Post Fest Retreat Teacher: Tessa

Another big reason to come to the Post Festival Retreat in Seattle this weekend - Tessa Logan, the Teacher!

In Brazil Geshe-la told stories about Padmasambhava and Shantarakshita, who both helped bring Buddhism to Tibet from India; our lineage Guru, Je Phabongkhapa; Geshe-la's root Guru, Trijang Rinpoche; Geshe-la's uncle, the Kuten Lama; and Geshe-la's good friend, the Guru Song Rinpoche. Tessa was at Manjushri Center in England when Song Rinpoche visited a long time ago - there are not many people I know of who got to meet him.

Read Tessa's brief bio, from the San Francscico Center's website, http://www.meditationinnortherncalifornia.org/meditationteachers.html:
"Tessa Logan is a senior Buddhist meditation teacher in the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT). After completing her college studies in Cambridge, England, she became one of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso's first disciples. She moved to Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Center (the Mother Center of the NKT) in 1977, when Venerable Geshe Kelsang himself moved there from India. Manjushri KMC in the UK is the largest Kadampa Center in the world, with over one hundred residents and thousands of annual visitors.

Over the last thirty years, Tessa has studied the entire Teacher Training Program, engaged in many meditative retreats, and developed a vast depth of Buddhist knowledge and experience. She has taught extensively at Manjushri Center itself, as well as at Chenrezig Buddhist Center in Lancaster, England for 15 years, and at both Keajra Buddhist Center in Blackpool, and Vajravarahi Center in Preston for several years. She has also worked at Manjushri Center in many different areas -- administration, book publication, and the education program -- and she helped to organize the large International New Kadampa Tradition Summer Festivals for 5 years."

I hope you are able to go to the retreat this weekend and hear Tessa.