Patrick Gaffney
| PersonType | Category:Editors Category:Translators Category:Western Buddhist Teachers |
|---|---|
| FirstName / namefirst | Patrick |
| LastName / namelast | Gaffney |
| MainNamePhon | Patrick Gaffney |
| SortName | Gaffney, Patrick |
| bio | Patrick John Gaffney (born 6 February 1949) is an English author, editor, translator, and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism who studied at the University of Cambridge. He was one of the main directors and teachers of Rigpa—the international network of Buddhist centres and groups founded by Sogyal Rinpoche.
Together with Andrew Harvey, Gaffney was the co-editor of Sogyal Rinpoche's book The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. He has also edited two of the Dalai Lama's books, Dzogchen: The Heart Essence of the Great Perfection and Mind in Comfort and Ease: The Vision of Enlightenment in the Great Perfection. Also a written translator of teachings from Tibetan into English, he translated the Bodhichitta chapter of A Guide to the Words of My Perfect Teacher by Khenpo Ngawang Pelzang under the auspices of the Dipamkara and Padmakara Translation Groups. He is also the senior editor of the Rigpa Translation group. (Adapted from Source Mar 3, 2025) |
| YearBirth | 1949 |
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