Geshe Lhakdor


Geshe Lhakdor is a Tibetan Buddhist scholar who has co-authored and co-translated several books on Tibetan Buddism. He was also an English translator of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He is a Director of the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in Dharamshala, India. He is also an Honorary Professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Early life

He was born in Yakra, Tibet in 1956. He had to escape from Tibet, when he was only 6 years old in 1962. After coming into exile he attended the Central School for Tibetans in Dalhousie, India from 1972 to 1976.
In 1976, he joined Institute for Buddhist Dialectics in Dharamshala, India where he studied Buddhist Philosophy and successfully completed his Master of Prajnaparamita in 1982.
From 1986 to1989 he worked as a translator and research assistant at the Tibet House in New Delhi.
In 1989, he received his Master of Philosophy from the University of Delhi. And he completed his Geshe Degree from Drepung Loseling Monastic University in Karnataka State, South India.

Career

He served as the translator and religious assistant of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 1989. While working as Dalai Lama's assistant he translated several books of Dalai Lama from English to Tibetan and Tibetan to English such, such as The Way to Freedom, The Joy of Living and Dying in Peace, Awakening the Mind and Lightening the Heart and etc.
In 2005, he became the Director of the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in Dharamshala, India.

Honor

Geshe Lhakdor was conferred with an Honorary Professorship by the University of Delhi, Psychology Department in 2008.

Books co-translated

He has also worked as a co-translator of the several books by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.