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Padma Samten (formerly Alfredo Aveline) is a Brazilian Buddhist lama.Alfredo Aveline has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) where he was professor from 1969 to 1994. During those years he studied quantum physics a theory in which he found a similarity with Buddhist thought. In the early 1980s his interest in Buddhism was intensified. In 1986 he founded Bodhisattva Center for Buddhist Studies (CEBB).
