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==Short description==
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#REDIRECT[[Khenchen Pema Dorje]]
Marcus Perman currently works for [[Tsadra Foundation]]. He graduated from [http://www.stlawu.edu St. Lawrence University] in 2003 with honors in Psychology and Philosophy and graduated from [http://www.naropa.edu Naropa University] in 2007 with an MA in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism focused on Tibetan and Sanskrit languages. He joined the Nitartha Translation Network in the summer of 2007 and [http://www.nitarthainstitute.org Nitartha Institute] in 2008. In the fall of 2007-2008 Marcus studied at [[Tibet University]] in Lhasa, Tibet and Rumtek, Sikkim, India. His interests lie primarily in philosophical interpretations of Tibetan Buddhism and studies of tshad ma (skt. pramāṇa). “Tshad Ma Literature: Towards a History of Tibetan Buddhist Epistemology” was presented at the 8th Annual Buddhist Studies Graduate Student Conference on October 14, 2006  [http://www.uwest.edu/bbs/zboard.php?id=news_notices&page=1&sn1=&divpage=1&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=41 BSGSC 2006]. Other interests include comparative philosophy, writing, Vladimir Nabokov, and rock climbing.
 
===Main teachers===
 
Prajñāpāramita <br>
 
The Nature of Mind <br>
 
Mother Earth <br>
 
Experience <br>
 
===Published Works===
 
Tricycle Magazine Review of ''Contemplating Reality: A Practitioner's Guide to the View in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism'' by Andy Karr. Tricycle Summer 2007. <br> http://ny.shambhala.org/documents/CRTricycleReview.pdf
 
 
 
===Unpublished Works (completed)===
 
Mind Only Tenet System. Translation of ''sems tsam pa'i grub mtha''' by Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen. <br>
 
M.A. Thesis: “Tshad Ma Literature: Towards a History of Tibetan Buddhist Epistemology” <br>
 
B.S. Honors project: “Neurofeedback: The effect of training attentional abilities in female college students” Advisor: Dr. Artur Poczwardowski.
 
===Active Projects===
 
# Director of Research Projects at [http://tsadra.org Tsadra Foundation]<br>
 
# [http://www.thlib.org Tibetan & Himalayan Digital Library Digital Canons Project]<br>
 
# Teacher-in-training @ [http://www.nitarthainstitute.org Nitartha Institute]
 
# Translating zhi lhag gi sgom rim bsam gtan sgron me by the 7th Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche.
 
# [[Nitartha International Digital Library]]
 
 
 
===Internal Links===
 
Lotsawas Unite! [[Karl Brunnhölzl]],
 
[[Kim Colwell]],
 
[[Cortland Dahl]],
 
[[Sarah Harding]],
 
[[Dan Hirshberg]],
 
[[Jules B. Levinson]]([[Light of Berotsana Translation Group]]),
 
[[Chris Stagg]],
 
[[Nick Vail]],
 
[[Tim Walton]],
 
[[Ephie Yannakoura]]
 
===External Links===
 
http://www.tsadra.org <br>
 
http://www.thlib.org <br>
 
http://www.nitartha.org <br>
 
http://www.nitarthainstitute.org <br>
 
http://www.buddhistgeeks.com <br>
 
http://www.lotsawahouse.org <br>
 
http://www.naropa.edu <br>
 
http://www.tbrc.org <br>
 
 
 
[[Category:Translators]][[Category:Lotsawas]]
 

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