Julia Tenzin was born in America and raised in Germany. She has been active in the Buddhist community since 1989,
when at the age of 21 she met the late meditation master Lama Gendun Rinpoche. She left her studies in Cologne,
Germany and moved to Le Bost, in central France where she lived as a Buddhist nun. She stayed in Le Bost for
ten years, where she completed three cycles of traditional three-year retreats and helped build the retreat centers
of Dhagpo Kundrol Ling.
In 2001, Julia left the monastic setting and moved to the public center Dhagpo Kagyu Ling, in southern France.
There, she served as a Dharma teacher for public seminars and was part of the management team that ran the center,
which accommodates up to 30,000 visitors a year. She also taught practitioners in the nearby forest retreat community
of Dhagpo Dedrol Ling, and she participated in various Tibetan study groups led by translators of the Padmakara
Translation committee. During that time, she began her education as a grief counselor.
Under the inspired direction of Shamar Rinpoche, Julia relocated to the United States in 2006 and became a resident
teacher of the Pasadena Bodhipath. She also serves as a volunteer Buddhist chaplain at Children's Hospital in Los
Angeles, and will receive a Masters degree in religious studies in May from the University of the West, in Rosemead.
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