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Michael Chender began studing with Trungpa Rinpoche in 1970, and was a senior teacher and meditation instructor in the Buddhist and Shambhala streams of Trungpa Rinpoche’s teachings. He was also a student of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche beginning in the late 1990s. He was the founder of the Shambhala Institute for Authentic Leadership (later known as ALIA), and retired after a long career in the information business in 2013. Michael died in Halifax on July 2, 2019.

When Chögyam Trungpa met Jules Chender

Yuli Shenderoff was born in Russia in 1920 at a time of pogroms against the Jews. As a very small boy, he learned to lie when strangers came to the door...

A Profound Book of Love and Warriorship

A Review of BURIED RIVERS by Ellen Korman Mains

The Essence of What He Invoked

I watched a video of Rinpoche for the first time in a long time recently. When I saw him and heard his first words, his presence was so vivid that I...

My Very Short Life in Tibet

Here's a short one from Michael Chender in the spirit of Alan Sloan's My Very Short Life with Milarepa Very early on, I was looking to see if maybe I had been some...

Barry Boyce

Barry Boyce talks about the nature of propaganda versus genuine communication, the conversation between a magazine and its readership, and his inspiration to pass on the torch.