist Psychology’ (with Roberto Ferrari, Fabio Giommi, Giuseppe Pagnoni, Domenico Scaringi)
2.30 – 5.30pm, onsite & online @ Nous, Scuola di Specializzazione in Psicoterapia Cognitivo-Costruttivista, Milan & Società Italiana di Terapia Cognitiva e Comportamentale (SITCC), Italy
May 26, 2025
conversation on ‘pratica della presenza e integrità epistemica’ (with Licia Grazzi & team)
3.00 pm, onsite @ aula Pluribus, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy
May 31, 2025
early Buddhist teachings on not-self and the construction of identity: a practical approach to personal authenticity and relational sincerity
9:00 am –12.00 pm Pacific time, online @ Sati Center for Buddhist Studies, Redwood City, CA, USA
May 17–July 26, 2025
mindfulness of breathing study & practice program
online @ Āgama Research Group Taiwan | practice retreat July 19–26 (with Chinese and Korean translation)
June 4, 2025
costruire la speranza quale contributo al bene comune: una co-responsabilità urgente nello spirito della fraternità universale | una posizione buddhista (pre-assigned title)
onsite @ ‘Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jains and Sikhs: In dialogue and collaboration to renew and to re-ignite hope in our times’, Dicastero per il Dialogo Interreligioso, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, Italy
June 28, 2025
il sogno di Benino (with Roberto Mander)
10:00 am – 5.00 pm, onsite workshop @ via Flaminia 109, Rome, Italy
October 9, 2025
l’identità personale alla luce della (cosiddetta) ‘Buddhist Psychology’. Saggezza antica, scienza cognitiva e psicoterapia contemporanea (with Fabio Giommi)
simposio onsite, 6:00 – 7:30 pm @ Uno, nessuno, centomila: l’enigma dell’identità, XXII Congresso Nazionale SITCC (Società Italiana di Terapia Comportamentale e Cognitiva), Cagliari, Italy
October 19, 2025
l’etica dello svuotamento (with Marcello Ghilardi and Armando Bonaiuto)
11.30–13.00 @ Questo vuoto d’intorno: smarrirsi, raggiungersi, Torino Spiritualità XXI, Sala Grande, Circolo dei lettori, via G. Bogino 9, Turin, Italy
November 4, 2025
metodi di ricerca nello studio del buddhismo antico
lezione dottorale, corso ‘Lo studio delle religioni e della filosofia dell’Asia: approcci metodologici e teoretici’ @ Dipartimento di Filosofia, Scienze Sociali, Umane e della Formazione, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
November 22, 2025
self and other: early Buddhist pathways of relational presence (in conversation with Martin Batchelor)
5 pm CET, online @ Bodhi College, Devon, UK
November 23, 2025
i cinque impedimenti come fondamento della presenza: insegnamenti, meditazione, dialogo
online 09:00am–12:00pm @ Āgama Research Group Italia, Italy & Fondazione Maitreya, Rome, Italy
November 30, 2025
the brahmavihāras in early Buddhism: theory & practice
online retreat @ Āgama Research Group & 30NOW
December 4–14, 2025
meditazione secondo gli insegnamenti del buddhismo antico
onsite retreat @ Centro di meditazione buddhista Pian dei Ciliegi, Italy
December 26, 2025
the significance of Śamathadeva’s Upāyikā for early buddhist textual studies: selected findings
onsite workshop, 2:00–4.00pm @ Department of Buddhist Studies, Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts, Taiwan
December 27, 2025
early Buddhist meditation
onsite-only half-day meditation teaching & practice workshop, 2:00–5.00pm @ 法鼓德貴學苑, Taipei, Taiwan
December 19–January, 2025
Upāyikā Āgama Research Group project
onsite @ Department of Buddhist Studies, Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts, Taiwan
January 17, 2026
the five hindrances as a foundation for mindfulness: a practical approach
online 09:00am–12.00pm PT @ Sati Center for Buddhist Studies, Redwood City, CA, USA
January 18, 2026
nel mondo della vita: l’esperienza corporeo-affettiva secondo il buddhismo antico | insegnamenti, meditazione, dialogo su sensorialità, emozioni, desiderio, attaccamento, vitalità
online 09:00am–12:00pm CET @ Āgama Research Group Italia, Italy
January 19, 2026
reestablishing bhikkhunī ordination in Theravāda Buddhism: between the crisis of institutional legitimacy and the adversities of institutional betrayal
online lecture 16:30–18:30pm IST @ Department of Pali & Buddhist Studies, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
February 2–June 29, 2026
practice supervision series
Feb 2, March 2, March 30, April 27, May 25, June 29, online 07:45–09:15pm CET @ Āgama Research Group Italia, Italy
February 7–8, 2026
occhio, orecchie, naso, lingua, pelle, intelletto come organi della coscienza | insegnamenti, meditazione & dialogo (with Antonella Commellato and Fabio Giommi)
non-residential 2-day immersive workshop, Associazione Italiana per la Mindfulness & Nous, Scuola di Specializzazione in Psicoterapia Cognitivo-Costruttivista, onsite-only @ Comunità nuova, via Luigi Mengoni 3, Milan, Italy
February 19, 2026
book presentation, Le impronte del trauma: trauma-sensitive mindfulness e meditazione (David A. Treleaven) (with Giovanni Tagliavini)
20.00–22.00 CET online @ Ubiliber and Āgama Research Group Italia
March 20, 2026
book presentation, Le impronte del trauma: trauma-sensitive mindfulness e meditazione (David A. Treleaven) (with Giovanni Tagliavini)
19.30–21.30 CET @ Libreria Erickson, Viale Etiopia, 20, Rome, Italy
April 21, 2026
workshop {title t.b.a.}
19.30–21.00 CEST, online @ Scuola di accompagnamento spirituale, Associazione Sati Mudita & Centro Mindfulness Milano, Italy
May 2, 2026
tracing mindfulness back to its sources (with Paul Harrison)
onsite-only one-day study and practice workshop @ Ho Center for Buddhist Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
May 4–7, 2026
Vyākhyāyukti workshop (with Paul Harrison & others)
onsite @ Ho Center for Buddhist Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
May 10, 2026
Buddhist psychology workshop (to be confirmed)
onsite, am @ Nous, Scuola di Specializzazione in Psicoterapia Cognitivo-Costruttivista, Milan & Società Italiana di Terapia Cognitiva e Comportamentale (SITCC), Italy
May 10, 2026
seminar (with Roberto Ferrari, Fabio Giommi, Giuseppe Pagnoni, Domenico Scaringi)
onsite & online, pm @ Nous, Scuola di Specializzazione in Psicoterapia Cognitivo-costruttivista, Milan & Società Italiana di Terapia Cognitiva e Comportamentale (SITCC), Italy
May 17, 2026
i sei sensi e la coscienza secondo il buddhismo antico | insegnamenti, meditazione, dialogo
online 09:00am–12:00pm CET @ Āgama Research Group Italia, Italy
August–December, 2026
seminar in Buddhism and Buddhist texts
visiting professor in Buddhist Studies (fall semester 2026), onsite @ University of California at Berkeley, USA
September 3, 10, 17, 2026
four-element & four-brahmavihāra practice online series (with Martine Batchelor)
online, 18.00–20.30 GMT @ Bodhi College, UK
November 9, 2026
sutta teachings on Nibbāna
online Q&A session, 19:30–21:00 CET @ Dhammastudie Netherlands & 30NOW
January 30–April 10, 2027
four immeasurables and emptiness study & practice program
online @ Āgama Research Group Taiwan (practice retreat April 3–10) (with Chinese and Korean translation)
dates t.b.c. 2027
four-element & four-brahmavihāra meditation retreat (with Martine Batchelor)
5-day residential retreat @ The Netherlands, Bodhi College
December 1–20, 2027
2 or maybe 3 week retreat for experienced practitioners and meditation teachers
onsite @ Āgama Research Group Italia
bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā 
