Sublime

Living Buddhist Masters.

Then there is Chagdud Khandro, who is not a Tibetan, but after spending a long time with Chagdud Rinpoche, one of the most authentic Vajrayana masters, as a disciple and wife, she has demonstrated that she is a great practitioner able to inspire many disciples.

Among many others, I draw on the ideas of two spiritual teachers I should mention. One is my friend Douglas Harding, whose unique and inimitable approach sheds light on the Self as Consciousness, which is pure Kashmir Shaivism. The other is the enigmatic 20th-century teacher G. I. Gurdjieff. I met his teachings in my earliest days as a spiritual se

Since the early 1990s, Khandro Rinpoche has been traveling and teaching in Europe, Asia, and North America, and has established a nunnery and retreat center in India called Samten Tse especially for Asian and Western women monastics.

I had many teachers, but the most central were two of the wisest Theravada teachers of the past century: one in Thailand, Ajahn Chah, and one in Burma, Mahasi Sayadaw.

The Dzogchen Pönlop Rinpoche

and brought in, to conduct seminars, the Lama Anagarika Govinda, Charlotte Selver, Krishnamurti, Douglas Harding, and the Lama Chögyam Trungpa.

Dipa Ma and other Buddhist teachers demonstrate the remarkable possibilities of the awakened heart. In Transformations of Consciousness, Harvard psychologist Jack Engler reports on his study of Dipa Ma and other advanced meditators.