Karma Chime Wongmo has served the Dharma Centre as Resident Teacher for many years and is now its Advisory Teacher. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Art, was a head social worker at the YWCA, and taught school in Toronto before she began studying with Namgyal Rinpoche in 1968. In 1975, she co-founded The Open Path in Boise, Idaho, where she began teaching the Dharma. In 1980 she received ordination from the H.H. the 16th Karmapa. Upon returning to Canada after a 3-year intensive retreat in the Costa Rican rain forest, she attended and taught at the Dharma Centre’s Kinmount Seminary and Academy. She has also organized and participated in several group rafting trips and other types of explorations of discovery and growth. Karma Chime teaches at other centres and groups in Canada and abroad.