
Judith Simmer-Brown
Judith Simmer-Brown, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor of Contemplative and Religious Studies Emerita at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, 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 in Shambhala 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 (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.
Upcoming Programs by Judith Simmer-Brown
Practice Weekend at The Great Stupa
Also Judith Simmer-Brown and Gaylon Ferguson
Program Arrival Date & Time: September 11th – 5:30 pm Program End Date & Time: September 14th – 1:30 pm Whatever your connection is to the Great Stupa of Dharmakaya and Drala Mountain Center, we invite you to come together to practice and deepen connection to the community. The land is full of the blessings […]