Mirror of Light: One Year Immersion in Yuthok's Ati Yoga

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, MA. Justin 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. He is also the author of a forthcoming book on dark retreat. 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 Magazine and the Wall Street Journal.
With over thirty 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.
He has worked professionally as a hospice chaplain, was the head chaplain and Executive Director of Chaplaincy and Staff Wellness for New York City Department of Correction, and served as the chaplain for Hart Island, New York City’s Potter’s Field. He 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. He is currently the chaplain for the Shelburne Falls/Buckland Fire Department. Lama Justin has spoken widely at colleges and universities across the United States and is passionate about helping to create the conditions for authentic embodied tantric Buddhist and Yangti Yoga, dark retreat practice, in the West.