Tulku Sherdor
Tulku Sherdor has been the Executive Director of the Blazing Wisdom Institute since 2004. Born in Montreal, Canada in 1961, he practiced Buddhist Insight meditation as a teenager and met his principal teacher, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, in Nepal in 1981. He was fortunate to study with many other pre-eminent Tibetan Buddhist masters of the 20th century.
Early in his life, he completed a forty-month lama retreat in the Karma and Shangpa Kagyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism under Kalu Rinpoche, and a year-long solitary retreat in the Chogling Tersar practice lineage held by Tulku Urgyen. He has since completed ten years of intensive retreats. After meeting his root guru Orgyen Kusum Lingpa in 1997, he served him faithfully and tirelessly for 13 years.
Tulku Sherdor’s work teaching, serving and translating the dharma spans four decades, and is detailed in his memoirs A Path Strewn with Flowers & Bones, and in several others among his ten published dharma books. He is also a virtuoso chant master.
Learn more at www.blazingwisdom.org, visit the BlazingWisdom YouTube channel, listen to Tulku’s recordings on your favorite streaming platform, and follow him on Facebook and Instagram.
Upcoming Programs by Tulku Sherdor
Sadhana Practice: Expanding Our Compassion for All Beings
June 4 - 8, 2025
This intensive retreat will be an exceptional opportunity to deepen your understanding and experience of development-stage sadhana practice, and includes teachings on a range of relevant topics, as well as an empowerment.
18th Annual Rimay Monlam
June 8 - 11, 2025
Monlam means a way to give voice to and realize our highest aspirations. We will gather over these four days to harness, focus, and direct the natural power of our own minds, and invoke the power of the reality of interdependence, concluding with a Saga Dawa celebration.