Visiting Teachers
Holly Gayley
Holly Gayley is a scholar and translator of Buddhist literature in contemporary Tibet and associate professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research explores gender and sexuality in Buddhist tantra, literature by and about Tibetan and Himalayan women, ethical reform in contemporary Tibet, and theorizing translation, both literary and cultural, in the transmission of […]
Vanessa Kubota
Vanessa Kubota is a translator/interpreter of Tibetan language and a lawyer. She has authored over 200 translations of endangered Tibetan literature, and has studied Sanskrit, philology, and hermeneutics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She completed a Fulbright scholarship at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies University in Varanasi, India. Her most recent […]
Mushim Patricia Ikeda
Mushim Patricia Ikeda is a writer, Buddhist and mindfulness teacher, and justice activist based in Oakland, California. She is one of several core teachers at the East Bay Meditation Center, an urban Buddhist-and-justice-based community center founded to serve historically excluded communities. She has taught meditation retreats nationally for Black, Indigenous and People of Color and multiracial (BIPOC) groups; […]
Chakung Jigme Wangdrak Rinpoche
Chakung Jigme Wangdrak Rinpoche (ལྕགས་ཁུང་འཇིགས་མེད་དབང་དྲག) was born in the Golok region of Eastern Tibet as the fourth descendant of the great Tibetan master Dudjom Lingpa – one of the foremost spiritual masters of 19th Century Tibet. At the age of 15 he was recognized as the reincarnation of Rigzin Longsal Nyingpo by Choktrul Tamdrin Wangyal. […]
Dr. Tenzin Yangdon
Dr. Tenzin Yangdon graduated in 1992 from Men-Tsee-Khang Tibetan Medical College in Dharamsala, India, where she studied traditional herbal medicine, acupuncture, and holistic healing. She practiced for many years under the guidance of the esteemed Dr. Kunga Gyurmey Nyerongsha, personal physician of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama; and in 2001, established the White Tara […]
Dr. Peggy Rowe Ward
Dr. Peggy Rowe Ward is the co-founder and director of education at The Lotus Institute. She is a senior Dharma teacher in the Plum Village tradition of Engaged Buddhism, and the author of Love's Garden: A Guide To Mindful Relationships. She has her doctorate in adult education and an MA in counseling psychology. Through meditation, movement, and […]
Dr. Larry Ward
Dr. Larry Ward is the co-founder and executive director of The Lotus Institute. He is a senior Dharma teacher in the Plum Village tradition of Engaged Buddhism, and the author of America's Racial Karma: An Invitation to Heal. Dr. Ward holds a PhD in Religious Studies with an emphasis on Buddhism and the neuroscience of meditation. As […]
Amelia Hall, PhD
Dr. Amelia Hall is an Associate Professor of Buddhism and Department Chair in the Wisdom Traditions Department at Naropa University. She gained her PhD. in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies from the University of Oxford in 2012. She has taught and developed courses on Buddhism at Central Michigan University and Antioch University Buddhist Studies Abroad Program. […]
Mark Coleman
Mark is an inner and outer explorer, who has devotedly studied mindfulness meditation practices for three decades. He is passionate about sharing the power of meditation and has taught Insight meditation retreats in five continents for the past twenty years. Mark is a senior meditation teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and has taught there […]
Barbara Bash
Barbara Bash is a lover of the alphabet and practitioner of contemplative art practices. A longtime Buddhist she explores the mixing of Asian sensibility with Western art forms and has collaborated with musicians, storytellers and dancers in fresh forms of visual learning. Barbara has written and illustrated a number of children’s book on the natural […]