Shyalpa Rinpoche is a Tibetan Lama, Author and Meditation Master. As a lineage master and teacher Rinpoche travels the globe. Rinpoche has conducted countless retreats, seminars, and empowerments at centers throughout the world and has given talks at Harvard, Yale, Wesleyan, and Naropa, among other venues. His current teaching schedule includes North America, South America, Asia and Europe.Rinpoche has founded meditation and teaching centers in the United States, including Buddhafield, the Center for Enlightenment in Millerton, New York. In Asia, he founded Wencheng Gongzhu International Foundation in Hong Kong and its branches in Taiwan and Malaysia. Rinpoche is abbott of Shyalpa Monastery and Nunnery in Kathmandu, Nepal where over 150 monks and nuns are in residence, receiving spiritual and secular education. His charitable organizations include the Bhrikuti Himalayan Foundation and the Himalayan Children’s Fund, which support humanitarian and philanthropic activities in the Himalayan region.Rinpoche is the visionary founder of the Universal Peace Sanctuary under construction in Lumbini, Nepal. For more information about Rinpoche and the Universal Peace Sanctuary please visit: www.peacesanctuary.org/rinpoche