Khedrub Zangmo

Khedrub Zangmo has been studying and practicing Buddhism for over 25 years. Under the guidance of the highly respected meditation master Lama Gendun Rinpoche, she took monastic vows and completed two consecutive three-year retreats at Dhagpo Kundreul Ling in central France.

After completing her second retreat in 1997, Khedrub lived in the women's monastery established by Gendun Rinpoche and began teaching the Dharma in centers, schools and organizations in Europe and in the USA. At the request of Shamar Rinpoche, Khedrub moved back to the US in 2000 to be a resident teacher at the Santa Barbara Bodhi Path Center. During the two years she was there, she helped found the San Luis Obispo Bodhi Path and the West Los Angeles Bodhi Path. The West Los Angeles group moved to Pasadena in 2004 where Khedrub is currently the resident teacher.

In 1981, Khedrub moved to Boulder, Colorado to work with a team of psychologists and a psychiatrist from The Naropa Institute who were using an innovative approach to caring for persons in psychological crisis in home settings. There she met and studied for 5 years with her first Buddhist teacher, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

Khedrub was also a primary school teacher for 15 years, owning and directing a Waldorf Preschool for five of those years. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she is now a lay practitioner and lives with her family in South Pasadena.