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Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche is the head teacher of the international Shambhala community. Born in India in 1962, Mipham Rinpoche was raised primarily in North America. His training is a unique hybrid of the classical traditions of Tibetan Buddhism and modern American culture and society. He has studied with some of the greatest Tibetan Buddhist masters of our time. Rinpoche is renowned for his straightforward, practical approach teaching style and his skill at making even the most esoteric Buddhist teachings meaningful and relevant to an American audience. His bestselling book, Turning the Mind into an Ally, is a perfect handbook for starting a personal meditation practice.

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Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche (1939 – 87) escaped from Tibet in 1959 and was appointed by the Dalai Lama to serve as spiritual advisor to the Young Lamas Home School for the Tibetan government-in-exile. A fellowship at Oxford University eventually led Trungpa Rinpoche to bring the teachings of Buddhism to the West.

Later he turned his attention to activities and teachings that extended beyond the Buddhist canon. He 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.

In addition to presenting the classical Buddhist teachings from the viewpoint of the Kagyu and Nyingma schools of Tibet, he developed a program called Shambhala Training – based on the legendary enlightened kingdom of that name – to cultivate the innate human wisdom and basic goodness that does not belong to any one religion or doctrine and to begin to penetrate our modern lives with the genuine practice of meditation.

Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche is the author of the spiritual classics Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism and Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, which have been translated into nine languages and sold more than 250,000 copies.

Pema Chodron is a leading exponent of teachings on meditation and how they apply to everyday life. She is widely known for her charming and down-to-earth interpretation of Tibetan Buddhism for Western audiences.

Pema studied under the meditation master Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and currently studies under Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche and Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. She is the resident teacher at Gampo Abbey, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, the first Tibetan monastery for Westerners and has authored several books, including:

Coming in 2005: A book of commentary on Shantideva's A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life

Comfortable with Uncertainty
Tonglen: The Path of Transformation
The Places that Scare You
When Things Fall Apart
Start Where You Are
The Wisdom of No Escape

Pema also wrote the foreward to Turning the Mind into an Ally by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche.

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