Teacher: Judith Simmer-Brown

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Judith Simmer-Brown

Judith Simmer-Brown, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Contemplative and Religious Studies Emeritx at Naropa University, where she has taught since 1978.

As Buddhist practitioner since the early 1970’s, she became a student of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche in 1974, and served as an acharya (senior teacher) from 2000-2022.  Her teaching specialties are meditation practice, Shambhala teachings, Buddhist philosophy, tantric Buddhism, and contemplative higher education.

Her book, Dakini’s Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism (Shambhala 2001), explores the feminine principle as it reveals itself in meditation practice and everyday life for women and men.  She has also edited  Meditation and the Classroom: Contemplative Pedagogy for Religious Studies  (SUNY 2011). 

She and her husband, Richard, have two adult children and four grandchildren.

Judith's Courses

Trace the foundations of inquiry in Buddhism, called vipashyana, a nonconceptual “clear seeing” that arises from the mind of meditation. Explore how to cultivate personal and interpersonal inquiry in our practice and our lives. Everyone welcome.
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Judith Simmer-Brown
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The foundational teachings of the Buddha indicate that the suffering we experience in our lives can come to cessation if we recognize, deeply and profoundly, how that suffering has arisen. This requires gentle bravery and deep contemplation.
No Prerequisites
Intro to Meditation
Judith Simmer-Brown
Loden Nyima
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