Carlos Madero Cantu

Carlos Manuel Madero Cantú was born on November 20, 1955, in Torreón, Coahuila, a city where he has forged both his professional path and his spiritual and community service. His life has been marked by the convergence of engineering, business leadership, inner transformation, and a strong commitment to collective well-being.

He earned his degree in civil engineering from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Monterrey Campus, and completed a master's degree in business administration. From the beginning of his professional life, he focused on creating harmonious, functional, and sustainable spaces. He founded Grupo Montemeru S.A. de C.V., which includes Montemeru Homes, Constructora Davalage, Samsara, and Ecolosystems. Under his leadership, housing, educational, and recreational projects, among others, have been developed.

His first contact with Buddhism occurred in 1995. In November 2001, together with his wife Gabriela Flores Hernández, he formally began practicing Bön Buddhism, with the blessing and guidance of his spiritual teacher, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. Since then, his life and that of his family have become deeply intertwined with this ancestral Buddhist Lineage. That same year, on a vacant lot donated by a fellow practitioner, he fully developed and urbanized the Chamma Ling Torreón Retreat Center, transforming it into an architectural and spiritual landmark. There, he designed and built the Gompa, private rooms with bathrooms, the kitchen, the dining room, and the gardens. In 2002, he led the construction of the first Bön Buddhist Stupa in the Western Hemisphere, with the authorization of Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche and the collaboration of monks from the Bön tradition.

In 2010, he served as Director of Ligmincha Mexico and participated in the consecration of the Stupa for World Peace at Chamma Ling Valle de Bravo. He has traveled to Nepal and the United States to attend retreats with masters of the Bön lineage.

Carlos Madero has served as a board member of Ligmincha International and holds the title of Instructor within the organization. To this day, he actively participates in the training of practitioners, organization of retreats, weekly meditations, and the performance of ceremonies.