Tarab INstitute international
Is the umbrella organisation, setting guidelines for the national institutes.
Foothills of Gongbo traditional home of Tarab Rinpoche
brief history
Welcome to the website for Tarab Institute International
Early days Tarab Tulku
Dr Tarab Tulku XI, Lharampa Geshe (1934-2004), was deeply engaged in the ancient inner-sciences, Sutras and Tantras in Tibet. Already seen as one of the best Tibetan scholars of our time, when he fled to India in 1959 at the age of 24.
In 1962 he was invited to Denmark where he started a long academic career as University Lecturer and Research Librarian, where his Lharampa Geshe degree was meliorated to a PhD.
Unity in Duality
During this period he managed alongside his official work to continue his personal research, identifying the universalities of his cultural heritage, which developed into an extraordinary education under the name “Unity in Duality (UD).”
The Dalai Lama and Samdhong Rinpoche (Right hand to His Holiness) have both noted the great importance of Tarab Rinpoche’s new and insightful way of presenting the ancient wisdom, based on Interrelated nature, Pratityasamudpada (Tendrel).
Lene Handberg and TII
The following years he and his student and close associate, Lene Handberg, taught and further developed UD for a modern audience. Shortly before the all too early passing of Dr Tarab Tulku XI the full responsibility for Unity in Duality Education was given to Lene Handberg.
In 2007, in order to maintain the integrity of UD Education, she took the initiative with Tarab Institutes and Tarab Ling to establish an umbrella organisation “Tarab Institute International”.
Fonden Tarab Institute International (F-TII)
(The Foundation Tarab Institute International)
F-TII is a tax-relieved, non-profit organisation. It is a coordinating umbrella organisation of the legally and financially independent Tarab Institutes and Tarab Ling Institute.
FTTI board
Fonden Tarab Institute International (F-TII)
Cecilia Innanen
President
Representative TI-FIN
Chairman Tarab Institute Finland,
Psychiatric Nurce and Psykoterapist
Frances Nijssen
Secretary and Treasurer
Representative of Gratuates to TII-Board
Organisational psychologist, supervisor and core-energetic therapist, partner of the Perspectiefgroep
Carin Muhr
member FTTI board
Representative TI-S
Chairman of Tarab Institute Sweden
Professor in Neurology at Uppsala University and the University Hospital
Educational Board
helping out on the UD Educational aspect
Lene Handberg
educational director
Lene Handberg is psychotherapist, studied Psychology and Tibetology at Copenhagen University. She holds a Semrig Thablam Rabjam degree
Christine Klett-Esters
Member Educational Board
Dr.Christine Klett-Esters is having her private psychotherapeutic practice. She has professional qualifications (apart from her specialist medical training) mainly in-depth psychology-oriented therapy, Gestalt therapy and family therapy
CAROLINE VOSSEN
Member Educational Board
Heading exam committee
Caroline Vossen is Dutch with a master degree in psychology, followed by a four-year post-doctoral education, making her registered clinical psychologist and psychotherapist.
Faculty F TII
Our UD and workshop teachers
Lene Handberg
educational director
Lene Handberg is psychotherapist, studied Psychology and Tibetology at Copenhagen University. She holds a Semrig Thablam Rabjam degree
Sandrine Gousset
MEMBER FACULTY TII
Assistant Teacher UD Training +all.
Sandrine Gousset is Ph.D. in Sociology and Political Science, she has been working in universities in the U.S. and France for a few years before graduating in Psychology and Psychotherapy.
CAROLINE VOSSEN
member Faculty TII
Assistant Teacher UD Training +all.
Caroline Vossen is clinical psychologist and psychotherapist. She is supervisor of the VGCT, the Dutch Association of Cognitive Behavior Therapy.
Academic advisory board
Our guarantee for quality
Prof.Dr Jürgen Knop
member Academic advisory board
He was postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute, Freiburg and the Department of Microbiology, University of Adelaide. Later, becoming Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Dermatology, University of Münster.
Prof.Dr Carin Muhr
member Academic advisory board
Associate Professor of clinical Neurology, Uppsala University, Sweden and Honorary Professor, Universidad San Martin de Porres, Lima, Peru
Prof.Dr Samdhong Rinpoche
member Academic advisory board
Chancellor of the Sanchi University of Buddhist-Indic Studies in Madhya Pradesh.
Prof.Dr Michel Bitbol
member Academic advisory board
Professor Michel Bitbol, Ph.D., is Directeur de Recherche at the CNRS, in Paris, France. He is presently based at the Archives Husserl, a center of research in Phenomenology. He received successively his M.D., his Ph.D. in physics, and his “Habilitation” in philosophy in Paris
Researchers
Research into issues in connection with UD theory and practice
Lene Handberg
educational director
Lene Handberg is psychotherapist, studied Psychology and Tibetology at Copenhagen University. She holds a Semrig Thablam Rabjam degree
Dr Liliane Borel
Researcher
Director of Research at the CNRS, co-director of the team Sensory and Cognitive Rehabilitation.
Dr Madhavi Maganti
Researcher
Madhavilatha has a background in Developmental Psychology with a post-doctoral specialisation in Developmental Cognitive Science.
Tarab institutes around the world
Currently there are ten countries where a Tarab Institute is located.
The contact details can be found via the button below.
our founder
Tarab Tulku Rinpoche
1934 – 2004
Tarab Tulku Ngawang Losang. Lharampa Geshe and Dr Phil. (1934-2004).
Tarab Tulku, Tibetan Reincarnation Lama, concluded his studies in Indo-Tibetan Psychology, Philosophy/Inner-science of Mind and Existence in Tibet with the highest academic degree of Lharampa Geshe.
Tarab Rinpoche fled from Tibet in 1959, he was Director of Tibet House in New Delhi, India (1963-1965), a lecturer at Copenhagen University and Research Librarian at the Royal Library of Copenhagen (1960-1963 and 1965-2000).
our co founder
Lene Handberg STR
UD Educational director
Lene Handberg is the co-originator of the Unity in Duality Training and Educational Director of Tarab Institute International, an organisation with branches now in Denmark, Germany, Finland, France, Sweden, Holland, Slovakia, Spain and India, devoted to advancing the universalities of ancient Indo-Tibetan personal and spiritual wisdom
A native of Denmark, Lene Handberg was a student and protégé of Tibetan Buddhist lama, Lharampa Geshe/Ph.D. Tarab Tulku XI, a contemporary scholar of the Dalai Lama, who developed a very complete Modern version of advanced Indo-Tibetan teachings, he called Unity in Duality, Tendrel, by extracting the universalities that apply to anyone beyond culture and faith. Together with Ms Handberg, he founded the Tarab Institutes and developed the presentation of the Unity in Duality Training to disseminate this knowledge and investigative practice oriented tradition.
