Advisors

Mukara Meredith MSW, CHT, has twenty-five  years experience in teaching, consulting, and working with the healing arts. A practicing Buddhist, she is a certified Hakomi Trainer and Therapist. Mukara integrates universal principles of healing into this new model of Leadership she developed and titles MATRIXWORKS™. Mukara coaches the leadership of Jnanasukha in how to grow and prosper through the power of care and compassion and thereby become a sustainable vehicle for The Dakini Heart Essence.

Chuck Goldman is an attorney and a senior student of Lama Tharchin Rinpoche. He provides legal assistance to several Dharma organizations. Chuck guided us through the incorporation and 501(C) process and continues to advise us on our By-Laws and other legal matters. Chuck likes to work creatively but legally and provides Jnanasukha with security and a wonderful feeling that everything is in order.

Dr. Gyurme Dorje holds a PhD in Tibetan Literature and an MA in Sanskrit with Oriental Studies. He has held research fellowships at London University where he worked on the Encyclopaedic Tibetan-English Dictionary. He has written, edited, translated, and contributed to numerous books on Tibetan culture. In 1989 he founded Trans Himalaya, a travel company offering itineraries throughout the Tibetan Plateau. In 2009 and 2010 he accompanied Jnanasukha on a pilgrimage to the sacred sites of Yeshe Tsogyal in central Tibet. He is the author of the Tibet Handbook. Gyurme advises Jnanasukha and provides logistical support for our relationship with Tsogyal Latso.

Ani Samten is the manager of the Tsogyal Latso Nunnery at the birthplace of Khandro Yeshe Tsogyal in southern Tibet. She began her Buddhist studies at the age of twenty and completed a three-year retreat at Shugseb Nunnery. Her lineages are Longchen Nyingthik and Dudjom Tersar. In 2004-2005, on the recommendation of a lama from Samye, Anila came to Tsogyal Latso to take care of this sacred site damaged in Cultural Revolution.