Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo is the chief of the Green Mountain Band of the Aniyunwiwa, (Cherokee). She is the 27th generation lineage holder of the Ywahoo lineage, as well as being a lineage holder in the Drikung Kagyu and Nyingma traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. She is the founder and spiritual director of Sunray Meditation Society, an international spiritual society dedicated to world peace. She is the author of Voices of Our Ancestors.

Her training to carry the ancestral traditions began in early childhood, under the direction of her grandparents, (Eli Ywahoo, Nellie Ywahoo, and Eonah Fisher), and other elders. For twenty-seven generations, Ywahoos have been repositories of the sacred knowledge of their people. They passed to her the blessings and spiritual duty to transmit certain of these wisdom teachings for the benefit of all beings. The elders foresaw Ven. Dhyani's duty to be involved in the manifestation of world peace, and that this work would bring many people and nations again to see the clear light of right relationship.

In 1969 she founded Sunray Meditation Society as a vehicle for the appropriate teachings of the Ywahoo lineage to be shared with those of one heart. Today students and practitioners of the Ywahoo teachings are flourishing as seeds of light and right relationship in communities throughout Turtle Island, (North America), and the world.

The Sunray teachings are based on those that have been passed to Ven. Dhyani, and over the years have grown to include a basket of Buddhist teachings. As early as 1976, Ven. Dhyani Ywahoo began to contact Buddhist teachers. In 1983, Sunray was acknowledged as a Dharma center in the Nyingma lineage, through the kindness of His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche; and in the Drikung Kagyu lineage, in 1986, through the kindness of His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche.

The teachings and practices offered by Ven Dhyani are thus a beauteous lake receiving the streams of three ancient and intact spiritual lineages.