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Translators
Wu Tai Shan, or the Click here to read the manifesto of the Wu Tai Shan Clan
Adam Pearcey adam.pearcey@gmail.com
Adam began studying Tibetan Buddhism at the age of 17. He went to Darjeeling shortly after leaving school, and stayed in two monasteries near Ghoom, where he began to learn Tibetan. He then studied Tibetan and Sanskrit at London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies and met his teacher Sogyal Rinpoche in 1995. After graduating from university in 1997, he began to work full time for Rigpa Translations and to travel widely, studying with Tibetan masters all over the world. He spent four years at the Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Nepal, where he also taught Tibetan and served as interpreter. He is the director of the Rigpa Shedra, and was one of the translators of Mind in Comfort and Ease, His Holiness the Dalai Lama's most recent book on Dzogchen.
Gyurmé (Guillaume Avertin) embarked on
the long journey of learning the Tibetan language in 1997. After receiving a degree in Tropical Ecology from Université Paris
VI, and meeting the one who would completely change his life, Sogyal Rinpoche, he spent two years following the Tibetan program at Langues’O University. He then went to Nepal in 1999 to study at
the Rangjung Yeshe Institute, before his fondness for Indian tea led him to travel to the land of the Aryas. Making his way to Bir, near Dharamsala, he studied at Dzongsar shedra, while perfecting his colloquial Tibetan in the
local tea shops. He now interprets for teachers visiting Rigpa centres. Spending
his winter in Nepal, he is the main interpreter and instructor for the Rigpa Shedra.
Stefan
Stefan Eckel was born and raised in East Berlin, where he completed an
apprenticeship as a ‘specialized worker for industrial measuring and process regulating electronic systems.’ After
the wall came down, he travelled around East Asia and Australia, before he met Sogyal Rinpoche in 1994, and then spent four years studying Tibetology and Indian history at Humboldt University. He also studied for a year
in Kathmandu at the Rangjung Yeshe Institute, and in Bir and Dharamsala in northern India. He has travelled three times to
Tibet, most recently spending nine months in Meshö near Dzongsar monastery learning the local dialect. He currently teaches
Tibetan language at the newly founded Rigpa Shedra East in Pharping, Nepal.
Jurek Schreiner
was born in 1977. He studied Tibetology and Indology at the Asien-Afrika-Institut (Institute of Asian and African Studies)
of the University of Hamburg in Germany from 2001-2006. He first met Sogyal Rinpoche in 2000; and has been studying at Rigpa Shedra East since 2006.
Chodon
(Conceição Gomes) studied psychology, but now works as a translator of Dharma. She has been a follower of Buddha Shakyamuni
since 1979, studying mostly with the disciples of Kangyur Rinpoche, and is a practitioner of the Rimé tradition and a simple
lotsawa. Gustavo Villalobos
holds a degree in sociology and is currently a self-employed translator. He is working on the translation of Rigpa's study
and practice materials into Spanish, including the latest edition of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. He has
been a student of Sogyal Rinpoche since 2000.
Heidi
Nevin studied Tibetan language in Darjeeling, India from 1996-8 and remained in India and Nepal following her
lama Chatral Rinpoche until 2003. She taught Tibetan in the San Francisco Bay Area for two years and currently works as a translator for the
Jnanasukha Foundation. She and her husband divide their time between Dartsedo, Tibet and Corvallis, Oregon. |
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