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Founder, Tarthang Tulku
Co-Director, Barry Schieber 
Co-Director, Pema Gellek 

Founder, Tarthang Tulku 

Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche is the founder and Head Lama of the Tibetan Nyingma Meditation Center in California, USA. Rinpoche was born in 1935 in eastern Tibet, where he studied with many of the greatest Tibetan Buddhist masters of the twentieth century. 

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Co-Director, Barry Schieber

Barry was born in St. Louis Missouri, and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. He began his professional life working in investment banking before becoming a student of Tarthang Tulku in the early 1970’s. He was Dean of Nyingma Institute...

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Co-Director, Pema Gellek

Pema is a faculty member at the Nyingma Institute in Berkeley, California. She holds an MA in International Politics and a BA in Asian Studies, and has studied with Buddhist masters in Nepal. She is also co-director of the Prajna Light Foundation.

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