Venerable Angie Muir

About Venerable Angie

Born in Scotland, in 1970, Angie obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in 1992. Feeling disillusioned with her prospective career path and life ahead of her, Angie left Scotland and combined traveling with work in Asia for 3 years until 1995, when she felt a calling to go to India to explore meditation and find her life path.

Meeting Her Teacher

Within a few months, she “had the incredible fortune due to some previous karma” to discover Tibetan Buddhism, meet her main spiritual teacher, Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche (of almost 30 years), and become ordained. Since that time, she felt the most important thing to do was follow the wishes and advice of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. This involved serving at Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s personal residences in the US for over 13 years. Interspersed with that was working at FPMT centers such as Vajrapani Institute and Thubten Norbu Ling as well as doing various personal retreats. Ven. Angie also returned to Scotland for a few years, teaching and leading meditation retreats there.

Living at Vajrapani Institute, California

In 2023, when Lama Zopa Rinpoche showed the aspect of passing away, she was invited to Vajrapani Institute in California where she supports the programs as a teacher in residence. She is currently teaching the FPMT program Discovering Buddhism as well as starting to tour and offer other classes, meditations, and retreats at other centers in North America.

Puja and Ritual

She also has love of ritual and enjoys to help students integrate key components of mantra and ritual into their daily practice. This includes offering pujas regularly online which enhance positive energy and clear obstacles. She has also helped lead a pilgrimage to Lawudo Retreat Center in the Himalayas in Nepal where her teacher meditated in his previous life. She plans to lead more pilgrimages in the future to help others experience the power of sacred places and the joy and benefit they bring to the heart and mind.