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In the center of the image are professors Plínio Marcos Tsai (founder of the BUDA Association) and Jonathan Raichart (Lobsang Chogni, co-
founder of the BUDA Association). Around are the students (2018: co-founders of the Buddha Dharma Association (Patricia Tsai, Cibele Furlan,
Nirvana França (Lobsang Padma), Estela Piccin (Lobsang Lhamo), Regina Harumi, Tattiane Marques, Maximiliano Sawaya , Ethel Belluzi , Yu Jun
and Loyane Ferreira (Lobsang Padma).

A Buddhist Diet

for Health and

Well-Being

By Dr Cibele Furlan

Cibele became a Buddhist working toward a degree in sandwich PhD at the Center for
practitioner in 2001 and Catholic Theology at Dom Bosco Food and Health Sciences, Lund
graduated in Buddhology from University (UCDB). University, Sweden, in 2015.
the Pramāṇa Institute in Brazil In the field of nutrition, she She is currently a postdoctoral
in 2018. From 2015 to 2017, graduated in Nutrition and researcher in Health Sciences at
she served as the Financial Dietetics from the Pontifical the University of San Francisco,
Director of the Buddha Dharma Catholic University of Campinas Brazil (2024). She is also a
Association (BUDA) and was (PUC-Campinas), Brazil, in 2007. university professor in Nutrition
the President of BUDA from She completed her Master’s and Dietetics, and provides
2017 to 2022. She is currently (2013) and PhD (2017) in nutritional counseling in clinical
pursuing a PhD (free master’s Food and Nutrition at the practice.
program) in Buddhology at the State University of Campinas
Pramāṇa Institute and is also (Unicamp), Brazil, with a