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Elaine Yuen

eyuen@naropa.edu | (303) 245-4718
Chair, Department of Wisdom Traditions | Associate Professor
Core Faculty

Programs

MA Clinical Mental Health Counseling: Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling - Adjunct Faculty
BA in Religious Studies - Core Faculty
Master of Divinity - Core Faculty
MA in Religious Studies: Indo-Tibetan Buddhism - Core Faculty
MA in Religious Studies: Contemplative Religions - Core Faculty

Education

PhD, University of Pennsylvania
MBA, Temple University
BFA, University of Chicago

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Dale Asrael

dasrael@naropa.edu | 303-546-3522
Associate Professor
Core Faculty

Programs

MA Clinical Mental Health Counseling: Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling - Core Faculty
MA in Religious Studies: Contemplative Religions - Core Faculty
MA in Religious Studies: Indo-Tibetan Buddhism - Core Faculty
BA in Religious Studies - Core Faculty
Master of Divinity - Core Faculty

Education

MA, Contemplative Education, Naropa University
BS, Communications, Northwestern University

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Jane Carpenter

jane@naropa.edu | 303 245 4602
Associate Professor, BA Contemplative Psychology
Core Faculty

Programs

MA in Religious Studies: Contemplative Religions - Core Faculty
MA in Religious Studies: Indo-Tibetan Buddhism - Core Faculty
BA in Religious Studies - Core Faculty
Master of Divinity - Core Faculty
BA in Contemplative Psychology - Core Faculty

Education

MA, Naropa University
BA, State University of New York, Oswego

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Gaylon Ferguson

gferguson@naropa.edu | 303-245-4682
Associate Professor, Religious Studies | Graduate Academic Advisor
Core Faculty

Programs

MA in Religious Studies: Contemplative Religions - Core Faculty
BA in Yoga Studies - Core Faculty
MA in Religious Studies: Indo-Tibetan Buddhism - Core Faculty
BA in Religious Studies - Core Faculty
Master of Divinity - Core Faculty

Education

PhD, Cultural Anthropology, Stanford University
MA, Stanford University
BA, Yale College

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Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen

tgyaltsen@naropa.edu | 303-245-4730
Khenpo | Associate Professor, Wisdom Traditions
Core Faculty

Programs

MA in Religious Studies: Contemplative Religions - Core Faculty
MA in Religious Studies: Indo-Tibetan Buddhism - Core Faculty
BA in Religious Studies - Core Faculty
Master of Divinity - Core Faculty

Education

Acharya Degree, Nalanda Institute (Sikkim, India)

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Zvi Ish-Shalom

zishshalom@naropa.edu | 303-245-4656
Associate Professor
Core Faculty

Programs

MA in Religious Studies: Contemplative Religions - Core Faculty
MA in Religious Studies: Indo-Tibetan Buddhism - Core Faculty
BA in Religious Studies - Core Faculty
Master of Divinity - Core Faculty

Education

PhD, Brandeis University
BA, McGill University

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Judith A. Simmer-Brown

jsb@naropa.edu | 303-546-3502
Distinguished Professor of Contemplative and Religious Studies
Core Faculty

Programs

MA in Religious Studies: Contemplative Religions - Core Faculty
MA in Religious Studies: Indo-Tibetan Buddhism - Core Faculty
BA in Religious Studies - Core Faculty
Master of Divinity - Core Faculty

Education

PhD Buddhism, Walden University
MA Religious Studies, Florida State University
BA Religion and History, Cornell College

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Phillip Stanley

pstanley@naropa.edu | 303-245-4728
Professor, Religious Studies
Core Faculty

Programs

MA in Religious Studies: Contemplative Religions - Core Faculty
MA in Religious Studies: Indo-Tibetan Buddhism - Core Faculty
BA in Religious Studies - Core Faculty
Master of Divinity - Core Faculty

Education

PhD, University of Virginia
MBA, University of Michigan
MA, University of Virginia
BA, University of North Carolina-At-Chapel-Hill

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Instructors

Sreedevi Bringi

Instructor

Programs

MA in Religious Studies: Indo-Tibetan Buddhism - Instructor
BA in Religious Studies - Instructor
Master of Divinity - Instructor
BA in Yoga Studies - Instructor
MA in Religious Studies: Contemplative Religions - Instructor

Education

MSc, MS, MA

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Stephanie Yuhas

syuhas@naropa.edu | 303-245-4684
Instructor

Programs

MA in Religious Studies: Indo-Tibetan Buddhism - Instructor
BA in Religious Studies - Instructor
MA in Ecopsychology - Instructor
Master of Divinity - Instructor
MA in Religious Studies: Contemplative Religions - Instructor

Education

PhD, University of Denver
MA, Vermont College
BA, Naropa University

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Adjunct Faculty

Paul Gyodo Agostinelli

pagostinelli@naropa.edu
Adjunct Faculty

Programs

MA in Religious Studies: Contemplative Religions - Adjunct Faculty
BA in Religious Studies - Adjunct Faculty
Master of Divinity - Adjunct Faculty
MA in Religious Studies: Indo-Tibetan Buddhism - Adjunct Faculty

Education

MA University of Chicago
BA Dartmouth College
Dharma Holder and Sensei, White Plum Zen lineage

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Alan Hartway

ahartway@naropa.edu | 303-245-4659
Adjunct Faculty

Programs

MA in Religious Studies: Contemplative Religions - Adjunct Faculty
Master of Divinity - Adjunct Faculty

Education

PhD Candidate, University of Colorado
MFA Writing and Poetics, The Naropa Institute
BA, St. Joseph College

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Stephen Hatch

Adjunct Faculty

Programs

Education

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Howard Hoffman

Program Chair, Religious Studies BA
Adjunct Faculty

Programs

BA in Religious Studies - Adjunct Faculty
Master of Divinity - Adjunct Faculty

Education

BA Comparative Religion, Dartmouth College
MAT Educational Psychology, Antioch-Putney Graduate School All but thesis: Doctoral in Experiential Education, University Of Colorado

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Netanel Miles-Yépez

cmiles@naropa.edu
Adjunct Faculty

Programs

MA in Religious Studies: Contemplative Religions - Adjunct Faculty
BA in Religious Studies - Adjunct Faculty
Master of Divinity - Adjunct Faculty

Education

BA, Religious Studies, Naropa University
Pir, Inayati-Maimuni Order

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L. S. Summer

lssummer@naropa.edu
Adjunct Faculty

Programs

Education

MA in Buddhist Studies, Naropa University

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