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[[Image:ErikClementTown1978.jpg|frame|right|Erik Pema Kunsang, Clement Town, Himachal Pradesh, 1978. Taken when [[Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche]] conferred the [[Rinchen Terdzo]] empowerments at [[Mindrolling Monastery]].  '''Erik Pema Kunsang''' has translated over forty volumes of Tibetan texts and oral teachings.]]  Erik directs, with his wife [[Marcia Binder Schmidt]], [[Rangjung Yeshe Translations & Publications]] (see also [http://www.rangjung.com]) in Kathmandu.  Other projects included this Dharma Dictionary, an ongoing, electronic publication, compiling 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 4 sons since the late seventies. He and Marcia are both active in facilitating masters of the [[Practice Lineage]]s 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.  
[[Image:ErikClementTown1978.jpg|frame|right|Erik Pema Kunsang, Clement Town, Himachal Pradesh, 1978. Taken when [[Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche]] conferred the [[Rinchen Terdzo]] empowerments at [[Mindrolling Monastery]].   
Programs are listed at the webpages [http://www.gomde.dk Gomde Denmark] and
Erik Pema Kunsang is a respected translator and 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.
[http://www.gomdeusa.org Gomde USA]. From the jacket of ''[[A Tibetan Buddhist Companion]]''.
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 at a Buddhist retreat center in Denmark where he lectures regularly. [http://www.gomde.dk Gomde Denmark]
 


==Published Translations==
==Published Translations==

Revision as of 01:31, 21 March 2010

[[Image:ErikClementTown1978.jpg|frame|right|Erik Pema Kunsang, Clement Town, Himachal Pradesh, 1978. Taken when Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche conferred the Rinchen Terdzo empowerments at Mindrolling Monastery. Erik Pema Kunsang is a respected translator and 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 at a Buddhist retreat center in Denmark where he lectures regularly. Gomde Denmark


Published Translations

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publications website
various Dharma activities I'm involved in