Peter Lieberson became a student of the Vidyadhara Chogyam Trunpga Rinpoche in the mid 1970's and attended the 1976 Vajradhatu Seminary. He was the first east coast resident director of Shambhala Training in Boston, later becoming the regional east coast director. In 1989 moved to Nova Scotia as the International Director of Shambhala Training. During that time he also served on the Vajradhatu Board of Directors under Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. He taught Shambhala Training undergraduate, graduate
programs and the Warrior Assembly in the US and Europe for many years. Lopön Peter has been studying with Her Eminence Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche since 2003, and has taught at Lotus Garden and frequently in Santa Fe where he now lives. He is also an award winning composer and has been commissioned and performed by the major orchestras in the US and Europe. Since 1980 many of his works have been inspired by Buddhist themes such as King Gesar (1991) and the opera Ashoka's
Dream (1997), both from a series of works based on the lives of enlightened rulers. In December 2007, Peter Lieberson won the University of Louisville's 2008 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for Neruda Songs, his song-cycle for mezzo-soprano and orchestra on poetry of Nobel Prize-winning Pablo Neruda.
E-mail: peterlieberson@aol.com