Tulku Sherdor has been the Executive Director of the Blazing Wisdom Institute since 2004. Born in Montreal, Canada in 1961, he practiced Buddhist Insight meditation as a teenager and met his principal teacher, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, in Nepal in 1981. He was fortunate to study with many other pre-eminent Tibetan Buddhist masters of the 20th century.
Early in his life, he completed a forty-month lama retreat in the Karma and Shangpa Kagyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism under Kalu Rinpoche, and a year-long solitary retreat in the Chogling Tersar practice lineage held by Tulku Urgyen. He has since completed ten years of intensive retreats. After meeting his root guru Orgyen Kusum Lingpa in 1997, he served him faithfully and tirelessly for 13 years.
Tulku Sherdor’s work teaching, serving and translating the dharma spans four decades, and is detailed in his memoirs A Path Strewn with Flowers & Bones, and in several others among his ten published dharma books. He is also a virtuoso chant master.
Learn more at www.blazingwisdom.org, visit the BlazingWisdom YouTube channel, listen to Tulku’s recordings on your favorite streaming platform, and follow him on Facebook and Instagram.
Events with Tulku Sherdor
18th Annual Rimay MonlamJune 8 - 11, 2025
A Tibetan Buddhist Non-sectarian Convocation to Promote Peace, Harmony and Health Throughout the World RETREAT BY INVITED PRESENTER Monlam means a way to give voice to and realize our highest aspirations. It is a collective and personal spiritual mission statement. We will gather over these four days to harness, focus, and direct the natural power of our own minds, and invoke the power of the reality of interdependence through prayers and recitations. The positive energy, clarity, and love generated through this gathering has inspired attendees year after year, and they have taken this energy back into their lives and activities…
