Sunshine Coast Retreat House
Dharma Explorations with Bonni Ross.

Lama Mark Webber is one of the visiting teachers.

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

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
Edmund Jones has been studying and practicing Buddhism for over 30 years. He has studied extensively in the Tibetan and Theravadan traditions with teachers from North America, Tibet and South East Asia, and undergone retreats in North America, Thailand and Nepal.

For more information on Edmund's regular classes in Calgary and longer retreats at Clear Sky in the East Kootenays, please visit Clear Sky Calgary or call 403-249-3116.

Evangelos Diavolitsis
Evangelos had been studying meditation and movement since 1998. His classes are a thread to the wisdom of his root teacher, Achariya Doug Duncan. He uses traditional and non-traditional techniques to move mindfully through the city.

Weekly Dharma teaching and meditation sit

Dharma in Motion

Location: (Door on the left) 4908 20A Street SW, Calgary AB, T2T 5A6
Contact: Evangelos Diavolitsis or 403-969-1909

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.

Awaken In Toronto
Duncan Cryle has been practicing meditation for 20 years and has studied intensively with Doug Duncan Sensei since 2001.  After completing a Ph.D. in philosophy he turned to a career as an IT consultant in the financial industry. He spent 5 years working short-term IT contracts and spending the remainder of the year with Doug Sensei - travelling, on retreat, and helping with the set-up and running of Clear Sky.  He currently works in downtown Toronto, and is the Chair of the Board for Clear Sky.  His primary teaching focus is to develop ways to apply and integrate the rich tradition of meditation teachings into our busy and complex city lives.

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
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Patrick and Paula
Dharma teaching and meditation sit with Patrick and Paula in Barn, Quebec.

Contact: Patrick and Paula

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.

Visit Dharma Japan/Kyoto for more details on dharma classes.

Dharma Japan/Tokyo
Dharma Japan/Tokyo was founded in 1998 by Doug Duncan Sensei. Under the tutelage of Achariya Doug Duncan, resident teacher John Munroe offers classes in meditation aimed at bringing those with the heart for Dharma into contact with these groundbreaking teachings of freedom.

Visit Dharma Japan/Tokyo Classes for more information.

Greg Molkentin (Karma Senge)
Greg Molkentin (Karma Senge) has been meditating since 1996. He worked/studied daily with Achariya Doug Duncan for over 8 years. He also worked with Namgyal Rinpoche for several years.

Greg leads meditation and dharma classes in the Sunset district in San Francisco.

Tel: (408) 515-8194
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Crystal Group UK/Maitreya House
Teachings in the tradition of Ven. Namgyal Rinpoche in the UK. The Maitreya House retreat centre is in Herefordshire.

Visiting teachers include Achariya Doug Duncan, Mala Sikka, Sonam Gyatso, Lama Mark Webber, Tarchin Hearn, Lindsay Reid, Cecilie Kwiat and Sonia Moriceau.

NovaYanaBrasil is a vehicle for studying, practising and manifesting spiritual realisation through unfolding our highest capacity for love, awareness, wisdom and compassion.

Inspired by the great Namgyal Rinpoché, and authentic traditions of Buddha Dharma, Dzogchen and Western mystical teachings, NovaYanaBrasil actively promotes exploration of new techniques of personal and community growth, in order to stay fresh and remain relevant to future generations.

Teacher: in 1975, Jangchub Reid met his life-long teacher, Namgyal Rinpoché and began Dharma training with an emphasis on integrating traditional Buddha Dharma with western inner developmental approaches.

Tarchin Hearn is the guiding teacher for the Wangapeka Study and Retreat Centre.

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.