Garma Chen-Chi Chang

PersonType	Category:Authors of English Works Category:Professors Category:Translators
FirstName / namefirst	Garma Chen-Chi
LastName / namelast	Chang
MainNamePhon	Garma Chen-Chi Chang
MainNameChi	张澄基
MainNamePin	Zhāng Chéngjī
SortName	Chang, Garma
bio	Garma Chen-Chi Chang was Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at the Pennsylvania State University and a renowned Buddhist scholar. His books include The Buddhist Teaching of Totality and The Practice of Zen, as well as his English translation of the Tibetan classic, The 100,000 Songs of Milarepa. (Source Accessed May 20, 2021)
YearBirth	1920/08/28
YearDeath	1988/05/24
BornIn	Shanghai, China
associatedwebsite	Wikipedia Page
IsInGyatsa	No
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Full Name

Garma C. C. (Chen-Chi ) Chang

Chʻêng-chi Chang

Garma is his Dharma name from Tibetan.

Dates

Died May 25, 1988

Affiliation

The Buddhist Association of the United States

Other Information

Remembering Garma C. C. Chang

Biographical note from Teachings of Tibetan Yoga:

"The author-translator of this book was born in China into a highly-placed family some forty years ago. In early youth he broke out of this pattern to become the disciple of a Buddhist Guru, in a part of China near Tibet. His Guru sent him to Tibet to further his training. After eight years in Tibetan monasteries, six of them under one Guru, he came West to study animal husbandry and to bring this knowledge back to Tibet. The Communist victory in China and the Communist invasion of Tibet cut him off from return."

Short list of works:

The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa
The Buddhist Teaching of Totality: The Philosophy of Hwa Yen Buddhism
The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa Volume Two
The Practice of Zen
The Six Yogas of Naropa & Teachings on Mahamudra
Teachings of Tibetan Yoga
Teachings and Practice of Tibetan Tantra (Eastern Philosophy and Religion)
A Treasury of Mahayana Sutras: Selections from the Maharatnakuta Sutra

The disciples of the Buddha who aspire to attain individual liberation or nirvāṇa. The final goal of the Hearers is to become an arhat, a state in which one has totally eliminated the inner problems of attachment, hatred and ignorance, the main causes for rebirth in this cycle of existence. There are four stages of a śrāvaka path including eight phases.