Visiting Teacher, KSK
Cofounder of Prajna Fire
Lama, teacher, translator, friend

Lama Karma Yeshe Chödrön is a scholar, teacher, and translator in the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, and a long-term student of Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche. She has become a regular guide and participant in events and
practices at KSK.

Before studying Buddhism, she completed graduate degrees in biology and law and worked as a litigator in Miami and Silicon Valley. Since 2005, she has taught and translated Dharma texts and oral teachings from Tibetan to English for the Rigpe Dorje Institute for International Students at Pullahari Monastery in Nepal. Yeshe successfully completed the traditional Kagyu lineage three-year cloistered retreat at Vajra Vidya Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado in 2016, under the auspices of Kyabje Thrangu Rinpoche.

She then co-founded Prajna Fire, an online global community aimed at sharing traditional methods for transmitting experiential understanding of Buddhadharma with Western students. Her writings have appeared in Lion’s Roar, Buddhadharma, and Tricycle. She is co-host of the Prajna Sparks podcast and two seasons of
Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC teachers podcast.