Shelley F. Rubin
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…
Timothy J. McNeill
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…
David Lunsford
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…
Richard Lanier
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…
Patricia Gruber
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…
Derek Kolleeny
Derek met Gene Smith in 1998 and they immediately became close friends and collaborators. Derek assisted Gene in creating the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center and realizing Gene's vision. Derek served as Founding Board Member and Treasurer from its inception in 1999 until 2014 when he…
Tulku Thondup 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…
Tudeng Nima Rinpoche
Tudeng Nima Rinpoche (Alak Zenkar Rinpoche) was born in 1943 in Pal Lhakhang, 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…
Michele Martin
In 1966 Michele received a Masters degree in Russian Area Studies and in 1970, an MPhil in Comparative Literature, both from Yale University. After founding and practicing at Jemez Bodhi Mandala Zen Center in New Mexico from 1974 to 1977, she moved to Kyoto, Japan…
Ted Lipman
Ted Lipman's career has spanned over 40 years as an Asianist: in diplomacy, philanthropy, academia and culture. One of a handful of Canadian students in China during the Cultural Revolution, after completing studies at Peking University in 1976, Ted embarked on a 35 year diplomatic…