Teachers

Venerable Yarphel

Venerable Yarphel is an American monk who was a carpenter by trade and a meditator at heart. He first met Buddhism and Tibetan lamas in the 1970s in USA and has combined his two passions as a builder and meditator ever since-helping to establish three important retreat centers on the West Coast of America that have benefited tens of thousands of people over the years, whilst always maintaining a rigorous daily meditation practice. In 2002 he left family life to ordain as a monk and has since spent years in isolated meditation retreat. In 2018, he was requested to teach the annual month-long Kopan Meditation Course.