Lama Justin von Bujdoss is an internationally renowned Vajrayana Buddhist teacher, writer, and chaplain. He is the founder and spiritual director of Yangti Yoga Retreat Center, a retreat center focused on the Vajrayana Buddhist practice of dark retreat in Buckland, Massachusetts. Justin is the author of Modern Tantric Buddhism: Authenticity and Embodiment in Dharma Practice and contributor to Buddhism and Whiteness: Critical Reflections.
Justin has been a frequent contributor to various Buddhist magazines and journals and has been a collaborator with the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art and other cultural institutions. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Time, and the Wall Street Journal.
With more than 30 years of Buddhist practice, Justin is ordained as a repa, a lay tantric yogin in the tradition of Milarepa, by His Eminence Gyaltsab Rinpoche, one of the heart sons of His Holiness the 16th Karmapa and is a ngakpa, a lay tantric yogin in the Nyingma tradition of the Yuthok Nyingthik lineage.
Justin has worked at the intersection of death and dying in multiple clinical settings and has trained extensively in death- and dying-related spiritual practices found throughout the Vajrayana Buddhist practice traditions. Lama Justin has spoken widely at colleges and universities across the United States and is passionate about helping to support authentic, embodied tantric Buddhist practice and Yangti Yoga in the West.