{"id":5237,"date":"2017-08-04T23:53:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T23:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shechen.org\/?p=5237"},"modified":"2017-08-04T23:57:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T23:57:37","slug":"meet-the-teachers-of-shechen-school-part-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shechen.org\/wp\/2017\/08\/meet-the-teachers-of-shechen-school-part-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Teachers of Shechen School: Part 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Meet Irina Kotik<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shechen.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Irina_600x450.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[5237]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5238 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/shechen.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Irina_600x450-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shechen.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Irina_600x450-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shechen.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Irina_600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cMy name Irina (Era) Kotik and I was born in the USSR in 1974.I earned my masters in computer science and business administration and had a successful Internet business until I retired in 2005 to totally dedicate my life to the study and practice of Dharma. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In April 2017 I came to Nepal to attend the transmission of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche\u2019s terma lineage in Shechen, and enrolled in the Ranjung Yeshe Institute to further study Tibetan language. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In my free time, I work at the Shechen School as a volunteer training the young monks in their new computer laboratory, teaching them English, and helping them in their studies of math, and science.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I find the school to be beautiful and well organized as it makes a great effort to integrate a modern education with a spiritual one. With the young monks and their teachers I can exchange valuable lessons of patience,\u00a0benevolence, a sincere interest in life and studies, perseverance, and vitality. \u201c<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Irina Kotik \u201cMy name Irina (Era) Kotik and I was born in the USSR in 1974.I earned my masters in computer science and business administration and had a successful Internet business until I retired in 2005 to totally dedicate my life to the study and practice of Dharma. In April 2017 I came to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shechen.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shechen.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shechen.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shechen.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shechen.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5237"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/shechen.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5243,"href":"https:\/\/shechen.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237\/revisions\/5243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shechen.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shechen.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shechen.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}