VISITING TEACHERS
The Retreat Teaching program at Mahamudra Centre is led by touring Tibetan and western teachers. This priceless treasure of Tibetan Buddhism is being kept alive by these lineage masters who offer them as blessings around the world, and we are very grateful to have such precious teachers share their understanding of Buddhas teachings, and wish to pay tribute to them, by helping Mahamudra uphold and share the sacred Dharma with its students and practitioners.
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The teachers have successfully completed the FPMT teacher registration procedure, meaning they have completed the requisite study and practice to teach at the level for which they are registered and have signed and agreed to abide by the FPMT Ethical Policy. To learn more click here.
Since being ordained as a Buddhist nun in the late 1970s, Ven. Robina has worked full-time for Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s FPMT.
Over the years she has served as editorial director of Wisdom Publications, editor of Mandala Magazine, executive director of the Liberation Prison Project, and as a touring teacher of Buddhism.
Her life and work with prisoners have been featured in the documentary films Chasing Buddha and Key to Freedom.
For more information on the activities and teachings of Ven. Robina Courtin, please visit https://robinacourtin.com/
Venerable Robina Courtin
Venerable Tony Beaumont
Venerable Tony first made contact with the Buddhadharma in Nepal and India in 1976.
Following this he trained and worked as a psychiatric nurse, then in the 1980’s was based at Chenrezig Institute during which time he served at different times as the cook, office worker and gardener.
Following ordination, as a monk in 1991, he lived for seventeen years at Nalanda monastery, France and Thubten Shedrup Ling Monastery, Bendigo. He has led retreats and courses at various FPMT centres throughout the world as well as teaching in prisons and schools.
Venerable Thubten Khadro
Venerable Khadro was born in Venezuela of European parents, raised in Argentina and after completing a degree in Business Administration, she emigrated to New Zealand in 2004, where she first encountered Tibetan Buddhism. She took ordination in 2014 with the Great Master Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Since then she has engaged in formal Buddhist studies, including the completion of the Master Programme in Buddhist Philosophy. She has also spent months in solitary retreat including at Lawudo, a remote hermitage in the Himalayas, Nepal.
She has served the FPMT for the past 20 years in various roles, and is currently the Resident Teacher at Yeshin Norbu Center in Stockholm. She has led various courses & retreats in NZ, Australia, Sweden, Colombia, India, Nepal and Germany. Her "international" background allows her to have an open, friendly and warm manner. She is an FPMT registered teacher, a Buddhist Chaplain and an accredited Foundation for Developing Wisdom and Compassion facilitator-FDWC.