BOARD OF TRUSTEES



Jose Cabezon, PhD
Pamela Cayton
Damcho Diana Finnegan, PhD
Alberto Fournier, PhD
Maria A. Garcia, MA
Lynn B. Ogden, MA
Nicolas Ribush, MD
Scott South
Kesang B. Tuladhar, Geshe Lharampa
Mark Waller


STAFF

Yangsi Rinpoche, President
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Namdrol Miranda Adams
Dean of Education & Development
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Sara Winkelman
Director of Student Services
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Leigh Sangster
Director of Programs
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Kalleen Mortensen
Library Director
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Marc Sakamoto
Bookkeeper & Staff Photographer
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Megan Evart
Online Technical Coordinator
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Louise Light
Webmaster & Graphic Designer
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Denis Davis
Environmental Coordinator
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INSTRUCTORS & SENIOR
STUDENT FACILIATORS
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Venerable Thubten Munsel
Venerable Wangmo Gyaltsen
Megan Evart
Michael Jolliffee
Chuck Latimer
Rachel Ryer
Jane Sellers


MAITRIPA COLLEGE FACULTY

YANGSI RINPOCHE, Geshe Lharampa
President, Professor of Buddhist Studies
email: director@maitripa.org
Yangsi Rinpoche was recognized as the reincarnation of Geshe Ngawang Gendun, a renowned scholar and practitioner from Western Tibet, at the age of six. Rinpoche trained in the traditional monastic system for over twenty-five years, and in 1995 graduated with the highest degree of Geshe Lharampa from Sera Je Monastery in South India. He then completed his studies at Gyume Tantric College, and, in 1998, having the particular wish to benefit Western students of the Buddhadharma, Rinpoche came to the West to teach and travel extensively throughout America and Europe. Rinpoche was a resident teacher at Deer Park Buddhist Center in Madison, Wisconsin for five years, and is currently the Spiritual Director of Ganden Shedrup Ling Buddhist Center in San Juan, Puerto Rico and Spiritual Director of Dharma Friendship Foundation in Seattle, Washington. Rinpoche is the author of Practicing the Path: A Commentary on the Lamrim Chenmo, published in 2003 by Wisdom Publications. Rinpoche teaches in English, and is admired wherever he travels for his unique presentation of the Dharma, his interest in and enthusiasm for Western culture, and his evident embodiment of the wisdom and compassion of the Buddhist path. >more

GELONG THUBTEN TSULTRIM (George Churinoff)
Venerable George attended the 7th Kopan course in 1974 and took initial ordination with Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche in December 1975; Getsul in 1976 with Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche and Gelong in 1977 with Kyabje Ling Rinpoche.  A graduate of MIT (BSc in Physics), he earned his MA in Buddhist Studies from Delhi University and studied at the Institute of Dialectics in Dharamsala and the Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarnath. Having received extensive teachings in both the Sutra and Tantra traditions from the most qualified Tibetan masters and having done many retreats, he has taught around the world in America, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, including at the Choate School in Connecticut and American Community School in Beruit, as well as Kopan. He served as Spiritual Co-ordinator at Manjushri Institute in England for more than three years and was SPC at Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa in Italy, teaching there for seven years and translating the written material for Abhisamayalamkara, Madhyamakavatara and part of Abhidharmakosha.  He was SPC and principal teacher at Tushita Delhi for two years and was the English tutor of Lama Osel Rinpoche at Sera Monastery in India for more than three years. He was the principal teacher at Hiyagriva Centre in Perth, Australia and at Dorje Chang Institute in New Zealand for around two years and helped found the FPMT Center in Mongolia.  Ven. George also taught the Basic FPMT Program at Land of Medicine Buddha in 2003 and 2004 and lived for more than six years at Deer Park with Kyabje Geshe Sopa in Madison Wisconsin, editing his teachings on Lama Tzong Khapa's Commentary to Madhyamakavatara. 

JAMES BLUMENTHAL, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Buddhist Studies
email: james.blumenthal@oregonstate.edu

James Blumenthal is an associate professor of Buddhist philosophy at Oregon State University and founding faculty member in Buddhist Studies at Maitripa College.  He is the author of The Ornament of the Middle Way: A Study of the Madhyamaka Thought of Santaraksita (2004), editor of Incompatible Visions: South Asian Religions in History and Culture (2006), co-author and editor with Geshe Lhundup Sopa of Steps on the Path: A Commentary on the "Shamatha" Chapter of Tsongkhapa's Lamrim Chenmo in addition to more than 40 articles in academic journals, books, and popular periodicals on various aspects of Buddhist thought and practice. In 2004 he had the honor of translating Nagarjuna's "Sixty Stanzas of Reasoning" for His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the occasion of his public teachings on the text in Pasadena, California.

STEVEN VANNOY, PhD, MPH
Steven Vannoy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. Dr. Vannoy received his PhD in counseling psychology from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He performed his internship in the Public Behavioral Health and Justice Policy program at the University of Washington and he was the first recipient of an NIMH post-doctoral training fellowship dedicated to geriatric mental health services research. Dr. Vannoy’s masters thesis and doctoral dissertation focused on evaluating the impact of a meditation curriculum based on Buddhist psychology for reducing anger in incarcerated adults. He has applied meditation techniques in a wide range of clinical settings for addressing mental health concerns. Dr. Vannoy’s recent research activities have focused on quality improvement methods as they pertain to mental health integration into medical settings, with a particular focus on suicide prevention. He has been involved with Seattle’s Dharma Friendship Foundation since the early 1990’s and has served as the director since 2006.  

DAN RUBIN, PsyD
Dr. Dan Rubin is a clinical psychologist and has been a student of the dharma since 1996. Dr. Rubin received his PsyD from the California School of Professional Psychology and wrote his doctoral project on “The Contribution of Mindfulness to the Clinical Utilization of Countertransference.” He is a clinician in private practice with a focus on mindfulness-based interventions such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), and contemplative psychotherapy. Dr. Rubin’s areas of interest include Buddhist psychology, creativity, psychology of religion, and treatments for chronic illness, pain, depression, anxiety, relational distress, grief, and trauma. He also facilitates consultation groups for health care professionals that focus on communication, self-care, and contemplative skills. >more


NAMDROL MIRANDA ADAMS, MA Education
Dean of Education, Service Learning Instructor
email:education@maitripa.org
Namdrol Miranda Adams holds an MA in Education with a focus on Educational Leadership and Policy from Portland State University, and a BA in English Literature from New York University. Since 1998 she has dedicated her life to the study and practice of the Tibetan language and the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. She studied the traditional texts and their commentaries at Deer Park Monastery in Wisconsin from 1998-2003, and has taken continuous courses and teachings in centers and with teachers in Europe, America, and Asia for the past 13 years. She has worked extensively with the texts of the tradition as an editor and translator, and her published works include Wisdom Publication's Practicing the Path: A Commentary on the Lamrim Chenmo (editor), the Rubin Foundation's Treasury of Lives (translator, editor), Karmapa 900 (editor), the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive's Kopan Lam Rim Courses, and more. Namdrol has also completed the major retreats on the sutra and tantra traditions of the lineage, and was ordained as a nun for 7 years. She has worked as the assistant of Yangsi Rinpoche since 1999, and is one of the founding members of Maitripa College. Her graduate work focused on contemplative education, service learning curriculums, and building sustainable and socially responsible institutions of higher education. 


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