WRITERS 

Raymond Lam 
Raymond Lam is senior writer at Buddhistdoor Global and a trustee of the Heythrop Association. Born in Hong Kong, he read religion and philosophy at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, and Buddhist Studies at The School of Oriental and African Studies in London. A Mahayana Buddhist layman since 2008, he became a religion journalist and began working for the Buddhistdoor organisation in 2010.

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Imee Ooi
Music producer, composer, arranger and vocalist who produces chants Buddhist mantras and Dharani

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Niraj Kumar
Niraj Kumar is working on five volume translation of the pinnacle of Indian esoteric Buddhism,  The Kalachakra Tantra.  The first volume  including a comprehensive introduction to location of Oddiyana, Shambhala, chronology of Kalki Kings,  place of composition of the Tantra  and its transmission lineages;  is set for release in March 2021. He is also active with Himalayan Studies. His edited work, Himalayan Bridge(2021) has recently been released  by Routledge. He is also an active pan-Asianist thinker with several acclaimed books to his credit  on the theme. 

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ARTISTS

Charlotte Lim 
Charlotte begins her path in filmmaking since 2002. She made her first film ‘MY DAUGHTER‘ in 2009. The film was world premiered in Rotterdam. It received the Grand Prix for Best Feature Film award in Croatia. Abbas Kiarostami as the head of jury for the Marrakech Film Festival praised it as ‘pure cinema’ and awarded the film Jury Prize. Charlotte’s works is known for her meticulously chosen images. This is reflected in films like ‘TABOO’, ‘IM LISA’, ‘HANGER’, ‘BITE’.
 Charlotte also worked as the Assistant Director for Ang Lee, Tsai Ming Liang, Ho Yuhang, Anthony Chen, Tan Seng Kiat in films like ‘LUST. CAUTION’, ‘I DON’T WANT TO SLEEP ALONE’, ‘RAIN DOGS’, ‘AT THE END OF DAYBREAK’, ‘ILO ILO’, ‘WET SEASON’ & “SHUTTLE LIFE”.

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Lyse Mai Lauren
​Lyse was born and grew up in New Zealand.
Later she studied classical flute in Australia and then lived in Nepal and India for several decades where she had the great good fortune to study with the former Dilgo Khyentse and Chadral Rinpoche.
Deeply interested in strengthening the integration, mutual respect, kindness and understanding within
the Buddhist Sangha at large.
Lyse wrote the series Shades of Awareness and maintains the blog Ever Here Now

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Yumma Mudra
Yumma Mudra, aka Myriam Szabo, started dancing at the age of three in the United States. An early career in Paris (she was14 years old) in the « Ballet Russe Irina Grjebina » as a solist dancer, followed by the studies in depth of body techniques: Qi Gong, Karate Shotukan (black belt), Hatha Yoga, Women's Dances. Later she graduated in contemplative psychology, and created Intuitive Dharma Study under the tutelage of Ringu Tulku Rinpoche. Producer of cultural festivals in Portugal for Roland Music, founder of the international Danza Duende Network and author of two books, she travels with Raji, on the path of a methodology of breath : Trance Lucid Dance. Raji & Mudra resumed the study of wisdom through dance by the term Choreosophy.  

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