Trinlay Rinpoche

About Trinlay Rinpoche

Born to an American mother and a French father, Trinlay Rinpoche is a highly accomplished meditator and scholar who has studied with some of the world’s greatest meditation masters. He began traditional spiritual training in India at age three and returned to France as a teenager to pursue a Western education at the Sorbonne and other institutions. Trinlay Rinpoche teaches meditation throughout the US, Europe and Asia and is an influential voice in dialogues with neuroscientists on Buddhist vs Science theories on how the mind works. He lives in the Dordogne, France with his American wife Giselle de Saint Phalle and their young son.