Janet Gyatso holds the Hershey Professorship in Buddhist Studies in the Divinity School at Harvard University. Before coming to Harvard, she taught for 14 years at Amherst College from 1987-2001. She has also served on the visiting faculties of State University of New York at...
Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp is Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies with the Department of South Asian Studies and with the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations of Harvard University. He chairs the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies of Harvard University....
Tudeng Nima Rinpoche (Alak Zenkar Rinpoche) was born in 1943 in Pal Lhagang, Sichuan, China. He has made outstanding contributions to Tibetan culture and education and is renowned as one of the world’s leading Tibetan Buddhist scholars. For the past forty years Tudeng Nima Rinpoche...
Tulku Thondup Rinpoche was born in Golok, Eastern Tibet. At the age of four he was recognized as the rebirth of a celebrated scholar and adept of the famed Dodrupchen Monastery in Golok. Tulku Thondup Rinpoche is the author of over a dozen books and Presiding...
Derek met Gene Smith in 1998 and they immediately became close friends and collaborators. Derek assisted Gene in making his vision a reality by creating the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center. Derek served as Founding Board Member and Treasurer from its inception in 1999 until 2014...
In 1982 Patricia earned a Masters Degree in Psychology from Antioch West University in San Francisco, followed by a two-year post master’s Certificate in Psychotherapy from the Psychotherapy Institute in Berkeley, Ca. She was in the private practice of psychotherapy until 1995 in the Bay...
Richard Lanier is president emeritus of the Asian Cultural Council and a founding trustee of the Trust for Mutual Understanding in New York. After receiving his M.A. at New York University, he taught art history at the University of California in Santa Barbara and at The...
David Lunsford is the founder and executive director of the Bodhi Foundation, a private non-profit foundation dedicated to assembling conditions that benefit beings. David received training in computer engineering and advanced technology from the University of Texas at Austin in the early 1980s. He then spent...
Timothy J. McNeill has been president, CEO, and publisher of Wisdom Publications, a leading non-profit publisher of books focusing on Buddhism, since 1988. Mr. McNeill earned a Masters in Public Policy (MPP) degree from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1979 after...
Shelley Rubin is co-founder and Co-Chair of the Board of RMA (Rubin Museum of Art) which opened October, 2004. RMA, a museum dedicated to the art of the Himalayas, is located in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York. The dream to found a museum grew...
༄།།ནང་བསྟན་གྲངས་འཛིན་དཔེ་ཚོགས་ལྟེ་གནས་ཀྱིས་འཛམ་གླིང་ཡོངས་ལ་ནང་པའི་གསུང་རབས་བོན་དང་བཅས་པ་ཤོག་གྲངས་ས་ཡ་༢༨༠༠ལྷག་བལྟ་ཀློག་ཕབ་ལེན་རིན་མེད་ངང་འབུལ་གྱི་ཡོད།།
དེས་ན་མི་རབས་ནས་མི་རབས་བར་ནང་བསྟན་ཆོས་ལུགས་ཀྱི་གསུང་རབས་གནས་ཐུབ་པར་ཡིད་ཆེས་དང་མོས་པ་ཡོད་ན།རྣམ་པ་ཚོས་དུས་ཆེན་འདི་དང་བསྟུན་༼BDRC༽ལ་དཔྱ་ཁྲལ་ཆག་ཡང་དང་རྩ་ཆག་གི་ལུགས་མཐུནགཞིར་བཟུང་ཞལ་འདེབས་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་གནང་རྒྱུར་དགོངས་འཇགས་འཚལ།།