Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche is a lama of the Bön Tibetan religious tradition. He is founder and director of the Ligmincha Institute, an organization dedicated to the study and practice of the teachings of the Bön tradition. He was born in Amritsar, India, after his parents fled the Chinese invasion of Tibet, and receieved training from both Buddhist and Bön teachers, attaining the degree of Geshe, the highest academic degree of traditional Tibetan culture. He has been in the United States since 1991 and has taught widely in Europe and America.

Rinpoche has an intense interest in the interpretation, control and application of dreams and has written fairly extensively on lucid dreaming and the yoga of the dream state.

Bibliography

• Rinpoche, Tenzin Wangyal. The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep. Snow Lion Publications, Ithaca, New York. (1998)