Jampa (Gendun) Jaffe is American by birth. He was a monk in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition for seventeen years and studied for over fourteen years in India at the Tibetan Library of Works and Archives and the Buddhist School of Dialectics. This was then followed by a year of meditation in various monasteries in Thailand. He has been teaching Buddhism for over twenty years beginning in 1987 - 1995 at Buddha House, South Australia, where he also served as Tibetan interpreter, then in 1996 at Chenrezig Institute, Queensland and in 1997 - 2004 Jampa was the teaching assistant in the FPMT’s Masters Program at Lama Tsongkhapa Institute, Italy. In 2005 he completed a solitary one year retreat. He then returned to Buddha House as resident teacher and remained there up to May of 2009. He now lives in New South Wales.

Venerable Lobsang Namgyel, of Australian nationality, has been living in India and Nepal studying Buddhism for more than 20 years with such masters as H.H. the Dalai Lama, Denma Locho Rinpoche, Choden Rinpoche and Geshe Sonam Rinchen. He has completed four years of lam-rim retreats, as well as many tantric retreats. During his more than twenty years in Buddhism, Ven Namgyel has taught at various FPMT centers around the world. 

Venerable Robina Courtin was ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun in 1977. She was the editorial director of Wisdom Publications until 1987 and then editor of the international Buddhist magazine Mandala until the end of 2000.

These days based in San Francisco, she is the executive director of the Liberation Prison Project and works with people in prisons all over the world.