In June 2008, An-shu Stephen and An-shu Rumiko’s friends Lama Pema Wangdak of New York Palden Sakya Centers, and Lama Kunga Dhondup, ritual master of Pema Ts’al School in Pokhara, Nepal, returned to Dayton’s Miami Valley Meditation with an initiation and teaching in the spiritual practice of White Tara longevity meditation. Participants travelled from as far away as Florida, Colorado, and North Carolina to be a part of the illumination.