Coleman, G.
| English Phonetics | Graham Coleman |
|---|---|
| Sort Name | Coleman, Graham |
Tibetan calendar dates
- Primary Affiliation (Workplace)
- Orient Foundation for Arts and Culture
Biographical Information
Graham Coleman is writer and director of the acclaimed feature documentary Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy. He studied Tibetan language and literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and between 1976 and 1989 received teachings on Tibetan Buddhist theory and practice, privately, from H. H. the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, H. H. Trijang Rinpoche, H. H. Dudjom Rinpoche, H. H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, and H. E. the Sixth Tharig Rinpoche. He has been chief executive of the Orient Foundation for Arts and Culture since 1983, and since 1988 has co-managed the creation of Tibetan-knowledge.org, one of the world’s largest online multimedia archives of classical Tibetan knowledge. From 2014 to the present he has co-managed the formation of Gompa – Tibetan Monastery Services in cooperation with senior Tibetan lamas and the major monasteries and nunneries of India and Nepal. He is editor of A Handbook of Tibetan Culture (Rider, 1993), the first complete translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Penguin Classics, 2005), and Meditations on Living, Dying, and Loss (Penguin, 2008). (Source: Wisdom Experience)
- Wiki Pages