Pema Düddul

Pema Düddul is an author, Buddhist Chaplain and the Co-Director of Pristine Awareness: Foundation for Buddhist Practice. Pema has been a Buddhist for forty years, discovering at the age of eleven that his personal worldview and the tenets of Buddhism were in perfect accordance. From 2000 to 2005 Pema held genyen (anagarika) vows with celibacy and undertook a series of retreats of varying durations. In 2005 he received the tantric vows of a white-robe wearer in the Dudjom tradition, the Tibetan Buddhist equivalent of a non-monastic religious minister. Pema has decades of experience as a Buddhist practitioner and has taught mindfulness and meditation in Buddhist, educational and other settings since 2007. Pema is also a transpersonal counsellor and certified practitioner of hypnotherapy. Pema was given blessing to teach Dharma in 2006. Pema belongs to the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, specifically the Dudjom lineage. He lives in Australia with his partner, who is a long term retreatant of the Drukpa Kagyu lineage, and two cats who are lifelong devotees of the purring lineage.

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