Authors, Teachers & Translators
Tukyi Dorje (Dorje Drakpo Trinley Dupa Tsal)
The vidyadhara Tukyi Dorje or Dorje Drakpo Trinley Dupa Tsal was an emanation of the dharma king Trisong Detsen. He was recognized as the fourth rebirth of the lord of siddhas Sonam Gyamtso and enthroned at his seat, Dzig...
The Seventh Gyalwang Karmapa, Chodrak Gyatso
Born to a family of tantric practitioners in Chida in northern Tibet, the Seventh Karmapa, Chodrak Gyatso, dedicated much of his life to retreat. He was also an extremely accomplished scholar, who authored many texts, suc...
Vasabandhu
Vasabandhu resided at Nalanda Monastery at a young age and studied the Foundation Vehicle teachings. He then went to Kashmir where he mastered the philosophies of many different Buddhist and non-Buddhist schools before r...
Lama Kathy Wesley
Lama Kathy Wesley (Gyurme Chotso) has been a student of Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche since 1977. Her presence and steadfast outreach work within the KTC network sets an important standard for all practitioners and for women...
Lama Karma Drodhul
Lama Karma Drodhul, born in 1974 in Eastern Tibet, became a monk at Thrangu Monastery at the age of twelve and after attending shedra (monastic college), received full ordination at the age of twenty. He came to the Un...
The Fifteenth Gyalwang Karmapa, Khakhyap Dorje
Khakhyap Dorje, the Fifteenth Karmapa (1871-1922), was born with the very auspicious circle of hair between the eyebrows (found on the young Sakyamuni and known as one of the 32 marks of an enlightened being). Khakyab Do...
Ngulchu Thogme Sangpo
Ngulchu Thogme Sangpo was born in the year of the wood Sheep (1285) in central Tibet. This great master and true bodhisattva wrote more than one hundred texts clarifying the teachings of the Buddha. He is most known for F...
Milarepa
Milarepa (1040-1123), the most renowned and accomplished of Tibet’s tantric yogins, was known to have achieved enlightenment in one lifetime. Milarepa received the tradition of the Practice Lineage from Marpa Lotsawa,...
Thangtong Gyalpo
Thangtong Gyalpo (1385-1509 or 1361–1485), also known as Chakzampa and Tsondru Zangpo, was a great Buddhist adept, yogi, physician, blacksmith, architect, and a pioneering civil engineer. He composed For the Benefit...
Peter Alan Roberts
Peter Alan Roberts began learning Tibetan at Samye Ling in Scotland in 1976. Since then, he has translated for many Tibetan lamas all over the world. He is renowned for the clarity of translation, and for his humility an...
Ringu Tulku Rinpoche
Ringu Tulku Rinpoche is a Tibetan Buddhist Master of the Kagyu Order. He was trained in all schools of Tibetan Buddhism under many great masters such as the 16th Gyalwang Karmapa and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. He took his...
The Ninth Gyalwang Karmapa, Wangchuk Dorje
The Ninth Karmapa Wangchuk Dorje (1556–1603) is best known as the author of Pointing Out the Dharmakaya and other texts on the practice of mahamudra. He also wrote several commentaries on philosophy that are noted for b...
The Ninth Thrangu Rinpoche
The Ninth Thrangu Rinpoche was born in 1933 in Kham, Tibet and was recognized by the Sixteenth Gyalwang Karmapa and the Eleventh Palpung Situ Rinpoche. Thrangu Rinpoche studied and trained at Thrangu Monastery in Tibet,...
The Seventh Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche was born in Nepal in 1975 and recognized as a tulku by both His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa and His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. Rinpoche studied mahamudra teachings and the trekcho and...
Kyabje Tenga Rinpoche
Kyabje Tenga Rinpoche (1932-2012) was recognized as one of the tulkus of the great Benchen Monastery in eastern Tibet. Rinpoche fled Benchen for Lhasa in 1959 and went on to Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim, the seat of the Si...
Khenpo Sherap Phuntsok
Born into a renowned family of yogic practitioners, Khenpo Sherap Phuntsok has authored several books in Tibetan on philosophy and history. For many years he has taught in the institute for higher Buddhist studies at Thra...
Jamgon Mipham
Jamgon Mipham (1846-1912) was one of the greatest teachers of his time, and is considered to have been an emanation of Manjushri. His writings remain the basis for much of the study conducted by the Nyingma school of Bud...
Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye
Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye (1813-1899) is the renowned master of the traditions of accomplishment and learning and one of the most influential Tibetan Buddhist masters of the nineteenth century. A holder of diverse line...
The First Gyalwang Karmapa, Dusum Khyenpa
Born to a family of devoted Buddhist practitioners in eastern Tibet, the boy who was to become known as the The First Gyalwang Karmapa, Dusum Khyenpa, was called Gephel as a child. When he was thirty he received teaching...
Chokyi Wangchuk
Chokyi Wangchuk, the Sixth Shamar Rinpoche (1584-c.1635), was recognized at an early age by his principal guru, the Ninth Gyalwang Karmapa, Wangchuk Dorje. Demonstrating swift accomplishment in his training and tremendou...
Chekawa Yeshe Dorje
Geshe Chekhawa (1102-1176) was a prolific Kadampa Buddhist meditation master who was the author of the celebrated root text, Seven Points of Mind Training, which is an explanation of Buddha's instructions on training the...
Barbara Bash
Barbara Bash is a calligrapher, illustrator, author, and performance artist. She has written and illustrated many books on natural history for adults and children. She also teaches workshops in illustrated journaling, e...
Atisha
The great Indian Buddhist Master Atisha (982-1054 AD) was responsible for reintroducing pure Buddhism into Tibet. Although Buddhism had been introduced into Tibet some two hundred years earlier by Padmasambhava and Shanta...
The Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso (July 6, 1935), is the spiritual leader of Tibet. The Dalai Lamas are believed to be manifestations of Chenrezik, the Bodhisattva of Compassion and patron saint of Tibet....
Yongey Mingyur Dorje Drakpo Nuden Tsal
Yongey Mingyur Dorje Drakpo Nuden Tsal, who was born in the Lhatok region of Kham in 1628, was an extraordinary individual who embodied the wisdom and goodness of his tradition, Tibetan Buddhism, while transcending the st...
Terchan Barway Dorje
The great treasure-revealer and visionary Terchan Barway Dorje (1836-1918) was one of the most important Tibetan Buddhist teachers of his day. A student of many great masters of his time, he was initially associated with...
Karma Chakme Rinpoche
The first Karma Chakme (1613-1678) was a very learned and realized Buddhist master who founded the Neydo Kagyu Lineage. He was revered in Tibet for his remarkable qualities and accomplishments. Most notably, he composed...
The Eighth Gyalwang Karmapa, Mikyo Dorje
The Eighth Karmapa, Mikyo Dorje, was one of the most erudite and prolific scholars of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Mikyo Dorje was born in eastern Tibet, to a family of devoted yogins, the eighth Karmapa...
Gampopa (Dakpo Lhaje)
The great master Gampopa (1084-1161), also known as Dakpo Lhaje, and Rechungpa (1084-1161) were the principal students of Milarepa. Gampopa was prophesized in the sutras by Buddha. He pioneered in establishing the framewo...
Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso
Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, one of the foremost living teachers of the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, is a great scholar and master of meditation who traveled the world teaching in Buddhist centers. In h...
Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche
Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche is renowned and celebrated for his immeasurable devotion that knows no bounds, his unwavering steadfastness in fulfilling the commands of the Karmapa despite horrendous difficulties and obstacles,...
Lama Yeshe Gyamtso
The exceptionally skilled Lama Yeshe Gyamtso, is one of the foremost translators of Tibetan Buddhist written and oral teachings. After completing two traditional three-year retreats under the guidance of Kalu Rinpoche...
The Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje
Motivated by the purest of compassion, the Gyalwang Karmapas have taken rebirth continuously since the eleventh century. The present Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, was born in Eastern Tibet in 1985. Se...
David Karma Choephel
Khenpo David Karma Choephel studied Buddhist philosophy at the Vajra Vidya Institute in Namo Buddha, Nepal, and Sarnath, India. He currently serves as Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche’s main English-language translator, and a...
Michele Martin
A long-time student of Buddhism and an accomplished translator, Michele Martin has spent many years based in Nepal and India studying with Tibetan lamas and working as a translator of oral and written Tibetan. With gradua...
The Ninth Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche
Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche (1955-2012) was born in Eastern Tibet and recognized at the age of two by the Sixteenth Gyalwang Karmapa—head of the Karma Kagyu lineage—as the ninth incarnation of the Traleg tulkus. This lin...
Asanga
Asanga (5th century AD, b. Puruṣapura, India) was an influential Buddhist philosopher who established the Yogacara school of idealism that held that the external world exists only as mental images that have no real pe...