Welcome
We are practitioners in the rime (ecumenical) tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Our name, St. John's Order, honors our root teacher, Dr. Ajari Pemchekov, a Russian lama who immigrated to the U.S. in the 1960s.
Our practices include sadhanas -- meditations -- on Green Tara, the mother of the Buddhas; Chenrezig, the Bodhisattva of compassion; and the Medicine Buddha. We also practice the goma, a fire ceremony from the Japanese Shugendo tradition.