Charrier, C.

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Translators

Christian Charrier

English Phonetics	Christian Charrier
Sort Name	Charrier, Christian

Tibetan calendar dates

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Rab Jyung

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Rab Jyung

About

Primary Language:	French
Translates from:	Tibetan
Translates to:	French

Primary Affiliation (Workplace)

Tsadra Foundation

Teachers

Geshe Tengye · Lama Gendun Rinpoche

Current projects

Various volumes of The Treasury of Knowledge (shes bya mdzod) by Jamgön Kongtrul.

Biographical Information

Christian Charrier holds a Masters degree in English and a diploma in psycholinguistics. He was a translator for Geshe Tengye in France, and he completed a three-year retreat under Lama Gendun Rinpoche in le Bost, France. He has been a translation consultant for Tsadra Foundation from 2002–2003 and has been a Tsadra Foundation Fellow since 2004.

Current Projects as a Tsadra Foundation Fellow:

• Le Voyage et son but, Jamgön Kongtrul
• La pratique des tantras bouddhistes, Jamgön Kongtrul

Completed Projects as a Tsadra Foundation Fellow:

• Marpa, maître de Milarépa, sa vie, ses chants, Tsang Nyeun Hérouka
• Vie de Jamgœun Kongtrul, écrite par lui-même, Jamgön Kongtrul
• L’Ondée de sagesse, Chants de la lignée Kagyu, Karmapa Mikyeu Dorje, Tènpai Nyinjé
• Rayons de lune, Les étapes de la méditation du Mahamudra, Dakpo Tashi Namgyal
• Au Coeur du ciel Vol I and II, Pawo Rinpoche, the Eighth Karmapa Mikyö Dorje (from the English translation by Karl Brunnhölzl – The Centre of the Sunlit Sky)
• Lumière de diamant, de Dakpo Tashi Namgyal
• Mémoires: La Vie et l’œuvre de Jamgön Kongtrul, by Jamgön Kongtrul, new edition
• Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule - Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra, avec le commentaire de Jamgön Kongtrul Lodreu Thayé L'Incontestable Rugissement du lion. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.
• Les Systèmes Philosophiques Bouddhistes, Éditions Padmakara, 2020.

Previously Published Translations:

• Kalachakra, Dalai Lama
• La Roue aux lames acérées, Dharmarakshita, commentary by Geshé Tengyé
• La Voie progressive vers l’éveil, Jé Tsong Khapa (Source: Tsadra.org)

Links

Wiki Pages

• Charrier, C. on the DRL
• Charrier, C. on the LIB
• Charrier, C. on the BNW

Buddha Nature Project

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The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa.

Can refer to either the Kālacakra Tantra and its derivative texts or to the systematic tantric tradition based on these texts, as well as the deity Kālacakra upon which the associated practices are centered.

Refers to something that is taught for a specific reason, rather than because it is entirely true.

Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana).

Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.

The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature.

The state of being empty of self, which references the lack of inherent existence in relative phenomena.

Tsen Khawoche's "meditative tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; it is one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana.