James E. Bosson

PersonType	Category:Authors of English Works Category:Translators
FirstName / namefirst	James
LastName / namelast	Bosson
MainNamePhon	James E. Bosson
SortName	Bosson, James
bio	James Evert Bosson, an Associate Professor at Univerity of California, Berkeley's Department of Oriental Languages in 1963-1996, was known to his Mongo1ian colleagues and friends as Mergenbatu. A graduate from University of Washington and a student of Nicho1as Poppe, Bosson's Ph.D. Dissertation was an annotated translation of Sakya Paṇḍta's A Treasury of Aphoristic Jewels: The Subhāṣitaranadhi of Sa Skya Paṇḍita in Tibetan and Mongolian, the most detailed translation from two languages to this day. (Source Accessed Mar 22, 2023)
YearBirth	1933
YearDeath	2016
affiliation	UC Berkeley
phduniversity	University of Washington
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The Sakya tradition developed in the eleventh century in the Khön family of Tsang, which maintained an imperial-era lineage of Vajrakīla and which adopted a new teaching from India known as Lamdre.