MAHAMUDRA
CENTRE FOR UNIVERSAL UNITY
Our Teachers
The Retreat Teaching program at Mahamudra Centre is led by touring Tibetan and western teachers. This priceless treasure of Mahayana Buddhism is being kept alive by these lineage masters who offer them as blessings around the world, and we are very grateful to have such precious teachers share their understanding of Buddhas teachings, and wish to pay tribute to them, by helping Mahamudra uphold and share the sacred Dharma with its students and practitioners.
The teachers have successfully completed the FPMT teacher registration procedure, meaning they have completed the requisite study and practice to teach at the level for which they are registered and have signed and agreed to abide by the FPMT Ethical Policy.
We are so fortunate to receive the great waves of benefits from studying the sacred Dharma.
Venerable Robina Courtin
Ven. Robina Courtin has worked full-time for Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s organization, the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), since her ordination in 1978.
Over the years Ven. Robina has served as editorial director of Wisdom Publications, editor of Mandala Magazine, executive director of Liberation Prison Project and a much sought-for touring teacher. Her life and work are the subject of the award-winning documentary Chasing Buddha.
Ven. Robina actively teaches and leads inspiring pilgrimages to the renowned Buddhist sites around the world. Her famous energetic, straightforward and practical teaching style, combined with profound experience and knowledge of Buddhist psychology and philosophy, have touched the hearts of thousands of people all over the world.
Venerable Tony Beaumont
Ven. Tony Beaumont first made direct contact with the Buddhadharma in Nepal and India in 1976 -1977 during which time he attended 2 one-month long Kopan Lam-rim courses and their retreats, and a then a three-month group Vajrasattva retreat at Tushita in Dharamshala.
On returning to Australia, he trained and worked as a psychiatric nurse, then in the 1980’s was based at Chenrezig Institute during which time he served at different times as the cook, office worker and gardener.
In 1991 he took novice ordination with Kirti Tshenshab Rinpoche at Kopan and in 1993 took full ordination with Geshe Yeshe Topden at Lama Tsong Khapa Institute in Italy.
Following ordination as a monk in 1991, he lived for seventeen years at two different FPMT monasteries, at Nalanda Monastery in France and at Thubten Shedrup Ling monastery in Bendigo, where he served as director. He has led retreats and courses at various FPMT Centres throughout the world, as well as teaching in prisons and schools.
Venerable Thubten Khadro
Ven. Khadro was born in Venezuela of European parents, raised in Argentina and after completing a degree in Business Administration, she emigrated to New Zealand in 2004, where she first encountered Tibetan Buddhism.
She took ordination in 2014 with the Great Master Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Since then she has engaged in formal Buddhist studies, including the completion of the Master Programme in Buddhist Philosophy.
She has also spent months in solitary retreat including at Lawudo, a remote hermitage in the Himalayas, Nepal.
She has served the FPMT for the past 20 years in various roles, and is currently the Resident Teacher at Yeshin Norbu Center in Stockholm. She has led various courses & retreats in NZ, Australia, Sweden, Colombia, India, Nepal and Germany. Her "international" background allows her to have an open, friendly and warm manner.
She is an FPMT registered teacher, a Buddhist Chaplain and an accredited Foundation for Developing Wisdom and Compassion facilitator-FDWC.