Alak Zenkar Rinpoche

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the premier Tibetan lexicographer and scholar Tudeng Nima (Alak Zenkar) ...
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Tudeng Nima (Alak Zenkar Rinpoche) was recognized as the reincarnation of Zenkar Rinpoche of Amdo in 1946. He was born in the 1943 in the Sichuan Province of the People’s Republic of China.

Presently, he is a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University in the East Asian Institute and is the Director and Founder of the Project for Searching and Making Available Rare Texts in Chengdu China. He is also the main editor and Co-Founder of the Project for the Compedium Dictionary of Tibetan Buddhist Terminology of Eight Different Schools, jointly with the Nitartha Organization of Vancouver, BC , Canada.

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  • A Two volume history of the Nyingma lineage
  • tshig mdzod chen mo; Three volume Tibetan-Tibetan-Chinese dictionary

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