Official website for John Myrdhin Reynolds, whose initiated name is: Vajranatha; (Tibetan: Rigdzin Dorje Gonpo; rig ‘dzin rdo rje mgon po), is a scholar, linguist, author, translator, mystic and initiated as a Ngagpa of the Nyingmapa, Tibetan Buddhist tradition. He then spent more than ten years in India and Nepal doing field research at various Hindu Ashrams in South India and at Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in Darjeeling, Kalimpong, and Nepal. At these latter locales, he researched the literature, rituals, and meditation practices of the Nyingmapa and Kagyudpa schools of Tibetan Buddhism. His Lama teachers included Dezhung Rinpoche, Kangyur Rinpoche, Chatral Rinpoche, Dudjom Rinpoche, Kalu Rinpoche, Gyalwa Karmapa, and many others. His special study was Dzogchen and the Buddhist Tantras, both in their own terms, and in comparison with Gnosticism and other mystical traditions of the West.
