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Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche is the head of the Shambhala Buddhist lineage, a spiritual and family lineage that descends through his family, the Mukpo clan of Eastern Tibet. This tradition emphasizes the basic goodness of all beings and teaches the art of courageous warriorship based on wisdom and compassion. Rinpoche is the son and heir of the Vidyadhara, the Venerable Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. His background embraces both Eastern and Western cultures. Born in India in 1962, he received spiritual training from his father and other distinguished lamas and received further education and training in Europe and North America. He now travels extensively teaching worldwide and is the author of Turning the Mind Into an Ally and Ruling Your World. "When we talk about enlightened society, we aren't talking about some utopia where everyone's enlightened. We're talking about a culture of human beings who know the awakened nature of basic goodness and invoke its energy in order to courageously extend themselves to others." Visit mipham.com for more information about Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche.
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche was one of the most dynamic teachers of Buddhism in the 20th Century. He was a pioneer in bringing the Buddhist teachings of Tibet to the West and is credited with introducing many Buddhist concepts into the English language and psyche in a fresh and new way. Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, the former supreme abbot of Surmang Monasteries in Tibet, is known as the foremost meditation master and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism in the West. In the early 1970s, he founded Naropa University, the first Buddhist-inspired university in North America, along with over 100 meditation centers worldwide. Rinpoche encouraged his students to join their experience of meditation with such disciplines as Japanese archery, calligraphy, flower arranging, tea ceremony, health care, dance, poetry, photography, theater, education, business and psychotherapy. He authored two dozen books on meditation, poetry, art and the Shambhala path of warriorship. "The Buddhist tradition teaches the truth of impermanence, or the transitory Read Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche's biography on the Shambhala International website. Acharyas (Senior Teachers) The acharyas (Sanskrit for "senior teacher") of Shambhala are appointed by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. As the Sakyong's representatives, the acharyas, who are empowered to offer refuge and bodhisattva vows, bring the continuity of the lineage into the living teaching environment of local Shambhala centers. Boulder has the good fortune to host many Shambhala acharyas, including local acharyas Dale Asrael and Judith Simmer-Brown.
"Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have so we might as well work with it rather than struggling against it. We might as well make it our friend and teacher rather than our enemy." Acharya Pema Chödrön is an American Buddhist nun, resident teacher at Gampo Abbey, and the author of such popular books as The Places That Scare You, When Things Fall Apart and Start Where You Are. Her life experiences as wife, mother, and school teacher, and her years of study and practice with Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche uniquely empower Pema to speak to Westerners, both Buddhists and non-Buddhists.
Dale Asrael grew up in a suburb of Washington, DC, where she studied music and dance. She met Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in 1973, after being drawn to Boulder by rumors of a "revolutionary young lama." She attended the inaugural summer of Naropa Institute and spent many subsequent years studying intensively with the Vidyadhara. Dale currently teaches at Naropa University as a member of the Core Faculty in the Buddhist Studies, Contemplative Education, and Counseling M.A. programs and is an Upadhyaya (Buddhist minister). She leads retreats and dathuns internationally and is especially interested in the training of meditation instructors and the next generation of dharma teachers at our centers.
Raised as a minister's daughter in Nebraska, Judith Simmer-Brown began meditation practice as a student of Suzuki Roshi. She began studying with Trungpa Rinpoche in 1974, and in 1977 she joined the fledgling Buddhist Studies department at the Naropa Institute. She has been on the faculty ever since and is currently the chair of the Religious Studies Department at what is now Naropa University. She also teaches extensively at Seminaries and other programs around the world and was the founder of Naropa’s Engaged Buddhism program. Judith's special passion has long been the Vidyadhara's teachings on "feminine principle," which led her to research and write Dakini's Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism.
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Pema Chödrön
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