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Pilgrimage Leaders
Robert Pryor is Director and founder of the Antioch College Buddhist Studies Program in Bodh Gaya, India. Since 1979, he has led groups of students to Asia for this semester-long program of study and meditation at the site of the Buddha's enlightenment. In 1987 he established Insight Travel as a model for contemporary pilgrimage based on the combination of travel, study and practice. Robert was a consultant for BBC television on its film "In The Footsteps of the Buddha."
Dianeah Wanicek is co-director of Insight Travel and has led groups to India, Nepal and Bhutan. She is a visual artist and a Hatha Yoga instructor and has been practicing Vipassana and Tibetan Buddhist meditation for the past twenty-five years.
Tshering Jamtsho has been leading Insight Travel pilgrimages in Bhutan since 1992, with a leadership style characterized by personal warmth and a sense of adventure. He was raised in this mountain kingdom and has an excellent knowledge of its high rugged terrain as well as an inherent understanding of Bhutan's Vajrayana Buddhist culture.
Joanne Larson is an Instructor at the Centre for Buddhist Studies in Kathmandu, where she has studied and taught Buddhism and Tibetan for the past six years. She is a student of Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, a Dzogchen Master and the abbot of Ka-Ning Shedrup Ling Monastery in Boudha, Nepal. Joanne worked in Nepal as a Peace Corps Volunteer in 1990 and 1991, and has been a practitioner of Vajrayana Buddhism since that time. She is fluent in both Tibetan and Nepal. Joanne has circumambulated Mount Kailas, trekked in the western U.S., the Andes, and the Himalayas, and has traveled on pilgrimage in India, Nepal, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia.
Pat Masters has a Masters Degree in Buddhist Studies and a PhD in Political Philosophy, and is currently the Director of International Programs at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. She is also an Associate Professor in Political Science where she teaches courses on the intersections of religion and politics. She previously taught in India for Antioch College's Buddhist Studies Program and designed and led a Buddhist Studies Program in Kyoto, Japan for Antioch. She speaks fluent Japanese and is a practicing Buddhist.
Edward (Ted) A. Burger has lived in China for more than seven years and was originally drawn there by his interest in the Buddhist hermit tradition of the Zhongnan Mountains. Burger spent his first year in China studying Mandarin Chinese while searching for a hermit master to study with, becoming a formal student of Master Guangkuan in the winter of 1999 while living his hermitage. Ted leads our Roots of Zen Pilgrimage to China.
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