Lhundub Chödrön/Susan Crowley Will be our speaker this Tuesday evening, November 11, following our service.
Venerable Lhundub Chödrön is a Buddhist nun, ordained 25 years ago in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Prior to meeting her root teacher, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, in 1997, she studied and practiced for 8 years in the Zen tradition, first as a student of Korean Zen Master Seung Sahn, then at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in California’s Ventana Wilderness Area.
Over the years she held numerous administrative positions within Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s organization known as the FPMT. These included the Director of the Lotsawa Rinchen Zangpo Translator Program in Dharamsala, India, the Director of Land of Calm Abiding, a retreat center in coastal California, the Director of the International Mahayana Institute, an organization of non-Himalayan Buddhist monks and nuns, and a member of the Board of Directors of the FPMT. In addition to administrative positions, she has completed a number of spiritual retreats including a 3-year solitary retreat in Crestone, CO.