Ellerton, D.
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Tibetan calendar dates
| Primary Language: | English |
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| Translates from: | Tibetan |
| Translates to: | English |
- Primary Affiliation (Workplace)
- University of California, Santa Barbara; Nālandā Translation Committee
- Secondary Affiliation
- Shambhala International
- Religious Affiliation
- Shambhala
- Teachers
- Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
Current projects
- Ph.D. research on Tibetan prophecy (lung bstan) (as of 2015).
PhD University
- University of California, Santa Barbara
Education
- Ph.D. Candidate at UCSB - Tibetan prophecy (lung bstan)
- 2007, MA, Naropa University
- 1998, BA, University of Colorado, Boulder
Biographical Information
David Ellerton grew up in Denver, Colorado, and took his first Shambhala Training level in 1995 after reading several of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s books. A few years later he met Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche in Boulder and in 1999 participated in Seminary and Warriors Assembly. The following year he attended Kalapa Assembly. After a year on staff at Shambhala Mountain Center, he travelled with the Sakyong as a Continuity Kusung and Secretary (2001-2002). In 2004 he moved to Japan, where he taught English and continued his study of Japanese and Aikido, which he began practicing as an undergraduate student in Boulder.
Upon returning to the United States he enrolled in Naropa University’s M.A. program in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism (Shedra Track), and began his study of Tibetan. During this time he received the Vajrayogini Abhisheka from the Sakyong. After graduating, he spent much of 2008 in both India and Nepal studying Tibetan and receiving commentary on the Uttaratantra Shastra at Pullahari Monastery. In 2008 he began a Ph.D. program in Religious Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. He is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at UCSB and is conducting his dissertation research on Tibetan prophecy (lung bstan) at the Central University of Tibetan Studies in India. (Source Accessed May 26, 2015)
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