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Erik Hein Schmidt [[Erik Pema Kunsang]] is a translator and scholar of Tibetan Buddhism. Under his Tibetan name Erik Pema Kunsang, he has translated over forty volumes of Tibetan texts and oral teachings, and directs, with his wife Marcia Binder Schmidt, Rangjung Yeshe Translations and Publications (www.rangjung.com) in Kathmandu. His books include: As It Is: Vol. I and II (Rangjung Yeshe Publications: 1999 and 2000), The Mirror of Mindfulness (Shambhala: 1989), Lamp of Mahamudra (Shambhala: 1989), The Light of Wisdom (Shambhala: 1995), and Dakini Teachings (Shambhala: 1990). Other projects include the Dharma Dictionary, an ongoing, electronic publication, compiling an extensive glossary of Buddhist terminology to bridge the Tibetan and English languages.
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Erik has been the assistant and translator for Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and his sons since the late seventies. He and Marcia are both active in facilitating masters of the Practice Lineages to teach in the West. They live at Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery in Boudhanath, Nepal, and at the Gomde retreat centers in California and Denmark. Programs are listed at the webpages www.gomde.dk and www.gomdeusa.org
Erik Pema Kunsang is a respected translator and was a director of [[Rangjung Yeshe Publications]] in California. He has translated and edited over fifty volumes of Tibetan texts and oral teachings. His other projects includes being an editor of this “Dharma Dictionary”, an ongoing electronic publication on the web to compile an extensive glossary of Buddhist terminology to bridge the Tibetan and English languages.
Erik has been the assistant and translator for [[Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche]] and his sons since the late 1970s. He is active in facilitating masters to teach in the West. He lives in Denmark where he lectures regularly. [http://www.gomde.dk Gomde Denmark]


from the jacket of [[A Tibetan Buddhist Companion]]
 
==Published Translations==
*[[Erik Pema Kunsang's published book translations]] mostly together with [[Marcia Binder Schmidt]]
 
==Smaller Published Translations Works==
*[[Rangjung Yeshe Practice Booklets]]
*[[http://rangjung.com/rootfiles/practice_booklets.htm Practice texts, chants, pujas, etc.]]
 
*[[Rangjung Yeshe Publications]] <br>
*email: rangjungATgmail.com <br>
 
==Websites==
* [http://www.erikpemakunsang.com/ official website]
 
[http://www.rangjung.com publications website]<br>
[http://www.shedrub.org various Dharma activities I'm involved in]
 
[[Category:Translators]]

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Erik Pema Kunsang is a respected translator and was a director of Rangjung Yeshe Publications in California. He has translated and edited over fifty volumes of Tibetan texts and oral teachings. His other projects includes being an editor of this “Dharma Dictionary”, an ongoing electronic publication on the web to compile an extensive glossary of Buddhist terminology to bridge the Tibetan and English languages. Erik has been the assistant and translator for Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and his sons since the late 1970s. He is active in facilitating masters to teach in the West. He lives in Denmark where he lectures regularly. Gomde Denmark


Published Translations

Smaller Published Translations Works

Websites

publications website
various Dharma activities I'm involved in

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