Visiting teachers
Yangsi Rinpoché
Yangsi Rinpoche was born in Kathmandou in Nepal in 1968, and was recognized at the age of six
as the la reincarnation of Geshe Ngawang Guendune, one of Lama Yeshe's teachers.
He studied at Kopan monastery then at Sera Je monastery in India. He obtained the title of Geshe Lharampa in 1995.
He is currently the director of Maitripa Institute, a teacher training programme that he created in Portland, USA.
He has accepted to come each year and teach within the framework of the Institute's summer university.
In August 2007, he will guide the PEBA students in the study of the Sublime Continuum of the Mahayana text.
Chöden Rinpoche
Chöden Rinpoche was born in 1933 and recognized at the age of three as the reincarnation of the former Chöden Rinpoche
and joined Sera Je monastery in Tibet to do his geshe studies.After 1965, stayed in meditation in a house in Lhassa for nearly twenty years, 15 of those without speaking to anyone apart from the person who brought him his meals.
In 1985, having succeeded in getting his passport, he left for India, where His Holiness the Dalai Lama asked him to teach at Sera Je monastery in south India. At the request of Lama Zopa Rinpoche he has taught for some years in the west and has visited the Institute three times.
Khensor Lobsang Tenzin Rinpoche
Born in Tibet in 1934, Rinpoche was ordained as a monk at the age of seven and entered Sera Je monastery ten years later. He obtained his diploma of Geshe Lharampa in 1979 and entered Gyume Tantric College.
In 1981, he became Master of Discipline and then Abbot in 1985. He currently teaches in India and the West
His last visit to the Institute was in July 2003.
Khensor Jampa Thegchok Rinpoche
From an early age and
for twenty-one years he studied at Sera Je monastery near Lhasa.
In 1959, having fled Tibet, he became head teacher of the same reconstituted monastery in the refugee camp in Buxaduar, India.
Later, he resided at the sanskrit University of Benares and received the title of Acarya (doctor in buddhist philosophy).
In 1971, His Holiness the Dalai Lama appointed him as head of the Institute of Higher Studies at Sarnath. In 1979, he accepted the post of director of the study programme for western geshes in Engalnd. In 1983, he became abbot of Nalanda monastery near Lavaur.
He left this post to assume the responsibility of abbot of the monastic university of Sera Je in southern India from 1993 to 1999. He continues to come regularly to the West on teaching tours, notably in FPMT centers.
Dagri Rinpoche
Dagri Rinpoche is the fifth incarnation in his lineage and was born in Tibet in 1958, and recognized two years later.
His four previous incarnations were well known and in his last incarntion, he was teacher to important lamas of today such as Demna Lochö Rinpoche, Lati Rinpoche, as well as Lama Yeshe.
After escaping from Tibet in 1982, he finally took his monk's vows and began his studies.
He obtained the title of Geshe Lharampa after seventeen years of study and is qualified to teach the sutras and tantras.
Anila Robina Courtin
La vénérable Robina est une enseignante occidentale des plus dynamiques.
Ani Robina has been a nun for more than twenty-five years and has directed the magazine Mandala and now teaches and travels to promote the
Liberation Prison Project.This association, of which she is the director, brings spiritual support to more than 400 prisoners in 150 different prisons in the USA and other countries.
Venerable Antonio Satta
Antonio Satta was born in Italy in 1956.After having met Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Italy, he took ordination in 1979. He has studied buddhism and the tibetan language under many teachers, notably with Geshe Rabten, in Switzerland, then with Geshe Jampa Thegchok at Nalanda monastery, near Lavaur.
Since 1991, he lives mainly in Australia. He has been a teacher and translator Vajrayana Institute, in Sydney, then at puis Chenrezig Institute, with the Basic Study Programme. For several years now, he has centered his activity on the introduction of students to meditation practice through Vipassana and Mahamudra retreats in Australia, eNew Zealand, Italy, India and France.
In 2008, he will come to Vajra Yogini Institute for the fourth consecutive year.
An introductory week-end into the Vipassana practice is scheduled for the 30th and 31th August. Open to everybody, this week-end will be followed by a strict 10 day Vipassana retreat from Monday 1st September at 18h to Friday 12 September in the morning. Two days of Mahamudra teachings are programmed on the September 13 and 14..
