India
Nepal
U.S.A
H.E. Dagmo Kusho
Matthieu Ricard
Dezhung Yangsi Rinpoche
Mangaram Kashyap
H.H. Jigdal Sakya Dagchen Rinpoche
H.H. Sakya Trizin
H.H. Jigdal Sakya Dagchen Rinpoche

(Sakya Phuntsho), Head of the Phuntsho Palace of the Sakya School of Buddhism. Gene Smith stayed with the Sakya family in Seattle the early 1960s.