Lama Justin von Bujdoss is an internationally renowned Vajrayana Buddhist teacher, writer, and the is Founder and Spiritual Director of Yangti Yoga Retreat Center – a retreat center in Buckland, Massachusetts dedicated to the practice of dark retreat. He is the author of Modern Tantric Buddhism: Authenticity and Embodiment in Dharma Practice published by North Atlantic Books, and contributor to Buddhism and Whiteness: Critical Reflections published by Lexington Books, and the author of a forthcoming title on Dark Retreat to be published by Wisdom Publications. From 2016 until December 2021 Justin served as the Executive Director of Chaplaincy and Staff Wellness for NYC Department of Correction where he also served as the head chaplain supervised over 30 chaplains and oversaw spiritual care for the agency.
Lama Justin was 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 in the Yuthok Nyingthik tantric Buddhist lineage. Lama Justin has presented on Buddhist practice at Harvard, Princeton, Yale, University of Chicago, Wellesley, Columbia University, and has been a visiting instructor at Union Theological Seminary. Justin is passionate about helping to create the conditions for authentic embodied tantric Buddhist spiritual practice in the West.
More of his work can be found at yangtiyoga.com and at justinvonbujdoss.com.