Any course of learning requires a highly competent guide, but expertise is even more important when working with the mind. We offer the opportunity to learn from renowned experts in Buddhism, yoga, and other areas related to emotional and physical wellbeing, including two of the most respected masters of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, their senior students, and other highly esteemed teachers from around the world.
H.E. Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche is the founder and spiritual director of the Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing. Known as a scholar, teacher and meditation master to thousands of students around the world, Rinpoche is also the first incarnate lama to earn a PhD in the West. He completed his doctoral studies in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism at Harvard University in 2004.
He is the head of the Trungram lineage, its monasteries, meditation centers, schools, dharma centers and groups around the world. One of the highest tulkus of the Kagyu lineage, he is a Rime master, having received teachings from the great masters of all four schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
Rinpoche offers students a unique blend of Eastern wisdom and Western understanding. A scholar of Sanskrit and Tibetan, Rinpoche roots his teachings in the Skills of Awareness—a path combining profound meditation techniques with essential points of Dharma study. Read more
Khenchen Rinpoche Drupon Trinley Paljor is one of the chief lineage holders of the Kagyu school. Khenchen means Great Khenpo, or teacher, of the lineage.
Khenchen Rinpoche began his monastic training as a boy. By the age of 30, he had completed the traditional Buddhist retreat (three years, three months and three days) three times and became a retreat master. He received the various Kagyupa teachings from H.H. the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, the head of the Kagyu lineage, and also numerous teachings of the Sakyapa and Nyingmapa lineages from H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.
He participated in the projects of the 16th Karmapa as a Tibetan refugee and was later appointed the personal tutor of Trungram Gyaltrul Rinpoche, with whom he has been working closely ever since. Khenchen Rinpoche serves as a main teacher and retreat master at the Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing. Read more
John Henderson has studied Buddhist philosophy and practiced meditation for nearly 30 years. Since 2003 he has been a senior student of the Dharmakaya Center’s founder, Rimay master Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche. John has applied the teachings in his professional life as a serial entrepreneur, leading both healthcare and real estate businesses, and as a board member of numerous not-for-profit organizations in the Northeast. He has been teaching at the Center since it opened in 2017, offering dozens of programs in person and online, as well as providing individual meditation guidance to our retreatants and our volunteers. READ MORE
Gary Wheaton has been a Buddhist practitioner and student of Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche since 2008 after wandering into the Center to learn how to meditate. He was warmly welcomed by Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche, Khenchen Rinpoche and many students who patiently taught him basic Buddhist thought and meditation. Over the past decade Gary has served as a teacher's assistant, 5-day retreat leader and retreat cook and organizer. Professionally he is a human resources executive with expertise in conflict resolution, people strategies and leadership development. READ MORE
Anna Winkler has been practicing and teaching yoga since 1989, when she certified with the Sivananda Yoga Organization, in both India and Canada. She served as a volunteer staff member there for 6 years, assisting in Yoga Teacher Training courses and modeling for 2 yoga books, among other things. Anna has been practicing Ashtanga Yoga since 1997 (with Eddie Stern and other authorized teachers), and teaching Ashtanga since 2002. She has been studying and practicing Iyengar Yoga at Studio Yoga in Madison, NJ since 2007, where she received her second 500-hour teaching certificate. Anna teaches an Alignment Based Hatha Yoga class. Her Ashtanga classes are also alignment influenced. Anna has been teaching in the Maplewood, NJ area since 2001, and is the founder and director of Shakti Yoga & living arts (since 2005). Anna is also a Licensed Massage Therapist and Certified Ayurveda Lifestyle Consultant. READ MORE
Many of our programs are given by guest teachers; we list a few here:
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191 Cragsmoor Road Cragsmoor, New York 12566
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