Lama Palden Drolma is the founder and Senior Lama of Sukhasiddhi Foundation. One of the few female Buddhist lamas in the world, her forthcoming book, Love On Every Breath, shares with modern readers a 1,000-year-old meditation that opens the heart and transforms suffering into love and healing. She completed the Tibetan Buddhist 3-year, 3-month retreat in the Shangpa and Kagyu lineages under Kalu Rinpoche’s guidance in 1985. In 1986 she became one of the first women to be authorized as a lama in the Buddhist tradition. She has studied with many of the great Tibetan masters from all lineages.

With gratitude to her gurus, and love for people, Lama Palden transmits, trains, and mentors students, passing on the profound and precious meditations and teachings that enable one to completely awaken. She focuses on translating Tibetan Buddhist principles and practices in ways that make them accessible to Westerners. Lama Palden was profiled in Shambhala Sun magazine as one of the women “changing the face of Buddhism.”

Lama Palden’s background is in comparative mysticism and psychology. As a licensed psychotherapist, she’s done groundbreaking work at the intersection of the spiritual and psychological aspects of our humanity. She’s deeply committed, as was her root guru, Khabje Kalu Rinpoche, to ecumenicalism and interspirituality.