Teachers – Buddhist Studies Institute

Meet our Founder – Pema Khandro

Pema Khandro is a Tibetan Buddhist teacher, scholar, and humanitarian, specializing in the philosophy and practice of Tibet’s Buddhist Yogis and their Dzogchen teachings.

Ordained in the Nyingma lineage, enthroned as a tulku, and trained as an academic, her teachings celebrate the dynamic coalescence of tradition and the modern context.

Pema Khandro is the founder of Ngakpa International, the Yogic Medicine Institute, and three residential centers. For more information visit www.PemaKhandro.org.

MEET THE TEACHERS

Meet our Guest Teachers and Lamas, Teaching Assistants, and Mentors

Guest Lamas and Teachers

Chodpa Kunzang Dorjee

Chodpa Kunzang Dorje is a Tibetan Yogi who specializes in the esoteric meditation known as Chod, severing the roots of suffering. He practices and teaches in the Charnel Grounds of Nepal and India and in his center in Boudha, the Khandro Labdron Shije Chod Institute. Since he is fluent in English, he offers a comprehensive training in all aspects of Chod for visitors from all over the world. His teachers are Lama Wangdu Rinpoche, Lama Chodak Rinpoche and Ani-Dawa, “Mo-mo-la,” who is a ninety-year-old yogini living in retreat in Nagakort.

Khenpo Gawang Rinpoche

Khenpo Gawang Rinpoche is the founder and spiritual director of Pema Karpo Meditation Center in Memphis, Tennessee. Having completed thirty years as a monk, fourteen years of teaching experience, and nine years of study at the Buddhist University of Namdroling Monastery in South India, he holds a Khenpo degree, the Buddhist equivalent of a PhD. Gawang Rinpoche came to the United States in 2004 at the invitation of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche and Shambhala International. He proudly became an American citizen in 2012. Rinpoche is the author of Your Mind Is Your Teacher, The Sadhana of Shakyamuni Buddha and The Excellent Path to Enlightenment by Longchenpa.

Father Francis V. Tiso

Father Francis V. Tiso is a theologian and scholar who specializes in inter-religious dialogue between Tibetan Buddhism and Catholicism. He is a Catholic priest, writer and professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. His research has included the great Tibetan Yogi, Milarepa and the subject of miraculous death in Tibetan Buddhist thought - the rainbow body. His recent work focuses on the connections between concepts of dying in Central Asia during the medieval period and the resurrection of Jesus. He is the author of the book "Rainbow Body and Resurrection," which includes insights into the geographical connections between Dzogchen and religions across Central Asia.

Nechung Kuten-La

State Oracle of Tibet

Nechung Kuten-la holds a position of great responsibility for the Tibetan Government as the Tibetan State Oracle - a healer and spiritual advisor. Nechung Kuten-la escaped Tibet with his family in 1966. He ordained at Nechung Monastery in 1970 at the age of 12, in Dharamsala, India. He served as a ritual assistant of the previous Nechung Rinpoche. Then after receiving signs, visions and confirmation from HH Dalia Lama, in 1987 he was recognized as the next Nechung Oracle.

His Eminence Gyaldak Rinpoche

His Eminence Gyaldak Rinpoche is head of Drub Tashi Dhargey Cholkor Dechenling Monastery. In the lineage of the great Yogi Milarepa, Rinpoche was recognized as the tulku (reincarnation) of one of the three main disciples of Gampopa – Dorje Gyalpo. This recognition was conferred by the great Nyingma Yogi Sera Yangtrul, Sakya Dawa Sangpo and Taklung Matrul Rinpoche. Rinpoche lived in Tibet until 1991 and was taught by the Karmapa, the Dalai Lama and Chatral Rinpoche and he came to the US in 2005.

Lama Lhanang Rinpoche

Lama Lhanang Rinpoche is a spiritual teacher of the Nyingma Longchen Nying-Thig order of Tibetan Buddhism who has studied with many masters from different lineages. He shares teachings from an unbroken tradition in a way that is fresh, cross-cultural, and current for these times. He is an accomplished instructor of meditation, Anu-yoga, art, Feng-shui, cultural and historical studies as well as a skilled practitioner of Tibetan medicine.

Ngak’chang Rinpoche

Ngak’chang Rinpoche is the founder of the international Nyingma organization Sang-ngak-chö-dzong. Rinpoche was recognized by Dudjom Rinpoche as the reincarnation of Aro Yeshé, the son of the extraordinary female Lama and treasure revealer, Khyungchen Aro Lingma. Ngak’chang Rinpoche’s main teachers were Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche and Jomo Samphel, Chhimed Rigdzin Rinpoche and Lama Yeshe Dorje. Between 1970 and 1984, Ngak’chang Rinpoche spent extended periods in the Himalayas receiving teachings and transmissions from many of the most revered teachers of the Nyingma Tradition. He is the author of eleven books, many co-written with Khandro Déchen. He is a Vajrayana calligrapher, poet, thangka painter, multi-talented Vajrayana craftsman, and exponent of Yogic Song and Lama-dance.

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