Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche
Traleg Kyabgon, Rinpoche was recognised as the ninth incarnation of the Traleg lineage and enthroned as Abbot of Tra’gu Monastery. Rinpoche has undergone rigorous scholastic and meditative training under various Tibetan Kagyus and Nyingma masters in India and came to Australia in 1980 where he subsequently established Kagyu E-Vam Institute in 1982. He regularly conducts courses and retreats and has travelled extensively in the U.S.A., S.E. Asia and Europe conducting lectures and courses. Rinpoche is the author of various books including the best selling The Essence of Buddhism.

Dzigar Kongtrül Rinpoche
Venerable Dzigar Kongtrül Rinpoche was born in the Northern Indian province of Himachel Pradesh to Tibetan parents and grew up in a monastic environment. Recognized as an incarnation of Jamgon Kongtrül Lodro Thaye, he received extensive training in the Buddhist teachings from H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche and also from Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Nyöshul Khen Rinpoche and Khenpo Rinchen. In 1989 Rinpoche moved to the United States and began a five-year tenure as a professor of Buddhist philosophy at the Naropa Institute. Rinpoche also founded Mangala Shri Bhuti to further the wisdom and practice of the Longchen Nyingthik lineage. Rinpoche moved to southern Colorado and established a mountain retreat center where he spends much of his time in retreat guiding students in longterm retreat practice.

Lama Tsering Everest
Lama Tsering was born in Spokane, Washington and became interested in Buddhism after hearing a series of lectures by Sogyal Rinpoche in 1979. That same year, she received her refuge vows from H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche and met her teacher H.E. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche. Two years later, she became Rinpoche's translator and accompanied him across North America, Canada, Europe, and Australia. Under Chagdud Rinpoche's supervision she completed a three year retreat in 1995 and was ordained as a lama. Rinpoche recognized her as an emanation of Tara, a realization holder of the Red Tara lineage, and fully capable of conveying the transmission of his teachings. Since that time, she has taught, given empowerments and conducted retreats in many cities across Brazil and North America.

Acharya Samuel Bercholz
Acharya Samuel Bercholtz is a senior teacher of the Kagyu, Nyingma and Shambhala lineages and teaches extensively throughout North America and Australasia. He has studied under the tutelage of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Thinley Norbu Rinpoche.

Khandro Trinlay Chodon
Khandro Thrinlay Chodon comes from a family of great yogis of the Drukpa Kagyud lineage of Vajrayana Buddhism. The great grand daughter of the renowned Drukpa Kagyu Master, Drubwang Shakya Shri, she received all the empowerments, transmissions and teachings of her lineage from the late Gegen Khyentse Rinpoche. After her father, Apho Rinpoche, passed away, she studied with many great teachers including H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. She has a B.A. in Psychology at Punjab University and a Masters degree in East-West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies.

Garrie O'Toole
Garrie O’Toole has been involved in Buddhist practice and study since 1978. He has been a student of Traleg Rinpoche since 1984 and is a meditation instructor at Kagyu E-Vam Buddhist Institute. He has completed a Master of Arts Degree in Buddhist Studies.

Felicity Lodro
Felicity received her yoga teaching qualifications from the International Yoga Teachers Association in 1986. She has been a student of Traleg Rinpoche’s for over 20 years. Felicity is currently studying for a Degree in Empirical Psychology.

Ekai Korematsu Osho
Ekai Korematsu Osho is resident teacher of Jikishoan Zen community in Melbourne. He is a transmitted teacher in the lineage of the Soto Zen tradition in Japan and has practised and taught meditation in Japan, India and the USA for over 30 years. Since 1997 he has been a Faculty Member of Antioch University, USA, for Education Abroad Buddhist Studies Program.

Dr Barry Clark
Dr. Barry Clark was born in England and trained in the Himalayas for eighteen years in almost all the theoretical and practical aspects of the ancient Tibetan medical system, under the tuition of the great, renowned Master of Medicine, Dr. Yeshe Donden, who was the personal physician of His Holiness the Dalai Lama for eighteen years. In his first seven years, he also studied with the famous Dr. Pema Dorje. Throughout all these years, his theoretical training consisted of teachings on 150 of the 156 chapters of the “Four Tantras” of Tibetan Medicine, as well as a three and a half year teaching on a 460 page work on Materia Medica. He also received several years of clinical training with Dr. Yeshe Donden before beginning his own independent medical practice, sixteen years ago. Dr. Barry Clark is also the translator of The Quintessence Tantras of Tibetan Medicine. In it he presents clear and accurate translations of the Root and Explanatory Tantras, two works of fundamental importance in the Tibetan medical system.

Dr Graham Priest
Graham Priest works at the Philosophy Department at the University of Melbourne. as the Boyce Gibson Professor of Philosophy. He is also a Professorial Fellow at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Graham studied mathematics and philosophy at the University of Cambridge, and received his doctorate from the London School of Economics. He has held full time positions at the Universities of St Andrews and Western Australia, and was the Professor of Philosophy at the University of Queensland before coming to Melbourne. He has held visiting research positions at many universities, including the Australian National University, the Universities of Cambridge, New York, Pittsburgh, Sao Paulo, Kyoto, and the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Graham's research interests are in logic and related areas, such as metaphysics and the history of philosophy (East and West). He is the author of a number of books including: In Contradiction, Beyond the Limits of Thought, Towards Non-Being, Doubt Truth to be a Liar, and An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic.

Dr. Sonam Thakchoe
Dr Sonam Thakchoe is a Tibetan Buddhist monk and a former student of the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies (CIHTS), Sarnath, Varanasi, India. After nine years of training in the History of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy, he was awarded Shastri and Acharya Degrees along with the Gold Medal recognition. He obtained his PhD from the University of Tasmania, and is currently lecturing on Buddhist Philosophy, Ethics and Philosophy of Nonviolence. Dr Thakchoe is one of the coordinators of the Dialogue
Project – one of the School of Philosophy’s many community-outreach projects promoting philosophical exchange in the areas of world's religions, faiths and communities of different backgrounds. He is also involved in School of Philosophy's (University of Tasmania) India Exchange Program with the CIHTS as a coordinator and a teaching staff.

Chagdud Khandro
Chagdud Khandro met His Eminence Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche in March 1978, married him in November 1979, and remained his devoted student for twenty three years. At the time of her ordination as a lama in 1997, Rinpoche invested her as the future Spiritual Director of Chagdud Gonpa Brasil. Since Rinpoche’s Parinirvana in 2002, she has focused on maintaining the high calibre of Vajrayana training he had established.

During her time with Rinpoche, Khadro received constant training from him both in organizing dharma activities and in the teachings and practice of Vajrayana. She was among the collaborators for his autobiography Lord of the Dance and with his guidance, she compiled commentaries of his teachings on the Dudjom Tersar Ngondro, the Longsal Nyingpo Phowa, and the concise version of Apong Terton’s Red Tara. Formerly the managing editor of Padma Publishing in the United States, Khadro has edited many translations of Tibetan works.

Christine Biddle
Christine Biddle has been a student of Buddhism for twenty-eight years during which she has studied and practiced in India and Canada. She currently studies under the direction of the Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche and has completed a traditional three-year retreat under Ven Kalu Rinpoche. Chris is a meditation instructor at E-Vam Institute.

Khenpo Jamyang Lodro
Khenpo Jamyang Lodro is a professor of Buddhist Philosophy from Tibet. He studied at Serda Monastery and has also spent three years teaching at Thrangu Monastery, the seat of Traleg Rinpoche in Eastern Tibet.  The translator will be Ani Jampa Tsomo, an Australian born nun who has spent several years studying in India.

Dr Robert Miller
Rober Miller was born and educated in Ayr, Scotland, before going to Edinburgh University where he did an MA on Philosophy. He did postgraduate research at Cambridge University on themes in Existentialism and Zen Buddhism and practised at the San Francisco Zen Centre. He came to Monash on a scholarship to do a PhD on themes in the philosophy of religion and ethics. Since 1990 he has been teaching Philosophy at RMIT. Over the years he has given many talks at KEBI synthesising Eastern and Western ideas. He has recently published a book "Existentialism and Buddhism".