Having been raised in a US military family and graduating from Washington State University with a Baccalaureate of Science in Nursing, Ane Sangye Chozom joined the US Navy Nurse Corps in 1979. While still on active duty, she took refuge vows with Anagarika Munindra during a 10-day vipassana retreat being led by Joseph Goldstein at the Insight Meditation Society.
In the early 1980s Ane-la met Sogyal Rinpoche in America; and in the mid-1990s she moved to Lerab Ling, Rigpa’s retreat centre in southern France, where she has supported the areas of teaching and practice communications for decades. In February 2002, she received novice ordination from Kyabjé Trulshik Rinpoche in Boudhanath, Nepal.
