Visiting Teachers
Lama Namgyal Dorje
Lama Namgyal Dorje (Harvey B. Aronson, PhD, MSW) is a psychotherapist in private practice and a Buddhist meditation teacher. He is founder and teacher-in-residence at the Dawn Mountain Tibetan Temple, Community Center, and Research Institute in Houston, Texas. He travels and lectures on Buddhist philosophy and psychology at universities and at academic and Buddhist conferences […]
Robert Thurman PhD
Robert Thurman held the first endowed chair in Buddhist Studies in the West, the Jey Tsong Khapa Chair in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, before retiring in June of 2019. Educated at Philips Exeter and Harvard, he then studied Tibet, Tibetan Buddhism, and Asian languages and histories for fifty years with many teachers, including His Holiness the […]
The Heart of Buddhism A Year Long Buddhist Studies Program, The Awakened Heart,
Erik Pema Kunsang
Erik Pema Kunsang is a Danish dharma teacher and translator. He has been trained by many masters including the Dzogchen master Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche Rinpoche, whom he stayed with for 16 years as an attendant and interpreter. Erik has translated and published over 60 volumes, especially focusing on the teachings of Padmasambhava. He is the […]
The Heart of Buddhism A Year Long Buddhist Studies Program, The Great Perfection,
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; […]
Dungse Jigme Wangdrak Rinpoche
Dungse 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 […]