Visiting Teachers and Guest Faculty:

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[wptabtitle]His Eminence Kyabje Ling Rinpoche[/wptabtitle]
[wptabcontent]His Eminence the 7th Kyabje Yongzin Ling Rinpoche was recognized as the reincarnation of the Senior Tutor of His Holiness 
the Dalai Lama, 
the 6th Kyabje Yongzin Ling Rinpoche.

The 7th Yongzin Ling Rinpoche began his studies at Drepung Monastic University 
in South India when he was ten years old and continues to be engaged 
in rigorous religious study there. In 1991 he gave his first teachings in 
South Korea and since then has given teachings and tantric initiations 
in India, Nepal, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, France, Holland and 
the United States.[/wptabcontent]

[wptabtitle]His Eminence Gyana Vajra Rinpoche[/wptabtitle]
[wptabcontent]His Eminence Gyana Vajra Rinpoche is Abbot of Sakya Monastery in Rajpur, India, and the younger son of His Holiness Sakya Trizin. He received decades of rigorous training from His Holiness himself, as well as many other lamas such as H.E. Chogye Trichen Rinpoche, H.E. Luding Khen Rinpoche, The Very Venerable Khenpo Appey Rinpoche, and the late Khenpo Migmar Rinpoche.

H.E. Gyana Vajra Rinpoche completed his monastic ritual training at Sakya Monastery, and his philosophical training at Sakya College . He now holds full responsibility for the monastery and all of its important activities.[/wptabcontent]
[wptabtitle]Robert Thurman[/wptabtitle]
[wptabcontent]Robert Thurman holds the first endowed chair in Buddhist Studies in the West, the Jey Tsong Khapa Chair in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies. After education at Philips Exeter and Harvard, he studied Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism for almost thirty years as a personal student of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He has written both scholarly and popular books, and has lectured widely all over the world. His special interest is the exploration of the Indo-Tibetan philosophical and psychological traditions, with a view to their relevance to parallel currents of contemporary thought and science.[/wptabcontent]
[wptabtitle]B. Alan Wallace[/wptabtitle]
[wptabcontent]B. Alan Wallace is president of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies. He trained for many years as a monk in Buddhist monasteries in India and Switzerland. He has taught Buddhist theory and practice in Europe and America since 1976 and has served as interpreter for numerous Tibetan scholars and contemplatives, including H. H. the Dalai Lama. After graduating summa cum laude from Amherst College, where he studied physics and the philosophy of science, he earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in religious studies at Stanford University. He has edited, translated, authored, and contributed to more than thirty books on Tibetan Buddhism, medicine, language, and culture, and the interface between science and religion.[/wptabcontent]
[wptabtitle]Reverend Ichigaku Nagira[/wptabtitle]
[wptabcontent]Reverend Ichigaku Nagira is a Zen monk and former disciplinarian of Training School for Myoshin ji (Headquarters for Rinzai School of Zen in Kyoto, Japan).[/wptabcontent]
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