nitartha institute faculty, Alison McKee and Dr. Francis Sullivan.

TNT 420

Teacher-In-Training Seminar

Faculty: Alison McKee and Francis Sullivan

Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche is committed to training Buddhist teachers as an essential key to establishing the living Buddhadharma in the West. Nitartha’s Teachers in Training program is for approved students who have completed the Foundation and Intermediate curricula and who are passionate about teaching the Nitartha curriculum.

For more information about Nitartha's Teachers in Training program, contact Dr. Francis Sullivan at francis.sullivan@cogentbio.com.

PREREQUISITE:

  • Prior admission to the Teacher-In-Training program

DATES & TIMES:

Sundays, January 26 - April 13, 2025, 9:00 - 10:30 am US Pacific Time

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Alison McKee

Alison McKee

Alison McKee has been attending Nitartha Institute since 2010 and was authorized as a member of the faculty in 2019. She has been a student of Ponlop Rinpoche since 2012. Her passion is in teaching debate as a way to joyfully and playfully examine and deconstruct one’s habitual concepts. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and works as a library administrator.

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Buddhist teacher, Dr. Francis Sullivan teaching at Nitartha Institute.

Francis Sullivan

Francis Sullivan has been a practitioner and a student of Tibetan Buddhism since the early 1980s. He began his studies at Nitartha Institute in 2008 and in 2019 was made a fully authorized faculty member for the Shedra program. Francis holds a PhD in Biochemistry and lives and teaches in Boulder Colorado.

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