Dahl, C.

Cortland Dahl

Cortland J. Dahl received a Ph.D. in Mind, Brain and Contemplative Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and also completed an MA degree in Buddhist Studies and Tibetan language at Naropa University. He has worked as an instructor at Kathmandu University's Center for Buddhist Studies, located in Kathmandu, as well as an interpreter for various lamas, including Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche and Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. He currently serves as president of Tergar International and as a senior instructor in the Tergar Meditation Community. He lives with his wife and son in Madison, Wisconsin.

Affiliations & relations

• Tergar International · workplace affiliation
• Dharmachakra Translation Committee · secondary affiliation
• Nitartha Translation Network · secondary affiliation
• Nyingma · religious affiliation
• Kagyu · religious affiliation
• Tibetan Buddhism · religious affiliation
• Chatral Rinpoche · teacher
• Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche · teacher
• Ponlop, Dzogchen · teacher
• Mingyur Rinpoche · teacher
• Trulshik Rinpoche · teacher
• Khenpo Sherab Sangpo · teacher
• Tergar Meditation Community, a network of meditation centers and groups under the direction of Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche // Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin, Madison · websites

Dzogchen - Dzogchen is an advanced system of meditation techniques to reveal the innate state of perfection primarily, but not exclusively, espoused by the Nyingma Buddhist tradition and the Tibetan Bön tradition. Skt. महासन्धि Tib. རྫོགས་ཆེན།

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Nyingma - The Nyingma, which is often described as the oldest tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, traces its origin to Padmasambhava, who is said to have visited Tibet in the eighth century. Tib. རྙིང་མ་

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Kagyu - The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib. བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་

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