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Venerable Hung Kar Dorje Rinpoche
Spiritual Director
Currently the Abbot of Thubten Chokor Ling Monastery in Golok, Tibet, Hungkar Dorje
Rinpoche was born in Golok into a nomadic family of great and realized yogins. Rinpoche was recognized early in his
life by such Buddhist masters as H.H. Orgyen Kusum Lingpa, H.H. Dodrupchen Rinpoche, Penor Rinpoche, and later, by His Holiness
the Dalai Lama, as the reincarnation of Do Khyentse Yeshe Dorje, the mind emanation of Jigme Lingpa. He has trained
extensively in Buddhist studies at a monastic university in Lhasa and in an Institute for Tulkus in Beijing, and has initiated
numerous charitable projects for better education and cultural and environmental preservation in Tibet. He teaches
with incredible humility and lucidity.
Ivy Loo
Program & Development Director
Ivy Loo is our Development and Program Director. 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 to set up Blazing Wisdom Institute with Tulku
Sherdor.
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Tulku Sherab Dorje
Executive Director
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 principal teacher, Tulku Urgyen
Rinpoche, in Nepal in 1981. He was fortunate to study with other pre-eminent masters of the 20th century, including
His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Khetsun Zangpo Rinpoche, Dung Say Trinley Norbu Rinpoche, Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, Kalu
Rinpoche, and many others. He completed a 3-year lama retreat in the Karma and Shangpa Kagyu schools of Tibetan
Buddhism, and a year-long solitary retreat in the Chogling Tersar practice lineage held by Tulku Urgyen. Over the past
18 years he has traveled far and wide, teaching and working with and translating for a great number of distinguished Nyingma
and Kagyu meditation masters, such as helping Trangu Rinpoche establish the monastic retreat program at Gampo Abbey
in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia in the early 1990s; helping Kenpo Sonam Topgyal Rinpoche re-establish the vajrayana Buddhist tradition
for the Chinese community in Thailand in the mid-1990s; and working closely with his precious teacher, His Holiness Orgyen
Kusum Lingpa, to advance many philanthropic projects in Tibet dedicated to world peace.
Tulku Sherdor is renowned as a scholar and interpreter of Tibetan Buddhist teachings into English, and known for
his quiet yet humorous and insightful manner.
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