Our Directors - Blazing Wisdom

Tulku Sherab Dorje

Tulku Sherdor is our Executive Director. Born in Montreal, Canada in 1961, he began studying Buddhist Insight meditation from a very young age, and met his first principal teacher, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, in Nepal in 1981. He was fortunate to study with many pre-eminent masters of the 20th century, including His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, […]

Jim Elkin graduated from California State University Fullerton in 1978, with a BA in linguistics. He moved to New York City to do graduate work in linguistics at Columbia University. In 1981 he began working as a computer programmer and worked his way up to Vice President at JPMorgan Chase, where he led a team […]

Treasurer Ivy Loo is our Treasurer. She is also a student of Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche, Lama Wangdor, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche and His Holiness Kusum Lingpa. Born and raised in Singapore, Ivy moved to California in 2000, where she worked on Special Events and Fundraising for a non-profit organization. Ivy came to New York in 2003 […]

Howard Stahl, LCSW, is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley. He helped pioneer (1972-1994) the development of community-based care for the aged and hospice care for the critically ill and people with AIDS in the San Francisco Bay Area. Trained by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Howard sat on the original board of The Shanti Project, and spent two […]

Ryan Connolly graduated from Wesley College in Dover, Delaware with a BS in Management in 1996. He began his study and practice of Buddhist philosophy in 1995. In 2010 he had the good fortune to attend a teaching by Tulku Sherab Dorje at Garrison Institute. Soon after he requested teachings and began the preliminary practices. […]

Tulku Sherab Dorje

James Elkin

Ivy Loo

Howard Stahl

Ryan Connolly