Cristiano Potamianos is a Brazilian practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism who has been under the guidance of his master Lama Padma Samten since 2004. In November 2008, then living in Calgary, he started to facilitate the practice of meditation along with Buddhist teachings to a small group of people eager to learn how the benefits of this ancient tradition could be incorporated into their contemporary lives. For more than 2,500 years, the teachings of the Buddha have remained updated and fresh, for they all deal with our basic human condition: our striving for happiness.