Lama Lena Yeshe Katyub

Over her nearly 40 years of dharma study and practice in this lifetime, Lama Lena spent three years studying with Lama Thubten Yeshe at his monastery in Nepal, and seven years in retreat and practice in a small cave above TsoPema (home of the Holy Caves of Guru Rinpoche) under the tutelage of her root teacher, Ven. Wangdor Rimpoche. For the past 25 years she has traveled extensively with Wangdor Rimpoche as his translator and assistant. In 2005, she returned to Tso Pema to assist Wangdor Rimpoche. She currently lives on the mountain above Lotus Lake with her two kandros. When she is not traveling, teaching or translating, she works providing medical assistance to the Tibetan refugee community as well as the local Indian villagers and mountain tribespeople. At the request of H.E., Zigar Choktrul Rimpoche and Ven.Wangdor Rinpoche – as well as many Western and Tibetan dharma students – she has been traveling and teaching from the lineages she holds in a style that is humorous, artful, and well worth experiencing.