
Chris Jay began his Buddhist practice in 1970 as a Rinzai Zen monk at Daitoku-ji in Kyoto, later studying in the Khyentse lineage of Tibetan Buddhism for 30 years and completing a three-year retreat. He spent a total of seven years at Daitoku-ji as an “Unsui” training monk under the masters Kobori Nanrei Osho and Nakamura Kan’un-shitsu Roshi. Many years later, after encountering the 16th Karmapa and Kalu Rinpoche, and receiving empowerments and teachings in the Nyingma lineage from Kyabje Penor Rinpoche, he had the deep good fortune of glimpsing Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche from a distance. He became a student of Rinpoche in 1992 and, under his direction, completed a three-year retreat at Vajradhara Gonpa in Australia in 2008. Since then, he has served as an instructor and practice leader for Siddhartha’s Intent.