BOARD OF TRUSTEES



Jose Cabezon, PhD
Pamela Cayton
Damcho Diana Finnegan, PhD
Alberto Fournier, PhD
Maria A. Garcia, MA
Priscilla Lewis, MSN
Lynn B. Ogden, MA
Nicolas Ribush, MD
Scott South
Kesang B. Tuladhar, Geshe Lharampa
Mark Waller
Professor Kaiyun Yang, PhD


STAFF

Yangsi Rinpoche, President
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Namdrol Miranda Adams
Dean of Education & Development
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Sara Winkelman
Director of Student Services
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Leigh Sangster
Director of Programs
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Kalleen Mortensen
Library Director
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Marc Sakamoto
Bookkeeper & Staff Photographer
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Megan Evart
Online Technical Coordinator
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Louise Light
Webmaster & Graphic Designer
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Denis Davis
Environmental Coordinator
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INSTRUCTORS & SENIOR
STUDENT FACILIATORS
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Venerable Thubten Munsel
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 is an associate professor of Buddhist philosophy at Oregon State University and founding faculty member in Buddhist Studies at Maitripa College.  He is the author of The Ornament of the Middle Way: A Study of the Madhyamaka Thought of Santaraksita (2004), editor of Incompatible Visions: South Asian Religions in History and Culture (2006), co-author and editor with Geshe Lhundup Sopa of Steps on the Path: A Commentary on the "Shamatha" Chapter of Tsongkhapa's Lamrim Chenmo in addition to more than 40 articles in academic journals, books, and popular periodicals on various aspects of Buddhist thought and practice. In 2004 he had the honor of translating Nagarjuna's "Sixty Stanzas of Reasoning" for His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the occasion of his public teachings on the text in Pasadena, California.


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

NAMDROL MIRANDA ADAMS, MA Education
Dean of Education, Service Learning Instructor
email:education@maitripa.org
Namdrol Miranda Adams holds an MA in Education with a focus on Educational Leadership and Policy from Portland State University, and a BA in English Literature from New York University. Since 1998 she has dedicated her life to the study and practice of the Tibetan language and the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. She studied the traditional texts and their commentaries at Deer Park Monastery in Wisconsin from 1998-2003, and has taken continuous courses and teachings in centers and with teachers in Europe, America, and Asia for the past 13 years. She has worked extensively with the texts of the tradition as an editor and translator, and her published works include Wisdom Publication's Practicing the Path: A Commentary on the Lamrim Chenmo (editor), the Rubin Foundation's Treasury of Lives (translator, editor), Karmapa 900 (editor), the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive's Kopan Lam Rim Courses, and more. Namdrol has also completed the major retreats on the sutra and tantra traditions of the lineage, and was ordained as a nun for 7 years. She has worked as the assistant of Yangsi Rinpoche since 1999, and is one of the founding members of Maitripa College. Her graduate work focused on contemplative education, service learning curriculums, and building sustainable and socially responsible institutions of higher education. 


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