User:Isthar Adler

BIO-DATA Isthar D.-Adler, CEO and United Nations Representative of the Lama Gangchen World Peace Foundation-LGWPF, a non governmental organisation affiliated to the United Nations, in special consultation with ECOSOC.

Born in Basle, Switzerland, she was educated both in Switzerland at an early age and later in the United Kingdom. She holds degrees in administration as well as a degree in psychology.

Following five years of philosophical studies in a Buddhist Institute in England, she was recruited by T.Y.S. Lama Gangchen as secretary, in 1990, and moved to Italy with her younger son.

Since its establishment in 1992, she has been administrating the Lama Gangchen World Peace Foundation in Italy and since 1995, has particularly focussed upon United Nations relations and the establishment of a Spiritual Forum according to Lama Gangchen’s proposal, first made public in June 1995, at ECLAC in Santiago de Chile, and co-founded its Partnership Committee. Since January 2008 she is a founding member of a Steering Committee that promotes the resolution for a United Nations Decade of Interreligious Dialogue and Cooperation for Peace.

She is the Lama Gangchen World Peace Foundation’s Permanent United Nations Representative. Moreover, she is the Public Relations Officer for Lama Gangchen and the Albagnano Healing Meditation Centre on Lake Maggiore in Northern Itlay (Lama Gangchen’s western headquarters).

She travels worldwide representing Lama Gangchen and the Foundation at international conferences and congresses and is fluent in English, Italian, French and German and has some knowledge of Spanish.

She organises the Foundation’s yearly congresses in Nepal and in Italy: the annual “Verbania” world peace congresses which the foundation hosts each summer at the Police Academy, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Culture of Verbania on Lake Maggiore in Northern Italy, as well as publishing the world congress proceedings each year in a book, to uphold the humanitarian aims of the United Nations, Unesco, Unicef, and related agencies (in Italian, English and Chinese).

She is co-author of “World Healer”, the life story of T.Y.S. Lama Gangchen, and is co-editor and translator for the newspaper “Peace Times” in English, to which she also regularly contributes articles in support of the work of the United Nations, reporting on UN conferences.

In 2007 she compiled and wrote “Seeds for Peace: T.Y.S. Lama Gangchen, Tibetan Healer’s 25 years in the West”, a photographic biography.

In 2008 she wrote “Seeds for Peace II Healing Atlas”: mapping the world healing footsteps of T.Y.S. Lama Gangchen – Tibetan Healer.

In 2009 she compiled and co-wrote the first edition of the SungRab NgalSo Gyatso works by Lama Gangchen, in 145 volumes.

In 2010 she compiled, wrote and illustrated “Seeds for Peace III”.

In 2011 she compiled, wrote and illustrated Borobudur: Ocean of Mandala, the Seeds for Peace IV.