Tashi Colman (Ph.D, Columbia University) is a student of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche.

He taught political science at universities in the U.S. and Canada for two decades and was a researcher and speech-writer at the United Nations. He spent 15 years building comprehensive measures of wellbeing and sustainable development for Nova Scotia and was editor-in-chief of Reality Check: The Canadian Review of Wellbeing.

Tashi also worked with New Zealand government bodies and communities on measures of wellbeing and lived for ten years in Bhutan assisting the government’s development of holistic progress measures, a new global economic paradigm presented to the United Nations, and its Educating for Gross National Happiness and other development initiatives.

He is author of What Really Counts: The Case for a Sustainable and Equitable Economy (Columbia University Press. 2021). From 2013 to 2023, he worked as Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche’s secretary and continues to work with Rinpoche’s expanding network of schools that seek to apply Buddhist principles and values to educational curricula.