Dharma Teachers and Centers Dharma Japan is affiliated with a number of other Dharma teachers and Dharma groups around the world. British Columbia, Canada Sunshine Coast Retreat House Dharma Explorations with Bonni Ross. Bonni's classes explore both the philosophical and theoretic foundations of the teaching of awakening, as well as providing practical and pleasurable methods for increasing awareness, kindness and wisdom in daily life. She also guides individuals interested in focused meditation and leads retreats for depth unfoldment. Crystal Mountain A retreat center associated with Namgyal Rinpoche, based on Galiano Island in British Columbia, Canada. Lama Mark Webber is one of the visiting teachers. Clear Sky Meditation Center The Clear Sky Meditation & Study Center was established by Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei in 2004. Clear Sky is a center dedicated to transformative change for all beings, through an integrated, diverse path of exploration and discovery, encompassing all facets of life. John de Jardin John de Jardin has been studying and practicing dharma for more than thirty years. His root teacher is Ven. Namgyal Rinpoche. Regular dharma teaching and meditation sit with John de Jardin every Thursday evening in Vancouver. Contact: John de Jardin (e-mail) Alberta, Canada Cecilie Kwiat Cecilie Kwiat is a meditation teacher with skill in crafting traditional meditation techniques to accommodate individual needs. Cecilie considers herself to be a Buddhist practitioner rooted in North American culture. Cecilie is teaching in Didsbury and Edmonton. She is the resident guide and teacher for Novayana Society for Eastern and Western Studies, based in Edmonton, Alberta. Edmund Jones Weekly Dharma teaching and meditation sit with Edmund. Location: 4114 17th Street SW, Calgary AB Contact: Edmund Jones (e-mail) or 403-828-6678 Manitoba, Canada The Dharma Centre of Winnipeg A practice-oriented Center in Winnipeg, Canada founded by Gerry Kopelow. Visiting teachers include Achariya Doug Duncan, Sonam Gyatso and Lama Lodro. Ontario, Canada The Dharma Centre of Canada An expansive rural retreat center founded by Namgyal Rinpoche in 1966 on 400 acres of pristine forest land near Kinmount, Ontario. The Dharma Centre offers ongoing instruction in the laws of awakening or enlightenment through different meditation approaches. Terry Hagan and Mala Sikka are the resident teachers in the centre. Sonam Gyatso Sonam Gyatso is a senior student of the Ven. Namgyal Rinpoche, his root guru, with whom he studied and traveled the planet for 38 years. Click here for his detailed biography. Karma Chime Wongmo Karma Chime Wongmo has served the Dharma Centre as Resident Teacher for many years and is now its Advisory Teacher. She began studying with Namgyal Rinpoche in 1968. In 1975, she co-founded The Open Path in Boise, Idaho, where she began teaching the Dharma. In 1980 she received ordination from the H.H. the 16th Karmapa. Upon returning to Canada after a 3-year intensive retreat in the Costa Rican rain forest, she attended and taught at the Dharma Centre’s Kinmount Seminary and Academy. Lama Mark Webber Lama Mark Webber (Karma Tenpa Lekshe Yondu) has been teaching Buddha Dharma and meditation for more than twenty-seven years. His principle teacher was Venerable Namgyal Rinpoche and he also studied with numerous other meditation masters. Mark's style of teaching is classically founded but non-sectarian and universalist in nature, encouraging beings' awareness of the wondrous unity, uniqueness and intrinsic freedom of all life. His work with people embodies a profound commitment to freeing beings from states of suffering through whatever means—including meditation, study, art, travel and scientific enquiry—they can skillfully employ. Crystal Staff A Dharma group associated with Namgyal Rinpoche, based in Ottawa, Canada. Yukon, Canada Jeff Olson (Lama Lodro) Lama Lodro (Jeff Olson) resides and teaches in Whitehorse, Yukon, as well as at other centres in Canada and around the world. Lama Lodro has spent 14 years of his life in retreat, much of that time in Asia, working with various meditation masters. His interests are wide and varied, from building design and construction to yoga, healing herbs, metaphysics and gourmet vegetarian cooking. He is particularly interested in developing methods that bridge east and west, so that classical Buddhist teachings can be incorporated into contemporary western lifestyles in meaningful and effective ways. Yukon Dharma Society 2 Redwood Street, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 4B3 Canada Tel: (403) 668-7675 Fax: (403) 633-6038 e-mail: tigger@polarcom.com, yukon.dharma@yknet.ca Quedec, Canada Patrick and Paula Dharma teaching and meditation sit with Patrick and Paula in Barn, Quedec. Contact: Patrick and Paula (e-mail) Great Britain Jangchub Sempa Gyatso (Lindsay Reid) and Céline Wolff Lindsay Reid and Céline Wolff are teaching in UK and France. For their detailed biographies, click here. Crystal Group UK / Maitreya House Teachings in the tradition of Ven. Namgyal Rinpoche in the UK, and Maitreya House retreat centre in Herefordshire. Visiting teachers include Achariya Doug Duncan, Mala Sikka, Sonam Gyatso, Lama Mark Webber, Tarchin Hearn, Lindsay Reid, Cecilie Kwiat and Sonia Moriceau. Duncan Cryle Duncan Cryle is a student of Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei teaching regularly in London. Contact: Duncan Cryle (e-mail) New Zealand The Wangapeka Study & Retreat Centre The Wangapeka Study & Retreat Centre is located in the foothills of the Southern Alps overlooking the Wangapeka River, near Nelson, New Zealand. The Centre is available for individual and group meditation and healing retreats, dedicated to supporting all beings in awakening to Wisdom and Compassion through the cultivation of Non-clinging awareness. Australia Origins Centre of Western Australia The Origins Centre is a non profit Buddhist organisation established to support and promote the Buddhist teaching and practice which can assist individual and community well being. The centre was established in Perth, Western Australia in 1977 through the teaching of Karma Chime, who remains the residential teacher of the Centre. Japan Dharma Japan Under the guidance of Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei, Dharma Japan is a dynamic group of individuals dedicated to the path of awakening, the realization through direct experience of the wisdom and compassion that is the birthright of every human being.