Venerable Tenzin Dasel, dressed in red at right, a Bates College Class of 1988 and a teacher and meditation instructor at Tashi Gatsel Ling in Maine, is seen Tuesday afternoon through an outside window leading a group of Bates College students and a professor in meditation at the Gomes Chapel on the Lewiston campus. At right is a reflection of people walking through the quad on the campus. Dasel was a guest at the weekly meeting of the Bates Meditation Club as they deal with the stress and anxiety brought on by the two mass shootings in the city last week. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal

Venerable Tenzin Dasel, center, Bates College Class of 1988, a teacher and meditation instructor at Tashi Gatsel Ling in Maine, leads a group of Bates College students and a professor Tuesday afternoon in meditation at the Gomes Chapel on the Lewiston campus. Dasel was a guest at the weekly meeting of the Bates Meditation Club as they deal with the stress and anxiety brought on by the two mass shootings in the city last week. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal

Bates College professor Robert Strong, right, and senior Cam Anderson meditate Tuesday in Gomes Chapel on the Lewiston campus with Venerable Tenzin Dasel from the Bates Class of 1988 and a teacher and meditation instructor at Tashi Gatsel Ling in Maine. Dasel was a guest at the weekly meeting of the Bates Meditation Club as they deal with the stress and anxiety brought on by the two mass shootings in the city last week. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal

Venerable Tenzin Dasel, Bates College Class of 1988, center, a teacher and meditation instructor at Tashi Gatsel Ling in Maine, leads a group of Bates College students and a professor Tuesday afternoon in meditation at the Gomes Chapel on the Lewiston campus. Dasel was a guest at the weekly meeting of the Bates Meditation Club as they deal with the stress and anxiety brought on by the two mass shootings in the city last week. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal


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