Erik Pema Kunsang

Erik Pema Kunsang (Erik Hein Schmidt) 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. Other projects included the 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 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 Gomde Denmark and Gomde USA. From the jacket of A Tibetan Buddhist Companion.

Published Translationss

• Erik Pema Kunsang's published book translations mostly together with Marcia Binder Schmidt

Smaller Published Translations

• Rangjung Yeshe Publications
  
• email: rangjung@gmail.com
  

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various Dharma activities I'm involved in