BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Pamela Cayton
Damcho Diana Finnegan
Alberto Fournier
Maria A. Garcia
Priscilla Lewis
Lynn B. Ogden
Scott South
Kesang B. Tuladhar
Mark Waller
Professor Kaiyun Yang


STAFF

Yangsi Rinpoche, President
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Namdrol Miranda Adams
Dean of Education
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Sara W. Blumenthal
Director of Student Services
& Public Information
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Leigh Sangster
Administrative Coordinator
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Marc Sakamoto
Bookkeeper
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Megan Evart
Online Technical Coordinator
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Veda Imig
Environmental Coordinator

Louise Light
Webmaster & Graphic Designer
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INSTRUCTORS & SENIOR
STUDENT FACILIATORS
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Venerable Thubten Munsel
Venerable Gyalten Mindrol
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

JAMES BLUMENTHAL, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Buddhist Studies
email: james.blumenthal@oregonstate.edu
James Blumenthal completed his Ph.D. in South Asian Religions where he specialized in Indian and Tibetan Buddhist thought under Geshe Lhundup Sopa. He is currently an Associate Professor of Buddhist Philosophy at Oregon State University. Dr. Blumenthal is the author of The Ornament of the Middle Way: A Study of the Madhyamaka Thought of Santaraksita and editor of Incompatible Visions: South Asian Religions in History and Culture in addition to numerous articles on Buddhist thought and practice. He translated Nagarjuna's Sixty Stanzas of Reasoning for His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the occasion of His teachings on the text in Los Angeles in 2004. Dr. Blumenthal has studied with many great lamas both in Asia and in the West.

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 has studied and practiced mindfulness meditation for 15 years and has taught classes on mindfulness since 2003. He has training in various traditional forms of Buddhism including Soto Zen, Vajrayana (Tibetan), and Shambhala Buddhism, as well as contemporary forms of mindfulness such as ACT, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). Dr. Rubin is psychologist in private practice where he works with adults, children, families, and couples. He is also an adjunct faculty member at The Art Institute of Portland where he teaches courses on psychology and creativity. His clinical interests include anxiety, depression, trauma, chronic illness and pain, stress reduction skills, anger and aggression, creativity, human diversity, mindfulness-based interventions, and Buddhist psychology. >more

PHILIPPE ARRIBET, D.E.A.
Tibetan Instructor
Philippe is a student in the MA Program in Buddhist Studies and also serves as a Tibetan Language Instructor. At the request of Yangsi Rinpoche, Philippe studied Classical and Colloquial Tibetan language at Sera Je Monastic University in South India from 2000-2005. Prior to that, he taught English linguistics and phonology at the Université d’Orléans in France from 1996-2000. He was a PhD student in English at the Université Toulouse II in Toulouse, France from 1996-1999 and received his M.A. in English from there in 1991. He received his “aggregation” certification (the highest level of French certification for teachers) for teaching English as a Foreign Language in 1993. Additionally, he received his certification for teaching French as a Foreign Language in 1999.  Philippe has been teaching Tibetan to Westerners since 2007. In addition to fluency in Tibetan, French, and English, he speaks advanced Spanish, and has familiarity with German, Thai, Filipino, and Sanskrit. He is a native of France .

NAMDROL MIRANDA ADAMS i
email: program@maitripa.org
Namdrol is an Instructor/Facilitator for Maitripa College Service Learning courses and is also Maitripa's Dean of Education. Additional to come


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