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OUR FOUNDER & SPIRITUAL LEADER

Lama Dvora is the founder and spiritual director of the Arava Spiritual Center in Israel. She holds
M.Sc. and PH.D. degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science, and has worked in academia, as

well as research and financial institutions.
Lama Dvora has devoted over 30 years of her life to the study and practice of Buddhist wisdom
and other Asian traditions. For the past 20 years she has been teaching the Dharma and its real-life
applications to her many students in Israel and other parts of the world.

Lama Dvora met her Tibetan root Lama, Sermey Khensur Rinpoche Geshe Lobsang Tarchin, in
1998, in Howell, New Jersey, where she studied and practiced under his
guidance. She also studied with his two main disciples, Geshe Michael
Roach and Art Engle, and recently with the former abbot of Gyumed

Tantric College, Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Jampa, and with Lama Norbu
Drimed. Her other teachers include H.H the Dalai Lama, Lama Zopa
Rinpoche and others.
Lama Dvora has translated into Hebrew more than 10,000 pages of scriptures -

all available online free of charge, along with audio recordings and transcripts
of her teachings. Her translations are cherished by students for their accuracy
and exceptional beauty, and lay a foundation for Buddhist terminology in
Hebrew. In the past decade more than 110,000 Israelis were able to receive

the teachings in their own language through our website.
Lama Dvora is also a devoted practitioner and has successfully completed the traditional 3-year silent
retreat, and in total had spent more than 5 years in solitary retreats.
Over the years, Lama Dvora has taught and nurtured hundreds of students, and created a vibrant spiritual

community of practitioners who train to develop their hearts and minds, with the goal of bringing genuine
happiness and peace to their own hearts and to the communities and region in which they reside.
Her special focus is on creating the causes for lasting and genuine peace in Israel and the Middle East.
This has led to unique collaboration with peace-oriented figures in the region, and to the vision of Ehvam.

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