Larry Rosenberg (born December 15, 1932) is an AmericanBuddhist teacher who founded theCambridge Insight Meditation Center inCambridge, Massachusetts, in 1985.[1] He is also a resident teacher there. Rosenberg was a professor of psychology at theUniversity of Chicago andHarvard Medical School. In addition to teaching at theInsight Meditation Center in Cambridge, he is also a senior teacher at theInsight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts.[2]
Rosenberg was born toRussian-Jewish immigrants and grew up inConey Island in a working-class family. His father, who hadMarxist leanings, came from 14 generations ofrabbis.[3]
Rosenberg got hisBS atBrooklyn College and hisPh.D. in social psychology from theUniversity of Chicago, where he also subsequently taught. He later became anassistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry atHarvard. Disappointed with his experience in academia, he turned to intensive Buddhist practice. A major turning pointthat influenced this decision was his introduction to the teachings ofJiddu Krishnamurti andVimala Thakar. He received Zen training with Korean MasterSeung Sahn and Japanese MasterKatagiri Roshi for eight years before coming toVipassana.Anagarika Munindra was his first Vipassana teacher.[4]
His bookBreath by Breath is a clear description of the practice ofanapanasati (mindful breath meditation). His emphasis on the breath as an object of meditation was, in part, inspired by his encounter with the Thai meditation teacherBuddhadasa. Anapanasati and also forms the basis of his teachings at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center.[5]
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